The Amboy Dukes : Tooth Fang & Claw

Tooth Fang & Claw

 is the seventh 

and final album 

by 

Ted Nugent 

and

 The Amboy Dukes 

It was the second 

offering on

 The DiscReet label. 

The band consisted of

Ted Nugent, 

Rob Grange 

on bass 

and drummer 

Vic Mastrianni. 

The album has the 

feel of the outdoors 

and Nugent's love for

 hunting and 

rock and roll.

"Great White Buffalo" 

is one of the

 mainstays of

 Nugent's catalog 

and was generated

 on this album.

 In an interview with 

Classic Rock Revisited 

he discusses how he 

and Grange developed

 the song idea: 

"This was yet another

 magical moment

 like the original musical burst

 of so many of my songs.

 This amazing lick/song

 erupted spontaneously

 during a recording session 

around 1972-73," 

Nugent says.

 "As I was tuning up my

 Blonde Byrdland, 

that pattern leaped forth 

with a force to reckon with. 

Killer bass player,

 Rob Grange, 

stopped me

and asked 

what the hell that was, 

and I said

 "I don't know, 

just jackin’ around, 

tuning up." 

He told me to play it again, 

but I failed to play the lick 

the same as I had just

 done moments before

 and he kept badgering me to

 re-discover the lick.

 I didn't. 

But after recording 

some other songs, 

I again went to 

tune up my 

Gibson and the

 lick burst forth again. 

Rob Grange yelled

 'That's it! That's it!' 

So I played it a few times, 

showed the guys where 

I wanted to stop and

 start it up again, 

turned on the tape machine

 and recorded it 

in one fell swoop, 

making up the lyrics 

as I went along, 

articulating to the best of 

my ability my take on the 

great Indian legend of 

the spiritual beast of yore. 

Rob Grange came up with that

 wonderful fluid bass melody

 at the end, 

Vic the thundering 

double bass 

drum assault, 

and history was made. 

To this day it is one of

 my and the audiences' 

and band's 

all time favorites."  

TRACK LIST 

Lady Luck

Living in the Woods

Hibernation

Free Flight

Maybellene

The Great White Buffalo

Sasha

No Holds Barred

BONUS TRACKS 

Sweet Revenge 

Ain't It The Truth

Journey To The Center of Your Mind

Night Time

Dr. Slingshot 

Prodigal Man

Baby Please Don't Go

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