The Amboy Dukes were an American rock music band of the late 1960s and early 1970s from Detroit, Michigan, best remembered for their hit single "Journey to the Center of the Mind", and for launching the career of Ted Nugent. The band's name comes from the title of a novel by Irving Shulman about a Jewish street gang of the same name in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn during the 1940s. The band went through a number of personnel changes d...
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The Amboy Dukes were an American rock music band of the late 1960s and early 1970s from Detroit, Michigan, best remembered for their hit single "Journey to the Center of the Mind", and for launching the career of Ted Nugent. The band's name comes from the title of a novel by Irving Shulman about a Jewish street gang of the same name in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn during the 1940s. The band went through a number of personnel changes during its active years. Bassist Greg Arama died in 1979.
The pre-Nugent Detroit band was as follows:
The Nugent Amboy Dukes began in the Chicago area in 1964, and played such venues as The Cellar in the northwest suburb of Arlington Heights. They moved back to Detroit in 1968. The members included the following:
After a band shuffle for signing a deal with Mainstream Records of New York, the band members who released their debut album, The Amboy Dukes, were:
Journey to the Center of the Mind saw another member shake-up:
Migration saw another...
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