Tooth, Fang & Claw


Tooth, Fang & Claw is the sixth and final studio album by the Amboy Dukes, credited as "Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes", as well as the band's second release on DiscReet Records.

Composition

Tooth, Fang & Claw demonstrates "Nugent's further emerging hard rock sound", as well as an intentional shifting away from the blues sound that the Amboy Dukes had displayed on their Polydor recordings and the psychedelia of the band's Mainstream albums; the band does not experiment with their sound on Tooth, Fang & Claw as they had on their previous albums.

Reception

In the January 1975 issue of Creem Magazine writer Robot A. Hull said of the album, "hotshot guitarist exhibits his pizzazz, bites some nails, eats glass, rumbles in the dirt, growls a lot, and makes a total idiot of himself. Get the Amboy Dukes collection on Mainstream and forget about this clown."
Following this album's release, Ted Nugent moved forward to national and worldwide success.

Personnel