Ted Nugent

Description

Mastered by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound using legendary mastering engineer George Marinos notes from his original masting sessions with the original analogue tapes!

Remastered by Smith in Georges mixing room using Marinos VMS 80 lathe

180-gram vinyl plated by Gary Salstrom and pressed at Quality Record Pressings, the worlds finest LP maker!

Self-titled album made Nugent and his gonzo guitar a rock icon!

We were fortunate with this one. Fortunate you say? How so? Well for starters, the late and lauded mastering engineer George Marino at Sterling Sound mastered and cut the original 1975 release of Ted Nugent. Almost 40 years later, after some digging by Georges protege, Ryan Smith, on behalf of this Analogue Productions reissue lo and behold Georges mastering notes resurfaced as well as the original analogue tape masters.

With the release of Ted Nugent, the self-proclaimed Motor City Madman and god of gonzo guitar became not just a star, but one of rock n rolls icons. The songs Motor City Madhouse and Just What The Doctor Ordered would become two of many of Teds road anthems. These and the other 10 monster tracks on Ted Nugent were clear evidence that Ted was an artist to be reckoned with.

Ted Nugent still likes to reflect back on what his critics were saying as he put his band, the Amboy Dukes, to rest and started the next phase of his careerone that would be under his own vision, his own direction and most importantly, his own name.

I remember some of the more creative writers of the ilk claimed it would be the final nail in my coffin quote, unquote, Nugent says with a redemptive laugh. I knew better.

The mention of Teds name elicits different reactions from rock fans today in different parts of the country. Nods of familiarity on both coasts, and clenched fists and knowing grins in the vast Midwest and South. Hes sold millions of albums. Rock radio couldnt play enough of him and neither could promoters, who made him the hardest-working and top-grossing gunslinger of the mid- and late-70s. While most other rockers posed with their sleek Stratocasters and Les Pauls, there was Nugent, whipping his mane of hair around his head as he cranked out sound on his big Gibson Birdland, a hog of a guitar with rich, thick and creamy tones clearly not something to be trusted to amateurs. But in Nugents hands it screamed, squealed and cried, providing a vivid 3-D voice for the monster crunch of Stranglehold, the menacing stomp of Stormtroopin and the fiery boogie of Hey Baby, Motor City Madhouse and Snakeskin Cowboys.

We feel this is Teds finest recording by far. And here, youll hear this classic more clearly and vividly than ever before. This reissue was remastered by Smith in the late George Marinos mixing room at Sterling Sound using Marinos VMS 80 lathe and an ATR 102 tape machine modified by Mike Spitzthe only one of its kind in the world.. Then this 180-gram vinyl beauty was pressed by Quality Record Pressings, makers of the worlds finest LPs, where it was plated for vinyl by Gary Salstrom, QRPs master plating technician and general manager. The power burned into these grooves is difficult to find anywhere else this side of the Atlantic, and indeed it remains a rare commodity anywhere in the world.

As Ted himself proclaims: If anyone wanted to know what rock n roll was all about, this is the only album theyll need.