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lot of Ted Nugent’s peers looked down at Ted because they felt as though he had a disingenuous onstage persona because he wouldn’t take drugs. Ted was just a young guy trying to feel his way around, you know, and he wanted to put on a good show, so these guys felt as though even though he was so much against drugs, he acted like he was stoned when he was on stage. They always were trying to feed him drugs, persuade him and encourage him to take drugs.
    Bill White: Ted never took drugs, but he should have been on Ritalin.
    K. J. Knight: He was always down on that whole thing. I don’t know if they just decided to come up with this bullshit way of looking at things because they were jealous of him. We’d always talk about a good rap onstage and being a good front man. He would try to come up with a cool rap, and he would maybe be a little bit jive.
    Shaun Murphy: Ted was living with the band in a huge carriage house. The bottom was a bedroom, a place for a car, a big rehearsal area. Upstairs was another bedroom, a kitchen, living room. Everything was pretty sparse but neat. Ted was a perfectionist; he’s very fastidious.
    Ted Nugent: The band had a house out there on the west side, in Livonia on Middlebelt. We always rehearsed, and we were just obsessed with creating this new music and writing our own songs and discovering new musical adventure. Dave Palmer, Greg Arama, and I would do twenty-hour marathons in the basement at the house on Middlebelt. I didn’t go hang out much.
    Bill White: We got signed to Polydor there. The guy came to see us practice, and he went upstairs while we were playing, got the phone and called New York, put the phone to the floor. That’s how we got that deal.
    Ted Nugent: We played almost every night, and the nights we didn’t play we’d go and see other bands. I would go the MC5’s house over on Hill Street once in a while and then when they had the place in Hamburg. The SRC had a band house too, and I’d go over there. But again, it was all about smokin’ dope, and I couldn’t last more than a couple minutes because I thought we could play music and talk music, but the hippies couldn’t talk. It was a heartbreaker, really.
    Bill White: The lick from “Journey to the Center of the Mind” came from the TV show Rawhide . We were sitting there, hanging out, watching TV, and Ted had his guitar in his hands and we said, “Play the next thing that comes on.”
    Al Jacquez ( Savage Grace, bassist, vocalist ): I sat in the back row of the Grande Riviera with Ted watching the Who one time. Pete Townsend went over and hit Keith Moon in the head with a stick during the set. Nugent was like, “Did you see that?” I think he really liked that idea.
    Bobby Rigg ( The Frost, drummer ): The first time we met Ted Nugent all he could talk about was himself and how he was the greatest guitar player in the world. We were in a hotel in New York City. We were staying there, Led Zeppelin was there, Nugent and the Amboy Dukes were there. And Nugent was on the same floor as Jimmy Page, and this hotel was built in a U-shape. Nugent’s window was across from Jimmy Page’s room; he put a Fender Twin Reverb in the window and started screaming at the top of his lungs, “I’m the greatest guitar player in the world! Jimmy Page sucks!” and started playing his guitar as loud as he could facing Jimmy Page’s room. That’s the way Ted Nugent was. What you see is what you get.
    John Sinclair: Ted Nugent is an asshole. He always was.
    Ted Nugent: The Amboy Dukes were invited to play Woodstock, but we had been burned by all these hippie promoters, where you didn’t go on stage on time, sometimes you didn’t go on at all. I’ll never forget the Black Arts Festival at Olympia that Mike Quatro put together. He let the stage managers from the Grande Ballroom manage the thing, and they were all so stoned out of their