Tooth, Fang & Claw

Tooth, Fang & Claw
Studio album by
Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes
ReleasedAugust 1974
RecordedJune 1974
StudiosThe Sound Pit (Atlanta, Georgia)
GenreHard rock
Length40:10
LabelDiscReet
Producers
The Amboy Dukes chronology
Call of the Wild
(1973)		 Tooth, Fang & Claw
(1974)
Ted Nugent chronology
Call of the Wild
(1973)		 Tooth Fang & Claw
(1974)		 Ted Nugent
(1975)

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. Following this album's release, Ted Nugent moved forward to national and worldwide success.

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStar
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10

In January 1975 the magazine Creem wrote 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."

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ted Nugent, and arranged with Rob Grange, except where indicated.

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Lady Luck"5:57
2."Living in the Woods"3:54
3."Hibernation"9:19
Total length:19:19
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
4."Free Flight" 4:03
5."Maybellene"
3:28
6."The Great White Buffalo" 4:57
7."Sasha" 3:06
8."No Holds Barred" 4:48
Total length:20:51

Personnel

Additional musicians
Production

References

  1. 1 2 3 Viglione, Joe. "Tooth, Fang & Claw Review by Joe Viglione". AllMusic. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  2. ↑ "TED NUGENT - Part 1 + Rock Stars". Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 27, 2013.
  3. ↑ Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-894959-02-5.
  4. ↑ Hull, Robert A. (January 1975). "Tooth, Fang & Claw". Creem. p. 73.