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Zee Wang-go zee tang-go!

eveoflove | North York, Ontario Canada | 01/13/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Made in USA in 1996 Serial#A-28066 Playing Time: 39 mins.A compilation of material up to his 7th album, "Scream Dream", this compilation is way too short and excludes "essential" tracks from his days with the SONY label.It's worth getting (used) if you're unfamiliar with his work, and for a bit more money, you can get the "Expanded Editions" of his first few albums.Some in-your-face guitar performances, with lyrics like "You have to pretend your face is a Maserati"It deserves 3-and-a-half stars, because it simply rocks!"

On any short-list of best guitar records of the 70s.

eveoflove | 12/01/1998

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Say what you want about his loincloth, gun collection, politics, or the several embarassingly bad albums he put out in the 80s before starting Damn Yankees. But Ted Nugent is a talent to be reckoned with when he's on -- he defined a style of straight-ahead Chuck-Berry-on-speed rock that dozens of artists copied but few were willing to admit copying. In 1975, he was as on as he ever would be, and the first album by Ted-Nugent-the-band stands tall 23 years hence. Not metal, not blues, the vintage Nugent sound is really just rock n' roll, a Gibson Byrdland jazz guitar plugged into a wall of Fender Bassman amps turned up loud and played fiercely. Readers of Guitar World recently voted "Stranglehold" into the 100 greatest guitar solos of all time, and this phased, echoplexed groove starts off this great CD. Running through a handful of other classic rockers -- broken up by one cheese but snappy love ditty in "You Make Me Feel Right At Home" -- Nugent would never again craft a nearly-perfect album. Some of the individual songs on Cat Scratch Fever and elsewhere are more memorable, and other works charted higher, but as a full studio album, this is his biggest achievement. A must for any collection which includes hard rock of the 70s, a seminal LP."

The Pre-VanHalen American Guitar Hero of the 70's

eveoflove | 12/05/1998

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Going way back to the wide-leg post-woodstock years of the 70's, the Motor City Madman was undisputably THE American guitar hero of the decade for legions of pubescent teens before a certain Eddie somebody showed up in late 1977 to swipe his crown. Ted's mouth that runneth over in concert and in interviews was new and exciting in a subdued time way before he was known as a right-wing wacko. The "voice" of this LP is the under-appreciated Derek St. Holmes who gives Ted the needed heart - or "ying" - to Ted's gonzo "yang". Had Ted not been so autocratic and shared the spotlight with the rest of the band featured on this landmark recording, they might have stayed together and been a supergroup for the ages, but they only stuck it out for 3 great studio albums which will always light up testosterone-filled memories for me and millions of other teen boys at that time who lived their lives according to the gospel of St. Ted's ode to the fair sex: "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang.""