Tooth, Fang & Claw

Tooth, Fang & Claw
Studio album by Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes
Released	August 1974
Recorded	June 1974
Studio	Sound Pit (Atlanta, Georgia)
Genre	Hard rock [1]
Length	40:10
Label	DiscReet
Producer	Jon Child Lew Futterman Ted Nugent
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.

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. ^[1]

Reception

In the January 1975 issue of Creem Magazine (page 73) writer Robot (Robert) 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."

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Following this album's release, Ted Nugent moved forward to national and worldwide success. ^[2]

Track listing

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

Side A

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lady Luck"	5:57
2.	"Living in the Woods"	3:54
3.	"Hibernation"	9:19
Total length:		19:19

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"Free Flight"		4:03
5.	"Maybellene"	Chuck Berry Russ Fratto Alan Freed	3:28
6.	"The Great White Buffalo"		4:57
7.	"Sasha"		3:06
8.	"No Holds Barred"		4:48
Total length:			20:51

Personnel

• Ted Nugent – Guitar, vocals, percussion
• Rob Grange – Bass, vocals, arrangements, composer
• Vic Mastrianni – Drums, percussion
• Andy Jezowski (and the Crusted Warblers) – Backing vocals

References

1. Viglione, Joe. "Tooth, Fang & Claw Review by Joe Viglione". AllMusic . Retrieved 2023-05-26.
2. "TED NUGENT - Part 1 + Rock Stars". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-27.