Ted Nugent reuniting Amboy Dukes for Detroit event

DETROIT (Billboard) – Ted Nugent is accessible for a adventure to the centermost of his past.

Nugent will accumulate with his aboriginal recording band, the Amboy Dukes, on April 17, aback they will accept a Distinguished Achievement Accolade at the anniversary Detroit Music Awards. The accumulation -- which had a hit distinct with "Journey to the Centermost of the Mind" -- additionally intends to play, appearance its aboriginal achievement aback 1968.

"This is a abundant moment to celebrate," Nugent told Billboard.com. "I got the chat about (the award) and said, 'Well, of advance it charge be done. It's as able as tomorrow's sunrise.' I anon accomplished out to John (Brake, vocalist) and Andy (Solomon, keyboards and saxophone) and started tracking bottomward people."

Nugent said he considers the Dukes "the world's greatest garage band. We were allotment of that aboriginal anchor of Detroit music, the assemblage of rhythm & blues and bedrock 'n' cycle and that Motown touch. My academician is accommodation with aesthetic memories."

Nugent formed the Dukes in Chicago in 1964, again confused the accumulation aback to his built-in Detroit in 1968. Amidst a array of calendar changes, the bandage appear six studio albums and one alive set. The Dukes disbanded in 1975, aback Nugent boarded on a abandoned career.

Nugent has continued eschewed drugs, but the Amboy Dukes' best-known song, "Journey to the Centermost of the Mind," was a psychedelic bedrock anthem (with lyrics by guitarist Steve Farmer).

"I didn't accept the faintest idea," Nugent said of the Top 20 hit from 1968. "I thought, 'journey to the centermost of the mind' -- yeah, it's acceptable to be reflective, to adventure central yourself, to anticipate afore acting. That still makes faculty to me, actually. If you attending at the lyrics, it reflects either one of those philosophies, really."

The awards appearance achievement will be a attenuate adventitious for admirers to bolt Nugent in activity this year. After adulatory his 60th altogether in December, he's captivation to his affiance to burden from touring and absorb time with his family. Nugent affairs a few account shows and is alive on new material. He stars in a adaptation absoluteness series, "Runnin' Wild ... From Ted Nugent," set to admission in August on TNT.

(Editing by Sheri Linden at Reuters)