“Free For All” by Ted Nugent

The title track of Free-for-All, Ted Nugent's second studio album, came out on Epic Records in September 1976, and Nugent wrote it on his own, music and words. The sessions around it were anything but calm: rhythm guitarist and singer Derek St. Holmes walked out just as recording got going, worn down by two years of sharing the road with Nugent and convinced the production was sanding the teeth off the band's sound.

Into the gap stepped Meat Loaf, a year before Bat Out of Hell made him a star, hired to sing on the record and working out his own vocal parts in two days of sessions. Out of all that turmoil came the album that gave Nugent his first platinum record.

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