“Storm Troopin” by Ted Nugent

"Storm Troopin" charges out of Ted Nugent, the self-titled 1975 debut Epic released once Nugent had finally cut loose from the Amboy Dukes, and he wrote it alone, words and music both.

He had walked out on the Dukes, sick of their slack effort and lack of discipline, and cleared his head with three months of deer hunting in the Colorado wilderness. He came back renewed and with a new band: former Duke Rob Grange on bass, Cliff Davies, late of If, on drums, and Derek St. Holmes, a singer and guitarist recruited from Scott, a Michigan outfit that had opened for the Dukes. They took the songs on the road before taking them into the studio, and the album muscled into the Billboard Top 30 and went on to multi-platinum sales.

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