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The Amboy Dukes is a Psychedelic rock act. Their sound grew out of Steve Farmer and Third Stone from the Sun. Those roots explain a lot about how The Amboy Dukes arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Eric Burdon & The Animals, Ted Nugent, It's a Beautiful Day, Kaleidoscope and Jefferson Airplane, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Damn Yankees, Acid Eaters, Ted Nugent, Lynyrd Skynyrd and AC/DC, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around The Amboy Dukes, reaching back through Steve Farmer and forward to Damn Yankees. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The Amboy Dukes were an American rock band formed in 1964 in Chicago, Illinois, and later based in Detroit, Michigan. They are best known for their only hit single, "Journey to the Center of the Mind". The band's name comes from the title of a novel by Irving Shulman. In the UK, the group's records were released under the name of the American Amboy Dukes, because of the existence of a British group with the same name. The band went through a number of personnel changes during its active years, the only constant being lead guitarist and songwriter Ted Nugent. The band transitioned to being Nugent's backing band before he discontinued the name in 1975.
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The Amboy Dukes grew out of Steve Farmer and Third Stone from the Sun, shares an orbit with Eric Burdon & The Animals, Ted Nugent, It's a Beautiful Day and Kaleidoscope, went on to shape Damn Yankees, Acid Eaters, Ted Nugent and Lynyrd Skynyrd. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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