Ted Nugent’s Childhood Home

Before he was the “Motor City Madman,” Ted Nugent was a Redford kid — and that nickname is the whole point, because Nugent is Detroit rock to the bone. He cut his teeth with the Amboy Dukes, whose 1968 psychedelic hit “Journey to the Center of the Mind” made them fixtures of the legendary Grande Ballroom scene alongside the MC5 and the Stooges.

Long before the arena bombast of “Stranglehold” and “Cat Scratch Fever” — and long before the political controversies that have trailed him since — this was a Detroit-area teenager with a guitar and more raw energy than the power grid could handle. He’s stayed a Michigander his whole life. Stand outside his old Redford home and you’re at the launch point of one of the loudest, most relentlessly Detroit careers in rock history.