Ted Nugent talks about his first steps in music:

"There I was just a young white boy in Detroit. I started playing guitar when I was about 6 or 7 years old. I got an acoustic guitar from my aunt. I was highly impressed by Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley (seen him on TV), James Brown songs on the radio.

It took a hold of the boy, started develop­ing his brain. I took about two years of guitar lessons in Detroit at the Royal School of Music. Learned the basics and fundamentals and got into the boogie-woogie and honky tonk. I did my first professional performance at the age of 10 at the Detroit Slate Fair Grounds for the Polish Arts Festival. I was a sensation. I had my first band that year called the Royal High Boys. We played in and around Detroit and Windsor, Canada. And by the time I was twelve I started a band called the Lourds. We swept the Detroit scene in the inception of the intensities which Detroit maintains today. By the time I was fourteen years old, we played at the brand new facility called Cobo Hall; opened up the concert for the Supremes and the Beau Brummels. A great Impact on the boy. I was getting less white all the time.
I had the Lourds throughout Detroit and was preparing to sign a record contract when my parents moved to Chicago, and I reluctantly went along. Started the Amboy Dukes in 1965. By the time I graduated from high school in 1967, we had taken over the entire Chicago rock & roll club scene. Upon graduating in 1967, I returned to Detroit, and after corresponding with certain managers from the Detroit area, we recorded it in late '67 and released it on the Mainstream Label, the Amboy Dukes, with the song “Baby, Please Don't Go" on it. We had basically taken over the Detroit scene like we had the Chicago scene..."

From Hit Parader (Oct.1980)