Ted Nugent-Cat Scratch Fever (1977)

 


Artist: Ted Nugent

Title: Cat Scratch Fever

Label: Epic

Format: 8-Track

Catalog Number: JEA 34700

Year of Release: 1977

Country and Year of Edition: US 1977

Sell Price: $2.94

Sell Date: 7/4/26

Condition: VG/G label tear on spine, untested

Discogs Last Sold: 10/24/25 VG+/no cover $1.50

Low: $1.50

Median: $2.85

Average: $2.70

High: $4.00

Current low price: $0.40 (Canada), $4.07 (US)

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4

Have/Want: 128/27

Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX

Time It Took To Sell:  2 years

Where and When Bought: ebay 8-track lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No 

Just in time for the 4th of July, I got a new 8-track order with the Nuge's commercial and arguably artistic apex of his golden decade that started with the Amboy Dukes. The song "Cat Scratch Fever" is probably the first one I remember from the 70's when I was around 7 or 8.  You couldn't escape that one, it was everywhere.  I bought my first copy of this used sometime in the early 80's on record.  That one has been sold and replaced.  I still have a couple more 8-tracks and a remastered CD of this.  

I like this record start to finish now more than I ever did, politics be damned.  For this one, "politics" means nothing.  What Ted meant by "Workin' Hard Playin' Hard" meant something different to his audience in the 70's.  For Ted it meant running out to the woods in a loincloth and bow and arrow after 300 days straight on the road.  For his audience in 1977 it was either high school homework or a 40 hour week followed up with a 6-pack and a couple J's.  They all came together on what Sweet Poontang was and that's ok.  SOMETHING needs to be universal.

The track order avoids fades but it is radically revamped to the point that the title track goes from opening the album to being in the middle.  "Live It Up" kicks things off here. "Out Of Control" closes track 3 instead of the album making "A Thousand Knives" the closer.

Some things cannot be tarnished.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Double Live Gonzo (1978)

Weekend Warriors (1978)

Scream Dream (1980)


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