Journey to the Center of the Mind (song)

"Journey to the Center of the Mind" is a song released by the Amboy Dukes in June 1968. It reached No.16 on the Billboard charts in 1968 and No.19 in Canada.

Original recording
"Journey to the Center of the Mind" featured a psychedelic rock, garage rock, hard rock and acid rock sound. It features lyrics written by the Dukes' second guitarist Steve Farmer, and melody written by Ted Nugent. The song was recorded with a higher budget than their past work. During the recording there was considerable tension amongst the band members, and a few of them quit after the album was released, in the summer of 1968. The single helped define the psychedelic era as it peaked at No.16 on the Billboard charts.

Other versions
The song "Journey to the Center of the Mind" was covered by Slade (as "Ambrose Slade") in 1969 on the album Beginnings, by The Ramones in 1994 on Acid Eaters and by Sun City Girls in 2001 on Libyan Dream. "Journey to the Center of the Mind" was included in the compilation album Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968, on the 1998 CD reissue, as a bonus track.

Ted Nugent remade the song on his 2007 album Love Grenade.

The lyrics are generally thought to be referring to drug use.