I duno why I bothered posting this:icecreamdisco said:
On this tour, only tracks from the first two albums will be played due to absence of later-era Stooges lead-guitarist James Williamson in the line-up on the later tracks. Therefore, ‘I’ve Got A Right’ will not be played.
You’re would be right to criticise the limited recorded output of the early Stooges, but the Williamson/Raw Power years are a totally different story. The Rhino re-release of the first album was content to include alternate mixes, most notably a lengthened ‘We Will Fall’ (I agree, one of their less interesting songs) originally truncated by producer John Cale, but has little else to offer. Any attempts to add value to ‘Funhouse’ were redundant anyhow due to the excellent ‘Complete Funhouse Sessions’ box set, which sequentially included every misstep, fragment of studio banter and note played while the band worked on ‘Funhouse’. But despite giving the many die-hard Stooges fans exactly what they wanted, it was undoubtedly a niche product.
However, the James Williamson/Raw Power era yielded an incredible quantity of material. Nobody exactly knows how much tape rolled during the Raw Power sessions, but it is obvious the Stooges had more than enough material to approach recording classic LP when disintegrated.
'Rubber Legs', 'I Got Nothin'', 'Scene of the Crime', 'Head On', 'I Got A Right', 'Johanna', 'Open Up And Bleed', 'How It Hurts', 'Cock In My Pocket', 'Heavy Liquid'.
Eventually Iggy Pop was committed to rehab and their musical legacy languished until David Bowie arranged for Iggy and Williamson to record Kill City in 1976 or ‘77, where some old unreleased Stooges songs ‘Johanna’, ‘I Got Nothin’’ were realised. Perhaps by Williamson’s presence (he is an amazing guitarist), ‘Kill City’ is more like ‘Funhouse’ in flavour than 1977 solo Iggy Pop, essential if you’re even remotely interested in Iggy Pop.
In the 1970s, the Stooges would have sounded a little like they do on ‘Metallic KO’, famously dubbed by Lester Bangs "the only rock album where you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking against guitar strings", but today they’re a little more subdued as on ‘Telluric Chaos’ clearly adapting to the realities of the aging rock star. Like many other rock stars of his generation, Iggy says he takes nothing stronger than a cup of tea, so expect not the peanut butter, broken glass antics of the past, but an experienced frontman at the helm of a well oiled machine. Iggy Pop on ‘King Biscuit’s Flower Hour’ is the best I think he’s ever sounded, but that was nigh on 20 years ago. I’ve been desperately short of money lately so held out on Big Day Out tickets in the slim hope a (cheaper) sideshow would be scheduled. As it stands, I’ll try to jump the fence so as not to miss one of my favourite bands. Wish me luck!
PS: ‘Death Trip’ slays, ‘LA Blues’ is great when you’re in the mood and ‘I Need Somebody’ is a great album track. All are classics.
