You’ve probably, if you’re reading this, already got Raw Power by Iggy & The Stooges, the 1973 album by Ann Arbor’s unfinest. We’ve all become used to acts releasing more records after death than when alive, but it now seems that the Stooges – unloved and unsuccessful in their addled heyday – are about to rival one-man heritage sausage machine Neil Young in their updated back pages. With seemingly every gig they ever recorded now available, and with a million comps, remixed LPs and officialised bootlegs out there, bands like the Stooges rival the then-even-more-unpopular likes of Throbbing Gristle and Suicide for posthumous prolificacy.
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Virgin Islands Shakedown to Celebrate the Music of the Grateful Dead with Members of moe.Is there some rock law about archive sets, where the less success you have, the more your work is catalogued, fussed over and released in luxury annotated collections? “Yes” would appear to be the answer, judging by the career of Iggy and/or The Stooges. Sacred Rose Festival Shares Offical Statement from SeatGeek Following Credit Card Processing Errors Gov’t Mule Reveal Plans for Annual Mule-O-Ween Celebration in New Orleans Umphrey’s McGee Announce UMBowl IX at Riviera Theatre in Chicago Taper’s Choice Nod to Phish’s Thematic Spelling Setlist in Colorado Goose Welcome Margo Price and Cory Wong at Sacred Rose in Chicago Pop’s response, “Interestingly, we re-recorded it tonight.” Iggy commands the audience to join him onstage and dance and they oblige during “Shake Appeal.” Asheton, Williamson, Watt and Mackay delightfully stretch out on “Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell” and acknowledge a debt to the blues “I Need Somebody.” Already sated by this historic evening, the set then doles out a few bonuses – more Stooges chestnuts including “1970 (I Feel Alright),” “I Wanna Be Your Dog” and “No Fun.”Īt one point during the fan interviews, Pop, Asheton and Williamson are asked how they would approach “Raw Power” differently if the album was recorded today. If you’re not sucked in by the primal force of the title track when it opens the 75-minute set then your rock ‘n’ roll loving credentials should be questioned. Already revered as a classic, this live presentation only reinforced the work as the DNA for scores of bands over the years and the conduit for generations to come.
Instead, the camera positions and the post-production give the impression of the viewer actually being a part of that night’s crowd.įor this ATP performance Iggy and the Stooges, which includes Mike Watt on bass and Steve Mackay on saxophone, play the entire “Raw Power” album rearranged from the record’s original 1970 tracklist. And it’s nice to see that the replies are treated with the respect they deserve and given with just as much thought.Įven the editing doesn’t follow the infuriating formula of using quick cuts to create the appearance of high energy. The questions they have for the band members show their deep interest the culmination of years and, sometimes, decades of listening to the music and collecting anything related to the legendary act. These are serious students of the influential band and they are chosen to sit in for the rest of us music geeks.
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Because of the six ultra-devotees selected to film the show and interview members Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton and James Williamson, the overall product has a layer of punk rock street cred that would be lacking if a group of pro cameramen took positions around the stage and presented the usual range of shot selections. (That was the anarchic spirit of that film.) Taking its cues from these Stooges diehards, this is more than just a concert document of the Stooges performance at 2010’s All Tomorrow’s Parties music festival. Unlike the Beastie Boys’ “Awesome: I…Shot That!” it doesn’t just hand over cameras to fans and let ‘em run amok. Raw Power Live: In the Hands of the Fans works perfectly from concept to recording to end result.
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