Stooges raw power deluxe edition
On the original album, it is quiet and creepy, a song The Rolling Stones wished they had written.
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“Gimme Danger” is one of the tracks that feels dramatically different on the Iggy Pop mix. Though not explicit in politics, the message is strong, a battlecry for the anti-Vietnam War movement and an examination of the fallout of a generation awash with the damage of combat. A lyrical pastiche of Time Magazine buzzwords, Pop aims at the establishment, growling the chorus, “I'm the world's forgotten boy / The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy.” From the first guitar licks, the song is an urgent manifesto, rejecting the party line. The opening track “Search and Destroy” remains in the pantheon of the greatest rock songs ever recorded. Ron Asheton begrudgingly stepped over to the bass guitar, replacing original bass player Dave Alexander, allowing Williamson to demonstrate his genius guitar-playing alongside Pop’s frontman antics. Putting aside emotional and chemical trauma, the original Stooges lineup of Detroit boys (Pop, Ron Asheton, and Scott Asheton) joined James Williamson to record Raw Power. In a story that feels like fan fiction in 2018, Pop met Bowie at Max’s Kansas City and was subsequently convinced to record another album. The final package will also have the documentary DVD, I can’t tell you much about it, but there’s not a lot of footage of the Stooges, I hope they use as much as they can find.Raw Power was recorded after the first of the many Stooges breakups. Since these advanced CD’s are digitally watermarked I can’t post any tunes for you without getting somebody in trouble, sorry, you’ll just have to wait to hear ’em. Yet more mixes and still not much bass guitar or drums, but still fun to hear. Shake Appeal and Death Trip are “alternate mix versions from recently discovered alternate mix reels”. I’m Sick Of You is the same take used on the old Bomp EP. As mentioned earlier, I Got A Right is an earlier sounding version that the old Siamese 45, and a great, primitive version at that. There’s two songs from Iggy’s re-mix– Gimme Danger and You’re Pretty Face Is Going To Hell, I’m not sure why they’re here. Maybe it’s my tinnitus, but the differences are fairly negligible. Which doesn’t sound all that different from the album. In fact, the Japanese 45 sounds pretty much just like the American 45 (the b-side of which was an edited version of Penetration, not included here*). The Japanese 45 rpm versions of Raw Power and Search and Destroy, which are on the CD’s I have but will only appear on a bonus 45 on the final package are cool to have, but I don’t hear a whole lot of difference. Nitebob who worked for the Stooges during that time said it reminded him of early Aerosmith, I have to agree. In fact, it’s the closest they come to sounding like a “normal” rock band. Hey Peter is another loose jam, a riff and some off the cuff banter suffice as lyrics, it’s unlike anything else they recorded at this period. I’m Hungry is an early version of Penetration, different lyrics, it’s obvious the song has yet to jell, but the Stooges hammer out the riff for nearly four minutes as Iggy improvises over it. Doojiman is a wordless jam, Iggy making jungle noises while James Williamson and Scott Asheton jam on simple riff. Now what about those outtakes on disc three? None of them sound like finished tunes. He’d end up a year or so later, homeless, wandering the streets of Hollywood, strung out and near total collapse before checking himself into a mental hospital, the first step in an amazing story of survival and eventually triumph.
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Keep in mind this post- Raw Power tour was the begining of Iggy’s season in hell. There’s plenty of Iggy’s bizarre between song patter, some of it confrontational, but the audience this time is on Iggy’s side, unlike the other (sort of) official released live album Metallic K.O. If you’re a fan you’ve heard these tunes on various bootlegs. The set list from ’73 was four tunes from Raw Power- Raw Power, Gimme Danger, Search & Destroy, and I Need Somebody, along with newer tunes– Head On, Heavy Liquid, Cock In My Pocket, and Open Up and Bleed. It’s the best sounding live document of the (pre-reformation) Stooges I’ve heard and captures them on a white hot night. One live CD recorded at Richard’s in Atlanta, the fall of ’73. The belch before the song Raw Power which was edited out of the first CD version has been restored. One CD of the Bowie mix of Raw Power, re-mastered, it sounds as good as it’s going to sound.