So Iggy has reformed the Raw Power lineup of The Stooges(of course minus Ron Asheton who unfortunately passed earlier this year) and decided to perform the album live for the first time in 35 years. OK, I've had time to calm down since reading the original article posted on the Australian here , but holy fucking shit this is going to RULE (fingers crossed he brings it to Australia or it's off to Europe for me again).
James Williamson apparently hasn't picked up a guitar in years and looks like this now -
Who knows what it will bring BUT if it's anything like the previous reformation where they predomiantly played The Stooges and Funhouse live (we'll try and forget The Weirdness ever happened and there was the odd cut from Iggy's own Skull Ring played) we are in for quite the treat.
One would also hope they play some of the songs that were played live and heavily bootlegged around the time of Raw Power. They had actually intended to record a lot of this material but since Raw Power flopped at the time they were dropped from Columbia so they concerntrated (Except Ron) on their Heroin habits. Personal favourites of that era include my personal favourite 'I'm Sick Of You' as well as 'Cock In My Pocket' and 'Johanna' (most available on this )
The Stooges actually started adding Raw Power songs to their set at the very end of the tour late last year, here's 'Search And Destroy'
No comments:
Post a Comment