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Topic: SS, Stooges sold out at 9:30!! Return to archive
9th March 2007 08:20 AM
Factory Girl Did you get your tix?

FG!
9th March 2007 12:18 PM
Saint Sway I'm mostly digging the new record.
9th March 2007 02:22 PM
Sir Stonesalot Yeah, I got my tix.

Doors don't until 9:30pm. That sounds like trouble right there.

I'm diggin the new album for the most part. It's a beautiful mess. The louder you play it the better it is.

I'm not sure which song is my fave. I kinda dig "Mexican Guy". But "Free & Freaky" is a fuckin' anthem. I dunno, I need about 20 more plays...
9th March 2007 02:26 PM
Dan I need a Wiltern ticket if anyone has an extra.
9th March 2007 02:30 PM
pdog I just slept 12 hours, and I only woke up b/c some fucker was ringing my doorbell...
I must crawl to get the new Stooges record, fuck the flu or whatever I got...
9th March 2007 04:44 PM
GotToRollMe Here's a recent Paste magazine article I thought you guys might like:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/3931/nasty_brutish_and_surprisingly_resilient



Nasty, brutish and surprisingly resilient
The Stooges' second life
by Tom Lanham

It looks like something out of a fairy tale - the quaint, forest-sequestered cottage on the edge of Miami's colorful Little Haiti neighborhood, with a walkway so long and winding it'd confound Hansel and Gretel. But there's no dainty Disney princess waltzing around inside. You've stumbled upon the current lair of one of rockdom's grumpiest ogres, notorious Stooges leader Iggy Pop. There's no warm and fuzzy welcome mat at his door - in fact, you'd be well advised to get your trespassing ass off his private property. Now. "I don't do a gate, but there's this big hedge, which sets a certain tone - it's a hint," growls Iggy in his unmistakable Big Bad Wolf voice.

Iggy has a fable or two of his own to relate. As he tells it, only two brave souls have ever dared to breach the perimeter, one a yuppie real-estate shill, and the other "this young black man in a poorly fitting white dress shirt and slacks...[He] stopped in front of my drive, and then determinedly walked right up to my door and knocked. And I thought 'Wellll...OK,' and said hello. He had a gigantic scar, must've been a knife scar, the length of his throat, so he'd been around. And he was selling magazines, door-to-door, as they used to back in the day.

"And I would never, ever give somebody like that the time of day," continues the artist born James Osterberg, who - at 59 - has been around a bit himself. "But ya know what? My heart went out to him. He told me he was just out of prison and he was being rehabbed and he was doing this and could I help him out." In a moment of weakness, Iggy paid cash for a subscription to Art And Architecture, then watched his mailbox for the mag, month after month. "And I started to think 'That sonofabitch!' But then it came, ya know? And I said 'Yes!' And now I think of that guy every month when I get my Art And Architecture - it kinda restored my faith."

Faith that - judging by The Weirdness, Iggy's fanged, feral new slugfest with the original Stooges (guitarist Ron Asheton and his drumming brother Scott) - has been in unusually short supply.

STILL ANGRY

This iconoclast should be content. In his rakish 38-year career, he presaged the punk movement with stellar Stooges albums like Fun House (1970) and Raw Power (1973); was rescued from heroin addiction by David Bowie, who presided over his two landmark '77 solo sets The Idiot and Lust For Life; and went on to become an in-demand character actor in films like Cry-Baby, Dead Man and the TV series The Adventures Of Pete & Pete. (His next gig? A voiceover as the revolutionary uncle in an animated adaptation of graphic novel Persepolis).

But Iggy still doesn't sound at ease on record. The Steve Albini-produced Weirdness reads like a study in antisocial misanthropy. The album's scruffy, squealing mix - thanks to the low-budget Shure mic Iggy chose over a pricey Neumann - puts his blunt vocals up front and in your face. "I should believe in human nature, but I don't," the singer snaps over stadium-huge drums in "You Can't Have Friends." And the deeper you descend into this ogre's den, the darker it gets. "I'm the kinda guy who don't pick up the phone," Iggy drawls in the stomping "Free & Freaky," which defends his curious habit of "walking all alone in a bathrobe in the park" (i.e., the woodsy expanse behind his cottage. He explains: "It's my own park and I'll do what the hell I want.") Over the handclap percussion and ragged Asheton riff of "Greedy Awful People," he sneers at conservative society and admits, "I can't live among my class." But he reserves his harshest barbs for the deceptively shout-a-long "My Idea Of Fun," which builds verses like "I hate mankind" into the walloping chorus of "My idea of fun / Is killing everyone."

Other Weirdness cuts may be less strident: "ATM" marvels at the royalties its composer continues to receive for such oft-covered classics as "Tonight," "China Girl," "Real Wild Child" and the enduring "Lust For Life"; "The End Of Christianity" celebrates his relationship with Nina, a woman he met at a Miami Beach pizza parlor a few years back. "I'm trying to think - No, I don't have anything positive on there, they're all negative, those lyrics," cackles Iggy, kicking off his boots and curling his wiry, muscular frame into a booth in the cafe of his Hollywood hotel. The magazine hawker aside, Iggy has judged today's self-centered civilization and found it wanting. "So the songs mean what they say, and nobody, I mean nobody, is nice."

TRUST NO ONE

Ron Asheton - who'd been punching the axeman clock in Destroy All Monsters and Dark Carnival before he was stunned by Iggy's call - sees it the same cynical way. "When I write a piece of music, I always have something in mind, some kinda theme, a certain feeling," he notes in a separate chat. "So I'm always wondering what Iggy's gonna come up with. But with this album, it was always right, always something where I'm going 'Yes!' It's my same general feeling - I've been kicked around for ages in this business, and all my friends have four legs; my pet cats that I trust more than anything walking on two."

The Stooges reunion saga began in 2003, when Iggy phoned the Ashetons at the same Michigan number they've had for decades and recruited them for four tracks on Skull Ring, his last solo salvo. It clicked well enough for the lineup - with Mike Watt filling in on bass for the late Dave Alexander - to bow at that year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California and steal the show in the process. With original saxophonist Steve Mackay on board, The Stooges mark II began piecemeal work on The Weirdness, hooking up for five-day writing/demo stints, Iggy recalls, "Once every three or four months for three years. Ron had a little amp as big as a toaster oven, I sang through something about the size of a microwave, Scotty played a toy kit, and I recorded the whole thing on a mini-disc. So when we went in the studio, the songs were all written, arranged, rehearsed and ready to go." Though, with one key exception: the Mackay-punctuated "Passing Cloud," which was improvised on the spot.

"It comes directly from my loving to look at the clouds in Miami," elaborates Iggy, who says he always feels two beautiful reactions when he comes off the road: "One of 'em is - as the plane starts coming down through those big, puffy Miami clouds - I just start grinning, because it's this diffuse and forgiving light, like cotton candy. And I like it. And then when I get near my cottage and see the 'hood, I just relax and smile. Everyone's walking a little slower and dressing a little brighter than in the other parts of the city."

Albini's ball-peen hammer mix captures The Stooges at their retro best, believes Asheton, who nervously shivered all the way to Coachella, only to walk off stage rejuvenated. "That raw and simple sound? That's basically exactly what we are anyway. We're not refined, we don't wanna be overproduced - that's just how we play, and Steve understood that."

As his 60th birthday approaches this April, Iggy confesses he's looking back and cracking a smirk. Two film scripts about his life - as yet unauthorized - are floating around, Penelope Spheeris' Stooge-centered Search And Destroy, and Nick Gomez's The Passenger with Elijah Wood possibly playing the ol' Iguana. Thoughts of legacy, he concludes, "might come more into play now that I finally got this record made, because somehow I felt this was unfinished business. But we got the band up and running again, and sorta like Ahab, I think I managed to get my whale."

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There's also a new biography coming out next month:

http://www.randomhouse.com/broadway/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767923194

Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed



Written by Paul Trynka
Category: Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Punk
Publisher: Broadway
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Pub Date: April 2007
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-2319-4 (0-7679-2319-7)

ABOUT THIS BOOK

"Fellow rock stars, casual members of the public, lords and media magnates, countless thousands of people will talk of their encounters with this driven, talented, indomitable creature, a man who has plumbed the depths of depravity, yet emerged with an indisputable nobility. Each of them will share an admiration and appreciation of the contradictions and ironies of his incredible life. Even so, they are unlikely to fully comprehend both the heights and the depths of his experience, for the extremes are simply beyond the realms of most people's understanding.'

-from the Prologue

The first full biography of one of rock 'n' roll's greatest pioneers and legendary wild men

Born James Newell Osterberg Jr., Iggy Pop transcended life in Ypsilanti, Michigan, to become a member of the punk band the Stooges, thereby earning the nickname "the Godfather of Punk." He is one of the most riveting and reckless performers in music history, with a commitment to his art that is perilously total. But his personal life was often a shambles, as he struggled with drug addiction, mental illness, and the ever-problematic question of commercial success in the music world. That he is even alive today, let alone performing with undiminished energy, is a wonder. The musical genres of punk, glam, and New Wave were all anticipated and profoundly influenced by his work.

Paul Trynka, former editor of Mojo magazine, has spent much time with Iggy's childhood friends, lovers, and fellow musicians, gaining a profound understanding of the particular artistic culture of Ann Arbor, where Iggy and the Stooges were formed in the mid to late sixties. Trynka has conducted over 250 interviews, has traveled to Michigan, New York, California, London, and Berlin, and, in the course of the last decade or so at Mojo, has spoken to dozens of musicians who count Iggy as an influence. This has allowed him to depict, via real-life stories from members of bands like New Order and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Iggy's huge influence on the music scene of the '70s, '80s, and '90s, as well as to portray in unprecedented detail Iggy's relationship with his enigmatic friend and mentor David Bowie. Trynka has also interviewed Iggy Pop himself at his home in Miami for this book. What emerges is a fascinating psychological study of a Jekyll/Hyde personality: the quietly charismatic, thoughtful, well-read Jim Osterberg hitched to the banshee creation and alter ego that is Iggy Pop.

Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed is a truly definitive work - not just about Iggy Pop's life and music but also about the death of the hippie dream, the influence of drugs on human creativity, the nature of comradeship, and the depredations of fame.

ABOUT THIS AUTHOR

PAUL TRYNKA is a former editor of Mojo magazine. He has also been the editorial director of Q magazine, launch editor of The Guitar Magazine, and editor-in-chief of New Projects at Emap. He is the author of Portrait of the Blues and of Denim, a history of the fabric. He lives in Greenwich, London.

[Edited by GotToRollMe]
10th March 2007 12:07 AM
Sir Stonesalot Yeah, I have that Paste.

The Stooges are the coverboys for Harp this month too.
11th March 2007 03:44 PM
Factory Girl SS, the doors open late b/c Albert Hammond Jr. is the early show. I might be at his show.

Please check PM!
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