And it ends with the Raw Power out-take “Doojiman”, where Iggy sings made up-noises for quite a while. It’s like being there, except Iggy can’t hurt you. The live CD, which is the Georgia Peaches bootleg, sounds excellent, radio broadcast quality, and is notable for a) the frequency with which Iggy insults the audience and b) the length of some of the songs. (Some of Iggy’s ’90s mixes turn up right at the end, like weird relatives late for a wedding.) This is the best Raw Power has sounded since it was first humiliating people’s turntables in the 1970s.
Bowie’s original, insane, “tell the guitar to get DOWN from there” mix is restored, as mad and non-linear as it always was, but sounding as clean as hell ever can. I am happy to relate that this new Raw Power is nothing like that. Good question how many times have we obsessives bought some hand-tooled tool of a boxed set or limited edition padded out with dance mixes and something horrible with Elton John on backing vocals? Too often. If you’re still reading this, you quite possibly have all of those items and are wondering what’s actually new in this collection. Perhaps you even have the Georgia Peaches live bootleg, from the October 1973 concert at Richards in Atlanta. You may have the original Bowie-produced vinyl, the “original” CD, or even the 1996 “violent” CD remixes by Iggy Pop. 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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Rounding out the Georgia Peaches disc are two studio cuts, a tribal chant and guitar freak-out called "Doojiman" and a second take on "Head On.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. Non- Raw Power songs include the lengthy "Heavy Liquid," complete with a ZZ Top-style boogie break, "Open up and Bleed" and the set's one throwaway, "Cock in My Pocket." Pianist Scott Thurston joins the line-up of Iggy, James Williamson and the Asheton brothers and his playing adds a sometimes glammy and sometimes jazzy quality to the set and he really pounds it out on "Head On." The quality of the concert recording is excellent, and an added bonus is the fact that you can occasionally here a catcall (and Iggy's retort) or comments from a cocktail waitress.
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"Gimme Danger," a Velvet Underground-like number that simmers eerily in its original form comes to a full boil here and shows that the Stooges were just as adept at nuance (surprise!) as they were with bombast. Recorded in October of '73 at Richard's in Atlanta, Georgia Peaches presents the Stooges at their primal best wailing, snarling and bashing through half of Raw Power and five other songs.
But far more exciting is the material that's found on the bonus disc-a previously-unreleased concert performance called Georgia Peaches. This 2-CD package includes a remastered version of the album and long time fans should be able to discern the upgrade, especially if up till now they've been eking out plays from a nearly forty-year-old vinyl copy. The record was a commercial flop when first released in 1973 but it has turned out to have legs like no other title in the Iggy Pop canon. There's no need to go into Raw Power's significance here everyone from Henry Rollins to Kurt Cobain to members of the Clash and the Sex Pistols have already sung the praises of the eight songs it contains.
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power: Legacy Edition
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