Non-Stooges fans need not check this thread.
 

Won't be, erm, quite as updated as that last epic Stooges thread I started, but....

Here's some news I figured a few of you might enjoy:

Iggy's clothing line, NEW STOOGES RECORD, Kill City re-release ('bout fuckin' time),etc....

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/186756

Really excited to hear new/reworked versions of some of that old/bootlegged material.

The clothing line just seems massively wrong. I can pick up a Raw Power T Shirt in Camden for a tenner. Clearly aiming things at the fashionistas. I'm definitely up for the Kill City re-release though. The idea of his next solo album possibly being based on 'Democracy in America' also sounds interesting.

now, if only he'd commission a muscle car ...

I'm not sure how he even feels about muscle cars (imagine that...). I knw he owns a rolls royce, and a ferrari if I'm not mistaken....the later being fast, but damned sure not a plymouth roadrunner (in the classic muscle sense)....

as far as the clothing line...I can take it or leave it. Kim G's had hers....If I was rich, i'd damned sure design my own clothes, if only for myself.

Even rich people feel some odd need to make even more money...haha.

The Joker designed his own clothes in the Dark Knight. Doesn't Iggy spend the majority of his shows with as little clothing on as possible? Now he'll have to go out of character and stay dressed during his shows.

The Roadrunners were a very popular muscle car back in the early seventies trip carb Hemi with a 383 block, a set of Hooker headers with a glass pack muffler rev the motor 7000 rpms and drop that clutch and leave 100 foot patch of rubber on the road. Ah yes good ole summer nights. Where I live in Worcester two blocks from my house we had the most popular 1/4 mile of road for street racing in Worcester. The 428 Chevies and 429 Fords where the bosses of the quarter mile back then. At least if were talking stock engines.

Do you write lyrics for Bruce Springsteen, by any chance?

Honestly, I don't see how anyone on a noise punk rock band forum could not at least like Stooges, if not necessarily love them...

@ chicka: I haven't seen very many photos of Iggy where he's got a shirt on, or if he does, doesn't have it open to bare his chest. I don't blame him; I'd love to have a rail-thin yet somehow ripped body like him...

I hear you somewhere around the age of 25 I developed a beer belly that I can't get rid of. If I do loose weight first it's my arms then my legs then my ass then my face and then maybe a dent in ole beer belly

the official shirtless Igster aging time line.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-o...aging-timeline

So what's this about a Kill City reissue? It's pretty readily available on vinyl at my local store so it's not hard to find as far as I know. Is there gonna be bonus stuff?

last three photos = HOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLYYYY veins, iggy

did you really start a fucking thread about Iggy making shirts?

it's going to be remastered, a good thing...being that they never really "completed" it the first time. Great album, but def. a little rough around the edges. Theres a sample somewhere of the "new" finished result, and it sounds fantastic. James W. w/ some help from some other guy if I remember correctly.

I suspect there may be some bonus material...we'll def. see here soon.

<3 thrown at james w. ++++ james m.!!!!


-s.

ugh, no...read the whole thing. That was just a tiny tid bit of added info. But more than anything, read the title of the thread...ok? thanks.

i oughtttta give you posi-rep.

I did. I like the Stooges. I just don't care about Iggy's arts n crafts.

I really don't either..but, the link had info on it. Some are interested in that sort of thing, and I'm ok with that.

Recent Iggy interview:

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.c...interview.html

Recent interview with Mr. James Williamson on WORT 89.9fm:

Click "play" next to "Psychoacoustics"...interview starts @ 30:40....

http://archive.wort-fm.org/

Iggy stops being cool and just starts being plain gross around 1988 here.

Also that 1996 picture seems to refute the story about how Iggy got out of drafted military duty.

When the Bowie mix of Raw Power was reissued this year I updated my diverse Iggy & The Stooges so-so vinyls and CD-Rs by ordering that one plus Open Up & Bleed and Wild Love from Bomp! I didn't have enough cash to add Kill City to the bunch - am I glad of that NOW. The only "problem" is this is yet one more upcoming release I need to get jiggy with... They're piling up like a sumbitch:

1,000 Years - The Corin Tucker Band (Oct. 05)
Marnie Stern (Oct. 05)
The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 - Bob Dylan (Oct. 19)
Kill City reissue - Iggy Pop & James Williamson (Oct. 19)
A Can Of Bees reissue - The Soft Boys (Oct. 19)
The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story - Bruce Springsteen (Nov. 16)

And there's also this Jenny & Johnny album that came out yesterday. Not exactly essential; there's a huge quality abyss between Jenny Lewis and her damn boyfriend, but since I'm a Jenny fan I'll probably get it anyway. Let's add the facts that 1.- I'm still trying to come up with the coins to pay for Miles' Complete On The Corner Sessions before the next credit card payment is up, and 2.- My main prorities are Charley Patton's Screamin' and Hollerin' The Blues ($150) and Miles' Complete In A Silent Way and Complete Jack Johnson [that's the boxer, not the douche, evidently] boxes (around $35 each), and I got myself one overwhelming motherfucker of a situation...

IGGGGGYYYYY! Put on a shirt!!!
he looks decrepit
fuck

he's 63, he can do whatever the fuck he wants. he's earned it.


pls post shots of yrself when you are 53. i'll give you a ten year cushion.

He looks better than most do at fucking 43...haha

if he can do whatever he wants then he can put on a shirt too. it would be wise at this point. he does look good for his age though.

What's the point? He still get's far more compliments than insults regarding his physique. I admire older people that don't mind still shooting for sexy. If it's a failure (+ I for one don't believe it is in Iggy's case), so what? People get old, our bodies change, no reason to hide it if one doesn't want to.

Still though, to each their own.

Hopefully he stopped unbuttoning his pants on stage after '06...'cause that photo was pushin' it...

He hasn't.

What a legend.

That's one of the things I like about Iggy though...he's been ripped off so many times, by everyone from Bowie to Anthony Kiedis, that it really doesn't matter what he does anymore. He seriously is one of those that has absolutely nothing left to prove.

Totally ripped by Anthony Kiedas

ripped? as in ripped off?
Kiedas?

Iggy Pop + Mike Watt to play John Lennon tribute:

http://www.spin.com/articles/gaga-ig...lennon-tribute

A post by one "Anonymous" there indicates these are Plastic Ono Band shenanigans, not a Lennon tribute.

Jim Jarmusch to direct Stooges documentary:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/200825

not especially interesting but probably worth one minute twenty of your time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3lT_C8wuJc

Some old Stooges tunes that haven't been released 'till recently:

Asthma Attack (very noisy...recorded during the sessions off that first Stooges record. Recently released on Rhino Handmade rerelease of first album).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbUTtEm3IM8

Doojiman - Recorded during Raw Power session. Stones meet prototypical punk rock/weird. Very repetitive, not very good, but still...interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VneLl5epUF0

I love Doojiman and Asthma Attack. I'm actually beginning to prefer a lot of The Stooges' more random, semi-coherent moments over most of their official releases. (as as happened with the NY Dolls of late, having recently got their Private Worlds demo CD) I love the sci-fi-like effects at the beginning and the end of Doojiman. I only wish they could remix that particular track so the vocals weren't so prominent, or even turn it into an instrumental. There's a great riff, which reminds me more of a kind of Parliament meets The Yardbirds thing. Awesome. The bass playing on Asthma Attack is also some of the best I've heard on any Stooges track. Again, though, it's sort of let down by Iggy's clearly improvised/scat vocals.

I down see James Williamsonas as the stooges guitarist. Ron Asheton 4 ever

I love James Williamson's guitar on Raw Power but you're right, there's something about Ron's playing that I just think is unique. I've spent some time this past few years trying to learn the guitar 'properly' and I keep coming back to Ron Asheton and realising just what a phenomenal guitarist he was. Not flashy but incredibly hard to replicate.

I genuinely think that Iggy might be to the Stooges what Robert Plant is to LZ: a leader who's also their band's weakest link (at least in terms of my ability to enjoy them).

I don't find Iggy as irritating as I do Plant but I get a similar feeling that ultimately, The Stooges would've likely been far better without him. I know that for some, that's a ludicrous statement but I've always found Iggy, both in terms of his vocals, onstage antics and general persona, quite annoying.

Ditto. '
Granted, he basically dove his own career into the grave at one point.. But whatever, he was the energy and I can't really imagine them backing up anyone else..