I didn’t know Pere Ubu from Black Uhuru, Led Zeppelin from Iron Butterfly, nor was I at all versed in anything resembling punk. Iggy fell back into his old habits, until (once again) Bowie helped him (see the story on Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life).Even though I was born in the early seventies, there was a time when I didn’t know all that much about seventies music. The collapse of The Stooges followed soon thereafter. MainMan Management stopped working with the band as well. But Columbia Records ended their contract. Many great artists cite Raw Power as one of the most important and influential to their own careers: from Kurt Cobain to Johnny Marr, from Henry Rollins to Steve Jones and from Morrissey to Cee Lo Green.Īfter the release, the band toured for about a year. It turned into a template for punk, which would sweep through the music world some 3 to 4 years later.
The album only lasts 33 minutes, but the band gives their all in those minutes. More intense than ever before, lyrically and performance wise. On top of that, the name The Stooges was changed to Iggy & The Stooges.īut, Iggy is really on top of his game, here. The album has many followers, but has a substantial number of haters as well, which is, in part, attributed to the degradation of the Asheton brothers: in regards to the audibility of their parts in the mix as for the Ron’s ‘demotion’ from guitar to bass. The 2010 re-release restored the original (as in Bowie’s) mix once again. On the other hand, it created way more dynamic. Everybody started believing the assumption, so when Raw Power was re-released in 1997 using the mix Iggy had in mind, the album was finally going to sound as it was intended and it would prove that the album was even better than everyone knew. His concept was, “You’re so primitive, your drummer should sound like he’s beating a log!” It’s not a bad job that he did…I’m very proud of the eccentric, odd little record that came out.Īfter the album was released, Iggy complained that Bowie mellowed the original recordings making the album sound tame. He used that on the guitar in “Gimme Danger”, a beautiful guitar echo overload that’s absolutely beautiful and on the drums in “Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell”. He’s always liked the most recent technology, so there was something called a Time Cube you could feed a signal into - it looked like a bong, a big plastic tube with a couple of bends in it - and when the sound came out the other end, it sort of shot at you like an echo effect.
To David’s credit, he listened with his ear to each thing and talked it out with me, I gave him what I thought it should have, he put that in its perspective, added some touches. On a very, very old board, I mean this board was old! An Elvis type of board, old-tech, low-tech, in a poorly lit, cheap old studio with very little time. To the best of my recollection it was done in a day. Due to lack of money Bowie remixed the album in one day at the cheap Western Sound Recorders studio in Los Angeles. Iggy went along, as he feared the album was going to be shelved. Manager Tony DeFries (owner of MainMan Management) proposed that the album was remixed by David Bowie. The resulting recordings had only 3 tracks: one contained the guitar, all other instruments were on a second track and the third contained the vocals (Iggy did have 24 tracks at his disposal). The album was recorded between September 10th and October 6th, 1972.
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