#IGGY AND STOOGES RAW POWER HOW TO#
(Steve Jones even admitted he learned how to play taking speed and listening to Raw Power.) Without it, there is no Clash, no Ramones, and certainly no Sex Pistols. And now, celebrating 48 years, Raw Power is viewed as one of the most influential rock and roll records ever. Throughout their three records - The Stooges, the delirious Funhouse, and their final and most important record, Raw Power - The Stooges gave the Ramones the blueprint to create what came to be punk rock. The Stooges were a pack of misfits while their singer, some weirdo calling himself “ Iggy Pop,” screamed at the top of his lungs, daring God to fuck with him.
They cranked their amps, opting for a dirty tone with an edge that sounded like Harleys roaring rather than the silk Eric Clapton was pumping out. These kids from Detroit wanted to give you scars. There wasn’t any danger.Īnd then, in 1969, The Stooges came swinging. Rock and roll became a business of image and slick sounds fueled by hot pants and cheap smack. Some guys bought castles while others wound up playing in nerd aggregate bands like King Crimson and Yes, noodling for the sake of seeing how far they could take the genre. These bands gave rock and roll new possibilities, but the stages got higher, the piles of cocaine came in suitcases, the groupies followed in droves, and bank accounts fattened. They came at the culture like a brick to the teeth: Jimi Hendrix took us to a different plane of existence, Black Sabbath dared us to see the devil and dance with him, and Zeppelin riffed hard and heavy along to Robert Plant gyrating in skintight trousers, begging listeners to squeeze the lemon “till the juice ran down his leg.” They accelerated what the culture and artform were, but even as the Stones dipped their toes in dark water, it was still palatable to the masses, selling millions. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band or the smooth but malicious undertones of Let It Bleed. Those bands dared us to see the emotional and sonic boundaries via large, orchestrated movements with Sgt. In many ways, almost all Raw Power has in common with the two Stooges albums that preceded it is its primal sound, but while the Stooges once sounded like the wildest (and weirdest) gang in town, Raw Power found them heavily armed and ready to destroy the world - that is, if they didn't destroy themselves first.When rock and roll evolved from the harmonious sludge of ditties about loving a gal from down the street or how kids wanted to rebel against their parents, The Beatles and Stones pushed our consciousness.
Whether quietly brooding ("Gimme Danger") or inviting the apocalypse ("Search and Destroy"), Iggy had never sounded quite so focused as he did here, and his lyrics displayed an intensity that was more than a bit disquieting. But the most remarkable change came from the singer Raw Power revealed Iggy as a howling, smirking, lunatic genius. From a technical standpoint, Williamson was a more gifted guitar player than Asheton (not that that was ever the point), but his sheets of metallic fuzz were still more basic (and punishing) than what anyone was used to in 1973, while Ron Asheton played his bass like a weapon of revenge, and his brother Scott Asheton remained a powerhouse behind the drums. By most accounts, tensions were high during the recording of Raw Power, and the album sounds like the work of a band on its last legs - though rather than grinding to a halt, Iggy & the Stooges appeared ready to explode like an ammunition dump. By this point, guitarist Ron Asheton and bassist Dave Alexander had been edged out of the picture, and James Williamson had signed on as Iggy's new guitar mangler Asheton rejoined the band shortly before recording commenced on Raw Power, but was forced to play second fiddle to Williamson as bassist. In 1972, the Stooges were near the point of collapse when David Bowie's management team, MainMan, took a chance on the band at Bowie's behest.
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