tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29712942763527290682011-11-27T18:20:56.576-06:00JMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16100877923702297162noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971294276352729068.post-52307345124712792932009-03-23T20:58:00.005-05:002009-03-24T18:44:35.567-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oiJsvivM6YU/ScltEcwQDqI/AAAAAAAAAAs/XLD07AlA980/s1600-h/stoogesfunhousegatefold.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oiJsvivM6YU/ScltEcwQDqI/AAAAAAAAAAs/XLD07AlA980/s200/stoogesfunhousegatefold.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316900758293057186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">I bought The Stooges second album "Funhouse" at a small, record store (and head shop) - called Metamorphosis in La Crosse, WI in September of 1970. I was flippin</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">g through all the bins with $6 in my pocket, determined to buy something. When I came across this record </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">I'd never heard of it, I thought the band name was a bit lame, but I liked the cover art. After risking $5 of my hard earned lawn mowing money, I quickly rode home on my bike knowing the house was empty. After removing my Mom's Tony Bennet LP from our console stereo, I put on my new record and cranked up the volume. It was the loudest, rawest music I'd heard and really blew my 8th grade mind. I was really pumped up about it and shared it with many of my friends, but only a f</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">ew, well maybe only one guy, actually liked it.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />Undeterred, a few weeks later I went back and special ordered Th</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">e Stooges first record. A couple of years later Raw Power came out when I wa</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">s in high</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> school. They were now calling themselves Iggy and the Stooges and the album</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> was produced by David Bowie. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">I was the only hardcore Stooges fan that I knew in high s</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">chool, but when I went away to college I met quite a few others. I saw Ig</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oiJsvivM6YU/SclvZp7HDKI/AAAAAAAAAA8/wOL80tc3XjM/s1600-h/MickRock2iggypop300.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oiJsvivM6YU/SclvZp7HDKI/AAAAAAAAAA8/wOL80tc3XjM/s200/MickRock2iggypop300.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316903321628773538" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">gy on tour in Madison, WI in 1977 at the Orpheum Theatre. It was great, but I would have loved to see him with the Stooges back in the day. I still crank up those first 3 records now and then.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Iggy Pop later went so</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">lo and worked with Bowie on two albums in the late 70's - The Idiot and Lust for Life. The new sound on these albums was cool, </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">but completely different than what Iggy put out with the Stooges. You hear Lust for Life on Carnival Cruise Line ads now.</span> <span style="font-family:verdana;">Iggy reunited with the Stooges and went back on tour in 2008 with a pretty decent new CD. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Guitarist Ron Ashton died in January 2009.<br /><br />Here is a great <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDp4fvUzaS4">short documentary on The Stooges from YouTube.</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2971294276352729068-5230734512471279293?l=rockandrollredux.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>JMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16100877923702297162noreply@blogger.com0