Re: [bomp] Re: Any reviews of recent Stooges reunion tour?

[Bob Widenhofer <bwidenhofer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Corcoran is such a douchebag.  Glad Iggy called him out on his bullshit, I wish more victims of his lazy journalism would do the same.  
   
  I don't know him personally so I apologize if someone on the list is his personal friend...maybe he's a great guy in real life but I've been reading his stuff in the Statesman for a long time and I don't like most of it.
   
  At least he didn't write very much about himself this time...

Immortal Porpoises <immortalporpoises@earthlink.net> wrote:
  
This one is from the big daily in Austin (the Statesman?), but what you really
want to read is the letter to the editor they published a couple of days later
from Iggy, which is below the review. It seems to have been edited for
language, but it's easy to guess what he actually wrote.

SG

Stooges let loose, put raw power on display
Monday, March 19, 2007
There is nothing, nothing, nothing in rock 'n' roll more powerful than when
the Stooges open a show with "Loose." The bass line is full-on, frantic Motor
City madness, and then comes Ron Asheton's riot-in-the-streets guitar and
vein-covered Iggy Pop running all over the stage and doing body contortions in
time to the beat.

The guy next to me at the Stooges' jam-packed show at Stubb's on Saturday
night said the band would almost certainly open with a song from its new
album. "That's what they're here to promote," he said, but you've never seen a
guy so happy to be wrong.

For me, "Loose" was THE defining moment of SXSW, as the world's first
alternative rock band (the grass-roots Rolling Stones) put pushing product way
behind frying neck hairs on the priority list.

Such songs as "Trollin' " from their new album the Weirdness would come later,
but first Iggy and the Stooges had to establish themselves as the undisputed
kings of the fest. And guess what?

Everyone in line with a badge eventually got in by the time a corny "No Fun,"
which had a stage full of ridiculously grinning fans "dancing," ended the set
at the 45-minute point.

How's this for an opening trilogy? After "Loose," the Stooges did "I Wanna Be
Your Dog," with Iggy diving into the crowd, followed by "T.V. Eye," Ron
Asheton's greatest guitar moment.

A couple of disappointments: 1) It appears that the Stooges play to taped
augmentation. This was revealed when the bass line for "Skull Ring" kept
pumping while bassist Mike Watt was working amp problems with his sound tech.
It's OK to use the canned help, but never let the audience know. 2) Asheton's
guitar wasn't as loud as it should've been.

I saw a better Stooges show in New Orleans about three years ago, and the
guitar and Iggy's voice were on equal footing. Saturday night posed Iggy as
the focal point, and he is a star, but the ugly beauty of the Stooges was when
Iggy flailed in the feedback of chaos coming from stage left.

- Michael Corcoran



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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Loose with the facts, man


Re: March 19 concert review "Stooges let loose, put raw power on display."
This rebuttal of Michael Corcoran's review is by a member of the Stooges:

Mike, dude, I would never, ever, ever play music to a freakin' tape. For real.
This just never happened and never will happen.

What you probably heard is Ron Asheton's ability to play that riff picking a
mid-range motif while also picking and sliding a bass line. This derives from
blues players like Fred McDowell, for example. You definitely won't hear it on
a Fall Out Boy record.

Have you ever heard a real guitar player? Playing live? That's how they do.
You also heard Steve Mackay on sax backing Ron up. At the moment the bass went
out, I, too, was amazed at how good it sounded without him.

I will happily slit my throat if you can find anyone backstage at that gig who
saw us (fooling) around with a piece of (freakin') tape. We're the Stooges,
and in my world tape is not alright. It's fat, rich and uncool.

Sorry about the guitar levels. This show was a freebie, so we left our sound
man at home.

IGGY POP

Miami

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