This used to be my stock answer for "what's your fave album ever?". Probably isn't any more. But I love it dearly.
― Duke, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
it's been my stock answer for "best (american) rock album ever" and still is
― na (NA), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
This is out today and it's amazing:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/third-man-records-stooges-original-lineup-final-concert-goose-lake-lp-1012771/
― StanM, Friday, 7 August 2020 11:12 (three years ago) link
Hoping mine will arrive soon. Can't remember whether I had it shipped to my apartment or my PO box.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 7 August 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
Has anybody got a lidst of what the other tapes in the Goose Lake box were?Is anything else going to be seen as worthy of release?
― Stevolende, Sunday, 9 August 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
Been listening to this on Spotify. Will have to order this, but this may be as close to the holy grail as we'll ever be (the holy grail being the great and definitive live Stooges release). Sound quality is probably the best of any circulating recording, with a better balance in the mix. Iggy really lays into Dave Alexander in the liner notes, but regardless, even if the bass playing is inconsistent, at least Iggy and the Asheton brothers perform well.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 9 August 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
The Goose Lake set is pretty great. The liner notes, by Jaan Uhelszki, focus a lot on Dave Alexander’s clams, due to possible PCP ingestion, but he sounds ok, give or take one or two early/late key changes. Also, fun fact: Tom Wright, who helped organize the Goose Lake festival, and who managed the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, was Pete Townshend’s flatmate when both attended Ealing Art College in London in the early ‘60s. When Wright got busted for pot possession, he was deported, and left his record collection — Ray Charles, Jimmy Smith, James Brown, Charles Mingus, Nina Simone, Chuck Berry, Booker T and the MGs, Jimmy Reed, John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery — to Townshend, for whom it was endlessly revelatory.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 9 August 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
Oh right remember hearing about that record collection from reading Who bios years ago.
Still interested in finding out if anything else from this box of Goose Lake tapes has any hope of seeing the light of day. Have seen the poster for the festival so would be interested in a couple of bands getting released but not sure what was taped. The other Detroit bands would be welcome.Alice Cooper would be working up to Love It To Death or is that a year later?
― Stevolende, Monday, 10 August 2020 00:30 (three years ago) link
this Goose Lake set is pretty wild, the closing "LA Blues" is a noise disaster, I highly recommend it
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah this is awesome, clams aside, and even those sound like Alexander can't hear himself or the band in the stage mix not that his mind is pinwheeling across the cosmos
And Ig gets on his high (sorry) horse (super sorry) about Alexander being fucked up but also mentions he had snorted bad coke? ketamine? asbestos insulation? and couldn't really see until show time so not sure he is exactly the world's most reliable narrator.
Liner notes are great
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
Does he somehow keep it together on 'Loose'?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
Iggy or Alexander? "Loose" is the first song; Iggy is singing the alternate lyrics (the ones about "riding on a big hot dog") and Alexander is definitely present, though he does seem to be wandering around some and drops out here and there. Eventually he finds his way in. The last three songs, where Steve Mackay shows up, are fucking insane. He's playing much more freely than he does on the studio album - he's in full Archie Shepp/Pharoah Sanders mode at a few points.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
Alexander, since that song needs its bass foundation as much as it does Iggy.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
Yeah "Loose" is kinda of a mess but on basically the rest of the record he is killing it (esp "Dirt" and "Funhouse") which is what really leads me to believe that early on he can't hear or some technical issue rather than, solely, drugs & drink.
"1970" is so absolutely unhinged and snarling, it is exactly what you want a live Stooges song to sound like, until haha someone ends the song a hair early, I think maybe Scott A is the culprit there
Is the whole thing ratty & fucked up? Yeah, sure, but I can't imagine being a "Funhouse" nut and not loving it.
Ron's playing is so fucking good
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 13 August 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
craziest thing about this show is that the festival had a revolving stage to keep things going — so the band that went 'round the bend right before the Stooges appeared was ... The Flying Burrito Brothers, haha.
― tylerw, Thursday, 13 August 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
I found the first four titles a tad underwhelming – I think they benefit greatly from the proto-post-punk tightness studio conditions afford – but the final trinity, '1970', 'Fun House' and 'L.A. Blues', is worth the price of admission alone. Sure, Mackay steals the show here, but Ron is an absolute MVP throughout. It once again got me thinking about how much better Raw Power could have been with him instead of Williamson on guitar. And Alexander does audibly drop the ball – it'd be hilarious if the poor guy didn't die of pancreatitis five years later.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
I am eternally glad I got to see one of the earliest Stooges reunion shows, in 2003 — with both Asheton brothers and Mackay — even if I did have to wait through an "unplugged" Godsmack set beforehand.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 13 August 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
You have the patience of a saint. I can't imagine many worse opening acts to suffer through.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 August 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
I wrote for Alternative Press for years, and my first break came when the editor called me one day in 1997 and asked, "Will you interview Godsmack so I don't have to?"
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 13 August 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
I've got a 7/8 class this afternoon in my board's all-Mennonite school. Doing my best to corrupt them--talked about Iggy (birthday today) and played "Down on the Street" for them. (One of them noticed a link to Bitches Brew on YouTube's sidebar..."Uh, that's a famous album too--time for science, everyone!").
― clemenza, Friday, 21 April 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
Kids finally learning the Lord's good work.
― birdistheword, Friday, 21 April 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
JUst found out that this exists from Charging Rhinoceros of Soul the band that Steve Mackay had been in before joining the Stooges.THink he had already left before joining the Stooges thoughbut here's some early demoes by themhttps://soundcloud.com/badley-1/charging-rhinoceros-of-soul-1968-1?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
there's a several page history of the band in the issue of Ugly THings prior to the current one
― Stevo, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 14:32 (eight months ago) link