LAWWWWWWWD! It's the FUNHOUSE by the Stooges Poll

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.

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?

this Goose Lake set is pretty wild, the closing "LA Blues" is a noise disaster, I highly recommend it

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

Does he somehow keep it together on 'Loose'?

Does he somehow keep it together on 'Loose'?

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.

Alexander, since that song needs its bass foundation as much as it does Iggy.

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

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.

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.

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.

You have the patience of a saint. I can't imagine many worse opening acts to suffer through.

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?"

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!").

Kids finally learning the Lord's good work.

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 though
but here's some early demoes by them
https://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