These recordings still carry that talismanic ‘lost album’ energy that makes one wonder what a fit and healthy Stooges - who didn’t lose their record label and management in mid-1973 - might have done next.ĭisc One looks intimidating with 13 takes of “I Got a Right”.
By contrast with the dissolute live entity, the Stooges in rehearsal were strikingly industrious. The box-set complements Cherry Red’s 2020 box-set - You Think You’re Bad, Man? - which documented the Stooges’ briefly reinvigorated corpse staggering and collapsing live on stage across summer 1973-winter 1974.
It’s hard to believe that anyone believed that the Stooges still had a shot, but here they are on Cherry Red’s new four-disc box-set - Born in a Trailer - studiously rehearsing a wide array of new songs across late 1972-early 1973. Then the execs had the Stooges play only a single gig in the four months after the album’s release. They insisted Bowie step in to remix it only to have him somehow either work from an oddly mixed tape or botch the remix.
IGGY POP THE STOOGES FULL
Pop then finagled a full Stooges reunion, and the executives were so thrilled to have a group of proven losers on the roster that they allowed drug-addled Pop to produce and mix the new album, Raw Power. MainMan, a management company, tried to break David Bowie in the US, so he scooped up his friend Iggy Pop as a sop to Bowie and burnish the Englishman’s credentials in the far heavier US scene.
The Stooges’ resurrection in 1972 - now on CBS/Columbia - was an unholy perversion of the natural order in which failed bands didn’t come back from the dead. With the Stooges crippled by drugs and two future classics released to indifference, Elektra pulled the plug, and the group disbanded.
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