THE STOOGES: Goose Lake Festival, Pop Culture Graveyard Ep. 17 [Live at Goose Lake August 8, 1970]

The Stooges Goose Lake Festival gig was the end of the band's classic original era. Click "SHOW MORE" below for extra Pop Culture Graveyard info on The Stooges live at Goose Lake August 8, 1970!

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The Stooges - This self-titled debut catches the band halfway between their avant-garde psychedelic beginnings and what they'd evolve into on the Fun House LP. I Wanna Be Your Dog is based on a misheard lyric from Baby Please Don't Go (Before I be your dog...), No Fun is the darkest song to ever feature upbeat finger snaps and hand claps, and 1969 is the most infectious music ever set to lyrics celebrating "Another year with nothing to do." It's intriguing to imagine what this album would have sounded like if Jac Holtzman had let the band record their initial songs. Would the LP have been less or more influential had it included the original versions of Asthma Attack, Dance Of The Romance, I'm Sick and Goodbye Bozos? We'll never know. But we do know that the songs here are stone-cold classics. There aren't many words in these songs, but Iggy made each one of them count. The album sequencing still irks me a tad, as I think the album would flow better with We Will Fall as the LP's final track--but other than that I wouldn't change a thing. Deep Cut: Not Right
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Fun House - This is the Stooges masterpiece. Iggy croons, snarls and roars his way through the most cohesive set of songs they'd ever write. The band was never tighter as evidenced through the abundance of Fun House studio material recorded by Don Gallucci now available as a 15-vinyl-album box set. Not sure anyone needs 26 takes of Loose, but if you've got the time to listen I'm not gonna argue with you. Perhaps the best part about Fun House is that it's got elements of jazz (much like Black Sabbath's Vol. 4) that elevates it above its genre. If you want to rock out, you're covered by Loose, TV Eye, Down On The Street and 1970. But if you're looking to lose yourself in a skronk-tastic funk fest, Fun House is the band's finest moment. The band somehow manages to create the audio equivalent of what it must have been like to live at Fun House: sexy, dirty, scary, exhilarating and always intense! The track almost reads as a drug-fueled updating of The Green Door--except behind the Fun House door, you already know the secret they're keeping!
Deep Cut: L.A. Blues
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Live At Goose Lake: August 8, 1970 - Rescued from a box in a basement with countless other dusty tapes, this album needed serious fine tuning before its release. The result is a pretty good soundboard-quality bootleg, which for any other band would be enough. But being that this is the Stooges, it wouldn't be an overstatement to call this an essential document. Scotty's drums are solid as usual, and the always electric Iggy doesn't disappoint, but the stars of this release are Ron Asheton and Steve Mackay. Ron not only unleashes sizzling solos but also provides strong rhythm work that covers for Zander's inconsistent bass playing. Steve's blistering sax work fills side two of this album with true excitement. A final note about Dave Alexander, who has been unfairly maligned for years over his (impaired? lackluster? absentee?) performance at this concert. Dave was as integral to the success of the band's masterpiece, Fun House, as any other member of the band, and it's a shame that one bad (yet not-as-bad-as-we-had-heard) night took everything away from him. Zander would die a mere five years later at age 27.
Deep Cut: Dirt
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Fascinating video of the Stooges performing 1970 at Goose Lake (the same video on my ancient VHS) synced up to audio from the new release. The footage originally had VERY tinny, distorted audio. For anyone familiar with this oft-traded snippet of video, this sync-up is a revelation!
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Iggy & The Stooges: One Night At The Whisky 1970 - Ed Caraeff
Gorgeous pictures. Ed is the one who took the inner-gatefold photo of the band on the carpet for the Fun House album.
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The Stooges: The Authorized And Illustrated Story - Ed Matheu
A wonderfully detailed band biography that delivers the goods in both pictures and prose, this tome chronicles every era of the band from their inception to their self-destruction in super-glossy paper.
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Total Chaos: The Story Of The Stooges As Told By Iggy Pop - Jeff Gold
It's fun to read along as Jeff Gold helps Iggy understand a Fun House royalties receipt from Elektra Records or reveals an exact date Iggy's parents came to a Stooges concert. Jeff did a stellar job researching this behemoth of a bio, and it's time well spent!
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