Lost In The Future: Run Out Groove Preps Stooges' "Fun House Sessions" Highlights on Vinyl

Lost In The Future: Run Out Groove Preps Stooges’ “Fun House Sessions” Highlights on Vinyl

June 21, 2017 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

Run Out Groove Vinyl has announced its newest limited-edition offering. The label and Rhino affiliate will follow up the MC5’s Motor City Five collection as well as Echo and the Bunnymen, Secret Machines, and The Dream Syndicate with a vinyl premiere from the powerful proto-punk rockers The Stooges. The 2-LP set Highlights from the Fun House Sessions is currently available for pre-order now exclusively at Run Out Groove, with a release date set for September 15. Pre-orders will close on July 1, at which time the title will become available to general retail.

Highlights from the Fun House Sessions brings together fourteen choice alternate takes from the seven-CD Rhino Handmade 1970: Complete Fun House Sessions box set released in 1999. Recorded with producer Don Gallucci at Elektra Sound Recorders in Los Angeles in May 1970 as The Stooges’ sophomore effort, Fun House was commercially unsuccessful upon its initial release. But its influence as a key building block in the punk revolution can’t go unnoticed, as it quickly developed a cult following among both critics and fans. Blending fast and furious hard rock with improvisation and even a jazz element thanks to Steve Mackay’s saxophone and the loose feel, Fun House showed Iggy Pop, Dave Alexander, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, and Mackay at their most primal yet still pushing the musical envelope forward.

The Complete Fun House Sessions box was assembled from the original multi-track tapes used by The Stooges and producer Gallucci to assemble the final album, released in July 1970 on Elektra. This new Highlights set, sequenced for more casual listening than the in-depth box, includes in-studio dialogue as well as alternate takes of the album’s “Down on the Street,” “Loose,” “Dirt,” “Funhouse,” “1970,” and more, culled from session reels 1, 4,6, 7, 9 and 11, and originally recorded on May 11, 12, 15, 18, 21 and 25, 1970. “T.V. Eye” is heard in two versions, one under the title of “See That Cat.” The fourth side of the new set has the 17-minute jam version of “L.A. Blues” under its embryonic title of “Freak.”

This limited, individually numbered release will be pressed at Record Industry on two 180-gram multi-colored swirl vinyl LPs, with new artwork, liner notes, and a Stoughton-printed tip-on gatefold jacket. Highlights from the Complete Fun House Sessions is due on September 15 from Run Out Groove, and can be pre-ordered at the link below until July 1 of this year! In the meantime, don’t forget to visit ROG to vote here on what the label’s next title should be!

The Stooges, Highlights from the Complete Fun House Sessions (Run Out Groove Vinyl A/ROGV1-001, 2017)

Side A

Studio Dialogue # 23 (Reel 6) – May 18, 1970
Down on the Street – Take 6 (Reel 6) – May 18, 1970
Loose – Take 16 (Reel 4) – May 15, 1970
T.V. Eye – Take 5 (Reel 7) – May 18, 1970
Dirt – Take 5 (Reel 11) – May 25, 1970

Side B

Studio Dialogue # 3 (Reel 1) – May 11, 1970
1970 – Take 3 (Reel 1) – May 11, 1970
Funhouse – Take 3 (Reel 9) – May 21, 1970

Side C

Studio Dialogue # 7 (Reel 2) – May 12, 1970
See That Cat (T.V. Eye) (Reel 2) – May 12, 1970
1970 – Take 2 (Reel 1) – May 11, 1970
Lost in the Future – Take 3 (Reel 3) – May 15, 1970
Slide (Slidin’ the Blues) (Reel 4) – May 15, 1970

Side D

Freak (L.A. Blues) Take 1 (Reel 12) – May 25, 1970

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Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.

Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.

Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.