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Gimme Danger: Cherry Red Collects Iggy and The Stooges' "Raw Power"-Era Rehearsals on New Box Set

August 20, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Iggy and the Stooges Born in a Trailer

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Cherry Red has recently released its second volume of archival material from Iggy Pop and The Stooges following 2020's You Think You're Bad, Man? The Road Tapes '73-'74.  The new title is Born in a Trailer: The Session and Rehearsal Tapes '72-'73, and it's a 4-CD collection chronicling the band's rehearsal recordings made in London, Michigan, Los Angeles, Detroit, and New York.

Author Kris Needs doesn't pull any punches in his liner notes to this box when he describes this period in Stooges history as a "slow motion car crash."  Yet he observes that the recordings here are "evidence that no matter how chaotic the live shows got, usually thanks to whatever was coursing around Iggy's short-circuiting system, The Stooges' ingrained Detroit work ethic rarely flagged at rehearsals."  Those are the recordings featured here, from the period just before and after the release of the band's Columbia LP Raw Power.  This is the era right after the band's first breakup in July 1971; it didn't last long as Iggy invited his bandmates James Williamson and Ron and Scott Asheton to London early the next year.

On July 15, 1972, The Stooges played their only U.K. gig of the 1970s in London; two days later, they entered Olympic Studios and recorded the material heard on the first disc of this set.  There are no fewer than thirteen takes of Iggy's first solo composition, "I Got a Right," a couple of "Gimme Some Skin," and some thunderous workouts on "Louie, Louie" and "Money (That's What I Want)."  The outtake "Tight Pants" would be reworked for Raw Power as "Shake Appeal" while "I'm Sick of You" and "Scene of the Crime" also didn't make the cut for the final LP.  ("I'm Sick of You" and "Shake Appeal" would be included on 2010's Raw Power reissue bonus disc.)

Iggy and The Stooges spent much of September and early October recording Raw Power.  After much back-and-forth and an eventual remix by David Bowie, Raw Power was released in February 1973.  One month later, the band returned to their original stomping grounds of Michigan, rehearsing at Ypsilanti's Morgan Sound Studios for a Detroit gig to be held on March 31.  The rehearsal tapes reveal a surprisingly solid band despite their well-publicized offstage activities as they work through the album's title track, "Search and Destroy," "Gimme Danger," and "I Need Somebody," plus a loose romp through Otis Redding's "I Can't Turn You Loose."

The box continues with cross-country rehearsals made in Los Angeles and Detroit in spring 1973, and New York and Detroit in summer.  There's plenty of fire and spontaneity throughout; polish was never what the Stooges were after, and there's ragged charm to these primal takes.  While ostensibly rehearsing for various gigs (helpfully laid out in Needs' notes), they were also preparing material for another album that never happened.  In February 1974, the group disbanded for a second time, and this one stuck.  James Williamson worked with Iggy on his initial solo endeavors before moving behind-the-scenes in the field of electronics engineering.  In 2003, Iggy reunited with the Asheton brothers to reform The Stooges.  Ron Asheton died in 2009, but Pop pressed on with Scott and the returning James Williamson.  Scott passed away in 2014, and two years later, The Stooges disbanded for the final time.

While the material on Born in a Trailer: The Session and Rehearsal Tapes '72-'73 has appeared before, this set handily curates it in an accessible fashion.  It's packaged in a clamshell case and includes a 20-page booklet with credits as well as Needs' notes.  Simon Murphy has prepared the audio for release but the credits stop short of calling his work "remastering."  This collection of the proto-punk rockers persevering in the face of all sorts of offstage debauchery is available now at the links below.

Iggy and The Stooges, Born in a Trailer: The Session and Rehearsal Tapes '72-'73 (Cherry Red CRCDBOX111, 2021) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

CD 1: OLYMPIC STUDIO, LONDON, 1972

  1. I GOT A RIGHT (NO GTR SOLO)
  2. I GOT A RIGHT (TAKE 2 FALSE START)
  3. I GOT A RIGHT
  4. GIMME SOME SKIN (INSTRUMENTAL)
  5. GIMME SOME SKIN
  6. I GOT A RIGHT (INSTRUMENTAL)
  7. I GOT A RIGHT (GTR SOLO)
  8. I GOT A RIGHT (RETAKE 2 INSTRUMENTAL)
  9. LOUIE LOUIE
  10. I GOT A RIGHT (SLOW)
  11. I GOT A RIGHT (FALSE STARTS)
  12. I GOT A RIGHT (NO LESLIE, NO SOLO)
  13. MONEY
  14. I GOT A RIGHT (FALSE STARTS)
  15. I GOT A RIGHT (DIFFERENT LYRICS)
  16. I GOT A RIGHT (INCL. SOLO)
  17. I GOT A RIGHT (DIFFERENT DRUMS)
  18. I'M SICK OF YOU
  19. TIGHT PANTS
  20. SCENE OF THE CRIME

CD 2: MICHIGAN REHEARSALS, 1973

  1. RAW POWER (TAKE 1)
  2. RAW POWER (TAKE 2)
  3. HEAD ON (TAKE 1)
  4. HEAD ON (TAKE 2)
  5. I NEED SOMEBODY/SWEET CHILD/I LIKE THE WAY YOU WALK
  6. SEARCH AND DESTROY
  7. CAN'T TURN YOU LOOSE
  8. I NEED SOMEBODY (VERSION 2)
  9. HEAD ON (VERSION 3)
  10. GIMME DANGER

CD 3: LOS ANGELES & DETROIT REHEARSALS, 1973

  1. RAW POWER
  2. HEAD ON
  3. WILD LOVE
  4. TILL THE END OF THE NIGHT
  5. COCK IN MY POCKET
  6. GIMME DANGER
  7. DEATH TRIP
  8. SEARCH AND DESTROY
  9. HOW IT HURTS (RUBBER LEGS)
  10. JOHANNA
  11. OPEN UP AND BLEED
  12. BORN IN A TRAILER
  13. JESUS LOVES THE STOOGES
  14. UNTITLED (HEY BABY)
  15. SHE CREATURES OF THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS

CD 4: NEW YORK AND DETROIT REHEARSALS, 1973

  1. RUBBER LEGS (VERSION 1)
  2. COCK IN MY POCKET
  3. HEAD ON CURVE
  4. JOHANNA
  5. OPEN UP AND BLEED
  6. CRY FOR ME / PINPOINT EYES
  7. RUBBER LEGS (VERSION 2)
  8. WILD LOVE
  9. I COME FROM NOWHERE
  10. I'M SO GLAD
  11. OLD KING LIVE FOREVER
  12. LOOK SO SWEET
  13. I'M A MAN
  14. MELLOW DOWN EASY
  15. MOVE ASS BABY
  16. MY GIRL HATES MY HEROIN (AKA WILD LOVE)

Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Iggy Pop, The Stooges

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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, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. 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.

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Comments

  1. Manny Aguilar says

    August 20, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    Awesome! Thanks for the heads up.

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    • Ken Scharf says

      August 21, 2021 at 6:22 am

      Love the Stogges, I got all 3 albums, I just moved, and have to find my albums.

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