Monday, January 11, 2016

WE'VE GOT FORTY YEARS...

Originally Posted 1/08/2013-Posted here out of order in honor of David Bowie's passing
      CRASH COURSE FOR THE STOOGES...Forty years ago (1973 ) was a big year for B-Day boy DAVID BOWIE ( b. 1947 ). It was the height of Ziggymania: "Aladdin Sane",  "Pin Ups"...it's amazing he found a whole spare day to mix RAW POWER ( in truth, a remix salvage job of IGGY's original botched production and mix ). The STOOGES over the years have bitched to high heaven about Bowie's 'sabotage' of their masterwork but time has proven that David made the right choices. Chances are a big budget Bob Ezrin/Alice Cooper type production job STILL wouldn't have made the mid '70's Rock audience buy into the STOOGES' trip  (hell, they couldn't even get past the group's name!). But Bowie's visionary mix taught many people (including musicians) to actually hear music in new ways...to listen and be inspired by sounds they never would have accepted before. Whether this was Bowie's intent is another question...HIS records certainly didn't sound anything like RAW POWER. He probably just did the best he could do with what he had. And WE wouldn't have had RAW POWER 'come running to us'  without him...thanks, Mr. Jones.
      PHUN FACT: "Pin Ups", Bowie's LP of his versions of songs by mid '60's British bands ( Yardbirds, Who, etc...) was actually supposed to be "Part One". "Part Two" was rumored to be an LP of covers of songs by American groups like The STOOGES and The VELVETS ( Ziggy and the Spiders were already performing "White Light, White Heat" and "I'm Waiting For My Man"). Unfortunately Ziggy had to 'break up the band' and "Pin Ups Vol.2" never materialized. What a drag...it would have been fun to hear RONNO work out on some STOOGES' jams!
      Check out last year's Bowie B-Day tribute on Blooge Archive "LEPER MESSIAHS?" ( 1/19/12 ).

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