USING TECHNOLOGY PT.2

  (5-16-12) WIDE TRACKIN'..This is more like it! For one thing, if you ever used an 8-track you probably had a cooler car back then than you do now. Also, like Abe Lincoln's stovepipe hat, you could actually open up the tape and store cool stuff in it ( like my friend who hid his stash in his "AXIS, BOLD AS LOVE" tape). I even dig the different running order of the songs. One quibble: wouldn't it have made more sense to put "Loose" & "Dirt" together and then given "Fun House PT's 1 and 2" it's own track?
  P.S. This Blooge is dedicated to CARROLL SHELBY..he never slowed his Mustang down

8trackmuseum.org

USING TECHNOLOGY PT.1

 (5-15-12) AUDIO EARWIG. The May 2  2010 London show is available as an MP3 on a USB flash drive..ok..I know this stuff is a miracle of  MODERN SCIENCE , BLAH,BLAH,BLAH, but tune-in to tomorrows Blooge for somethin' WAY cooler!
P.S...shouldn't something called a "FLASH DRIVE" look just a little bit more exciting?

 

FALL IN LOVE WITH ME

(5-14-12)   MY ANGEL'S ANGEL.This May 13, 2012 was the first MOTHER'S DAY for musician, artist, teacher, fellow STP'er and the love of my life AMANDA, looking here in this picture like a MAN RAY dream come to life. Thanks for being, among many things, the best mother I could want for our beautiful child.
Love you, Honey, LUV!

ANGEL DANCE

RAW SOUL POWER PT.2

(5-11-12)    Here's an addendum to this month's JAMES BROWN Blooge. While moving I found this great picture of JB taken by our old pal James Zook aka ZOOK. Around this time (late '70's) JB was going thru a mini artistic (if not commercial) renaissance with bitchen funk/groove tracks like "Jam 1980's", "The Spank", and the amazing "For Goodness Sakes, Look At Those Cakes ( 'it wasn't the thighs that caught my eyes')", the later of which has JB telling Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder to "look at those cakes!"! IGGY also released a cover of JB's "Sex Machine" as the "B-side" to IG's CD single "Heart Is Saved." A BIG thanks to the three "J's", the Law Firm of Soul: BROWN, OSTERBERG, & ZOOK!

Imitation: The sincerest form of flattery.

TUBEWAY TO GO

(5-10-12)   RIDIN', RIGHT ON A SUBWAY TRAIN. Today is the B-Day of John Simon Ritchie aka SID VICIOUS. The last song Sid played as a PISTOL was "NO FUN" while "I WANNA BE YOUR DOG", "TIGHT PANTS" & "SEARCH & DESTROY" were all included in the live sets of Sid's short solo career. Check Blooge Archives for Feb 3,'12 for more Sid action.

REAL "O" SIGN

(5-9-12)  Somebody put a lot of work into THIS poster. On this date in 1971 the FUN HOUSE era STOOGES played Minneapolis, here incorrectly billed as "IGGY and The STOOGES". On such distinctions the fate of the Empire rests. I've been saving this work of art for six months now, just waiting for this day....

ENJOY THE PRETTY MUSIC

THIS IS JUST A HOBBY FOR ME

(5-8-12) TWO TUB MEN: CAN WE ALL GET ALONG?   This month is the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King riots. If WAYNE COUNTY and HANDSOME DICK, after back and forth vicious verbal abuse, physical violence, and much legal haggling, can make up and be friendly, why can't everybody else?
BTW..Wayne County named him/herself after Wayne Co. in Michigan where IGGY was born

WHEN GIANTS COLLIDE

THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT

  (5-7-12) SEE WHAT THE STOOGES IN THE BACK ROOM WILL HAVE. On May 6, '92, MARLENE DIETRICH fell in love again for the last time. Her final on-camera film appearance was with BOWIE in "Just a Gigolo", which was directed by David "Blowup featuring the YARDBIRDS" Hemmings. Back in the early'70's I used to be able to take my Pentax into museums and actually take pictures of the photos on exhibit( like this one). Of course, now you just right click...
FUN MARLENE FACTS!
  1. Her buddy Hemingway used to call her "The Kraut".
  2. Marlene became an athiest after witnessing first hand the horrors of war. Quote: "If God exists, he needs to review his plans."

Touch of Marlene

LAST STOOGE STANDING

  (5-5-12) WHY YOU...On May 4,1975 Moses Harry Horwitz aka MOE HOWARDtook that final konk to the head. I went to Moe's funeral, even going so far as "inviting myself" to the reception the family had afterwords. I stood by myself at the punch bowl, the only people I recognized were local TV personality Tom Hatten and Curly Joe DeRita ( Mr. DeRita looking incredibly HUGE and barely able to breath). Feeling more than a little out of place I soon left..I probably went somewhere and bought some records. I tell ya, fellow Bloogers, I don't feel particularly old but lately I've been feeling like I've been around a long, long time....( cue "Long Way To Go" by Alice Cooper).

BONUS: Can you identify the other Iggy connection in this video?

SISTER STOOGE

  (5-4-12) NUN BUT THE BRAVE. May 3 was also the B-Day of glamorous punk chanteuse JENNIFER MIRO, one of the lead singers with one of San Francisco's first punk bands The NUNS. When I saw the Nuns open for The Dictators  at the Whisky BOTH bands played versions of "SEARCH & DESTROY", which goes to show ya how much of an influence The STOOGES had on first generation punk bands. Check out The Nuns' great hit single "Suicide Child"

RAW SOUL POWER

(5-3-12) THE PUNK MEETS THE GODFATHER..Today should be a national holiday, it being the B-Day of one of my all time musical heroes JAMES BROWN (b.1933) who despite all his accomplishments is somehow curiously under-rated in our American culture ( maybe if he had been more traditionally..handsome...?). IGGY knew..check out his appreciation of JB in Rolling Stone magazine's " 100 GREATEST SINGERS" issue ( JB is #10, IGGY is #75 ?!?).
BTW, that's me dead center in the middle of this picture ( with the two strands of hair almost reaching my eyebrow )..on the good foot and feeling so good..so good..
P.S. IGGY recorded a song called "Mr Dynamite" on his Soldier LP.
COUNTRYCLUBBIN'
I think I was at this show too, at the Country Club in Reseda, This recording may be the  very same show!
...Little Stranger.

THEIR FINEST HOUR

  (5-2-12) NEVER IN THE FIELD OF ROCK N' ROLL HAVE SO MANY OWED SO MUCH TO SO FEW.
On this day in 2010 the STOOGES blitz London with SUICIDE in tow. I gots the STOOGES set on CD if any of you Bloogers need a copy...
"Somebody's gonna haf to pay!"

SCENE OF THE CRIME

 (5-1-12)  Six months ago today The STOOGES played the Palladium. And while the band delivered on every level what really sent the evening over the top for me was being there with my wife Amanda, my Brutha Doug, and a fantastic group of rock action friends both old and new. RAW POWER came running to us...and we were ready!

HEY DUCHESS

  (4-30-12) On this day in '05 we lost Norma-Jean Wofford AKA The DUCHESS, the coolest woman in ROCK N'ROLL.
Ride On, Norma-Jean, Ride on...

ZACH ATTACK!

 

(4-29-12)   Can't leave April without celebratin' the B-Day of musician, builder, fellow STP and all around fabulous human being ZACH MALNER!, seen here with his equally amazin' wife ANGELA! Zach sang at Amanda & I's wedding reception ( bringing the house down with a rousing version of BOWIE's "STARMAN") while Angela did the caterin'. Check out their group NUMBER 2, the best live band in town!

DESERT OF 1,000 DANCES

(4-28-12)    LOSE MY HEART ON THE BURNIN' SANDS. Much to the chagrin of Detroit STOOGE partisans the reformed ( in more ways than one) STOOGES made their return to the stage at Coachella (on 4/27/12). One of my most vivid memories of the show is being pressed up against the stage among a crowd of mainly young hispanics in their early twenties who knew ALL the songs...it warms the cockles of my ancient ROCK N'ROLL heart.
P.S. cool photo of WATT & IG in rock action by Peter Whitfield.