MONSTER OF THE MONTH

   (October 1, 2012)   CRACKED ACTRESS...The title of the STOOGES "She Creatures of the Hollywood Hills" was an obvious reference to the 1956 film "The She Creature" starring Chester "Boston Blackie" Morris and Marla "Voodoo Woman" English. This may sound like a good time to present a treatise along the lines of "Female Fiends in the Cinema" but let's stick to the STOOGES, shall we?

  The STOOGES performed SCHH for the first time anywhere at the Whisky in Hollywood on 9/15/73. The version on the low-fi CD "Live at the Whisky A GOGO" on Revenge Records is perhaps the most savage performance by the band ever recorded (sadly there's no decent studio version). Most of the RAW POWER era music was written by WILLIAMSON but this creature is RON's bass propelled baby all the way. The lyrics, with the possible exception of the title, could only have been written by The IG.

   " Wanna blow it all away...

         Buttfuckers makin' me pay,

     Rich old men, pockets fat,

        Double bellies, fingers ( lyric indecipherable),

     Dirty minds, dirty tricks,

        Gonna try and sell my dick,

    Gonna try and buy my soul,

        And I don't know, I don't know,

    If I'm gonna...make it..."

The last three lines are the key...this back and forth between defiance and submission would form the basis for IGGY's entire solo career. At some point (around "Skull Ring'') IGGY decided he just didn't care anymore.

Then he got the STOOGES back together....
BONUS BLOOGE: IT CAN AND DID HAPPEN!