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.

IGGY, THIS IS JESUS.

(4-27-12)     CHRIST IT'S BEAUTIFUL! A great poster for an IG show in San Diego on this date back in 2001.

COMRADES IN BLOOGEDOM

GIVE ME BACK MY STOOGE

(4-26-12)    BIRTHDAY OUT OF BOUNDS..Tomorrow is the B-Day of the lovely and talented KATE PIERSON of the B 52's! And she was never more beautiful than in the video for her duet with IGGY on "CANDY". Check out the IG and Kate doin' it live on ARSENIO HALL back in the '90's. Roam if you want to... 

DICK CLARK R.I.P.

(4-25-12)     While on American Bandstand in the late '60's I was picked for the "Rate-A-Record" segment. I was determind not to use the cliché "it's good to dance to" answer so for the first song Dick Clark and I discussed the over-usage of the WAH WAH pedal in contempory Pop music. While the second song played the chola next to me elbowed me in the ribs and in a whisper begged me to pleeeeese tell her what to say so I gave her my answer. As soon as I did the song ended and Dick shoved the mike in my face and asked me what I thought and I blurted out: "...ah..it's good to dance to."   

RON'S BIG DAY

   (4-24-12)  ANOTHER YEAR WITH LOTS TO DO..On April 21, '68 (IG's B-Day) RON ASHETON lost his virginity, dropped acid for the first (and last) time, and first heard the fabulous LP "The Notorious Byrd Brothers" by the BYRDS. Ron would take the riff from the bridge of the song "TRIBAL GATHERING" and use it for the foundation of the STOOGE'S "1969". Well ALRIGHT

LONELY PLANET BOY

  (4-23-12) JET BOY JOHNNY THUNDERS crashed this day back in 1991.
  "Now Thunders and me did not part friends,
    What we did once I wouldn't do again."
  "A few years later Thunders died broke,
    Sable had a baby back at her folks.
    Me I went straight, and serious too,
  There wasn't much else that I could do...
    I look away...."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

(4-21-12)   APRIL 21 is The IG's B-Day..born this date in 1947. Thanks for the KICKS , man

RON REMEMBERED

  (4-20-12) A great poster from the RON ASHETON Tribute show in Ann Arbor. "Orchestral Stooges Songs!"..."Keys to the city!".."KILLER STOOGES SET!" I wish I had been there in the flesh..And I wish I could make out the name of the illustrator who did such a fabulous job...thanks, whoever you are!

THE PRETTY MUSIC

HIGH FIVE TIME

  (4-19-12) DIED WITH HIS BOOTS ON. Today is NATIONAL HIGH FIVE DAY (really). The Michigan Rock community high fived RON ASHETON with a Tribute showfor him on this day in 2011. All proceeds went to the RON ASHETON FOUNDATION. Ron with his own foundation...in '69, who woudda thunk?

STARR TIME

  (4-18-12)  SABLE STARR, "Queen of the LA Groupie Scene," died in bed on this day in 2009 of brain cancer.
"I slept with Stable when she was 13,
    Her parents were too rich to do anything"
  "I found her in a backstreet with her looks half gone,
    She was selling something that I was on.."
Lyrics by IGGY from "LOOK AWAY," a great, overlooked song from the CD "Naughty Little Doggie."
Check Blooge archive "Day 23 A.I." for final verse.

HOW MUCH IS THAT IGGY IN THE WINDOW?

 

(4-17-12)  IGUANA ALERT! IGGY worked at DISCOUNT RECORDS in Ann Arbor. This is where people first started calling Jim "IGGY" and where he first saw the ASHETON BROTHERS, standing outside the store on Liberty Street (as related in the song "DUM DUM BOYS").
  "I remember how they stared at the ground,
    they looked as if they put the whole world down.."
  BTW, Check out the IGGY and the STOOGES site for THE GREAT VIDEO the IG made for Record Store Day.

AMBASSADOR IGGY

 (4-16-12)  DEAL WITH THE REAL..This coming Saturday is RECORD STORE DAY and Mr. POP is this years offical Record Store Day ambassador! Go to the Record Store Day web-site and enter to win a poster signed by the IG himself! 

JOEY IS A PUNK

  (4-13-12)  I DON'T WANNA BE A MASCOT NO MORE. On April 15, 2001 JOEY RAMONE entered  ROCK N' ROLL HEAVEN( too late, of course, for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). Here Joey pulls a MOE on our pal  MOON ( see Blooge Archive Day 18). BTW, MOON is NOBODIES mascot, nobodies sidekick, nobodies second banana, nobodies STOOGE!! 

STOOGES ASSEMBLE!

(4-12-12)   BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING...I have NO idea what's going on here but I like this picture and it's been a few days since we've had a color picture up...ENJOY!

CALLING FROM THE FUN HOUSE # 2

(4-11-12)     SUPER SERVICE. We hired three handy men to work on our new home. The guy in the middle seemed to be in charge. He said: " Don't worry, sir, when you get back you won't recognize the joint!"

BOY HOWDY!

(4-10-12)   KICK OUT THE JANNS..The April '74 issue of Detriot's CREEM magazine had IGGY, BOWIE, & MOTT THE HOOPLE on it's cover. Meanwhile, Rolling Stone magazine would regularly feature such fabulous rockers as the many cast members of Saturday Night Live on it's cover while deeming KEITH MOON's death ( and by extension, his life) was not worthy of a cover story. Not surprising then that RS owner Jann Wenner has vowed that the  MC5 would never get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. With 'friends' like Jann, ROCK N'ROLL better watch it's back.

THE BAND WAS ALL TOGETHER

(4-9-12)  GIVE 'EM THE BOOT. This vinyl bootleg of the 4/9/77 Seattle gig was the first recorded release to document IGGY'S first solo tour ( with BOWIE on keyboards).It's now easily available on a legitimate CD with better sound quality but with lousy cover art. You pays yer money, you takes yer choice...
Down in the Lab

JESUS LOVES THE STOOGES

  (4-6-12)  CRUISIN' WITH THE NAZAREAN...Happy Easter weekend! I always thought of the "Jesus, this is IGGY " (Turn Blue from Lust For Life) line as something apart from the rest of the song but if you think of ALL the lyrics as some kinda dialog between the IG and the Nazz ( Christ! She's beautiful!) it's REALLY funny. Try not to  step on anybody's heart this weekend...
Cuppa Joe

ENTERTAIN US

  (4-5-12) SOMETHING IN THE WAY. Not long before KURT COBAIN killed himself on this day in 1994 he left a message on IGGY'S phone saying he wanted to collaborate with the IG on some music. Kurt had called IGGY "a total idol" and RAW POWER his favorite LP. Sadly, Kurt never answered any of IGGY'S call backs. With all of IGGY'S life experience and wisdom he would have been able to do more than just help Kurt with his music.
  Maybe IGGY COULD HAVE SAVED KURTS LIFE.
P.s. Mr. POP wrote the Nirvana Tribute in the Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Artists of All Time issue

THEM AGAIN

  (4-4-12) BELFAST GYPSIES. In April of '64 THEM formed in Belfast. We've already established IGGY'S connection to "Gloria" (see Blooge Archives for 1/3/12) but the IG also did a fab version of Them's "One, Two, Brown Eyes" on the LUST FOR LIFE tour. Check out the MC 5's cool takes on "Baby Please Don't Go" and "I Can Only Give You Everything" on 66 BREAKOUT, a bitchen LP of pre-KOTJ tracks.

CALLING FROM THE FUN HOUSE

(4-3-12)   ANOTHER FINE MESS..We just got the keys to our new house! I hired a couple of locals to work on the front yard...

APRIL FOOLS

(4-2-12)   STINK meets The SHAM ROCKER.    Even THEY can't stand each other! I was standing outside The Whisky during a sold-out IGGY show when Bono walked by with his entourage on the way into the show. I said:" Please, Bono sir, make me, a fellow Irishman, one of your apostles and I Will Follow." And Bono said unto me:" Lad, I can't take your life but I will take your pride." So I stayed out on the street where the faces shone...

TALLY HO!

 (3-27-12)  GANGWAY! Gotsa take a little break..so..."SEE YA NEXT WEEK IN A BRAND NEW SHOW!"

    ...back 4-2-12

The Magpies check out K & A' s new diggs. Its a dilly!

BURKS LAW

(3-26-12)   Can't leave March without celebrating the birthday of fellow "STOOGES at THE PALLADIUM" ( an STP ) goer,  multi-instrumentalist, sound editor supreme, and all around fabulous human being DAVE BURK. Dave sang The Stones "Dear Doctor" and Donovan's beautiful "CELESTE"  at Amanda and I's wedding reception. Thanks for being a friend, Dave.at Amanda and I's wedding reception. Thanks for being a friend, Dave.

THE CRADLE WILL ROCK

(3-25-12)   IF YOU KNEW SUZI...March 26, 1970 the STOOGES and The FIVE played a festival in Cincinnati ( not to be confused with the "Peanut Butter" gig there later than summer). Notice SUZI QUATRO'S great band is listed twice ( Suzi had changed the band's name from The PLEASURE SEEKERS to CRADLE ).
Notice also the show was produced by her brother Mike Quatro. So was it a typo or nepotism?
P.s. whatever happened to BALDERDASH?
Soothsayer

THIN WHITE STOOGE

(3-24-12) MANTRA RAYS...March 28, 1977 IGGY & BOWIE were recorded live at the Mantra Studios in Chicago. Any IGGY/BOWIE live recording, no matter how lo-fi, is worth owning if only for their great performance of "TURN BLUE"

HOUSE OF STROBE LIGHT

(3-23-12)  Detriot's GRANDE ( pronounced 'Gran-DEE') BALLROOM, where in the late '60's/early'70's the MC 5 and The STOOGES took on all comers. ..kinda reminds me of The Alamo...

CIVICS LESSON

(3-22-12) Been reminiscing with some fellow Bloogers about shows we've seen at the SANTA MONICA CIVIC, our very own GRANDE BALLROOM. Just off the top of our heads : IGGY (with & without Bowie), Slade, Patti Smith, Kinks, Mott the Hoople, Ramones, Blondie, Runaways,The Sweet, the Raspberries, Status Quo,Procol Harum, Motorhead, Tom Petty,The Clash, Bo Diddley, Prince, Roy Wood's Wizard, pre disco BeeGees, Devo on & on...and let's not forget the TAMI SHOW ( the best Rock N'Roll movie ever!).  I had third row tickets to the cancelled RAW POWER era IGGY & the STOOGES show at the Civic( shed a tear...)
Let us School ya...

LITTLE DOLL TAKES ROCK ACTION

(3-21-12)  "I MUST BE HUNGRY..FOR YOUR...VINYL ALBUM.." Baby GLORIA is teething..she'll bite into anything..even an old vinyl bootleg of IGGY with the Sales Bros. and Scottie Thurston ( but no BOWIE this time) at the fabulous SANTA MONICA CIVIC. IGGY was supporting "LUST FOR LIFE" and this was the tour he was wearing a tail and a German helmet.

GOING TO CHICAGO

(3-20-12) Today is the birthday of the Hal Blaine of the blues drummers SAM LAY..check out Sam's resume: Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, & Bob Dylan ( on Highway 61 Revisited and as drummer with Dylan's band that "went electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival). Between playing drums with the PRIME MOVERS and forming the STOOGES,  IGGY traveled to Chicago and Sam became IGGY'S mentor, teaching IGGY his most important lesson, mainly that the IG should go home and create his OWN blues from his OWN experiences...hence THE STOOGES and THE WORLD WE NOW LIVE IN . . .

DON'T LEAN ON ME, MAN!

(3-19-12) "FACE TO FACE . . . WITH THE MAN WHO PAID THE BAIL..In March of '76 IGGY & BOWIE were busted for felony pot possession. BOWIE paid the bond for both and the charges were later dropped. This photo was found years later in someone's garbage can. IGGY'S mug shot, one of ROCK N'ROLL'S Holy Grails, has never been found. Like IGGY sang: " Me I'm just a lucky guy.."

Who Knew?!

GREEN TO COM

(3-18-12)  BROTHER WAYNE joins the ST. PATTY'S DAY party! And a SHILALEE SHELLACKIN' to ya all!
  P.S....not sure who that ancient Celtic deity is in the background... Manly yes, but I like it too!

MISCHIEF MAKERS

(3-17-12) SMOKING OF THE GREEN...Happy SAINT PATRICK'S DAY, all you lads and lassies! We seem to have a shot here of some STOOGES riding some kinda Irish bumper car. Looked like it was a lotta fun being a (psychedelic) STOOGE...for awhile. Amusement parks are cool on acid..not so much on skag. Hard to imagine a young James Williamson riding bumper cars...nowadays maybe... 
Hearts, Moons, Stars, Clovers!

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH

Hey Bloogists everywhere, Little Stranger at yer service .... Mea Culpa .Due to negligence and general sloth on the part of yours truley, I'm  50 posts behind, but not to worry!... I am on a most  noble quest  this glorious holiday weekend to get caught up! On each of the new postings I'm putting the  orginal date Kev Action originally made his post, so we can keep the record straight for posterior, ah , er  I mean posterity. And now for this evenings next selection...

Get Stoogified!

LUST FOR LAUGHS

(3-16-12 )  STOOGE VS STOOGES..Today is the B-Day of Joseph Levitch AKA JERRY LEWIS b.1926. I imagine Jerry's cinematic antics had an affect on the young JIMMY OSTERBURG ( as well as IGGY'S crooning style being influenced by Dino and Francis Albert). This picture reminds me of the "LUST FOR LIFE" LP cover.   Jerry made a movie in 1952 called "The Stooge." He has also dissed The STOOGES THREE, claiming that the boys only got laughs because of their sound effects..."OHHH...professional jealousy, aye?"

Candy, Candy, Candy

I LOVE LARRY

 (3-15-12)LOW MAN AGAIN! Here's LARRY FINE and Lucille 'I Love Lucy' Ball sharin' a smoke on the set of 1934's "Three Little Pigskins." LARRY wouldn't of looked so happy if he had known that one day SAG president Ronald Reagan would sell out his fellow performers by making a deal that would cut them out of future TV residuals, while producers ( like Lucy ) would rake in the geetis. MOE in particular wanted to put the Gipper's schnoz to the proverbial buzzsaw.
BONZO?!

BORN IN A TRAILER

(3-14-12) HEAD ON(THE CURB)CURVE...The trailer that JAMES NEWELL OSTERBURG grew up in is the same model featured in the 1953 movie "The Long,Long,Trailer" starring Lucy & Desi.
    "I was born in a trailer camp,
      The nights were cold,
    And the days were damp.
      Incubator Baby, I was half alive,
    I've been eatin' lotsa shit and jive..."Ethel Gets Her Due

MONSTER of the MONTH

 (3-13-12) A NEW (creature) FEATURE HERE AT THE BLOOGE! If the ASHETON BROS. were gonna sit around all day in front of the tube smoking pot they had to watch something other than THE THREE STOOGES and WHERE THE ACTION IS. From Universal Horror to Toho Productions monster movies ruled local TV stations in the '60's. Nothing beat the oeuvre of the great ROGER CORMAN and "IT CONQUERED THE WORLD" was one of his best. Featuring the love triangle of Peter 'Phelps' Graves, future hotel owner Beverly Garland, and Lee 'Angel Eyes' Van Cleef. Pete's soliloquy at the end has to be heard to be believed. Later remade as the disappointing "Zontar, The Thing From Venus."
Actung, Baby

BABY DETONATE FOR ME

 "RUNAWAY SON OF A NUCLEAR A-BOMB #2 " In March of 1953 our government started A-Bomb tests 65 miles north of Vegas. They were seen from 100 miles around in any direction from ground zero. Tourists would get reservations in advance so they could get rooms in Vegas facing the blasts. These are the same explosions the radiation of which many believe drifted over into Utah and eventually killed much of the cast and crew of the film "The Conqueror", including John Wayne ( there are pictures of the Duke on the set playing with a Geiger counter). Astute Bloogers will notice that the big cowboy sign in the left side of this picture is one of the Vegas landmarks destroyed by The Amazing Colossal Man. 
Viva Las Vegas

The MAN,The MYTH,The MUG.

  "THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS IN MY COUNTRY!" The great SHEMP HOWARD ( Samuel Horwitz ) was born Mar.4, 1895. A USA Today poll ( under the heading 'statistics that shape our lives') asked Americans who their favorite STOOGE was. CURLY got 52% ( natch ), MOE 31%, LARRY 12%, CURLY JOE 3%, and SHEMP 2%...one percent LOWER THAN CURLY JOE ?!? No wonder RAW POWER took almost 40 years to go gold!

PS.Also happy B-Day to fellow Palladium STOOGE concert goer the Fabulous RAY DAY of CENTIMETERS and TREASON! fame...keep a lookout for RAY'S upcoming solo LP!
A little BBQ and What-Have-You!

R.I.P. ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

    Robert Mapplethorpe died of AIDS on this day(3-9) in '89. Here's one of the pictures he took of IGGY. Check out PATTI SMITH'S great book " JUST KIDS" for an account of her time with Mapplethorpe in NYC during the '70's.
WING

Hear Him Roar

"I LIKE GIRLS..."
    "...THEY'RE ALL OVER THIS WORLD!" Today is INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY. No nip and tuck for IGGY..what you see is what you get. IGGY has said he prefers
' midwestern girls ' but he was married to a Japanese woman ( SUSHI POP ) and is currently with a Nigerian/Irish one

( NINA ALU ). 

Foxy Lady

Say it ain't Bo

MARACA MAN
"SAY MAN" During the month of March 1955 JEROME GREEN joined BO DIDDLEY'S band. IGGY'S first record release was a recording of "MONA" by IG's first band The IQUANA'S. That's JG rappin' with BO on Mr. DIDDLEYS biggest pop hit "Say Man". In The ANIMALS version of BO'S "The Story of Bo Diddley" BO asks JEROME what he thinks of these young bands 'doing our material'. JEROME answers : " Where's the bar, man, please show me to the bar". I got this round.
  And check out BO'S customised scooter and self-customised guitar..everything with BO is customised!Hey Jerome!

MURDER CITY vs KILL CITY

  IGGY on the cover of DETRIOT!MURDER CITY COMIX from 1995. He's featured in a story called "German Secret Weapon." I guess the difference between "Murder City" and "Kill City" is in Detriot you get killed and in Los Angeles you kill yourself. No wonder IGGY moved to Florida.
Mayhem in South Beach