“We were all one step away from becoming junkies, and the ones that weren’t junkies were out of touch with reality. Ron and Scott Asheton, though, are not far behind… With his band in disarray, Iggy and new collaborator James Williamson head to London. You know, Jack White, ever the smartass, once asked me, ‘So, did you ever record “1971”?’” It gets pretty fierce at the end and I like that, too. I like the way it’s written and I love the way it’s played, and I like the way it progresses from this kind of a rock blues, and then it goes into the sax so beautifully played, and the groove changes. That’s the one of which I’m most proud, as I put that together and handed it to the group. “Of everything on that album, the one that really stood out to me was ‘1970’. Put everything into a more spatial context. It would delay the disorientation and usually just give a certain sort of edge to everything. You’d have to take it just before you were going to work and then start working just before you felt it coming on. The way I would do it was, I would just make sure I didn’t take the acid too early. Also, I was taking more LSD than I had when we recorded the first one and I think that had something to do with it, too – taking acid and singing. Steve MacKay’s sax had a lot to do with it, but it was also that now everybody could play a little better. On this album the lyrics are getting a little wilder and the music is getting slightly pushier. “What I wanted for the group was more aggression for the music, and a more complex content. …in which Iggy perfects the correct time to drop LSD during the recording process. They’re not the kind of guys that would ever do something like that, and the more I dance, the more their heads go down and stare at their toes, and the better they played. My guess is that there’s something about it that they find profoundly embarrassing and for that reason it’s titillating and it removes barriers somehow. “What do I remember most about John Cale? I do remember he spotted that the guys didn’t play as well if I wasn’t dancing around. Ron came up with the riffs for ‘Not Right’ and ‘Real Cool Time’ and we were back in a studio the next day. ‘Little Doll’ I wrote it in my head, just watching a groupie, a New York slick chick walking around across the hotel lobby. He came in and said, ‘Look, boys, you don’t have enough songs here.’ We said, ‘Oh, don’t worry about it, we’ve got more.’ I remember just knocking up some quick songs in the Chelsea Hotel. “I remember listening to playbacks and just thinking, ‘Well, maybe if I smoke another joint, ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, will sound more exciting on the sixth minute.’ But I knew what was up. The bad news was that after that, we hadn’t put the homework into making an improv stand up as a listening experience. The good news was the song parts were good and the improv was good up to about a minute. Each of the songs was meant to have a 7 to 15 minute instrumental after the conclusion of the song format. This was ‘1969’, ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, ‘No Fun’ and ‘Anne’. We had four songs ready and we thought that was going to be our album. During them, I was writing, putting together the riffs and pieces of music so they would add up to songs, finishing words madly before we went to New York.
Stooges rehearsals never lasted too much more than 20 minutes. But what was really important other than that was our rehearsals. I had a little different look that I was going for.
Me, I was buying my clothes at a shop for pimps on Times Square.
#The stooges ready to die full album mod#
They were so excited they were going to go to New York where there was a shop called Ball Sergeant that had all the mod gear. Iggy Pop: “When we were about to go into the studio, we were all really concerned with how much money the record company would give us for clothes.
The band overcome sartorial concerns to unleash a raw classic on an unsuspecting world…
#The stooges ready to die full album archive#
In this archive feature from Uncut’s Take 146 issue (July 2006), Iggy talks us through the highlights of his 40-year career – including skiing trips with David Bowie and a cameo from Princess Margaret… Interview: Jaan Uhelszki Iggy & The Stooges’ new album, Ready To Die, is reviewed in the new issue of Uncut, dated May 2013, and out now.
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