![]() And now that we’ve aired out the joint and flipped the mattresses, the office is pretty much back to normal, except one of the interns got a tummyache from all the bad swears, and we’re still finding misplaced modifiers between the couch cushions. After a few dozen postings, the comment thread began predictably to devolve like a game of Telephone, until some of the poor befuddled dears were lambasting me-or a previous commenter or, at any rate, somebody somewhere-for dismissing Ween as a “joke band.” I’d argued exactly the opposite, but never mind watching the train wreck was sort of fun. The record-setting outpouring of, er, emotion occasioned by our Ween Over/Under, when some members of the Ween forum came to hang out for a while, was a striking thing to behold. But I knew I was still socially fucked.Even a jaded old music hack hopes to move people occasionally. I felt a sense of relief that it made me artistically secure. But “Search And Destroy” is the record’s masterpiece. It’s practically impossible for me to hit a sustained high tone like that and scream that sort of hyped-up, crazy hillbilly rock thing that I always liked. Because that was the only three minutes of my life when I was ever going to approximate Little Richard. ![]() My personal favourite, though, is “ Shake Appeal”. “Search And Destroy” has become very popular. We were very well rewarded for that record, later. “I had the faith that if we did our best, things would come around,” Iggy says. Prevented from working in the UK after they finished the album, Iggy And The Stooges stumbled back to America, where they imploded in a series of confrontational, deranged gigs. “Because people have heard about all the wild shit going down around those sessions and they can see it on the album sleeve, too. “The fact that there was a very competent, well-educated photographer, Mick Rock, to document our rehearsal sessions helps,” Iggy adds. ![]() I’d stick my head out and see Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret. When I couldn’t come up with the lyrics and live with them at the same time, they put me in the basement of Blakes Hotel. We were given every artistic requirement – a place to rehearse, and a good studio. ![]() We didn’t relate to English musicians or producers, and we resolved to do it ourselves. “I had decided the people from MainMan were our best shot to do something,” Iggy tells us. This reconfigured lineup became Iggy And The Stooges. Williamson followed Iggy, then later Ron and Scott Asheton crossed the Atlantic – lured to the UK by the promise of gigs that never materialised – with Ron demoted to bass duties. On top of that, we were all one step away from becoming junkies and the ones that weren’t junkies were completely out of touch with reality. I knew our management didn’t want it, I knew that radio didn’t understand it and I knew that most people wouldn’t get it. “I knew that there were a few malcontented, strange people out there who were actually going to like this, but there was no apparatus to gather them up. “I realised that there was almost no-one in the world who wanted to save The Stooges,” Iggy tells Uncut.
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