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Iggy & the Stooges played House of Blues in Atlantic City - (pics, setlist)

photos by Greg Cristman

Iggy & The Stooges

Q: Even though “Raw Power” was a great album, the Stooges never got to tour behind it properly because your management company quit you and your record label didn’t seem to care either. So is it a case of getting back to unfinished business with this album?

A: Absolutely. I’m finishing a job here. It had its re-release. I did my remix too, which I knew at the time in the ’90s there was a muscle-bound rock-metal thing going around, and I knew that people couldn’t hear the record as it was originally mixed and mastered in that environment. So I thought if I make it unbearably loud, it would sell, and it did! (laughs) Now it’s been re-released, and James has been able to tell his stories about it, and get his credit as due, gotten to say his piece. I’m in the midst of fulfilling my leadership obligations to the group on this record. And I’ve done really well with it.

Q: What do you think of Bowie’s original mix?

A: It’s a good mix of a particular taste. It was very similar to the way David had his own records mixed around that era. It’s peculiarly English. What I didn’t know at the time was that it was disastrously mastered (after Bowie mixed it). By that time we had no communication with management who had decided to let us go. I didn’t know why you had to turn your stereo to “10” to hear it at all. One of the archivists at Sony later postulated that because of the non-management the group was under, the record had no advocate at the label, and it was assigned to a guy who didn’t know the Stooges, and he was applying the standards of a Mitch Miller record to it (in the mastering stage). They were rightfully listening to it as a load of noise, and their concern was how can we reduce it? So if you reduce the noise on “Raw Power,” you will reduce the record…-[from a Chicago Tribune interview w/ Iggy Pop]

Iggy & The Stooges played House of Blues in Atlantic City on Friday (8/27), one of four shows scheduled for this week culminating in an appearance at ATP NY where the band will perform all of Raw Power.

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The band played a loud and killer set for 1.5 hours to the NJ crowd who may have learned about the show from the giant billboard on the highway, or the ‘Atlantic City Weekly’ cover story on Iggy. Iggy dove into the crowd multiple times including one backwards free fall. Unfortunately, the room was only half-full, but that didn’t stop it from being a great show. Full setlist below. On Sunday, the band played the Riviera (4746 N. Racine) in Chicago after the show was moved from Aragon late on Friday night. On Tuesday, 8/31, you can catch the band at the Bank of America Pavillion House of Blues (it was moved too) in Boston.

In other Iggy news, Jim Jarmusch will direct an upcoming documentary on the legendary rocker upon the request of Iggy himself. Jim Jarmusch will also be in attendance at ATP New York Next weekend, curating the entirety of Sunday’s bill (with sunn/Boris, Fucked Up, many many others).

More pictures, and the setlist, from the Atlantic City show, continue below…

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IGGY & THE STOOGES – 2010 TOUR DATES
08.31.10 House of Blues, Boston, MA, US.
09.03.10 ATP – Kutsher’s Country Club, Monticello, NY, US.