Stooges, The The Stooges Elektra vinyl record Latest

1letrenative Rock / Proto Punk -Disc one first issued as Elektra LP (#74051, August 1969).Remastered at Digiprep. Disc two mixed March 2005 at Ofr studio (North-Hollywood, California, USA) –
Edition in gatefold cover with bonus record expanded with alternate takes & mixes.
While the Stooges had a few obvious points of influence — the swagger of the early Rolling Stones, the horny pound of the Troggs, the fuzztone sneer of a thousand teenage garage bands, and the Velvet Underground’s experimental eagerness to leap into the void — they didn’t really sound like anyone else around when their first album hit the streets in 1969. It’s hard to say if Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, Dave Alexander, and the man then known as Iggy Stooge were capable of making anything more sophisticated than this, but if they were, they weren’t letting on, and the best moments of this record document the blithering inarticulate fury of the post-adolescent id. Ron Asheton’s guitar runs (fortified with bracing use of fuzztone and