THE STOOGES - RAW POWER POLL

"RSD Essentials" - an exciting new oxymoron

There's a book called Real Conversations on the Re/Search label and it includes interviews with Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, Billy Childish, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti: https://www.researchpubs.com/shop/p/real-conversations-ferlinghetti-henry-rollins-biafra-billy-childish

Here's an excerpt from Henry Rollins's interview with V. Vale:

"You know, I backed up and restored Raw Power. We'd heard that the multi-track had been stolen from England and ended up in Belgium. We ran into a friend who was in Tuxedo Moon, Steven Brown, asked him about this and he said 'Yeah, it's in my friend's studio.' We went there and I said "On Iggy's behalf, we'd like to take it back." The studio guy said "Here, take it." So I took it to Iggy and he went "What am I gonna do with it?" So I said "Then give it to me." I took it to Westlake in L.A., and we had to bring in another 2-inch, 16 track machine which took a while to track down. Then we made a super-high analog copy as well as two digital copies. We made some rough mixes off the dupe masters and vaulted all of it. Luckily the master is still in good shape, but thankfully it's analog and digitally backed up and in storage. I said "Iggy, never give this back to Sony. It got ripped off and they didn't even know or bother to find out or tell you--screw 'em. It's yours." He said "Well, you take it." I said "Even better." I have this closet with an air filtration system so that everything in there is dry, cool, and clean."

This also supports the theory that Bowie was never given the proper multi-tracks when he met Iggy over in LA. to do the infamous LP mix. Because the multis - according to this story - never left England.

i need somebody was robbed in this poll!

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— UKADS (@ukads3) December 22, 2023

Excellent.

Hah! At first I thought Gene Siskel gave it a thumbs down.

Hahaha nice!
I posted this before on another thread, but it's worth repeating that the Weasel Walter 2020 mix of "Search and Destroy" is without a doubt the best mix, no contest, not even close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aagvwJTNeSY
The guitar leads blend in more naturally (don't sound as "punched in"), the drums and bass are higher in the mix where they belong, the vocals are pulled back, etc.
I believe that flange effect happening at 0:38 was unintentional, but it actually works!!

The director or someone involved in the ad must’ve been a fan, as I don’t ever remember seeing anything as outré as ‘Raw Power’ in Woolies.

Bought my first Fall album at Woolworth, Bend Sinister on sale for £2.99.

FWIW, the first time my partner ever saw me was in a picture of me holding this album. Amusingly, when we started cohabiting and I finally played the album for enjoyment, it didn't go over well at all as it set off my partner's anxiety issues. (To this day, I have to play it in a separate room with the door closed.)

i bought an Einsturzende Neubauten album in Woolies so not outwith the realms of possibility they might have stocked Raw Power.