anyone see the stooges perform fun house in london at the hammersmith apollo last night?

is mackay in on their tour?

Argh, I have to be reviewing this and I can't get all my thoughts in order about it. It was phenomenal, natch. I mean, no surprises in the setlist (except for when they finished Funhouse they proceeded to come out and play all of the songs from The Stooges as well (well, except We Will Fall, duh).) Crazy beautiful free jazz renditions with Steve MacKay (sp?) on sax - but mean and lean and angry and raw as the day the songs were written. Ron Asheton remains my utter guitar hero - simultaneously totally restrained and out of control. (And a total gentleman to boot, loveliest guy you ever want to meet.) Iggy was a mentalist, as usual, prowling around and showing us his area like no man old enough to be my dad has a right to look that good - he kept trying to get in the audience and the bouncers would pull him out. (He did succeed in getting half the audience onstage for No Fun.)

Sound was good - LOUD as hell. Couldn't hear Watt on bass so well, but OK, all I really care about is those guitar riffs.

Uuhhhh... what else. Sorry, I've forgotten how to do that reviewing thing.

Wait, are they talking about the average age of their fans (I felt like a wee babe beside them) or the number of fans who got up there? ;-)

Two hours later, these three dudes are ON THE STAGE LEAPING ABOUT. Put it away, grandad, we want to see Iggy naked, not you.

if this all sounds kinda negative i should say it was really really something to see the Igster so fucken wired right from the get-go, to hear him in a good voice with a real tight hot band rather than just assorted 2nd division punk session musos, to feel the sweat dripping down from the Apollo ceiling (the whole place was like an inferno) - it rocked, dude, you shoulda been there

Aw, Ward - where were you and Skidmore seated? We were at the front of the balcony and it was wonderfully LOUD - lots of guitar up there. All of us soundheads must have soaked up the music before it got to you!