IGGY AND THE STOOGES "RAW POWER" COL.1973 1st PRESS/PITMAN EX/NM- IN SHRINK OOP

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THESE ARE VISUALLY & PLAY GRADED.

ARTISTS: IGGY AND THE STOOGES

TITLE: “RAW POWER”

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

Search And Destroy

3:26

A2

Gimme Danger

3:28

A3

Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell (Originally Titled "Hard To Beat")

4:52

A4

Penetration

3:35

B1

Raw Power

4:22

B2

I Need Somebody

4:50

B3

Shake Appeal

3:00

B4

Death Trip

5:53

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Inc.

• Copyright (c) – CBS Inc.

• Published By – Mainman Ltd.

• Recorded At – CBS Studios, London

• Manufactured By – Columbia Records

• Produced For – Mainman

• Mixed At – Western Recorders

• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman

• Mastered At – Customatrix

Credits

• Bass, Vocals – Ron Asheton

• Drums – Scott Asheton

• Guitar – James Williamson

• Mixed By – David Bowie, Iggy Pop

• Photography By – Mick Rock

• Producer – Iggy Pop

• Vocals – Iggy Pop

• Written-By – Iggy Pop, James Williamson

Notes

"Iggy and The Stooges represented exclusively by MainMan, Ltd."

©? 1973 CBS, Inc.
Manufactured by Columbia Records CBS, Inc.

First pressing in heavy cardboard sleeve, with a red Columbia logo on the front, custom photo inner sleeve, a sticker attached to the shrink that says: "Iggy Raw Power" and the KC cat# prefix (a list price of $5.98)

Some copies were released with variant "not for sale" stickers and/or a timing strip sticker on the sleeve.
A further variant is "KC 32111" on top right corner of black and white illustrated inner sleeve.

"P" stamped in runouts indicates pressing from Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society: ASCAP

• Matrix / Runout (Label Side A): AL 32111

• Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): BL 32111

• Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, Runout Side A): P AL 32111-2A

• Matrix / Runout (Variant 1, Runout Side B): P BL 32111-2A

• Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, Runout Side A): P o P AL 32111-2A

• Matrix / Runout (Variant 2, Runout Side B): P P AL 32111-2A
  

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

CAT. #: KC 32111

YEAR: 1973

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX+/NM- CONDITION, IT LOOKS GREAT NO VISIBLE SCUFFS, SCRATCHES, LINES OR SMUDGES. VINYL HAS A NICE SHINEY LUSTER THE SONGS PLAY SUPER CLEAN. LOOKS MINTY AND PLAYS EXCELLENT. THERE IS SOME VERY VERY VERY LIGHT SURFACE SOUND ON THE LEAD IN GROOVE ON SIDE 2, THE SONGS PLAY SUPER CLEAN, NO AUDIO BETWEEN THE TRACKS.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN EX+/NM-CONDITION, NICE STRAIGHT EDGES, NO RIPS, SEAM SPLIT, TEARS, NO WRITING ON THE JACKET. STILL IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP. W/ ORIGINAL IGGY STICKER. (SHRINK IS TORN ALONG THE TOP AND A COUPLE PLACES (SEE PHOTO).

MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. COMES IN ORIGINAL IGGY INNER SLEEVE. NO RESERVE. PITMAN PRESSING VARIANT 1, MATRIX # P AL 32111-2A.

MORE ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE:

The Stooges, also known as Iggy and the Stooges, were an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander. Playing a raw, primitive style of rock and roll, the band sold few records in their original incarnation and gained a reputation for their confrontational performances, which often involved acts of self-mutilation by Iggy Pop.

After releasing two albums—The Stooges (1969) and Fun House (1970)—the group disbanded briefly, and reformed with a different lineup to release Raw Power (1973) before breaking up again in 1974. The band reunited in 2003 until dissolving in 2016 following the deaths of Scott Asheton and saxophonist Steve Mackay. Ron Asheton participated in the reunion until his death in 2009.

The Stooges are widely regarded as a seminal proto-punk act. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them 78th on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.

Raw Power is the third studio album by American rock band the Stooges (credited as Iggy and the Stooges), released on February 7, 1973 by Columbia Records. The album departed from the "groove-ridden, feel-based songs" of the band's first two records in favor of more anthemic hard rock, while featuring guitar and songwriting contributions by James Williamson] Though not initially commercially successful, Raw Power gained a cult following in the years following its release, and, like its predecessor Fun House (1970), is considered an influential forerunner of punk rock.

Background

After their first two albums The Stooges (1969) and Fun House (1970) were released to little commercial success, the Stooges were in disarray: the band had officially broken up, bassist Dave Alexander was fighting alcoholism, and singer Iggy Pop's heroin addiction was escalating prior to the intervention of David Bowie. Pop later recalled, "very few people recognized the quality of the Stooges' songwriting, it was really meticulous. And to his credit, the only person I'd ever known of in print to notice it, among my peers of professional musicians, was Bowie. He noticed it right off." Having signed on as a solo artist to Columbia Records, Pop relocated to London, where he was to write and record an album with James Williamson, who served as the Stooges' second guitarist from late 1970 until the band's initial dissolution in July 1971. When they failed to find a suitable English rhythm section, Pop suggested that former Stooges Ron Asheton and Scott Asheton fly over and participate in the recording sessions,leading to the band's reformation under the new name of "Iggy and the Stooges". Although he was the band's founding guitarist, the elder Asheton reluctantly agreed to switch to electric bass.

Recording

Initial demo sessions were held at RG Jones Studios in Wimbledon with sound engineer Gerry Kitchingham and at Olympic Studios in Barnes with sound engineer Keith Harwood, with most of the songs rejected by the band's management. Pop said that Columbia executives insisted on two ballads, one for each side of the album: "Gimme Danger" and "I Need Somebody". The album itself was recorded at CBS Studios in London with staff engineer Mike Ross-Trevor from September 10 to October 6, 1972. Pop produced and mixed the album by himself; unfortunately, his botched first attempt mixed most of the instruments into one stereo channel and the vocals into the other, with little regard for balance or tone quality. Tony DeFries, the head of Bowie's management company MainMan, informed Pop that the album would be remixed by Bowie. Pop agreed to this, claiming that "the other choice was I wasn't going to get my album out. I think DeFries told me that CBS refused to release it like that, I don't know",but insisted that his own mix for "Search and Destroy" be retained. Due to budgetary constraints, Bowie remixed the other seven songs in a single day at Los Angeles' Western Sound Recorders in October 1972. Pop said of the production:

To the best of my recollection it was done in a day. I don't think it was two days. On a very, very old board, I mean this board was old! An Elvis type of board, old-tech, low-tech, in a poorly lit, cheap old studio with very little time. To David's credit, he listened with his ear to each thing and talked it out with me, I gave him what I thought it should have, he put that in its perspective, added some touches. He's always liked the most recent technology, so there was something called a Time Cube you could feed a signal into -- it looked like a bong, a big plastic tube with a couple of bends in it -- and when the sound came out the other end, it sort of shot at you like an echo effect. He used that on the guitar in "Gimme Danger", a beautiful guitar echo overload that's absolutely beautiful; and on the drums in "Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell". His concept was, "You're so primitive, your drummer should sound like he's beating a log!" It's not a bad job that he did...I'm very proud of the eccentric, odd little record that came out.

Bowie later recalled:

...the most absurd situation I encountered when I was recording was the first time I worked with Iggy Pop. He wanted me to mix Raw Power, so he brought the 24-track tape in, and he put it up. He had the band on one track, lead guitar on another and him on a third. Out of 24 tracks there were just three tracks that were used. He said 'see what you can do with this'. I said, 'Jim, there's nothing to mix'. So we just pushed the vocal up and down a lot. On at least four or five songs that was the situation, including "Search and Destroy." That's got such a peculiar sound because all we did was occasionally bring the lead guitar up and take it out.

Raw Power was released on February 7, 1973under the moniker of "Iggy and the Stooges", in contrast to the band's first two albums, which were credited to "the Stooges". The cover is a photograph of Pop taken by rock music photographer Mick Rock. The songs "Search and Destroy" and "Shake Appeal" were both released as singles (the title track was released as a single in Japan only). According to Robert Hilburn, the album was "far too radical for the corporate-rock sensibilities of radio" in 1973, and as a result it only charted for three weeks on the Top 200, peaking at number 183. The group continued touring for about a year, but Columbia dropped their contract. The Stooges were also dumped by MainMan – Tony DeFries lost patience with the band after the large sum of money he advanced to them was spent on drugs. The Stooges broke up in February 1974. After spending time in a drug-fueled stupor in L.A. – and later rehab at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute – Pop re-joined Bowie's entourage, and emerged as a solo artist in 1976

Raw Power received much praise from contemporary critics. Dave Marsh proclaimed that it was already "the best album of the '70s", as Pop had "summed everything up and it took him only nine songs to do it." Ben Edmunds from Phonograph Record called it "an experience so overpowering that it forces new definitions for even the most familiar things", arguing in March that it will undoubtedly be the album of the year. According to Lester Bangs, the "by-now banal words 'heavy metal' were invested for this group", while "the ferocious assertiveness of the lyrics is at once slightly absurd and indicative of a confused, violently defensive stance that's been a rock tradition from the beginning". In Stereo Review, he called the album a "comeback of major proportions" and "monomaniacal fury so genuine" that it may be too overwhelming for listeners, concluding that, "whether you laugh at them or accept their chaotic rumble on its own terms, they're fascinating and authentic, the apotheosis of every parental nightmare." Reviewing Raw Power for Rolling Stone, Lenny Kaye praised its uncompromising music and said, "for the first time, the Stooges have used the recording studio as more than a recapturing of their live show, and with David Bowie helping out in the mix, there is an ongoing swirl of sound that virtually drags you into the speakers". Longtime Stooges fans were less receptive to Bowie's mix for the original album; Christgau later wrote of the original fan response, "first-generation Iggyphiles charged just as indignantly that David Bowie had mixed the real thing way too thin, before it was anointed the Platonic idea of rock and roll by desperate young men who didn't have much else to choose from".

Along with the Stooges' first two albums, Raw Power came to be regarded as an important proto-punk record in the years following its release. Writing of the album in retrospect, Will Hodgkinson believed that while the band's debut was "charged and brutal garage-rock" and Fun House was "lurid chaos", Raw Power was more musically sophisticated "in its debauchery".In The Trouser Press Guide to New Wave Records, Scott Isler credited Williamson's writing contributions with providing more musicality and structure to the band's songs, whose lyrics conflated sex and death. He regarded the album as "heavy metal in every sense" and "another masterpiece" from the group.[28] Greg Kot also believed Raw Power was "another masterpiece-more heavy metal than punk", with songs more "structured but no less forceful". Christgau was somewhat less impressed. In his 1981 book Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, he praised Williamson's guitar playing while writing that the side-opening tracks "Search and Destroy" and the title song "voice the Iggy Pop ethos more insanely (and aggressively) than 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'", but felt that "the rest disperses in their wake" and that Bowie had mixed the record too thinly.

According to Acclaimed Music, Raw Power has been the 99th most prominently ranked record on critics' all-time lists.[Pitchfork named it the 83rd best album of the 1970s.[In 2003, it was ranked number 125 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list,and 128 in a 2012 revised list. Nick Kent said in 2010 that Raw Power remains "the greatest, meanest-eyed, coldest-blooded hard rock tour de force ever summoned up in a recording studio".

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