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Any Stooges experts here? I'm looking for a nice concise single disc that contains the most finished/best sounding versions of the Raw Power era rehearsals, outtakes, whatever. Can anyone make heads or tails out of that stuff? There seems to be 50 different comps of the same or similar material. Are those Bomp discs essentially bootlegs? Were these sessions (I Got a Right, Gimmie Some Skin, etc) before the Raw Power sessions or after? Do these Bomp discs come from anywhere near the master tapes. Everything I've heard sounds like shit. OK, I've rambled enough!

Thanks, Chris

I'm fascinated by this as well. Anybody?

Yeah, this would be good to know. A lot of those songs sound like crap in the editions I've heard.

http://www.easyaction.co.uk/releasepage ... y%20Liquid

Supposedly the upcoming Heavy Liquid box is sanctioned by the band. The label, Easy Action, claims that they used the "recently discovered multi-track master tapes." FWIW the artwork contains a bunch of tape boxes...

Yeah, I heard about that box set last week. I was at Border's looking at their music magazines, and you know how a few of them come with CD samplers (the CD comes in a sealed jewel case that's rubber-cemented to the magazine)? One of them mentioned the Stooges, and when I looked inside the magazine to see the track description, it said it was a track from the upcoming box set Chris M just mentioned. The first I ever heard of it.

I didn't get the magazine, though, so I can't tell you how that track sounded.

That must be the current issue of Uncut. I just picked it up and I Got a Right is on the sampler CD. It sounds pretty shitty but I have nothing to compare it to.

Yeah, Uncut sounds about right. Too bad about the shitty quality. The box set still sounds tempting, moreso than the Fun House sessions.

This was posted on the Stooges Yahoo Group....

Got the Stooges "Easy Action" e.p. in the mail the other week. It's a
DVD-Audio 5.1 surround sound remix of "I Got A Right" (takes 1 & 2),
"Gimme Some Skin", and a studio version of "Louie Louie" with the same
batch of Iggy lyrics that graced "Metallic K.O."

It also comes with a CD with "Hard To Beat" (studio London 72), Head
On (recorded in Detroit 73 on a boom box) and take 1 of "I got A Right).

The DVD-Audio sound is great! James's rhythm guitar blasts out the
center speaker and is reverbed in the back speakers, while Iggy's vox
come out of the front speakers. James's lead guitar comes out the back
speakers. Ron's bass is clear, while Scott's drums sound about the
same as they do on Ig's remix of Raw Power CD. "I Got A Right" version
2 moves Ig's vox to the surround speakers & puts the guitar solo in
the front speakers.

All in all, a huge improvement on the earlier mixes of these demos
that I have on CD. Also comes with some cool pix of Ig that originally
appeared in Creem magazine in '73.

Someone posted a MP3 of Money from Disc One of the Heavy Liquid box and it sounded......really good. A huge improvement over all the semi legal comps. I may have to get this set...