The Stooges "Raw Power" - James Williamson - the brashest Les Paul tone ever...?

Progrocker111 said:

Its an very early 71. I have had two similar cherrybursts, both with very early 71 pot codes.

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Kris Ford said:

Still has 1970 square Gibson inlay as well..:hmm

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Michael Patrick said:

I think I remember reading Bowie say they were on Quaaludes when they did the mix....

But yeah, I dig that album. Still gets my heart rate up almost 30 years after hearing it for the first time.

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Gannet said:

"The Stooges" and "Kick out the Jams!" were our *anthems* growing up as radical rock&roll hippies (we thought) in westside Detroit. The Grande, Palladium, Eastown, oh yeah. When the rest of the country turned its back on real rock & roll in the early 70s, a large hardcore contingent in Detroit hung in there, and hence we were getting bands like the various Iggy incarnations, Dolls and Ramones in their "nobody" periods, etc., all *well* before the Sex Pistols. Also more straightahead hard-rockin bands like Detroit and Cactus. J. Geils in their early days was practically a local band in Detroit.

I can't remember the name to the most notorious place of all. We called it the "You must be..." because that's what it said over the door. I think it was on Michigan Avenue in Wayne. It was a very sleazy adult theater 24 hours a day, but on Friday and Saturday nights they would turn it into a concert venue starting at midnight. Drug deals all over the place, major biker hangout (when that meant something very different from what it does today), dangerous parking lot, police raids, and, oh yeah, really loud, really primal, rock & roll. YOu had BETTER ROCK when you come in that place, and no foolin around. Not a "patient" audience.

Hitchiking home when they kicked us out at at 6 AM. Man, those were the days.

Anybody else know the place I'm talking about?

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