…in which Iggy perfects the correct time to drop LSD during the recording process. They’re not the kind of guys that would ever do something like that, and the more I dance, the more their heads go down and stare at their toes, and the better they played. My guess is that there’s something about it that they find profoundly embarrassing and for that reason it’s titillating and it removes barriers somehow. “What do I remember most about John Cale? I do remember he spotted that the guys didn’t play as well if I wasn’t dancing around. Ron came up with the riffs for ‘Not Right’ and ‘Real Cool Time’ and we were back in a studio the next day. ‘Little Doll’ I wrote it in my head, just watching a groupie, a New York slick chick walking around across the hotel lobby. He came in and said, ‘Look, boys, you don’t have enough songs here.’ We said, ‘Oh, don’t worry about it, we’ve got more.’ I remember just knocking up some quick songs in the Chelsea Hotel. “I remember listening to playbacks and just thinking, ‘Well, maybe if I smoke another joint, ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, will sound more exciting on the sixth minute.’ But I knew what was up. The bad news was that after that, we hadn’t put the homework into making an improv stand up as a listening experience. The good news was the song parts were good and the improv was good up to about a minute. Each of the songs was meant to have a 7 to 15 minute instrumental after the conclusion of the song format. This was ‘1969’, ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, ‘No Fun’ and ‘Anne’.
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We had four songs ready and we thought that was going to be our album. During them, I was writing, putting together the riffs and pieces of music so they would add up to songs, finishing words madly before we went to New York. Stooges rehearsals never lasted too much more than 20 minutes. But what was really important other than that was our rehearsals.
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I had a little different look that I was going for.
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Me, I was buying my clothes at a shop for pimps on Times Square.
IGGY REAL WILD CHILD ALBUM MOD
They were so excited they were going to go to New York where there was a shop called Ball Sergeant that had all the mod gear. Iggy Pop: “When we were about to go into the studio, we were all really concerned with how much money the record company would give us for clothes. The band overcome sartorial concerns to unleash a raw classic on an unsuspecting world…
IGGY REAL WILD CHILD ALBUM ARCHIVE
In this archive feature from Uncut’s Take 146 issue (July 2006), Iggy talks us through the highlights of his 40-year career – including skiing trips with David Bowie and a cameo from Princess Margaret… Interview: Jaan Uhelszki Iggy & The Stooges’ new album, Ready To Die, is reviewed in the new issue of Uncut, dated May 2013, and out now.