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Reunion albums are one thing. A Stooges reunion album is something else entirely. The band that predated punk and helped make rock and roll dangerous now release their first studio album since 1973's seminal Raw Power. The Weirdness features three of the four original band members--singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton--along with ex-Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt and original Stooges sax player, Steve Mackay.
Reunion albums are one thing. A Stooges reunion album is something else entirely. The band that predated punk and helped make rock and roll dangerous now release their first studio album since 1973's seminal Raw Power. The Weirdness features three of the four original band members--singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton--along with ex-Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt and original Stooges sax player, Steve Mackay.
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Reunion albums are one thing. A Stooges reunion album is something else entirely. The band that predated punk and helped make rock and roll dangerous now release their first studio album since 1973's seminal Raw Power. The Weirdness features three of the four original band members--singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton--along with ex-Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt and original Stooges sax player, Steve Mackay.

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Former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, who inherited the bass gig in the reunited Stooges from the late Dave Alexander, has been keeping a diary of the recording of The Weirdness (with engineer Steve Albini) and his live shows with the band. In one entry he writes, "I'm really looking to all these guys for direction cuz I don't wanna f*** up," and it's kind of hard to imagine to anyone looking to the Stooges, a band as infamous for drug-addled chaos and confrontation as any in rock 'n' roll history, for direction. In fact, it's hard to imagine Watt's famous work ethic and Albini's no-BS approach living together in harmony with the Stooges at all. But here we are in 2007, and there's a new Stooges album on the way with Albini at the boards and Watt on the thud staff'"and there's a Beatles cover on it. Yet not everything in Stoogetown has gone bizarro: They dug up Steve MacKay, who blasted the sax on 1970's Fun House, and there are tunes called "The End of Christianity" and "I'm Fried," so it's probably safe to assume that Iggy Pop (who's been making moves towards a full-fledged Stooges reunion for years [see sidebar]) and company haven't gone adult-contempo on us yet.

 

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