Search - Iggy & Stooges :: Double Danger

Barely audible

kjo | pitt,pa | 09/24/2000

(1 out of 5 stars)

"i love the stooges/iggy but when it comes to bomp records.buyer beware.this cd sounds like a tenth generation copy.dont take the chance.rocon@nb.net.and also ,notice cant find sound samples anywhere."

Playing to the faithful during a snowstorm at Latin Casino

kjo | 03/31/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This super pair of CDs contains Latin Casino (Baltimore MD) and Acadamy of Music NYC. Latin Casino is especially good because the audience really wanted to see them. It was during a snowstorm in Baltimore but the faithful showed up and were rewarded with a great show. The offensive comments that Iggy makes from the stage are in great Iggy style. This show was recorded off the board. It has 11 tracks 64:01 minutes for the show. The Academy of music show was a great new years eve show Iggy and the Stooges being one of 4 bands that played that night. They play fast and frantic as if they are trying to play as many of their best songs as possible before their time on stage is over. I like the keyboards. The songs are the same songs that were played at Latin Casino but only 8 songs. It was recorded from the audience. Both shows include Wet My Bed."

Godawful and entertaining

Jan | Oslo, Norway | 02/19/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"What you get with this release is yet another batch of live recordings - this time around culled from two gigs performed by Iggy and the band in Baltimore and New York in late 1973. That alone should sound the alarm with anybody who knows the career-profile of the Stooges. Here they are at the end of what can only be described as their nose-dive into disintegration from drugs, violence and booze - as the extensive liner notes calls them: "a train wreck." And both gigs are performed accordingly, with the result for a number of excellent reasons being kept un-released up to this point.

The Baltimore gig on the first disc is by far the worst of the two, and can only be described as atrocious. The only thing worse than the bands performance is the sound quality contributing to the resulting diffeculties in recognizing the songs at all. The fact that it sounds like half the band has stolen the other half's evening fix does nothing to improve the reults. The sleeve claims that this abomination is digitally restored, edited and mastered by Arthur Alexander so what the original sounded like - God only knows.

The New York gig sounds infinitely better - although in this context that is NOT saying much. Taped on New Years eve the band sounds in a vaguely party-like mood, but by the fifth song - Cock In My Pocket, things nevertheless start to fall apart, and some discerning members of the audience yell "Go Home!" at them - with every right I might add. Iggy & the band must have heard the heckling, because they thunder into the first memorable performance on the version of Search & Destroy that follows.

Rather than sanctioning the release of this drivel one wishes that Iggy would "do a Zappa", and master the release of some of the memorable bootlegs floating around from the period - notably "Suck On This" for instance. releases like this will leave even diehard fans like myself feeling cheated. If you've got to have everything available spend your money, if not look elsewhere - I kind of wish I had..."