Tracks Side
1:
1. Raw Power (5:29)
2. Head On (7:23)
3. Gimme Danger
(6:45)
Tracks Side 2:
1. Rich Bitch (10:52)
2. Cock In My Pocket (3:21)
3. Louie Louie
(3:24)
Listen At YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy-7gKUOaCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIuUlRPCMPE&index=4&list=PL94gOvpr5yt3sACb40bFvQOVD50XNs_Dn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIHt0Q4VXLk
Metallic K.O. is a live recording by American hard rock
band The Stooges. In its original form, the album was purported to contain the
last half of a performance at the Michigan Palace in Detroit, on February 9,
1974 - the band's final live performance until their reformation in 2003. The
performance was notable for the level of audience hostility, with the band being
constantly pelted with pieces of ice, eggs, beer bottles and jelly beans, among
other things, in response to Iggy Pop's audience-baiting. ( )
The album was
recorded on a reel-to-reel tape machine by Michael Tipton, later obtained by
Stooges guitarist James Williamson. Considering Williamson's involvement, and
the endorsement of Iggy, it was considered a "semi-official" bootleg, when
released on the Skydog label in 1976.
The album is mostly composed of
previously unreleased material. Studio demo and rehearsal recordings of some of
the songs would later turn up on similarly semi-official posthumous Stooges
compilations.
The album proved popular, due to its release in the first
era of punk rock and The Stooges' growing legend as protopunks. Metallic K.O.
outsold The Stooges' major label official releases, selling over 100,000 copies
in America as an import in its first year alone.
The album is notable for
Iggy Pop's vulgar rendition of "Louie, Louie", which deviates wildly from the
song's original lyrics. Overall, the playing on the album is ragged, and during
"Rich Bitch" the band go out of time with each other, having to be coached back
into the song by Iggy - "Gimme just the drums! It's the only way you're ever
gonna get it right, take it down to the drums!". He then counts the other
players back into the beat. In addition to long-time Stooges members Pop, Ron
Asheton (bass guitar), Scott Asheton (drums), and Williamson (guitar), the
line-up on the album features Scott Thurston on piano, who had become an
official member of the band by this point
In the essay "Iggy Pop:
Blowtorch in Bondage" critic Lester Bangs calls the album a "documentation of
the Iggy holocaust at its most nihilistically out of control." He describes the
Stooges concert he attended that immediately preceded the Metallic K.O.
performances:
“ The audience, which consisted largely of bikers, was
unusually hostile, and Iggy, as usual, fed on that hostility, soaked it up and
gave it back and absorbed it all over again in an eerie, frightening symbiosis.
"All right," he finally said, stopping a song in the middle, "you assholes wanta
hear 'Louie, Louie,' we'll give you 'Louie, Louie.'" So the Stooges played a
forty-five-minute version of "Louie Louie," including new lyrics improvised by
the Pop on the spot consisting of "You can suck my ass / You biker faggot
sissies," etc.
By now the hatred in the room is one huge livid wave, and Iggy
singles out one heckler who has been particularly abusive: "Listen, asshole, you
heckle me one more time and I'm gonna come down there and kick your ass." "Fuck
you, you little punk," responds the biker. So Iggy jumps off the stage, runs
through the middle of the crowd, and the guy beats the shit out of him, ending
the evening's musical festivities by sending the lead singer back to his motel
room and a doctor. I walk into the dressing room, where I encounter the manager
of the club offering to punch out anybody in the band who will take him on. The
next day the bike gang, who call themselves the Scorpions, will phone WABX-FM
and promise to kill Iggy and the Stooges if they play the Michigan Palace on
Thursday night. They do (play, that is), and nobody gets killed, but Metallic
K.O. is the only rock album I know where you can actually hear hurled beer
bottles breaking against guitar strings.
All tracks were recorded in
Detroit's Michigan Palace. Side one was recorded on October 6, 1973; side two
was recorded on February 9, 1974. The 1974 show was the final Stooges show until
the band's reunion in 2003. (en.wikipedia.org)
The noise you hear on this disc is from the original
tape used to document the Stooges' last stand.
This is not a defect in
mastering or pressing.
Iggy Pop - Vocals
James Williamson - Guitar,
Vocals
Scott Thurston - Electric Piano
Ron Asheton - Bass
Scott Asheton
- Drums