paul137 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Saw them at pine knob with sonic youth a couple years ago and thought it was a great show. Interesting choice of venue for the Detroit show. http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/410...unce_Tour_Dates The Stooges Announce Tour Dates Starting in Switzerland on March 8, the Stooges will take The Weirdness (out March 20 on Virgin) on the road, where they will play a couple of festivals and a few scattered U.S. cities. As previously reported, they'll also hit SXSW, where they'll perform and Iggy Pop will be interviewed by journalist David Fricke. The band are currently streaming the recently Forkcasted new song from the album, "My Idea of Fun", at their MySpace. Dates: 03-08 Crans-Montana, Switzerland - Caprices Festival03-17 Austin, TX - SXSW04-07 Boston, MA - Orpheum04-09 New York, NY - United Palace04-13 Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre04-17 Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium04-19 San Francisco, CA - The Warfield04-27 Seattle, WA - WaMu Theater at Qwest Field Events07-21 Troms Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Watt doesn't make it into the press photo? Damn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Watt doesn't make it into the press photo? Damn. that's bullshit. it's also bullshit that they recorded the album in chicago, but they aren't playing there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 They should get together with The NY Dolls and call it The Living Skeletons Tour. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 They should get together with The NY Dolls and call it The Living Skeletons Tour. yeah, Iggy and Johansen probably weigh 120 lbs, stacked on top of each other. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 that's bullshit. it's also bullshit that they recorded the album in chicago, but they aren't playing there.far as i know these are not the full dates... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 yeah, Iggy and Johansen probably weigh 120 lbs, stacked on top of each other. I saw the The NY Dolls on PBS last weekend - Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 far as i know these are not the full dates... good to know. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Will this be sponsered by Cadillac? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Saw them at pine knob with sonic youth a couple years ago and thought it was a great show. Interesting choice of venue for the Detroit show. I was at that Pine Knob show too, and holy shit were they great. Anyone who is even sort of a fan should go see them. I saw Iggy play solo at the State Theater a few years back. Not as fancy shmancy as the Fox, but still sort of a formal environment for Iggy. He was humping the statues that are next to the stage and everything. I'm sure he'll find some good ways to defile the Fox. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Sure hope there is a Chicago date......let's assume there will be. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 they should do some shows on a carnival cruise ship. i'm glad most of the ramones never had to see this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 The last few years of the Ramones was far more embarrassing than the current Stooges. Granted, I haven't heard their new album yet, but live they are still a force to be reckoned with. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 And they've been together for while now, playing shows. This isn't a reunion tour anymore. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Good point. I think that Pine Knob show was in 2003. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paul137 Posted February 10, 2007 Author Share Posted February 10, 2007 Good point. I think that Pine Knob show was in 2003.yeah it was scheduled for the date of the great 03 black out Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Yep. I remember the mad scramble to find out if the show was cancelled or not. And then of course during the show Iggy demanded all the lights be turned off so he could yell about the power outage for a bit. That was awesome. Oh man, I wanna see them again so badly. Hopefully a Chicago date, but if not I very well could go back to Detroit to see them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paul137 Posted February 10, 2007 Author Share Posted February 10, 2007 Yep. I remember the mad scramble to find out if the show was cancelled or not. And then of course during the show Iggy demanded all the lights be turned off so he could yell about the power outage for a bit. That was awesome. Oh man, I wanna see them again so badly. Hopefully a Chicago date, but if not I very well could go back to Detroit to see them.we drove out to toronto the next day for radiohead. they said the show was going to go on since the power was back on but no dice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Rock Hall, 'Raw Power' To Start New Three-Year Stooges Cycle Iggy Pop is eyeballing "a three-year cycle" for the current incarnation of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-bound the Stooges that will include the expanded re-release of 1973's seminal "Raw Power" album, touring and quite likely some new recording. "We'll give it a good, sharp poke for the next three years and then step back and see where we are, see what we can do with it after that," Pop tells Billboard.com. "After that we should step back and pick our shots once in awhile. Hopefully we can be like something that convenes for certain occasions." In the wake of founding guitarist Ron Asheton's death in January of 2008, Pop rekindled his relationship with James Williamson, who joined the group in 1971 and was Pop's chief collaborator on "Raw Power." Original drummer Scott "Rock Action" Asheton remains, as does bassist Mike Watt, who's been a Stooge since the group's 2003 reactivation, and saxophonist Steve Mackay. Pop says he expects the band -- which played a November "warm-up date" in Brazil -- to do "not more than about three months" on the road this year; 25 shows are already booked, he says, starting April 14 in Bourges, France, and including a Sept. 3 performance of "Raw Power" at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Monticello, N.Y. "This year will probably heavier on the international (dates)," Pop says. "We haven't booked farther in the States because right now the world has made better offers...But I'm certain that sometime within the cycle we will do a proper U.S. tour as long as no one else expires or breaks. I'll see to that." Pop also hopes to do some recording with the current Stooges lineup and is already in the midst of writing new material. "Once I stared working with Ron and Scott again," Pop explains, "it was important to me intellectually that the group be resurrected, not just reunified. So that meant we had to be writing and releasing new material." He's working on some ideas that the Ashetons cooked up shortly before Ron's death -- including one song about the Three Stooges -- while Williamson, who's resumed his music career after retiring from Sony Electronics, "is already on me like a greased cat. He's sending me riffs, so I did some vocals to a couple of them and it's starting to sound like something." Pop says he'd also like to consider recording heavily bootlegged Stooges songs that were rejected by record labels between 1970's "Fun House" and "Raw Power" and also material written after the latter was released. "Ultimately I'd like to get into the studio with the group and maybe have a couple old songs, a couple new songs and then a little time to just jam and see what happens," Pop says. The Stooges -- joined by "Raw Power" era touring member Scott Thurston, now of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers -- will perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on March 15 in New York City. "Raw Power" comes out in two versions -- a two-CD Legacy Edition with a "George Peaches" live recording and a three-CD/one DVD Deluxe Edition with a rarities disc and documentary -- on April 13. Williamson, meanwhile, is remixing the post-Stooges "Kill City" album he and Pop recorded in 1975 and released in 1977 for reissue later this year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Hopefully Watt will find the time somewhere in all this Stooges activity to release the numerous albums he's recorded over the last few years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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