'Fun House' & 'Raw Power'

With Raw Power, never had you cared about a mix of an album in the history of rock and roll.

It's the third album from the incarnation of The Stooges, at this point they were Iggy and the Stooges, following Fun House and The Stooges. In my opinion, it's better than those other two. A lot more rawer. Listening to The Stooges, you realize just how much modern "alternative" bands owe to them. Some of today's rock songs are almost direct rip offs of Stooges songs. And to be honest with you, I doubt today's bands are ripping The Stooges off as much as they're ripping off The Clash, Nirvana or the Sex Pistols.

As for the mix on Raw Power, Iggy Pop initially did mix using just three of the 24 channels available, putting guitars on one, vocals on another and drums on the third. The record company refused to release it. So, David Bowie was brought in and he remixed seven of the eight songs in a day on an extremely old board. He added what he could talking over the changes with Iggy and putting out one of the most influential albums of all time.

As it is, Iggy is complementary of the mix and the apparent members of the group don't like it all. In 1996, Pop was invited to do a remix, which he did, and everyone hated it. Maybe we should learn that when David Bowie does you a favor, you just accept it.

What I find most humorous about the band disliking the initial Bowie mix was that they were all either heroin addicts or alcoholics and the musical chairs that was the line-up, they had zero room to really complain. The "band" lasted about five years, they broke up once, fired any number of guitarists and were lucky to probably make two albums like Raw Power and Fun House.