The Stooges - The Weirdness Promo Documentary

I have to admit I've not picked up the new Stooges album, or made any plans to see the reformed band live. Part of me would dearly love to, and the other part of me is the part that's glad I didn't see the Velvet's during their reunion, or the Pixies. Why, well, I don't know - to be honest. Maybe I'm a bit worried it won't be any good. I know every band's entitled to their odd bad album and that, so that's not the problem. And nothing could tarnish my love of their music - it's to important to my life for that. Other than the sheer genius of the music, what made those bands great to me in the past was that then no-one I knew was listening to them other than a select couple of friends. They all inspired me into forming my onw band and to this day I've built up such a personal relationship to the music, it feels like the past is enough - I want them to be a fond memory rather than a new big deal.

Another thing about bands like The Stooges and The Velvets were that they were true outsiders and I kind of love that about them. In their day they stood out like sore thumbs, the legend surrounding them much more appealing and lasting. When bands of this importance return in this modern media age, they just become one more channel in a raft of choices and the magic is lost. I'm sure I'll relent, but in the meantime, there's a nice little promo documentary feature on the new LP that features lots of tantalising shots of the old band playing and Iggy giving his take on things - its about 10 minutes long and well worth a look - unfortunately it's not embeddable, so you'll have to visit the site linked below to see it.

Posted by Dio Bach at 9:56 PM