Third Man RecordsOn August 8, 1970, the original lineup of The Stooges — Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton and bassist Dave Alexander — played their final show together. Almost exactly 50 years later, Jack White‘s Third Man Records will release a never-before-heard soundboard recording of the infamous concert.
Live at Goose Lake: August 8, 1970 will be out on CD, vinyl and digital on August 7.
As the story goes, Alexander was fired from the Stooges immediately after the show, during which he didn’t even play a note due to, as a press release puts it, “nerves or overindulgence or whatever you choose to fill in the blank.”
However, Third Man Records claims that this live album, which is said to be the only soundboard recording of the original Stooges lineup, tells a different tale.
“Would you believe that…Alexander actually DID play bass on this occasion?” the press release reads. “Or that, despite a handful of flubs, he manages to hold his own? Especially on the bass-led songs ‘Dirt’ and ‘Fun House’? Does Iggy provoke the crowd to tear down festival barriers? Did the powers that be pull the plug on the Stooges? So many questions are answered only to have more arise.”
Iggy, meanwhile, recently released a new box set collecting his collaborative works with David Bowie in the mid-to-late ’70s.
By Josh Johnson
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