KEXP PRESENTS RAW POWER: A Tribute to The Stooges with Mike McCready

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Another shot ..

@Mudhoney

Rehearsals have begun

#RawPowerKEXP #TheStooges Duff McKagan #MarkArm #BarrettMartin via Mike McCready
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CopperTom

But Mike is on the wrong side.

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@KEXP ..

Every day for the rest of this week, we’re asking the members of the Raw Power band – Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, Mark Arm, and Barrett Martin – why they love the Stooges.

Today, drummer Barrett Martin (Tuatara, Screaming Trees, Mad Season) hops in the hot seat.

Raw Power KEXP: Q&A with Barrett Martin http://blog.kexp.org/2015/08/18/raw-power-kexp-qa-with-barrett-martin/

How did you discover the music of the Stooges?

I discovered the Stooges when I was a kid in the ‘70s because my aunt (the rock & roll aunt everyone should have) was playing me records by The Who, The Rolling Stones, and Elton John, and The Stooges got mixed in there, too. I liked the rawness of The Stooges the best, although no one called it punk rock back then, it was too early for that term.

Later in my youth I investigated The Stooges again because they were clearly one of the most influential bands in the alternative rock movement, especially in Seattle. Their sound is classic, unique unto them, and it stands the test of time.

What’s your favorite record by the Stooges?

Raw Power.

Why’d you pick that one?

Because it’s got “Search & Destroy,” “Penetration,” and “I Need Somebody” which are genius songs. Although I have to say that Iggy’s standalone single, “I Got a Right,” is probably the greatest American punk song of all time. That song, just by itself, kind of obliterates everything that came before or after it.

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http://blog.kexp.org/2015/08/19/raw-power-kexp-qa-with-duff-mckagan/

Raw Power KEXP: Q&A with Duff McKagan
By DJ El Toro

On Sunday, August 23, KEXP proudly presents Raw Power KEXP, an all-star tribute to proto-punks Iggy and the Stooges. This week we’re asking the members of the Raw Power band – Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, Mark Arm, and Barrett Martin – why they love The Stooges.

Today, we talk to bassist Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, 10 Minute Warning), who covered “Raw Power” with GN’R on its 1993 album, The Spaghetti Incident.

How did you discover the music of The Stooges?

In 1979, Kim Warnick of The Fastbacks turned me onto The Stooges. A few nights later, I had a dream I was Iggy, and I was playing a show in a church basement… rolling around in broken glass and totally immersed in the moment of noise and chaos. I still reference that dream before gigs to this day.

What’s your favorite record by Iggy Pop or The Stooges?

Any/all of them.

Do you have a favorite Stooges song?

I don’t have a “favorite” per se. “Dirt” works for me on some days, “Gimme Some Skin” on others. Iggy and the Stooges becomes a soundtrack to ones’ life, if you’re lucky enough to have had them as an early influence and benchmark.

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Raw Power KEXP: Q&A with Mark Arm

http://blog.kexp.org/2015/08/20/raw-power-kexp-qa-with-mark-arm/

On Sunday, August 23, KEXP proudly presents Raw Power KEXP, an all-star tribute to proto-punks Iggy and the Stooges. Every day for the rest of this week, we’re asking the members of the Raw Power band – Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, Mark Arm, and Barrett Martin – why they love the Stooges.

Today, Mark Arm from Mudhoney hops in the hot seat.

How did you discover the music of The Stooges?

I got into The Stooges shortly after I immersed myself in punk rock. I was trying to figure out where this exciting new music came from and all roads led back to The Stooges.

What’s your favorite record by The Stooges?

My favorite Stooges album is The Stooges, Fun House and Raw Power. I love them all equally and if I had to pick one and exclude the other two because of the way a question is framed, I would be lying.

Why’d you pick that one – or rather, those three?

There are some feelings that are too intense for words.

eeriepadave

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Raw Power KEXP: Q&A with Mike McCready http://blog.kexp.org/2015/08/21/raw-power-kexp-qa-with-mike-mccready/

On Sunday, August 23, KEXP proudly presents Raw Power KEXP, an all-star tribute to proto-punks Iggy and the Stooges. All week long we’ve been asking the members of the Raw Power band – Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, Mark Arm, and Barrett Martin – why they love the Stooges.

Mike McCready, who assembled the all-star band for this very special concert, was so excited that he replied to our questions in one enthusiastic text:

I first discovered Iggy and the Stooges around 1982 when I was at a party in the U District that members of Shadow, Green River, and Overlord were all at.

I was aware of Iggy because of my love of the New York Dolls and Alice Cooper. That party was the first time I heard the first side of Raw Power. Its angry guitars and awesome vocals immediately caught my attention. The energy was undeniable as was the feeling of freedom in their sound.

“Search and Destroy” had the meanest-sounding lead in it. “I’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm/I’m a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb!” Those lyrics say it all about why I love this record!

RobbyD462

I'm stoked we leave Sunday morning!

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RAW POWER KEXP rehearsals are going great! Hear Duff McKagan, Barrett Martin, Mike McCready, and Mark Arm perform the songs of Iggy And The Stooges this Sunday! Tickets for a VIP after-party with the guys still on sale at KEXP.ORG: http://tinyurl.com/pxsuts5 [ photo credit: Morgen Schuler ]

RobbyD462

Starting to fill up down here!
Just gotta find some green and were on and running.....
Happy hour at the Hard Rock going down smooth we need happy hour in Canada!

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‏@_Mudhoney Setlist for Stooges tribute tonight. @MikeMcCreadyPJ @DuffMcKagan @kexp @pike_place

RKCNDY

They were 'fashionably late'...but it was a good time. Really glad I went.

Patrick_Sea3

It was Epic!

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https://player.vimeo.com/video/137106131

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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pearl-jam-gnr-mudhoney-members-play-raucous-stooges-cover-set-in-seattle-20150824?page=2

Pearl Jam, GN'R, Mudhoney Members Play Raucous Stooges Cover Set in Seattle
Mark Arm, Mike McCready, Duff McKagan and Barrett Martin unite to bash through proto-punk classics



By Robert Ham August 24, 2015

Mark Arm is slowly running out of Seattle landmarks to perform at. Two years ago, he and his Mudhoney bandmates celebrated 25 years together by playing a set on top of the Space Needle. And last night he fronted a supergroup of rock luminaries from the Emerald City, including Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready and former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, on the roof of Pike Place Market. What's next? A Monkeywrench reunion in front of the Fremont Troll? A set by the Thrown Ups on a ferry boat crossing Puget Sound?

As fun as those hypothetical gigs might be, they likely wouldn't be as wicked and wondrous as watching Arm stand in front of huge neon letters that read "Public Market Center" and belt out Stooges covers backed by three of Seattle's finest musicians. Billed as Raw Power, the group (rounded out by ex–Screaming Tree Barrett Martin on drums) played an appropriately loose yet powerful set of proto-punk classics. The gig may have only lasted a half-hour, but it seemed to leave a deep impression on the hundreds of folks that filled up the bumpy streets of Pike Street and Pike Place below.

Brought together at the urging of McCready and the folks at local non-commercial radio station KEXP (the performance itself was free, though a pricey afterparty served as a fundraiser for the station), the quartet sounded just rehearsed enough. The three musicians in this one-off group are competent enough players that they could soar and rumble through these classic Stooges tracks with few mistakes, yet they still needed a few songs to shake off the rust.

By the time the group hit on "I Got a Right" (a non-album cut from the Raw Power era), they locked in and showed no mercy. Like a freight train, the quartet kept gaining momentum and speed. On closing songs "Search and Destroy" and "Loose," they sounded, in moments, as formidable as the original Stooges.

The coup was bringing Arm in to play the Iggy Pop role. Possessing one of the best voices in rock, and stage presence to burn, he would have been the obvious choice regardless of his status as hometown icon. Crucially, he was smart enough not to mimic Pop's wild-card stage antics. Instead, he bent and bowed his body, and saved his energy to belt each tune with a perfect mixture of snotty disregard and growling disgust. He had a little fun in the frontman role too, introducing his bandmates by referencing their pre-fame bands, like McKagan's punk days as a member of the Fartz and the Fastbacks, and McCready's pre–Pearl Jam band Warrior.

It was McCready who spent the set in constant motion, leaping into the air and dropping to his knees to wrench some nasty tones from his guitar. Sure, his solos sounded less like the meaty slap of Ron Asheton and more like Hendrix, but as with Arm's performance, the point wasn't to try and replicate the experience of watching the Stooges circa 1968. This was more like watching four extremely talented friends get together to knock around some of their favorite songs from one of their favorite bands. That there were a few hundred Seattleites worshiping at their feet seemed like a pleasant surprise.

Set List:

"Little Doll"
"TV Eye"
"I Got a Right"
"I Need Somebody"
"Down on the Street"
"Search and Destroy"
"Loose"

2-feign-reluctance

Those 4 need to do a record together.

Abe Froman

Hopefully a soundboard of this somewhere?

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http://newhome.kexp.org/fundraising-update-raw-power-kexp/

Fundraising Update: RAW POWER KEXP
Posted by Kurt Reighley on Aug 24, 2015 in Fundraising Update, News



Thank you to everyone who joined us for yesterday’s RAW POWER KEXP blowout at Pike Place Market. Wow, what a turnount! More than 8,800 music lovers filled the streets to hear Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, Barrett Martin and Mark Arm tear through a killer set of seven classic songs by the Stooges.

Although the rooftop concert was free, several fundraisers were held around the show, including a VIP pre-show dinner and an afterparty (both at Matt’s in the Market). All told, these activities have already raised $260,000 to help build KEXP’s New Home.

The media also responded enthusiastically to the once-in-a-lifetime show, with reviews from Rolling Stone, Stereogum, SPIN, and Consequence of Sound.

We’ll have more photos, press, and video from the event to share soon, but in the meantime, you can peek behind the scenes at band rehearsal.

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Raw Power Rehearsal 8-20-2015 photos by Morgen Schuler
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kexp/sets/72157657670864765