Ye Olde Metal: Iggy And The Stooges' Raw Power

The 2015 Martin Popoff short ebook about the making of Iggy And The Stooges’ 1973 album, Raw Power.


One of the most notorious records ever made, Raw Power is a mountain of filthy guitar tones and sneering vocals, recorded like garbage but a car crash from which one cannot look away. Featuring the likes of Death Trip, Penetration and Search And Destroy, Raw Power is considered to be a crucial proto-punk shot across the bow. And here’s the story of that record, as told by James Williamson, Scott Asheton and brother Ron Asheton, sadly, the latter two now deceased.