V02-T14a The audience participation portion of our program

.....Iggy Pop once said something to the effect that there are no bystanders or casual observers at his concerts. If you are there, you are engaged and participating, whether you want to be or not. He makes eye contact (as lighting allows), scans the room, sings directly to (or at) audience members, whatever it takes to make it beyond doubt that you are not going to experience the performance from an objective vacuum. We're all in this together, we all have a stake in each other's experience. And unlike many performers, Iggy always seems prepared to roll with it when the audience shows up with the prior intention of getting very much engaged.

Volume 2: "WE'RE ALL GOING TO JAIL FOR THIS, AREN'T WE?", track 14a

• 01:00 [dialogue in lieu of "I Wanna Be Your Dog"] (Iggy Pop)
• performed by Iggy And The Stooges (and the audience)
• original source: 2LP METALLIC 2XK.O. Skydog 62232-1 (France) 1988?
• and my source: CD METALLIC 2XK.O. Skydog 62232-2 (France) 1992?

.....I had already established a precedent of spoken word pieces on these tapes and knew that if I used more of them sparingly but consistently they'd have the desired effect of pacing the music as well as occasionally adding indirect commentary. Use them too frequently and it feels as though I'm trying to make a gimmick substitute for ideas; use them too little and it feels as though the few I did use were mistakes.

.....I also wanted to have balance in the sense of using both music from my collection that I loved and music from my collection that was just there and deserved a little validation. This track fits both bills, but posed a new problem. I had set a ground rule for myself that I would not repeat artists. With less than ten minutes to go on the tape I had already decided that there would be further volumes and I could not imagine a series like this with no actual Stooges songs. To compromise I decided to consider this dialogue to be an interstitial introducing a contemporary song of theirs and consider all interstitials generally to be exempted from the 'no-repeat' rule. Seeing as how some of them are five to ten seconds long, that seemed reasonable.

.....The history behind this recording is extremely convoluted and I'm not likely to do a decent job of disambiguation with less than 24 hours of preparation. What I can provide is a quick chronology:

• In Oct. 1973, The Stooges play the Michigan Palace and this track is recorded by a friend of the band.
• In Feb. 1974, The Stooges return to the Michigan Palace and play what turns out to be their last show.
• Later in 1974, Ray Manzarek has dissolved the post-Morrison version of the Doors (they put out two albums that seem to have vanished from their label's memory) and begins recording with Iggy and guitarist James Williamson. Although Manzarek does release a solo album at this time, it doesn't include anything from these demos, which Manzarek has never released. Desperate for money, Pop and Williamson bring a boxed filled with random unmarked reels of Stooges outtakes to Greg Shaw of BOMP! Magazine.
• Iggy voluntarily entered a mental health facility to end, or severely curtail, his substance abuse problem. Long time fan David Bowie is reportedly his only visitor.
• In spring of 1976 the album METALLIC K.O. is released in France on the label Skydog (SGIS 008). It claims to contain the last Stooges show, but is actually one half of the Oct. 1973 show and one half of the Feb. 1974 show. Later, Pop and Williamson record the album KILL CITY for Shaw, who is still sifting through the reels of Stooges demos and opting to release them as singles. Bowie opts to escape the drugs, insanity and human parasites in Los Angeles by going to Berlin. He offers to take Iggy and they make a brief stop in France to record demos and begin recording Iggy's IDIOT album and Bowie's LOW album at Chateau d'Herouville. They finish both at Hansa Studios in Berlin.
• In 1977 there is a deluge of Stooges material, including the new KILL CITY and Stooges singles from BOMP!, two new albums each from both Pop and Bowie and METALLIC K.O. has sold so well in the US as an import that American pressings are made by a label called Import (IMP 1015). Bowie tours as Iggy's pianist and live selections are released the following year as T.V. EYE LIVE.
• In 1978, Skydog releases an EP with more of the Feb. 1974 show (SGIS 012).
• c.1988, the double album METALLIC 2XK.O. is released, including the 1976 LP, the 1978 EP and more of the Oct. 1973 show. This is where I came in.

.....Tomorrow, one of the tapes Grew Shaw found in that box.