Iggy and the Stooges Metallic 2 X K.O. 2LP 1988 France RARE NEAR MINT DISCS

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Iggy and the Stooges

Metallic 2 X K.O.

Skydog Records SKI 62232-1 2LP 1988 (France)

Metallic K.O. is a live recording by American hard rock band The Stooges. In its original form, the album was purported to contain the last half of a performance at the Michigan Palace in Detroit, on February 9, 1974—the band's final live performance until their reformation in 2003. The performance was notable for the level of audience hostility, with the band being constantly pelted with pieces of ice, eggs, beer bottles and jelly beans, among other things, in response to Iggy Pop's audience-baiting.

Subsequent investigation of the master tapes and the May 1988 release of the double album Metallic 2X K.O. reveals that the original album contained the last half of the February 9, 1974 show, but opened with the first half of an earlier show (from October 6, 1973) at the same venue. The 2X K.O. version features the full shows from both dates.

The album was recorded on a reel-to-reel tape machine by Michael Tipton, later obtained by Stooges guitarist James Williamson. Considering Williamson's involvement, and the endorsement of Iggy, it was considered a "semi-official" bootleg, when released on the Skydog label in 1976.

The album is mostly composed of previously unreleased material. Studio demo and rehearsal recordings of some of the songs would later turn up on similarly semi-official posthumous Stooges compilations.

The album proved popular, due to its release in the first era of punk rock and The Stooges' growing legend as protopunks. Metallic K.O. outsold The Stooges' major label official releases, selling over 100,000 copies in America as an import in its first year alone.

The album is notable for Iggy Pop's vulgar rendition of "Louie, Louie", which deviates wildly from the song's original lyrics. Overall, the playing on the album is ragged, and during "Rich Bitch" the band go out of time with each other, having to be coached back into the song by Iggy - "Gimme just the drums! It's the only way you're ever gonna get it right, take it down to the drums!". He then counts the other players back into the beat. In addition to long-time Stooges members Pop, Ron Asheton (bass guitar), Scott Asheton (drums), and Williamson (guitar), the line-up on the album features Scott Thurston on piano, who had become an official member of the band by this point.

Context by Lester Bangs
In the essay "Iggy Pop: Blowtorch in Bondage" critic Lester Bangs calls the album a "documentation of the Iggy holocaust at its most nihilistically out of control." He describes the Stooges concert he attended that immediately preceded the Metallic K.O. performances:

“ The audience, which consisted largely of bikers, was unusually hostile, and Iggy, as usual, fed on that hostility, soaked it up and gave it back and absorbed it all over again in an eerie, frightening symbiosis. "All right," he finally said, stopping a song in the middle, "you assholes wanta hear 'Louie, Louie,' we'll give you 'Louie, Louie.'" So the Stooges played a forty-five-minute version of "Louie Louie," including new lyrics improvised by the Pop on the spot consisting of "You can suck my ass / You biker faggot sissies," etc.
By now the hatred in the room is one huge livid wave, and Iggy singles out one heckler who has been particularly abusive: "Listen, asshole, you heckle me one more time and I'm gonna come down there and kick your ass." "F*ck you, you little punk," responds the biker. So Iggy jumps off the stage, runs through the middle of the crowd, and the guy beats the shit out of him, ending the evening's musical festivities by sending the lead singer back to his motel room and a doctor. I walk into the dressing room, where I encounter the manager of the club offering to punch out anybody in the band who will take him on. The next day the bike gang, who call themselves the Scorpions, will phone WABX-FM and promise to kill Iggy and the Stooges if they play the Michigan Palace on Thursday night. They do (play, that is), and nobody gets killed, but Metallic K.O. is the only rock album I know where you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking against guitar strings. "

Tracklist
A1 Raw Power 5:40
A2 Head On 7:26
A3 Gimme Danger 7:26
B1 Search And Destroy 4:35
B2 Heavy Liquid 6:23
B3 "I Wanna Be Your Dog" 1:00
C1 Open Up And Bleed 4:15
C2 I Got Nothing / I Got Shit 4:18
D1 Rich Bitch 10:45
D2 Cock In My Pocket 3:23
D3 Louie Louie  Written-By – Richard Berry  3:20

Distributed By – Mélodie Distribution
Recorded At – Michigan Palace
Printed By – ADOLARC

Bass – Ron Ashton
Drums – Scott Ashton
Guitar, Vocals – James Williamson
Keyboards – Scott Thurston
Liner Notes – Lester Bangs
Mixed By [Mixage] – Marc Zermati
Photography By [Photos] – Joseph Stevens, Richard Creamer, X
Vocals – Iggy Pop
Written-By – Iggy Pop (tracks: A1 to D2), James Williamson (tracks: A1 to D2)

Open up and bleed: the last ever Iggy and The Stooges show, Michigan Palace Detroit 73.74

Michigan Palace Detroit 10.6.73

Comes with two b&w photo-innersleeves.

2 X Vinyl is NEAR MINT, in paper picture inner sleeves in a gatefold picture sleeve in GOOD condition (some wear)

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