Ungano's

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the purple fluid wasn't paint...according to Leee Childers it was directed at Gerry Miller, a warhol hanger-on...

Leee:

"So she had these big tits and she worked as a topless dancer at the Hippodrome in Times Square in those days so she had only read about the fact that there was such a thing as a groupie and she loved sex. She loved to have sex and in that way that a lot of groupies did love to have sex she liked to give head and that kind of thing. Not make love. Nothing about it ever had anything close to do with making love. So she decided that she’d be a groupie so she started turning up and of course she could get into every show because she had the Andy Warhol connection. She even released a single. I’d love to have a copy of it now. So in the evenings she performed topless on the bar at the Hippodrome where she made a lot of money. Those were the big days of topless bars, which have come back now. They went away for a while. Gerry, if she could stand up could be making a living again. She was at that very first show. He dragged her across the floor by her face. Just put his hand right around her face and dragged her right across the floor and she was on that metal chair and instinctively, because something she could only have worked from a script with Andy Warhol saying, ‘Gerry now you fall out of the chair.’ But no one was telling her what to do so she just hung onto the metal chair for dear life. So as he pulled her with the little metal tips on the end of it it was like dancing across the floor. It was hilarious to see. So she was at every gig and she was at the Electric Circus and right at the front shouted, ‘Let’s see you throw up!’ She had this little Minnie Mouse voice. So he did - right on her. "

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I was chatting to someone who heard the Circus tape, and Danny's one which I think is the Vanity Ballroom, and his thoughts were the same as mine, when I heard the latter... the music is pretty awesome full-on headbanging with monstrous riffs. But Iggy can hardly be heard. By then he was more a spectacle than a singer.

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Subject: Re: Ungano's Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:14 pm

is the purple fluid not like him being sick in some horredous colour!

whats the tin man theory? and can you post tha picture of him w/ the purple?

thank
HJW
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Subject: Re: Ungano's Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:15 pm

Joined : 24 Mar 2007 Posts : 171 Location : www.trynka.com

Good to see you, Bob. Can't remember if I sent you a copy of the book, email me via trynka.com if you'd like one.

Subject: Re: Ungano's Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:24 pm

THE Nitebob? Marvellous.
Anyway - you're very welcome and please share more of your Stooges memories.
Cheers,
Richard

ps - purple puke?? Eurgh! What the hell had he been eating??

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Subject: Re: Ungano's Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:31 pm

well yeh, like the 'actual' on from stoogehistory, lol

good to have you on board, hope you'll regale us wiht more stories of stooges! esp around the 1971 era and the electric circus!
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Subject: Re: Ungano's Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:33 pm

wow...very welcome Nitebob!!

Paul thanks..hilarious Leee text!!!
WAS it Iggy's puke????NOOOO..purple??? huh... Vomit

still a mystery to me why Iggy was painted purple in the photo i posted below.
btw i see now that it never could be the same period..cuz Iggy got those glasses like he wore in the period after '77...

HJW I have to check the books and other stuff i read..to get the tin-man idea correct for you..that will take a time..IF i can find it back..

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Subject: Re: Ungano's Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:45 pm

that photo is just iggy paitning, zin, it was taken by a photographer, i think she has a book out, cant remember her name

Subject: Re: Ungano's Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:57 pm

yes please Nitebob and to all who experienced the earlier gig's!
Love to read the crazy stuff!!!

HjW yr right. i remember now Neutral

hoped it was from a crazy act..
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Tin Man/Mechanical Man reference was when the Psychedelic Stooges just started out and Iggy was painting himself white or silver and wearing some metal foil wig contraption with other metal shit.

Subject: Re: Ungano's Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:06 am

I've always thought of it as a glam thing before glam. Just dressing up.

Wow THE Nitebob Shocked

welcome to the forum! Very Happy

Is there any chance of more (or at least better sounding) recordings of The Stooges in 1971?
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Subject: Re: Ungano's Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:39 am

they ripped it off pharoah sanders, it wasnt like a cover right? like the MC5 one, i think they called upper nad lower egypt, i dunno, but yeh, i spose it was just a name for the 'end jam' as it was

altho its hardly as if they just played the exact LA blues u'no, so each 'ending' was differnet - i presume

dunno, but yeh probly was lost in the future - or some unknown song!

isnt there like some still unreleased song from the funhouse sessions? i think i remember reading that, though i could be gettin mixed up with that asthma attack on off the stooges
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Subject: Re: Ungano's Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:01 am

No it wasn't a cover. All Pharoh Sanders songs are like "L.A. Blues" really Laughing

but at one point you can clearly hear the "Little Doll" bass line.

Of course it wont be "L.A. BLues" note for note as it was a freeform jam.

Theres a rumour that "Dog Food" was recoreded before the proper Fun House sessions but Don Galluchi hated it, though this seems highly unlikely. Why would he allow such an angry song as "T.V. Eye" but refuse "Dog Food"? But "Asthma Attack" WAS recorded for the first album.
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Subject: Re: Ungano's Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:05 am

Wow, It's Nitebob ! Cool to meet you man !

Yeah, any recording's or photo's you did yourself back then ? or more stories you can share ?/

PS - My dad was at the Michigan Palace 73 show ! Smile

Were you at any other Michigan Stooges shows ?

Cheers !
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Subject: Re: Ungano's Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:33 am

dogfood was probly nthi like the soldier version, so maybe it was unrecordable, and they didnt play it so it was prolby unformed or something

wonder if its in the vaults somewhere!

wish theyd release asthma attack
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