Album Rock - The Stooges - The Stooges - 1969

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For their first album, the Stooges had intended to record seven songs: "I’m Sick”, “Asthma Attack”, “Dance Of The Romance", "Goodbye Bozos", "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "No Fun", and "1969".[citation needed] "Asthma Attack" was a completely different composition than the version of the song utilizing the same song title that appears on the album reissue. According to Iggy Pop, "'Asthma Attack' was a structured piece of repetitive descending chording that sounded a lot like (Syd Barrett’s) Pink Floyd 'Interstellar Overdrive.'" He elaborates further, "And it was B (major), A (major), G (major), & E (major) like a Who thing – and then I would wheeze and say, 'asthma attack.' Ron Asheton’s main guitar riff in the song “1969” which utilizes an “A (major) & G (major) two chord guitar pattern was directly lifted from The Byrds “Tribal Gathering” (originally occurring between :50-1:02 & again at 1:30-2:03 mark in the original song arrangement). The main guitar riff to “I Wanna Be Your Dog” was inspired by the opening guitar riff to Highway Chile by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and the song arrangement to “No Fun” was inspired by I Walk The Line by Johnny Cash. Embryonic versions of all seven songs were initially written from mid-late 1968 and early 1969. These seven songs were staples—and essentially the basis—of the Stooges' 1968 and early 1969 live set at the time.

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