Diehard Stooges fans — really diehard Stooges fans —
can now hear every note the proto-punk band played while cutting the
influential Fun House (1970) album. The recently released 1970:
The Complete Fun House Sessions is a limited-edition (3,000 copies),
seven-disc set recounting all the false starts, alternate takes, amplifier
hums, arguments and joking uttered by Iggy Pop and his bandmates while making the
disc. All 142 tracks, save for the nine cuts that became the album, are
previously unreleased. The Complete Fun House Sessions is available
exclusively at the Rhino Handmade Web site (www.rhinohandmade.com). Almost
universally panned on its release, Fun House later became seen as
a classic disc of frightening, heavy rock that managed to capture elements
of jazz and Detroit R&B.
