Album Rock - The Stooges - The Stooges - 1969
For their first album, the Stooges had intended to record seven songs: "Im 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 Barretts) 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 Ashetons 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 staplesand essentially the basisof the Stooges' 1968 and early 1969 live set at the time.
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