SETLIST - Sept 27 th 2008 Cannes / France

Iggy & The Stooges at the Palais des festivals de Cannes was already a paradox in its own words. The venue is well known for its annual film festival, not for being a concert room ! Obviously we were supposed to remain seated during the show but somehow all the fans managed to reach the front row and even create a mini moshpit in the center alley

With its small capacity (maybe 1500 people ?) and the energy that we gave to the Stooges, they gave us back one of the mosth thrilling gigs of the year. Even if it started painfully for Iggy would did not managed to reach the top of the amps on Down on the street (he still
succeeded on the third attempt) Iggy jumped into the crowd many times and spent quite a long time to thank the audience.

The best was yet to come as he left the stage after I got a Right.
Indeed, he came back with a leg of 4 more songs ending with
something that sounded more like a novelty than a classic. In fact, it was "ONLY" the most expected song ever !!! RAW POWER. The lyrics were the same, the music was kinda hard to recognize (Ron played it in the
weirdest way ever and Steve on saxophone added an odd background) but it was it. RAW FUCKING POWER. After a bit more than a hour and twenty minutes Iggy left us with the bigger hard on we had in years. THANK YOU IGGY, THANK YOU STOOGES !!! MUCH RESPECT

Gui

Stelist :

01. Loose
02. Street
03. 1969
04. Dog
05. TV
06. Real Cool
07. No fun
08. 1970 / Mindroom
09. Funhouse
10. Skull
11. Search
12. My Idea Of Fun
13. I Got A Right

Encore
14. Trollin
15. Electric
16. Doll
17. Raw Power

Ron played Raw Power 'in the weirdest way ever'?? That must've been interesting!!

I REALLY want to hear it now. I love Ron's takes on "Raw Power" songs.

I love Ron's take on anything. If he even started playing the accordion again I'd be happy.

Didn't we have this discussion a while ago? I think it ended with The Stooges brassband being mentioned...AGAIN

wooohoooh! sounds f* goooood!! great to hear the Raw Power
Oooh..now i'm so curious how this sounded..hope someone recorded the Raw Power and put's on a link.
Was it an outside gig? and what time did they play?
Must've been better than the Paris Converse one..
impatient waiting for some photo's and links !!

GF#E, you mean to say you haven't listened to the Stooges Brass Band yet???

soldier wrote:

a horrible link

dammit that's really horrible!
anyway good you found something..

RAW FUCKING POWER !
I MUST HEAR THIS !!!!

Nadja wrote:

GF#E, you mean to say you haven't listened to the Stooges Brass Band yet???

I'm begging you to send me a link!

It was an indoor venue. Some french reviews say the capacity was 2500 seats, but even tho it was sold out it did not seem to be full... It was the best gig of the year (out of the 5 I've seen) for me for SURE

ZinZin wrote:

wooohoooh! sounds f* goooood!! great to hear the Raw Power
Oooh..now i'm so curious how this sounded..hope someone recorded the Raw Power and put's on a link.
Was it an outside gig? and what time did they play?
Must've been better than the Paris Converse one..
impatient waiting for some photo's and links !!

On the one hand YES it was interesting because it sounded like a NEW song and also because I'm so fuckin'addicted to Raw Power but on the other hand NO, not that much because it also sounded like the WORST cover of the song they could have done. Ron is to me a fantastic guitar player but not when he plays songs that are not his...

Nadja wrote:

Ron played Raw Power 'in the weirdest way ever'?? That must've been interesting!!

I'm desperate to hear this now!
That youtube link on another thread doesn't really allow anyone to make a considered judgement as the quality is so shitty.
Interesting that they would dig up "Raw Power" but change it so much that Gui thinks it's almost like a new song. Or the worst cover of "Raw Power" ever. That's pretty harsh. I hope it wasn't quite that bad!!
Cheers,
Richard

It was still the best gift Iggy could give to his fans, no matter how it sounded. Much respect for that.

adams66 wrote:

I'm desperate to hear this now!
That youtube link on another thread doesn't really allow anyone to make a considered judgement as the quality is so shitty.
Interesting that they would dig up "Raw Power" but change it so much that Gui thinks it's almost like a new song. Or the worst cover of "Raw Power" ever. That's pretty harsh. I hope it wasn't quite that bad!!
Cheers,
Richard

I think its more of a gift Ron gave to his fans. Iggy would play "Raw Power" at any gig but for Ron to agree to it is something entirely different. The three new songs in the sets are all for the fans so good on Ron.

We've had this whole debate before, when Ron first dared to play 'Search and Destroy'. Seems like he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't

i dont want ron playin it, well obviously if it sounds bad, but also if he doesnt like it, maybe do a year of it, so us fans of raw power can hear it, then take it out if he doesnt like it u'no, though as much as i dont like him disliking the songs or watever, im so glad i may get to hear this someday (dunno when but i will if they keep it in the set long enuff)

G, F#, E wrote:

I think its more of a gift Ron gave to his fans. Iggy would play "Raw Power" at any gig but for Ron to agree to it is something entirely different. The three new songs in the sets are all for the fans so good on Ron.

Right.

Watt says that Iggy congradulated him on the way the bass sounded African on Raw Power?

That must have been different!

cb wrote:

Watt says that Iggy congradulated him on the way the bass sounded African on Raw Power?

That must have been different!

cool, thanks for the info cathy

i really wanna hear this now! the youtube version was horrible, cudnt pick it up at all

and african sounding!! sounds promising!

cb wrote:

Watt says that Iggy congradulated him on the way the bass sounded African on Raw Power?

hmm, what does that mean, exactly?

Iggy liked the way the bass sounded.