Legendary Michigan gig is being released from a "high-quality soundboard" THIRD MAN RECORDS ANNOUNCES THE STOOGES' LIVE AT GOOSE LAKE: AUGUST 8TH, 1970 OUT ON VINYL, CD AND DIGITAL ON AUGUST 7, 2020 Third Man Records is excited to announce The Stooges' Live At Goose Lake: August 8, 1970. This previously-unheard, high-quality soundboard recording of the original Stooges lineup's final performance -- recorded just before the release of their earthshaking 1970 album Fun House -- will be available on vinyl, CD and digital on August 7, 2020, nearly 50 years to the day after the performance. Hear "T.V. Eye - Radio Edit" HERE, and pre-save the album HERE. The audio was lovingly restored by Vance Powell (The White Stripes, Chris Stapleton) and mastered by Bill Skibbe at Third Man Mastering, and liner notes were written by Jaan Uhelzski (Creem Magazine). There will be two limited-edition colored vinyl variants available as well -- the Rough Trade version will be on purple-colored vinyl with a standard LP jacket, and the indie exclusive version will be on cream-colored vinyl with a screen-printed LP jacket. Pre-order the album on CD HERE and vinyl HERE. LISTEN TO "T.V. EYE - RADIO EDIT" The apocryphal tale of the Stooges performance at the Goose Lake festival has been told countless times over the past five decades. Bassist Dave Alexander, due to nerves or overindulgence or whatever you choose to fill in the blank, absolutely spaces in front of 200,000 attendees. He does not play a single note on stage. He is summarily fired by Iggy Pop immediately following the gig. Here starts the beginning of the end of the Stooges. But what if that simply...wasn’t the case? What if you could prove otherwise? Well, it’d be the proto-punk equivalent of having an immediate, on-the-scene, man on the street report of all those folkies booing Dylan’s electric set at Newport in ‘65. Irrefutable evidence of what ACTUALLY went down. Found buried in the basement of a Michigan farmhouse amongst other tasty analog artifacts of the same era, the 1/4” stereo two-track tape of the Stooges complete performance at Goose Lake on August 8th, 1970 is the Rosetta Stone for fans of this seminal band. Not only is this the last ever performance of the original godhead Stooges line-up, but it is the ONLY known soundboard recording of said line-up. Playing the entirety of their canonical 1970 masterpiece Fun House, the sound, the performance, everything about this record is revelatory. Would you believe that...Alexander actually DID play bass on this occasion? Or that, despite a handful of flubs, he manages to hold his own? Especially on the bass-led songs “Dirt” and “Fun House”? Does Iggy provoke the crowd to tear down festival barriers? Did the powers that be pull the plug on the Stooges? So many questions are answered only to have more arise. Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the performance, Live at Goose Lake: August 8th, 1970, is the rare release that literally rewrites the history of these Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. LIVE AT GOOSE LAKE: AUGUST 8TH, 1970 TRACK LIST SIDE A 1. Intro 2. Loose 3. Down On The Street 4. T.V. Eye 5. Dirt SIDE B 1. 1970 (I Feel Alright) 2. Fun House 3. L.A. Blues
From Rolling Stone: “To mark the 50th anniversary of the final performance by the Stooges’ original lineup, Third Man Records will release an unearthed recording of the band’s infamous August 8th, 1970 gig at Michigan’s Goose Lake Festival.” more: Third Man Records Unearth Original Stooges Lineup's Final Concert for Live LP
This sounds fun. Might be my first Third Man purchase. This tape hasn't been around before? Maybe part of it was in the documentary. T.V. Eye (Radio Edit)
Anyone have an indie store variant link yet? Didn’t see it at bullmoose yet. Rough trade should be live
Looks like Rough Trade already sold out of their Indie Variant copies online. RT exclusive still up: The Stooges - Live At Goose Lake: August 8th 1970 - LP+ – Rough Trade
Rumors of this tape have been around since Fall 1970. My local record merchant at that time in St. Louis was told by his bootlegger friend that he could have a copy as soon as he got his. Months and years went by, and it never appeared. New rumors then surfaced that the original taper had died, and whoever got the source tape was going to shop it to record labels for big bucks. This Third Man Records press release is the first time I've seen anything about it since 1973.
Tapers sometimes get access to the soundboard, depending on who they know, or are responsible for liberating soundboard recordings in other ways. Ever heard the soundboard of The Stooges at Voodoo Fest, New Orleans, in 2003? I was responsible for that one getting out into the wider collecting community.
I don't like Jack White and his dubious business, but this sounds like an automatic buy. Sounds very good for a Stooges live tape, the only semi-professional live tape!
I'm so sick of the FUNHOUSE gushing, reissues, etc while The Stooges debut gets ignored...the first album is ALL GOLD and need a live show of that album.
Haven't heard anything about this before. Not even anything about it on that Stoogesforum (fourmotion) That TV Eye Radio Edit (why Radio Edit? possible confusion with recent Bowie Years box?) sample track is fine. Better sounding than a lot of these live Stooges releases I've heard.
