I Wanna Be Your Dog - Greggy Poop does a Stooges cover

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Finally got chance to give this a proper listen. The guitars sound great man, they've got some real meat to them and the washy, saturated cymbals are really cool too.

I saw the Stooges a few years back at Glastonbury before Ron Asheton died and they were great fun. Iggy kept bringing people up from the audience onto the stage and then everyone just started climbing up - They ended their set with roughly as many people on the stage as in the audience. You couldn't see the band.

Really nice cover man :)
 
robgreen said:
Finally got chance to give this a proper listen. The guitars sound great man, they've got some real meat to them and the washy, saturated cymbals are really cool too.

I saw the Stooges a few years back at Glastonbury before Ron Asheton died and they were great fun. Iggy kept bringing people up from the audience onto the stage and then everyone just started climbing up - They ended their set with roughly as many people on the stage as in the audience. You couldn't see the band.

Really nice cover man :)
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Which stage were they on?
 
This is great! I like that solo!

Mind telling me the chain? I really like the wah sound, but the wah can only sound good with a good guitar and amp!
 
Did anyone see the Johnny Depp movie, "Dead Man"with Iggy acting in in? It was a very cool flick. Funny as hell! Depp is actually a pretty fair musician. His band, The Kids, were actually signed to a major label before he moved to LA to do the acting thing. Looks like the acting thing worked out pretty well for him huh? LOL!
 
Glad you pointed that out rayc as I had totally forgot about it. Good on you! LOL!
 
Hey guys, sorry for the late reply. I've been fishing for the past week! :thumbs up::thumbs up:

robgreen said:
Finally got chance to give this a proper listen. The guitars sound great man, they've got some real meat to them and the washy, saturated cymbals are really cool too.

I saw the Stooges a few years back at Glastonbury before Ron Asheton died and they were great fun. Iggy kept bringing people up from the audience onto the stage and then everyone just started climbing up - They ended their set with roughly as many people on the stage as in the audience. You couldn't see the band.

Really nice cover man :)
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Thanks a lot dude. :)

CrowsofFritz said:
This is great! I like that solo!

Mind telling me the chain? I really like the wah sound, but the wah can only sound good with a good guitar and amp!
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Thanks man! :)

The guitar chain for the solo?
Greg's awesome hands > Les Paul Traditional Pro > Dunlop Crybaby 535Q > 1979 Marshall JMP 2204 > Marshall 1960a Greenback > SM57
I might have added a hint of reverb in the DAW, but don't remember offhand. No EQ.
I don't remember the amp settings.
It was probably something like...
Bass - 5
Mid - 6
Treb - 3
Presence - 0
Gain - 5 or 6 (the Crybaby has a boost switch that I usually leave engaged)
Master vol - 6-7


Psycom said:
Nice mix Greg! You rock :)
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Thanks a lot. High praise from an admin! :D
 
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Always good when you have very little to do in the box because the tone is so good. :D

Thanks, Greg!
 
CrowsofFritz said:
Always good when you have very little to do in the box because the tone is so good. :D

Thanks, Greg!
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Thanks again. I know EQ and stuff are useful tools for mixing, but I really have some kind of OCD against EQ on bass and guitars. I'll move the mic a micro-inch and track it again if it means I don't have to EQ at all. To me, guitar and bass tones are too complex to be butchered with EQ. Guitar tones especially. Full and rich guitar tones span a broad spectrum of frequencies, and they all need to be there in their own way. You need low end, you need midrange, you need highs. It all has to be there or it sounds like ass to me. Drums and vocals....I'll EQ and compress the shit out of that stuff. Guitars, I'd rather not.
 
Greg_L said:
Damn. You poor sheltered man! You got a lot of catching up to do. Go out and get the three original Stooges albums, and everything Iggy did solo up till about.....hell right now. His solo mid/late 70s best-buddies-with-Bowie era is pretty good. You'll be a Real Wild Child before you know it!
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The first album doesn't sound like what I think of as punk. They do Bo Diddly rhythms and stoned-out Indian drone stuff. They believed in guitar and drums, but they weren't limiting themselves to anything if they didn't feel like it. I'm into about my fifth listen. Gets better each time. Thanks for the heads up.

Anyway, I heard another difference between your version and the Stooges - the jingle bells - the tight rhythm on the original really drives the song along with that piano. You've got the bells, but they're not as insistently driving. Get on those bells!
 
dobro said:
The first album doesn't sound like what I think of as punk. They do Bo Diddly rhythms and stoned-out Indian drone stuff. They believed in guitar and drums, but they weren't limiting themselves to anything if they didn't feel like it. I'm into about my fifth listen. Gets better each time. Thanks for the heads up.

Anyway, I heard another difference between your version and the Stooges - the jingle bells - the tight rhythm on the original really drives the song along with that piano. You've got the bells, but they're not as insistently driving. Get on those bells!
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Haha, thanks, but I'm not going back to this one. It's loooooong been put to bed.

The Stooges were never really considered a "punk" band in the usual sense. They were way before punk. They were just different than the usual late 60s/early 70s boring rock bullshit that was more successful than they were. Since everything has to have a neat little label, they're commonly labeled as "protopunk". The Stooges, along with The MC5 and The Velvet Underground were some of the main influences to what would become the first wave of what would be called punk bands in NYC. I know the brits think they invented the genre, but Johnny Rotten was still wearing bell-bottoms and feathered hair when punk really got started. Punk is rock and roll, and rock and roll is American. Most American "punk" bands rejected the label and only considered themselves rock and roll bands. The brits actually embraced the term and celebrated being "punk". The American bands just wanted to get away from crappy, sterile, lame, AOR arena rock and get back to good rock and roll. The brits used the new style as a tool to express themselves. Lou Reed is way more punk rock than Sid Vicious ever was. :laughings:
 
I really like the bass drum on this. Great performance as usual. The guitars sound is killer....like a cranked killer tube amp should. That translated well to the recording.

It makes you appreciate how good cranking the hell out of a killer tube amp and banging' out some power chords feels!
I've almost forgotten how good doing that feels until lately.
YEAH!
No **** tonight I think I'll just crank out some power chords and bust one on the tube amp.
:D
See man...you've inspired me!
 
jimistone said:
I really like the bass drum on this. Great performance as usual. The guitars sound is killer....like a cranked killer tube amp should. That translated well to the recording.

It makes you appreciate how good cranking the hell out of a killer tube amp and banging' out some power chords feels!
I've almost forgotten how good doing that feels until lately.
YEAH!
No **** tonight I think I'll just crank out some power chords and bust one on the tube amp.
:D
See man...you've inspired me!
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Haha awesome, thanks Jimistone. Crank that shit. This is the rig I used....

1979 Marshall JMP 2204. 1960a w/ Greenbacks X G12-65s X-pattern.
I'm pretty proud of it. :D
 
Something's happened to my listening. I'm listening to stuff I never listened before and really liking it. Iggy, Clash, Ramones. Very strange. But fun. Something else is happening too - I'm watching online interviews with some of these guys and noticing how it's difficult not to love them. There's Iggy bleeding from the mouth and looking just a bit demented while he talks about dionysian art. And I'm thinking yeah, coming from anybody else that comment wouldn't convince. I used to think good music was about good notes and beauty. Now I'm thinking it's about the noise made by a beautiful person.
 
dobro said:
Something's happened to my listening. I'm listening to stuff I never listened before and really liking it. Iggy, Clash, Ramones. Very strange. But fun. Something else is happening too - I'm watching online interviews with some of these guys and noticing how it's difficult not to love them. There's Iggy bleeding from the mouth and looking just a bit demented while he talks about dionysian art. And I'm thinking yeah, coming from anybody else that comment wouldn't convince. I used to think good music was about good notes and beauty. Now I'm thinking it's about the noise made by a beautiful person.
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I'll be damned, in a world where people still drool over terrible, sterile, vapid pap shit like the beatles and hendrix, this one guy is getting it. Kudos to dobro!
 
but hendrix and the beatles were awesome. what is sterile about hendrix? :e and the beatles just did some very far-out recording experiments, very collage-like, sometimes almost nearly as far-out as karl-heinz stockhausen
oldschool punk/"protopunk" is awesome too of course.
lots of different shit is awesome. do you know can? german "krautrock" band. pure awesomeness.
 
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