That's where that famous photo where he's walking on people's hands was taken. The Stooges then were a shambolic, if memorable, live act, as immortalised in Midsummer Rock, filmed at the Cincinnati Pop Festival in June 1970.
It contained "1969'' and "I Wanna Be Your Dog'', which became staples of their incendiary stage set, as did "Down On The Street'' and "T.V. They recorded their self-titled first album in New York with John Cale producing. The Stooges' repertoire and outré behaviour then provided the blueprint for British punk-rock groups like the Damned, the Sex Pistols –who cut "No Fun'' from The Stooges for the B-side of their third single "Pretty Vacant" in July 1977 – and Penetration, the County Durham band formed by Pauline Murray in 1976, who were named after a Raw Power track. They also inspired the next wave of back-to-basics American bands, particularly the New York Dolls, the Dictators and the Ramones.
The Stooges and their 1970 follow-up Fun House went against the hippie grain and failed to find an audience at the time but influenced performers like David Bowie, who championed them and mixed their third album, Raw Power (1973). Formed by Pop, the original self-destructive frontman, guitarist Ron Asheton, his younger brother Scott on drums and their friend Dave Alexander on bass, the Stooges unleashed the most primal garage rock with their eponymous debut in August 1969. When Iggy Pop and the Stooges were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, the statement that the group "created punk-rock well before the genre even had a name" was no exaggeration.
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