Iggy: New Record To Follow Raw Power Tour
New and old material to be recorded
Iggy Pop has revealed that he plans to record new material with The Stooges after they have finished with their current celebration of Raw Power.
The band are due to spend much of 2010 playing the classic album live, and a deluxe reissue is due in April. However, once the celebrations are over the band will record new material and stick around for three years.
Speaking to Billboard Pop says that we’ll be seeing a lot from them over the next couple of years.
"We'll give it a good, sharp poke for the next three years and then step back and see where we are, see what we can do with it after that," Pop tells Billboard.com. "After that we should step back and pick our shots once in awhile. Hopefully we can be like something that convenes for certain occasions."
The Stooges line-up of Pop, Ron Asheton and Scott Asheton released The Weirdness back in 2007, and the current line-up of Pop, Scott Asheton, James Williamson, Mike Watt and saxophonist Steve Mackay are also set to hit the studio.
"Once I stared working with Ron and Scott again," Pop explains, "it was important to me intellectually that the group be resurrected, not just reunified. So that meant we had to be writing and releasing new material." He's working on some ideas that the Ashetons cooked up shortly before Ron's death -- including one song about the Three Stooges -- while Williamson, who's resumed his music career after retiring from Sony Electronics, "is already on me like a greased cat. He's sending me riffs, so I did some vocals to a couple of them and it's starting to sound like something."
"Ultimately I'd like to get into the studio with the group and maybe have a couple old songs, a couple new songs and then a little time to just jam and see what happens," Pop says.