New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (The Stooges)
 
 
The next three songs on Open Up and Bleed! – Rich Bitch, “Wet My Bed” and I Got Nothing” – were recorded at the Latin Casino in Baltimore in November 1973.  “Heavy Liquid” / “New Orleans” is another live performance that was made at the Whisky a-Go-Go in Los Angeles in September 1973.
 
There is also an LP release of Open Up and Bleed!, but it has fewer songs, with I Got Nothing”, Heavy Liquid” / “New Orleans”, and the second version of Rubber Legs” being omitted.  
 
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One tape that was found in the James Williamson box is from the only known show by the Stooges in San Francisco (at Bimbo’s in January 1974).  The liner notes by Frank Meyer say that there are only four songs on the tape, with Open up and Bleed being incomplete, so the other three songs – Wet My Bed, I Got Nothingand Head On – are included here, with the versions of the last two songs never being previously released.  The California Bleeding album closes with three songs from the September 15th show at the Whisky, She Creatures of the Hollywood Hills and Heavy Liquid” / “New Orleans (the Gary U.S. Bonds classic) – the first concert performances of these songs ever.
 
(December 2017)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021