Rubber Legs

RUBBER LEGS
 
 
For Open Up and Bleed!, which has a subtitle “The Great Lost Stooges Album?”, Bomp! Records collected available recordings of songs that were written and developed by the Stooges after the release of Raw Power in February 1973.  The first six songs – “Rubber Legs”, Open up and Bleed, “Johanna”, “Cock in My Pocket”, “Head On”, and “Cry for Me” – were made during practice sessions at CBS Records in New York in 1973 and are taken from the only tape that has surfaced from these rehearsals.  The liner notes for Open Up and Bleed! by Frank Meyer state that “Head On” is also known as “Head on the Curve”, but not “Head on the Curb”, as the song is called on the Metallic K.O. albums. 
 
Two other songs from rehearsals close the Open Up and Bleed! CD.  “She Creatures of the Hollywood Hills” was laid down in Detroit and is the only known rehearsal version of the song.  A second rehearsal of Rubber Legs is also given and has never been previously released. 
 
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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Writing for AllmusicCub Koda says of Year of the Iguana:  “This is an interesting collection that’s primarily culled from other Bomp CD collections and 10” vinyl LPs.  If you’re into Iggy and the Stooges enough to have made it this far, this collection of alternate mixes (‘Death Trip’), raw rehearsal tapes (‘Rubber Legs’, ‘Head On’, ‘Till the End of the Night’, ‘Wild Love’, and an extended run-through of Raw Power), and ‘suppressed masters’ from the original Raw Power sessions (‘I Got a Right’, ‘Gimme Some Skin’, and ‘Scene of the Crime’) will almost seem like a greatest-hits package of sorts.  And for the new fan who’s just discovered the chaotic magic that was the Stooges – and has heard the rumors that there’s material far more incendiary than their three studio albums – this compilation will serve just that purpose, sifting through the unending maze of unissued Stooges material to make a single-disc package that hits on the spots.” 
 
(December 2017)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021