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Most of this two-disc, 18-track set of the Stooges jamming and rehearsing in the studio is drawn from the so-called “Detroit rehearsal tapes,” recorded when the band was preparing to go on the support tour for the just released David Bowie-produced Raw Power in 1973. Some of these tracks, though, were new songs intended for the Stooges' fourth album, which unfortunately never appeared after the band was dropped from its label. This is true garage punk, the sound of a band trying to pull fragments together in a garage, riffing on electric blues tunes like “I’m a Man,” speedballing through “I Got a Right,” trying out the ragged Stones-like ballad “Open Up and Bleed,” and at one point, tackling the Trashmen's “Surfin’ Bird” before charging into the Kingsmen's “Louie, Louie.” The recordings are pretty raw sometimes, but then so were the Stooges, and make no mistake, this is how they sounded. It was punk before punk was born. ~ Steve Leggett