Doube Danger: Latin Casino/Academy Of Music, Live 1973

"The Stooges occupy a curious niche in rock history, because few decent live recordings have survived to capture the visceral wallop that ignited countless 1970s-era punk bands -- in an era when live taping was an often cumbersome, clumsy exercise. Issued as part of Bomp's Iguana Chronicles series of unreleased live and studio material, Double Danger seeks to impose a sense of coherence on the oft-copied, multiple-generation Stooges concert tapes, which have gone mostly unheard outside collectors' circles. The results are as perversely hit-and-miss as the band itself. Latin Casino is a highly-combustible November 1973 show from Balltimore that is bedeviled by 65 minutes of rickety sound, yet rightly regarded as a crown jewel... More of a documentary exercise than a musical one, this release provides an accurate snapshot of the peaks and valleys experienced by one of rock's most unrewarded yet influential bands." (AMG)