Bookies Club 870

Bookies Club 870 is not a polished live album; it is a sonic assault captured in the humid, beer-soaked air of a Detroit dive bar. Recorded in September 1980, it finds Iggy Pop in a fascinating state of transition, moving away from the artful experimentation of his Berlin years and back toward the primitive, jagged energy of his hometown roots. The sound is claustrophobic and immediate, with the instruments bleeding into one another in a way that feels dangerous and unscripted. It is the sound of a performer who has nothing left to prove but everything to scream about, backed by a band that includes the punk pedigree of Glen Matlock and Ivan Kral.

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