Indeed. I'm glad there is a better-sounding recording of this set out there than the brief clips on YouTube would suggest.
I'd love to hear a boot of the show that the later band with James Williamson played at the Kings Cross Cinema (now the Scala). I've attended many gigs there, and I walk past it most days as it's five minutes' away from my workplace, and I keep trying to picture the scene in my head as it would have been in 1972. It was a far scuzzier and more dangerous area then, and I can imagine English audiences not being ready for the full-on sonic brutality of the Stooges at all. Maybe a recording will turn up sometime, but somehow I think if it were ever going to happen it would have done so by now.
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