[b]Iggy Pop - TV Eye (1977 Live)[/b]
	
Label:	Virgin Records America Inc.
Catalog#:	7243 8 39628 2 2
Format:	CD
Country:	US
Original Released: 1978 (RCA Victor, PL12796, UK)
CD Released:	1994


Personnel:

Track 01, 02, 06 - Recorded 21/22 March 1977 Agora, Cleveland, Ohio
Track 08 - Recorded 28 March 1977 Aragon, Chicago, Illinois

	Ricky Gardiner - guitar
	David Bowie - live treated piano
	Tony Sales - bass
	Hunt Sales - drums

Track 03, 04, 05, 07 - Recorded 26 October 1977 Uptown Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri

	Stacey Heydon - guitar
	Scott Thurston - piano and guitar
	Tony Sales - bass
	Hunt Sales - drums

Co-Produced by Iggy Pop and David Bowie


Tracklisting:

Side A
01 	  	TV Eye (4:25)
02 	  	Funtime (3:20)
03 	  	Sixteen (3:56)
04 	  	I Got A Right (4:29)

Side B
05 	  	Lust For Life (4:01)
06 	  	Dirt (5:19)
07 	  	Nightclubbing (6:16)
08 	  	I Wanna Be Your Dog (4:15)



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[b]TV Eye (1977 Live) Review from AMG[/b]
http://wm04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0xfqxql5ldje
While Iggy Pop's first two solo albums earned plenty of press (thanks in part to the participation of David Bowie), they didn't sell especially well, and in 1978 RCA Records offered Iggy a fast and painless way to deliver the third and final album on his contract -- they proposed he make a live album, and gave him a $90,000 budget for the project. Figuring this might be his last paycheck from a record label for a while, Iggy assembled soundboard tapes from three dates on his 1977 tour, spent $5,000 doctoring them at a studio in Berlin, and pocketed the rest. This may have been a shrewd move fiscally, but it didn't make for much of an album; TV Eye (1977 Live) sounds murky and hollow, with the four cuts from an October date in Kansas City sounding especially muddy, though with appropriate irony the K.C. performance sounds livelier than the selections from late March gigs in Cleveland and Chicago. (The more staid Cleveland and Chicago cuts feature one David Bowie on keyboards, while for the later show he was replaced by former Stooge-for-a-day Scott Thurston.) While sonically this is a step or two up from a typical bootleg, from a performance standpoint this isn't material anyone would risk a jail sentence to release; while "I Got a Right" and "Lust For Life" sound potent, on the rest of the cuts whatever energy Iggy generated on stage didn't make it onto tape, and the versions of "TV Eye" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" make clear that Iggy's road band sure weren't the Stooges. For obsessives and completists only -- but given the huge glut of semi-authorized Iggy Pop albums floating around, there must be an awful lot of them.


[b]TV Eye (1977 Live) customers review picked up from amazon.com[/b]
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000000W5Z/  (sound samples available)

5stars review
Most professional reviews that I've read trash this album but it's one of my favourites so it's nice to see some positive reviews. I even like the sound quality - it's got some muscle that I've never heard on another live album. The whole band sounds perfect.

1star review
The sound quality is horrible. Most of the songs are unlistenable, especially "Nightclubbing" and "Lust for Life". The two songs that I find enjoyable on this live cd are "Funtime" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog", but it doesn't even matter because the rest is horrible. I bought this cd on a Friday and I took it to a used cd store on a Sunday. If you want a live Iggy Pop cd, I recommend Sister Midnight. It was recorded on the same tour.

5stars review
I don't know what the other reviewers who returned this wanted from a recording; maybe they wanted Year 2003 quality recording, like Yanni Live. THIS IS IGGY FROM THE 70's! TV Eye is the best live recording of The True Sound of Iggy, and TV Eye is the proof. Like it or not, "bootleg" sound or no, this is what his band sounded like, and it mightily kicks. The over the top guitar and bass playing, Iggy shouting and moaning the lyrics, it's the best. It was also, I believe, the very first album to sport a full sized parental warning sticker, God bless him. If you want more civilized, better produced music, look elsewhere. If you want the True Sound of the man who would insult anyone and literally bleed for his audience, buy this and play it LOUD!