Posted on 02/25/2007 12:16:36 PM PST by TFFKAMM
THERE are the Stooges, from Ann Arbor, Mich., accidental inventors of punk, in the summer of 1970, on nationwide television. And there’s Iggy Pop, their singer: bare torso and sausage-casing jeans, silver gloves, dog collar, chipped front tooth.
The song is “TV Eye,” and they have gotten wickedly good at their primitive groove — as good as they will ever get. Iggy weaves in and out of the beat: one second borne by the music, one second abstracted from it. Suddenly he does a violent knock-kneed dance and slips into the audience, gone except for his wounded-animal noises.
“There goes Iggy, right into the crowd,” says the host of the special NBC program “Midsummer Rock.” It’s Jack Lescoulie, an announcer on the “Today” show, the Al Roker of his day. In his late 50s he looks like the anti-Stooge: professional, good-natured, well fed, well insured.
After a commercial break we see Iggy crawling on the stage. “Since we broke away for our message, Iggy has been in the crowd and out again three different times,” Mr. Lescoulie says. “They seem to be enjoying it, and so does he.” The camera centers on a scrum of teenagers looking downward. Iggy surfaces, hoists himself up so he’s standing on shoulders, and remains aloft, pointing forward like the prow of a ship. Next he’s scooping something out of a jar, wiping it on himself, flinging it around. “That’s peanut butter,” Mr. Lescoulie says, incredulous.
I’M going to be straight,” Iggy Pop said recently, talking about that film, which circulated for years in certain circles and is now of course available on YouTube. "I was more than a little high..."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Rhino Records put out a box set of the "Fun House" sessions back in 1999 or 2000. It was really good.
Iggy's still a "real wild child", bless his heart.
Iggy cameos here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0EQlQXoEo
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Its very cool that the article includes mp3 links!
"THERE are the Stooges, from Ann Arbor, Mich., accidental inventors of punk..."
News to the Ramones...
Can you tell us whos "Cool"?
I'd love to see Iggy's "I'm a Conservative" used by our team in TV advertising as an in your face affront to the Rats ,, I think it was on "Soldier" along with "dogfood" ....
Umm the stooges were around a decade prior to the ramones
"THERE are the Stooges, from Ann Arbor, Mich., accidental inventors of punk..."
News to the Ramones...
For a rather amusing read, check out his contract rider:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/iggypop/iggypop1.html
Good song/video. Thanks for the link.
or the New York Dolls, or the Tubes...
In 1970 his name was Iggy Stooge.
Don't despair - there are Sweet and Bay City Roller fans here like you.
I was never able to get into the Starlight Vocal Band. I almost envy you.
Very powerful video if you consider the lyrics, the 'stars' who appear in it, how they've lived their lives and their reactions to the lyrics.
Hopper looks like he "gets it".
Harrelson does not.
Keth Richards first looks merely sardonic, then really uncomfortable and finally self-conscious.
Fascinating and insightful video, IMO.
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