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..."
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Not even.
The Kings: Albert, Freddie, BB - Clapton - Huddie Ledbetter - Robert Johnson - it's a long list.
Living just a few miles north of AA, even the NYT doesn't know the half of it. So many so, that the place swings statewide elections.
Okey dokey
You're right. I made a point of looking at who was in it and thinking about how they might feel about the lyrics.
Harrelson doesn't get anything. I was surprised he was in the video unless he has a thing for Johnny Cash and didn't pay any mind to the lyrics.
No, I mean Albert King.
Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Live in Cincinatti, 1970
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD_XCECbAEU&mode=related&search=ggy Pop and The Stooges, Live in Cincinatti, 1970
News to the Ramones...
The Stooges - Live Clip 1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZhbmRp5aLQ&mode=related&search=
Yeah, and what about the Cowsills?
That's Acid rock...not punk.
shi'ite, either way :)
alice cooper, and later Debra Harry made the stuff palatable, IMO
I find that very hard to believe. (snicker,,laugh)
He was on Letterman years ago claiming that he was a scratch golfer. Is that even close to true?????
It must be hard being a Barry Manilow fan huh?
Check the timeline.
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