Posted on 11/25/2022 11:28:33 AM PST by nickcarraway
Punk rock midwife Danny Fields tells Page Six that he now spends much of his time setting Iggy Pop straight on what happened in his own life.
Fields was at the center of the nascent punk rock scene and variously signed, managed or acted as a publicist for key acts including Iggy and the Stooges, the MC5, the Ramones and others.
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“It’s like, ‘Iggy, come here, I have to talk to you. That story you’ve telling when people ask you how you met David Bowie — Iggy, that’s not what happened,” Fields said. He added, “‘Listen, what happened was that you were staying at my house. You’re telling it wrong.” [He’ll say], ‘OK, so what happened? You know why I tell it? I don’t remember a f–king thing.”
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Who gives a shit.
A surprising amount of history never happened. At least, not quite the way it is told. But if it’s told in a certain way, people remember the story and it influences people and then it becomes the accepted history.
Now if the NY Post would explain how the Republic became a democracy they would have a story worthy of note.
‘Gimme Danger’ is a pretty good documentary on Iggy (and the Stooges). At the end of the film, there are clips of dozens of punk bands from the 80s and 90s and later, definitely created in the image of Iggy and The Stooges. Parphrasing Bob Seger, all of Iggy’s children are playing his licks.
“Who gives a shit.”
Well, I do. If you don’t care, that’s 100% ok, but you don’t speak for everyone.
It’s funny when someone who doesn’t give a shit gives enough of a shit to get on the thread and post ‘who gives a shit’.
One of the best rock-and-roll stories ever told (that might even be true) is the one told by Three Dog Night’s Danny Hutton about the time he took Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper to meet Brian Wilson at the latter’s home. Wilson roped all of them into an hours-long seemingly never-ending session of singing one song— “Shortenin Bread” — over and over and over. Finally, exhausted, Iggy and Alice fled the scene, proclaiming that Wilson was “nuts.”
If you don’t care, don’t click. Cause coming on here just to tell everybody you don’t care really told us you’re an attention whore. And useless.
The world is built on good stories. Most of which are bunk. But they tell us something anyway.
My wife does that for me.
My parents wanted to throw me out of the house! Then I joined the Marine Corp in October of 1979 and went out of the house on my own.
It's hard to listen to that music today without getting a headache. I guess I outgrew it. But much of the other music of that era still fascinates me, such as Talking Heads, The Police, Gary Numan & The Tubeway Army, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello and the "Berlin" era of David Bowie.
James Osterberg is a trip
“Berlin” is my favorite Lou Reed album. Some might say it was consumate Lou at his most creative. I stumbled upon it at a used record store.
I like all of the cuts, but I think I will never forget the sound of the children crying in courtroom scene of this song
“The Kids”.
It starts out ‘They’re taking her children away
Because they said she was not a good mother
Because she was making it with sisters and brothers
And every one else, all of the others...”
I saw Iggy back in the day.
He put on a great show.
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This gobshite is no different than the guy the Post noted was on the 'Gast Listze' that evening: Jay McInerney, who hasn't written a single colon worth noting since 1984.
Yes, a Freeper (maybe you?) pointed me out to that Lou Reed song a year or so back. Very haunting.
It may have been me who suggested that album.
I haven’t been in the right sort of mood to play it for about six years, but I have it on standby for when I need to hear it Same with Koyaniskatsi by Phillip Glass or Wizard a True Star by Todd Rundgren. There when I need to hear them.
Iggy pop, Johnny Depp, Robert Mitchum and others in “Dead Man” from 1995. A very strange film.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112817/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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