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.
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.”
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
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.
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
the stooges changed the world, 3 Ipsalati boys.
prior to that Iggy was the drummer for the iguanas in 64
then boom!!
From The Man who shot Liberty Valence
“when the legend becomes fact, print the legend”
A fun movie on the beginnings of punk is “CBGB”, the club in New York’s Bowery with Alan Rickman playing the owner. Pretty good job of re-creating some of the acts like Blondie.
“Kristal ironically became known as the godfather of punk giving a chance to such bands as Blondie, Television, Ramones, Talking Heads, Dead Boys and The Police.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1786751/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
I saw Iggy Pop when he played the i and i club in Athens, Ga in the early 80s. My friend had seen him a year earlier in a different state and said he sometimes liked to whip out his private parts on stage. It was a great show and sure enough, during an encore he showed it off, possibly because he was just a punk, or maybe just because he was proud of its size.