Sorry, man, I got off on a tangent. Clearly, the Henry Rollins thing affected me haha. What was the story? I love those old stories of shows back in the day, when everybody was really, truly fucking punk rock and nothing was contrived, the way it is now.
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straight from Frankenmuth, Michigan! Speaking of Michigan (and Iggy Pop) - I live about a mile from where Iggy grew up, and I had a chance to see him many times over the years - one of the best live performers ever
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Dude, seriously, they’re so Led Zep-derivative that I can’t even deal with them. It’s kind of sad, actually haha. Like, try to be original, please. That’s cool that you like Led Zeppelin a lot, but do we really need another one? The first one was pretty good; I don’t need another.
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How old are you? Did you ever see him with The Stooges? Like, back in the day when they were the real deal? I was talking about that with my friend Natalie a while ago, back when “The Stooges” were doing those old nostalgia-type shows. And I was like,”Fuck that. I don’t wanna see some old-person version of The Stooges. I wanna see them in 1973.” You know what I mean? I want to see the real thing, live and in-person, when Iggy was bleeding all over the stage.
I really wish that time travel existed haha. There’s really only two things that I’d utilize it for. One, I’d go back and grab as many Columbian Gold/Panama Red/Thai Stick etc etc seeds as I could. And two, I’d go to some shows.
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I disagree, I think that they add a different dimension and put their own twist on that style of music. I saw them before they broke nationally and they weregreat live then, and I am sure that they have only gotten better with all of the touring etc.
I am 59 and I first saw Iggy play on his “Kill City” tour with James WIliamson which was 5 years after the Stooges had broken up. I also saw them when Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols was playing guitar with him, and Janes Addiction was opening up for him on their first US tour. I also saw many local bands that Ron and Scott Asheton were in over the years, and got to know them both well, but sadly I did not witness the Stooges live until they reformed in 2003 and I was also at the Ron Asheton memorial show.
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Just that any of them is an accountant is hilarious 
Son of a bitch the video is gone. Rollins detailed how he opened for The Stooges and Iggy blew them off the stage. Rollins decided at that moment that if he ever got a chance to play with him again he was going to dominate the show, the whole destroy your heroes thing. It’s like a 20+ minute story and the details make it worth the listen but I’ll summarize. A few years later he finally got his shot and was offered the opening spot for Iggy and The Cure somewhere in Scandinavia and jumped at it.
He trained for weeks or months like a fucking madman both in the gym and vocally. He said he was in the best shape of his life from it all to beat Iggy. When the show came he said he kept his distance from Iggy even though it was hard cause Iggy is the nicest dude in the world when he’s not the maniac you see performing. He got called up and Rollins said he flew out onto the stage and managed to skip 1st and 2nd gear and was pounding his chest bouncing around stage straight screaming vocals. By the end he said his chest was on fire and he was completely drained, he had given the show of his life. He walked off stage and he said he couldn’t breathe because he was so winded he knew if he took one breath he would be panting for an hour and he didn’t want to show weakness.
He strolled past Iggy as casual as he could and nodded and Iggy just looked at him like “what the fuck man?” lol. Rollins went back to his area and finally caught his breath. Between Rollins and Iggy going on they loaded some of The Cure’s stuff on stage because there was so much of it. Tons of flowers in pots on the front of the stage and whatever else. Rollins went to watch Iggy’s set and he said Iggy was in his late 50s at the time I think. The Stooges were out there just jamming the beginning of one of their more popular songs (can’t remember which he said) and Rollins watches Iggy walk by and then burst into a run onto the stage screaming.
He said Iggy was like a lightning bolt zipping across the stage, shirtless in 30 seconds and bleeding from the chest in 40 lol. He said the dude was fucking insane. Iggy climbed up on top of a double stack and is jumping around and the stack falls along with him who he said made an audible thud on the stage. He was like holy shit I just watched Iggy pop die! Nope, Iggy pops up like a maniac and starts kicking the pots of flowers from The Cure’s scenery and exploding them into the crowd at which point he starts inviting the audience up on stage with him! Iggy gives these Viking Scandinavian fans the mic so he now has free reign to bounce around and destroy shit all over the stage while some Nordic accent is singing “lust for life”.
Their set ends, the stage is wrecked and covered in flower pedals and soil, Iggy is bleeding as usual and the crowd is losing their fucking minds. Rollins is at the side of the stage with his jaw on the floor and as Iggy walks by he casually goes “heh”.
Sorry for the book but it’s one of the greatest stories I’ve ever heard
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MOAR ZEP!
lol
I saw Jane’s open for Iggy too…In Toronto.
I think it was very soon after “Nothing’s Shocking” came out. (One of my top 5 ‘debut’ albums ever)
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Iggy is also famous for flashing his dick onstage - he does it so quickly you almost don’t believe you just saw what you did. Its so funny that he gets away with that but Jim Morrison’s career was practically ruined because of a rumor that he did the same thing, though the other members of the Doors say he just got down to his underwear. Either way, I have seen Iggy whip it out on multiple occasions and I have never heard or read about him getting in any trouble over it.
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yep that was the tour. I went with friends who didn’t go in for the opening act because they had never heard of them, and stayed in the parking lot partying instead. They showed up before Iggy 's set and asked me how it was, and I had to pick my jaw up from the floor before I replied lol. As I recall Steve Jones was on guitar along with Andy McCoy from Hanoi Rocks
Yeah but Jim was up against Dade county which make their own rules. He could have been naked and gotten away with it as “performance art” anywhere else in the country at the time like Hair was doing. He just picked the wrong spot to do it.
Ray Manzarek said in his book that he saw boxers poking out from under Jim’s pants that night which he only noted because Jim didn’t wear underwear usually. He also said that the main witness to it was the niece or daughter of the arresting officer.
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I went to that show to see Jane’s.
Iggy was great, but it was a long way removed from his “No Fun” and “1969” days.
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No way, dude. Greta Van Fleet sucks. They’re SO derivative. And I’m always down for new music, but I cannot get into them at all. I’d rather put on “I” or “III” or something.
I saw them, too! Same tour, I guess. That’s awesome.
Funny you mentioned Steve Jones/Sex Pistols. I was thinking about that just now, too. How even in the 70’s, when disco reigned, there was still amazing shit coming out. “Never Mind The Bollocks” was the third album I ever bought, when I was twelve, in 1988, but man, I can’t imagine hearing that when it was first released. Run DMC’s first album was the first thing I bought, a few years earlier, when I was nine (I was a break-dancer haha). Then the Violent Femmes first album a couple years later. Then “Never Mind The Bollocks.” And it was all over from there haha. That shit was a revelation. “THIS is what music is supposed to be.”
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That is an awesome story. I love it. That’s how I am, too. And I try to get everybody else to be that way haha. Be your best, full-throttle, or don’t even bother.
My girl has an AMAZING singing voice, really unbelievable. She can belt it out, for sure. Not necessarily my style, she likes Adele and Whitney Houston and shit like that, but she can sing. She wails right along with them, it’s pretty amazing. A while back, we were at this engagement party-thing and some chick sang a song. She could kind of carry a tune, but to call her a “singer” is an overstatement. And I kept nudging my girl and whispering to her,”Get up there and show this bitch up. Do it! Embarrass her!” but she wouldn’t do it.
My girl’s not nearly as punk-rock as I am haha. If I could sing like her, I’d fully be like,”Hold my beer…” haha, just destroying every wannabe “vocalist” around. But she won’t do it.
I know, right? It is funny. I can’t remember which one it was, but when she told me his name, I was like,”Wait, I totally know who you’re talking about.” Pretty amusing, for sure.
I never claimed to be a fan of GVF, but I disagree that they suck.
They are IMO the 2’nd best Zep cover band going that doesn’t play Zep originals.
The best cover band of course being…
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Yeah, that was the tour. Did they do that thing where they all got on the drum kit when you saw them? When I saw them at Janis Landing, in Florida, they did like a tribal drum thing to end the show with all of them on the kit. It was fucking awesome. And I don’t even like “tribal” stuff haha.
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I think I might’ve pulled my dick out when I was doing karaoke a few times haha. Sometimes, you just gotta do something to get people to pay attention. Especially nowadays, when everybody’s glued to their fucking phones…
I don’t remember…lol
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Haha! Okay, yeah, it was a long time ago. But it was the first and maybe only time I’d seen anybody do something like that. Plus, I’m a drummer, so it stuck out and got seared in my brain for sure.
they got on an ice cooler at the end and all beat on it, after they dropped a mic in it, as perrry farrel belted out their last tune
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Never saw Janes Addiction but I did see Perry Farrell at a benefit show with Jerry Cantrell, Slash. Tom Morello, Sen Dog from Cypress Hill, and Wayne Cramer from the MC5. For some reason a few of them covered Jump Around from House of Pain with Sen Dog doing the vocals and Perry Farrell in this little girl sounding voice would sing the chorus and embellish. “Jump Around! Yeah guys jump it’s fun!”
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