![]() The foregoing is, of course, merely the gist of the Iggy Pop story but it's a damn fine gist. "Ambition is to make better music, live life in peace and then die." Hate publicity whores, hokey music, people who wanna use me and conceited dicks. Love my garden, my wife, my dog and cat a lot, but also love noise, aggravation, girls, regular guys, music, as much. Got a place in Mexico to go when I can't stand it anymore. Lots more albums (total 15), half great, half so-so. Resurfaced '76 with first solo album, recorded by Bowie. ![]() ![]() "Went L.A., went underground, more arrests, hard times. Went nuts from the life, got screwed in the business. Totally did our own thing, like nobody else. WOW! Found two High School dropouts on Michigan Street corner, '67, to start Stooges. Loved Butterfield Band/Junior Wells/Buddy Guy/Little Walter/Otis Rush. Blues band called Prime Movers, playing bars, Detroit and Chicago sometimes. ![]() "Started getting WILD, grew my hair to my shoulders and dyed it platinum. I plugged a phonograph into that socket and listened to OUT OF OUR HEADS and BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME all summer. "Five 45-minute sets a night, 15-minute breaks, six nights a week, a bare cabin with cold running water, five mattresses and one electric socket. WOW! Professional employment, far away from home. We cut a single in our senior year, and the summer of 1965 we got a gig in Northern Michigan at a joint called The Ponytail Club. 10th Grade, 1962, formed Iguanas, High School rock band. "Age 5, played drums with my Lincoln Logs and Jinkertoys," he recalls. Pretty early on, however, he started to find release from his grim environment by both listening to and making music. Via Vintage Everyday, Flashbak, Northern Soul Train, and Reddit.Like the old joke goes, trailer parks are the reason God invented tornadoes, and the young Iggy (real name James Jewel Osterberg) hated life in Coachville Yonder. Zoot Allures!: Frank Zappa (colorization by Lauren). This pair were always more than a handful-Pete Townshend and Keith Moon.Įric Clapton-more ‘big’ than ‘slow’ hand. Rod Stewart wearing the original ‘budgie smugglers.’ George Harrison was always a bit of a dark horse.įreddie Mercury failing to hide his light under a bush or is it a tree? Robert Plant’s noticeable onstage ‘presence.’ However, having spent minutes if not hours poring over rock stars crotches I have got to the nuts and bolts of this subject and cobbled together a small (or should that be large?) selection of classic rock stars and their unfeasibly large talents… But with the arrival of four well-endowed young men from Liverpool, trousers which revealed everything and left nothing to the imagination quickly became the focal point of the sixties’ “British Invasion” and the inspiration for many bands over the following decade.įor some, what God had provided wasn’t enough and their trousers were often padded with socks, lead pipes, cucumbers, shuttlecocks, “armadillos,” and the massed pipe bands of a well-known Highland regiment. Within weeks, it seemed as if every singer was wearing a pair of strides one size too small leaving many broadcasters to shoot these performers from the waist up so as not to offend the less fashionable viewers at home. It’s well known that tight trousers have a long history in rock and pop music stretching all the way back and front to the 1950s when Elvis Presley first unleashed his “Hound Dog” on national television. Iris Mountbatten’s when she revealed her son “Leggy” had first appreciated the large talents of the Rutles after seeing their tight trousers. This didn’t quite satisfy our keen reporter who seemed to be hoping for an answer more akin to that given by Mrs. Sometime in the 1970s, an intrepid BBC reporter posited the question What is it about today’s pop stars that appealed so much to young girls and boys? After talking to a small selection of very emotional and breathy fans, he soon discovered the answer was music.
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