Met Iggy a few times at Lili's in Hamtramack MI, early 80's-nice dude, definitely high strung (if you been there you know what I mean-Destroy All Monsters and The Mutants were great bands that also played there semi-regular).
....saw this band in Nov. 79' at Masonic Temple in Detroit..It was at this show Ig whipped out his sausage and went around and asked the band what they thought of it...79' and on were tough years for him financially...but the music was complexed true Iggy art....New Values is a freight train of brilliant Iggy......
July 2023 : 🎙💥Iggy live 9:25 at the Montreux Jazz festival here on YT 🌹👌 ...WILL BLOW YOUR MIND... ageless passenger with lust for life ..."Generation SeX"(Paul Cook, Billy Idol,,Tony James and Steve Jones) played there before him 🎙🎸🎸🥁
I left Canada the day this was televised on a 3 month backpacking trip through Europe. I was 19 years old. I landed in London on the 25th of May 1979. The next day I set out to explore London. I was walking down Oxford Street when I passed a guy carrying a lift size cut out of Iggy Pop! I was big into Punk and New Wave so this immediately caught my attention. A little further down Oxford I encountered a large crowd of punks outside a record store. Guess who was in side promoting his new album, New Values? I picked up the record and got in line to meet the Iggy. He looked like and acted like his countenance on the album cover, fun, friendly happy. What a charmer. I told him I was from Canada. He said he loved Canada. He gave ma a pile of Pins and asked me what I wanted signed on the Album. I said “Don’t look Down”. He wrote that and signed it. Big moment in my life. I turned all my friend onto that Album I returned to Canada in the Fall and found out Iggy was performing in Toronto. Me and a bunch of friends went to the show. We’re we’re on Acid. I met James Osterburg in London. In Toronto I saw Iggy perform, what a shock! This was a different animal altogether, a rather angry and confrontational show. He came out at some point carrying a huge tray of o deuvres , sandwiches and pickles an’ shit. He said; I hate you pathetic motherfuckers and threw the tray of food into the audience. After the show we were walking towards downtown and the sky lit up like DAYLIGHT. We thought thought it was a nuclear bomb, LOL. IT was the Mississauga Train Disaster. Look it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Mississauga_train_derailment
This is incredible! Best Iggy solo era, "New Values" is an amazing album. For very long there was just a short clip of this Old Grey Whistle Test, great that there's the whole show on the tube.
the whole eshter-friedman-berlin-golden-age-period is the best iggy era. 77-83. but nothing beats the concerts from 1978 tve eye tour with sonic rendezvous.
Free Love and following then didn’t work too well for his meaning and history. Look where we are. But free STD’s and drugs abound and less meaning continues without purpose. When this world is the idea for advancement in making the world better and convenient: suffering ensues. Look at him now…
If you pause at 1:37, that's Scott Thurston (the pride of Medford, Oregon) who's been a musical Swiss Army knife for every band he's played with -- including Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.
He really and truly is. Like just the original original so sincere so authentic so real. And what's more in every interview I've ever seen him in he's genuinely respectful &, humble 🥰
My old punk friends were always laughing in my face when I told them "there's a lot of blues, r'n b, jazz in punk, at least in protopunk this is true". They just couldn't explain how Spelmann, Bo Diddley, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman and so many others appeared as inspirations or covers...
I'm 66 and I was there in the beginning of punk and your rights about this The Rolling Stone did this in the early 60's and Iggy Pop did other blues songs other than this
