![]() And was a really good foil for Johnny, especially when it came to doing publicity. Johnny Lydon is very good at the things you’re supposed to be good at when you front a group. The group, as a whole, had a lot of flair. But that doesn’t mean was not an effective Barnum-type showman. I said “They always thought they were honest.” I don’t remember applauding anybody for saying “Don’t trust me.” I was much more impressed with their onstage ability than whether they were swindled out of thousands of dollars by their manager. These are edited excerpts from that conversation. In a phone interview, Osterberg defended Varvatos and also discussed the Sex Pistols, drugs and his favorite music critics. Osterberg (credited as Iggy Pop) is an executive producer of the series, along with the fashion designer John Varvatos - which might raise eyebrows given that Varvatos put what some would say was the final nail in punk’s coffin in 2007 by buying CBGB, the hallowed punk club at 315 Bowery, and replacing it with one of his boutiques. His presence looms over “Punk,” a four-part documentary series about the fashion, politics and musical influences that defined punk rock, which debuted this week on Epix. better known by his stage persona, Iggy Pop - has earned a reputation as “the Godfather of Punk.” This is thanks mostly to his tenure as the frontman of the proto-punk band the Stooges, but also because his reckless, sui generis stage presence embodied a gleeful but slightly scary abandon that became synonymous with the genre. The next day, he saw a doctor, and got stiches.Over the years, the Michigan-born rocker James Osterberg Jr. Crew tried to seal his wounds with gaffer tape, but failed. Alice Cooper wanted him to go to the hospital."ĭuring the performance, Iggy danced and writhed as normal, spraying all over the audience. But he wanted to finish the show, so he went on playing. Nitebob explains: "He was 20 minutes into the set and I asked him if he wanted to stop the show, because he was cut pretty bad. The table was loaded with glasses, which shattered as Iggy landed on them. I was working the stage that night, and Iggy fell off a table." Max's had tables all the way up at the front, the stage was too small, and sometimes Iggy would go walking on the tables. Nitebob, who worked at the club at the time and is interviewed in Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History Of Punk, recalls: "Iggy was trying to walk on the tables. One of the performances ended with Iggy Pop spurting blood across the audience. This venue was widely known for being frequented by Andy Warhol and other prominent figures in the New York art scene. While promoting the release of their third and final (at least for 34 years, until the band reunited) record, Raw Power, in 1973, The Stooges played four nights at Max's Kansas City, a club in New York City. ![]() Iggy Pop has indulged intuition, lust, hedonism, impulse, and artistic whim to such degree his life became a form of art in and of itself. ![]() Iggy was known to whip his junk out on stage, vomit on the audience, and smash glass on his chest, while other members of the Stooges whipped him. Indeed, Iggy and the Stooges were so entwined in the world of anti-social counter culture, they became one of the most infamous bands in the world, terrifying audiences and scandalizing conservative moms and dads in Middle America. Other times, as the crazy Iggy Pop stories on this list attest, he defecated on stage, went after bikers, compared himself to Hitler and Jesus in the same interview, and had wild trysts with very young ladies. Sometimes he couldn't speak or stand after. The Motor City musician tried it all, often right before jumping on stage or giving a well-documented TV interview. on April 21, 1947, substance use was an integral part of being a musician. Though the term "rock and roll excess" probably conjures images of long-haired, riff-rocking stadium acts, the truth is that many of Iggy and The Stooges escapades most certainly qualify.įor Iggy Pop, born James Newell Osterberg, Jr. As a solo artist and as frontman of one of the most legendarily destructive proto-punk acts of all time, The Stooges, Iggy has been involved in crafting some of the most influential albums of all time. The Godfather of Punk, Iggy Pop, is renowned for his musical prowess, magnetic stage presence, outlandish antics, confrontational attitude, predilection for substances, and lust for excess. ![]()
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