Originally posted by terry:The shit Iggy pulled at beginning of their set at Randalls Island in '04 was fucking classic, Little Steven was backstage interviewing a couple people (shown to the audience via monitors) and trying to stage a big buildup to the Stooges set (as they were the headliners) when I see the guys tuning up their instruments and then out of nowhere Iggy busts out from the middle of the stage area looking like an uncaged tiger, goes to the mic and says something to the effect of "let's fucking go" and they started playing right over Little Steven's yapping ass HAHA
Originally posted by kosmo:I saw that too–it was one of my hightlights. He was like a caged bull wanting to let loose. Watching Iggy seconds before he jumped onstage trying to get the band going so he could let it rip–totally started it off for me. What a force of nature…
what amuses me is that right at beginning of their set, while the band was sauntering on stage to take their places, there was Iggy jumping up and down like a anxious little kid on the side of stage waiting to get the party started.
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Originally posted by thatguy:is he also 100% shaved as far as you can tell? inquiring minds want to know.
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:trust me, you didn't miss out on anything.
I was 5'-6' back from the stage just on Iggy's right. I was close enough to touch Iggy on a few occasions; however, the idea of touching Iggy just didnâ??t appeal to me.
in case anyone is wondering, iggy has no tan lines. i wish i didn't know that.
Originally posted by andyrichter:It looked kick ass from the balcony. I was (as usual) on one of the bar stools upstairs above the VIP. I was sitting there (well kind of sitting anyway) really wishing that I didnt have 50+ pieces of titanium inside me and that I could be down there with my people! Iggy on stage made me and my friend Kim forget all about the drunk douche bag asshole earlier in the evening. This will be one of those shows that gets talked about for a long time.
i don't know what it looked like from the balconies but people were going nuts and rightly so because the stooges went for the god damn kill straight from the beginning
Originally posted by RatBastard:When I got there at about 11:20 or so, there was some drunk guy who, I guess, pushed someone and was yelling at a cop outside. He looked a little ridiculous. Was that the guy?
It looked kick ass from the balcony. I was (as usual) on one of the bar stools upstairs above the VIP. I was sitting there (well kinbd of sitting anyway) really wishing that I didnt have 50+ pieces of titanium inside me and that I could be down there with my people! Iggy on stage made me and my friend Kim forget all about the drunk douche bag asshole earlier in the evening. This will be one of those shows that gets talked about for a long time.
Yeah, the tough guy pushed Kim off her barstool for who cares why. I was the long hair guy with glasses talking to Josh and the cop about the deal. It was all taken care of very well and the night all in all was great. Seeing Iggy made me realize that I am not the only person 50+ who still does not know what he wants to be when he grows up! :)
How is Iggy 60? The last show I saw was the Pogues, and Shane just turned 50 and had to be pushed in a wheelchair up to the mic. Imitating the moves Iggy did last night leaves me winded after about 30 seconds. And I had those foam earplugs, and still have a bit of ringing this morning. I don't think he's human.
I bet Iggy could get one hell of an endorsement deal from geritol should he ever venture down that lane!
Originally posted by andyrichter:is he also 100% shaved as far as you can tell? inquiring minds want to know. [/QB]
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Ugh. Speak for yourself.
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No one has bothered to discuss the most important thing pertaining to last night's display of rockdom. Who's gonna get mp3s of the show from last night??? (Kosmo, I may be talking to you here) I'm listening to the stream on NPR right now, & it rocks. But if they were streaming the show last night live from 9:30, SOMEBODY's gotta know the cat that was working the soundboard last night.
I MUST :mad: have a copy of last night's show. I'll even pay for it. Somebody get at me . . . .
I MUST :mad: have a copy of last night's show. I'll even pay for it. Somebody get at me . . . .
i have nothing much to add here, other than to say that this was one of the best shows i've ever seen. ron asheton sounded absolutely monstrous, scott asheton pounded the shit out of his drums, mike watt was the perfect replacement for dave alexander, and iggy still is the best rock 'n' roll performer alive. i saw the stones in 2002, and while that was quite good, it was nowhere near as powerful and awe-inspiring as the stooges. i think i had shivers during all of the songs from fun house.
Originally posted by TheDirector217:Why mp3? Lossless! :p
No one has bothered to discuss the most important thing pertaining to last night's display of rockdom. Who's gonna get mp3s of the show from last night???
But a recording of this show would be sweet. Iggy really put on an amazing performance.
My one complaint of the show would be no songs from the Raw Power era. They should just suck it up and put those into the set. I'd love to have heard "Cock in my Pocket", or even better, "I Gotta Right", which is prolly my most favoritest Stooges song ever.
Originally posted by chaz:C.I.M.P. would've blown the roof off. Metallic K.O., despite its poor production,is one of the most spun records in my collection over the years.Up there with the best records ever made IMHO. Hell, you even get a kickin version of Louie Louie. Timeless!!
My one complaint of the show would be no songs from the Raw Power era. They should just suck it up and put those into the set. I'd love to have heard "Cock in my Pocket", or even better, "I Gotta Right", which is prolly my most favoritest Stooges song ever.
It's a great, balanced review and how cool is it to be able to read the work of someone is as smart and still as committed as Jenkins is? And who actually saw the fabled '73 Kennedy Center show. Now that's a double bill!
Listening to "The Weirdness," the first Stooges album in 34 years, longtime fans might wonder if Iggy Pop and his recently reunited cohorts remember how to be the band they were in the early 1970s. Any such doubts were quickly banished Thursday night at the 9:30 club, where the proto-punk musicians' reflexes proved undiminished. The band's 80-minute set was hampered only by "The Weirdness's" second-string material.
Seen up close, Iggy looks like the 60-year-old he'll become later this month, but he's as limber and energetic as he was in the Stooges' heyday. Sleek, shirtless and a bit simian, Iggy prowled the stage, wearing low-slung pants that threatened to slip all the way off by the time the show ended with the evening's second, sloppier version of "I Wanna Be Your Dog." He threw himself into the audience a few times, and welcomed fans onstage to dance to the teen anti-anthems "Real Cool Time" and "No Fun."
Those songs are all from the quartet's 1969 debut, but the Stooges took just as much from their 1970 follow-up, "Fun House." (The band entirely bypassed "Raw Power," the David Bowie-produced 1973 album for which guitarist Ron Asheton was demoted to bass.) Drummer Scott Asheton switched fluidly from the metronomic beats of the first album to the more swinging rhythms of the second, and saxophonist Steve Mackay joined for "Fun House's" title song and "I Feel Alright." The only problem was that the set peaked there, before the band trudged through such lesser new material as "Trollin'."
Inevitably, the Stooges weren't as threatening as at their last D.C. gig, opening for Mott the Hoople at the Kennedy Center in 1973. That show ended prematurely, when Iggy appeared to be bleeding and the band's power was cut. (From this writer's vantage point, the red stuff on his chest looked more like fruit-pie filling than blood.)
Iggy's not as self-destructive these days, but the main difference between the two shows is that venues like the 9:30 club now exist. The larger world may never accept the Stooges, but there's a part that has.
– Mark Jenkins
Listening to "The Weirdness," the first Stooges album in 34 years, longtime fans might wonder if Iggy Pop and his recently reunited cohorts remember how to be the band they were in the early 1970s. Any such doubts were quickly banished Thursday night at the 9:30 club, where the proto-punk musicians' reflexes proved undiminished. The band's 80-minute set was hampered only by "The Weirdness's" second-string material.
Seen up close, Iggy looks like the 60-year-old he'll become later this month, but he's as limber and energetic as he was in the Stooges' heyday. Sleek, shirtless and a bit simian, Iggy prowled the stage, wearing low-slung pants that threatened to slip all the way off by the time the show ended with the evening's second, sloppier version of "I Wanna Be Your Dog." He threw himself into the audience a few times, and welcomed fans onstage to dance to the teen anti-anthems "Real Cool Time" and "No Fun."
Those songs are all from the quartet's 1969 debut, but the Stooges took just as much from their 1970 follow-up, "Fun House." (The band entirely bypassed "Raw Power," the David Bowie-produced 1973 album for which guitarist Ron Asheton was demoted to bass.) Drummer Scott Asheton switched fluidly from the metronomic beats of the first album to the more swinging rhythms of the second, and saxophonist Steve Mackay joined for "Fun House's" title song and "I Feel Alright." The only problem was that the set peaked there, before the band trudged through such lesser new material as "Trollin'."
Inevitably, the Stooges weren't as threatening as at their last D.C. gig, opening for Mott the Hoople at the Kennedy Center in 1973. That show ended prematurely, when Iggy appeared to be bleeding and the band's power was cut. (From this writer's vantage point, the red stuff on his chest looked more like fruit-pie filling than blood.)
Iggy's not as self-destructive these days, but the main difference between the two shows is that venues like the 9:30 club now exist. The larger world may never accept the Stooges, but there's a part that has.
– Mark Jenkins
Personally I think Jenkins is your typical self important jaded rock critic and usually I've no time for his been-there done-that ramblings.
But this time he got it just right.
But this time he got it just right.
Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:wtf? pancake mountain?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BApXhsfM4kY
i saw the cameras set up in the club during the show, wondered what that was all about… let's hope they release more footage! who should we petition - rufus?!?
…Can someone post a fucking set list already??