6/17/2023 0 Comments Iggy pop liveRiding high on the back of their most successful long-player to date, the band, now augmented by keyboardist Scott Thurston, went out on a summer tour of American cities, kicking off with a storming show at another legendary venue, Max’s Kansas City in New York. Peanut butter has always been very popular in the United States. Oh, and let us not forget smearing his body (and anyone else’s in the immediate vicinity!) with peanut butter, as captured by the television cameras at the Cincinnati Pop Festival in June 1970. The university-dropout’s on-stage subtleties would include prurient vomiting, saying the word “fuck” and getting arrested for it (during a support slot for the MC5), biting the audience and pulling their hair, pouring hot wax onto his chest, stabbing himself with lead pencils, diving onto a stage covered with broken glass, and of course, allowing his underpants to mysteriously fall down. Fuelled by the blistering riff-work of guitarist James Williamson and the pounding, turbo-charged rhythms of the Asheton brothers, Iggy Pop would stalk the stage like a caged wild animal, providing a series of shock theatrics that have never quite been equalled (are you paying attention, Marilyn Manson?), and making the headline-grabbing antics of The Doors‘ Jim Morrison appear about as dangerous as going to church in a pair of flip-flops. ![]() But it was as a live act that The Stooges had really made their mark.
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