I loved the performance Part of me was like, 'Wow, this is great. The stage was tiny and it was really low. So, here’s this guy, out of his head on acid, dressed in leather with his hair all oiled and curled. They had just had their big hit, “Light My Fire” and the album had taken off.
That show was a big, big, big influence on me.
The first one I attended was early on and they had not gotten their shit together yet. Pop also performed such stage theatrics as rolling around in broken glass, exposing himself to the crowd, and vomiting on stage. Pop was the first performer to do a stage-dive, which he started at a concert in Detroit. Other influences on Iggy Pop's vocals and persona were Mick Jagger and James Brown. Morrison's extreme behavior, while performing in a popular band, inspired the young Pop to push the boundaries of stage performance. The seeds of Iggy Pop's stage persona were sown when he saw The Doors perform in 1967 at the University of Michigan and was amazed by the stage antics and antagonism displayed by singer Jim Morrison. The band was composed of Iggy on vocals, Ron Asheton on guitar, Asheton's brother Scott on drums, and Dave Alexander on bass. Inspired by Chicago blues as well as bands like The Sonics, The MC5 and The Doors, he formed the Psychedelic Stooges and began calling himself Iggy. While in Chicago, he played drums in blues clubs, helped by Sam Lay (formerly of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band) who shared his connections with Iggy. After exploring local blues-style bands such as the Prime Movers (with brothers Dan and Michael Erlewine), he eventually dropped out of the University of Michigan and moved to Chicago to learn more about blues. His later stage name, Iggy, is derived from one of these early bands, the Iguanas. The Prime Movers, featuring Pop on drums Osterberg began his music career as a drummer in various high school bands in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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