Penthouse 2006-02 by Unknown

Penthouse 2006-02 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Format: epub


Interview by Chauncé Hayden Dog Days Photographs by Mark Mann Iggy Pop is enjoying his writhing around “like acat on acid" with his bandmates, the Stooges.

Now 58, th Godfather of Funk Rock i is 1 1 e Stooges ge s like drugs, CBGB, ar 1 read a write-up of the Stooges’ recent performance at London's Hammersmith Apollo, which the reviewer described as an "eerie walk through time.” Is that how you felt? It was just tremendously fulfilling. That was the first time we had been on a marquee as "the Stooges’ since 1971, or something like that. That was a condition of my acceptance of the engagement. It had to be billed that way on the marquee, or | wasn't going to do that show. We've been performing for the last couple of years using any combination of our name, but this was a really nice step for us. What was the first thought that went through your mind when you looked up and saw THE STOOGES on the marquee? | drove by it about an hour and a half before we went on, and | thought, What a strong word it is. First of all, the double-O looks like boobs! And the word "Stooges" has the sound 000 in it. Ooo is the sound people make when they have sex or take drugs or get hit in the solar plexus. So | thought itwas hot to see that double-O up on the bill again. Are people starving for good oldfashioned rock `n’ roll? There doesn't seem to be too much of that around these days. People are starving in general, especially when you get to.... [Pauses] Hell, lll say it—white music. [Laughs] Which just increasingly sucks! You're 58 years old. Where does your physical and emotional drive come from after all these years? Its a mixture of the sacred and profane. On the sacred side, | ve got just a tremendous, real urge to prove something about my band. | still get choked up talking about that. Even at this moment. Why is that? [The Stooges] got to a certain point and things kind of exploded. We didn't get the recognition at the time for what we had accomplished. So | stuck it out for a long time trying to carry that torch. That gives me a powerful motivation to continue.



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