Iggy Pop talks about his COLOSSAL career | Red Bull Music Academy
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Published 2016-10-07
Iggy Pop was punk before punk even existed. Channeling rock & roll and Chicago blues influences with his band The Stooges in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Red Bull Music Academy was honored in September 2016 to welcome Iggy Pop at Montréal’s Monument-National: Ludger-Duvernay Theatre, Canada’s oldest theater, for a lengthy conversation about his colossal career with noted Canadian music journalist Carl Wilson.
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The Michigan native created some of the most potent rock music the world had ever heard, influencing virtually every generation of punk, garage rock and grunge artists that was to come. Pop’s high-wire collaborations with David Bowie in the latter half of the ’70s are the stuff of legend and spawned some of both artists’ most enduring hits. In 2016, he affirmed his position in the pantheon of rock music with his celebrated Post Pop Depression LP.
TOPICS:
2:05 - Becoming Iggy
6:59 - Ypsilanti blues
10:03 - Ann Arbor
24:02 - TV Eye
35:31 - Stooges live show
39:50 - Feeling lost in a shirt
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All Comments (21)
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If you want to know more about Iggy Pop and the Stooges’ Early Experimentation ► daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/04/iggy-pop-ear…
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Iggy Pop's life story is the definition of "Too weird to live, too rare to die"
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I lived in Ann Arbor in the late 60s. Seeing the Stooges was like going to psychedelic church. Iggy was the high priest and he and all the parishioners were on LSD. We were all anxious to see what Iggy was going to improvise, because no two shows were the same. It wasn't just music; it was performance art. The band was mesmerizing.
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A true intellectual.... I firstly liked his music, later I was fascinated by his performance,but now I am in love with his character...I admire him
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this is why Iggy is so great!! he was technically in one of the first industrial bands and he didn't even know it nor did he care because art is art!
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Watching him take those audience questions with such warmth, humility, and a previous user said, "guilelessness", is so moving. What an incredible man.
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I saw Iggy Pop in 1973!!!! He was with James Williamson, Scotty Thurston on piano, Ron Asheton on bass & his brother Rock on drums. Iggy hung from the rafters by his legs! I saw him in other concerts but that was the best. We're both still alive!!! That's amazing.
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I remember when Rolling Stone considered it newsworthy that Iggy Pop reached 30.he was dangerous to himself on and off stage. now ,he may reach 100.
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Iggy is still so hype...that entrance....hell yes...that made my day
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Iggy is such a legend! I'm glad people have finally realized what a legend he is before he's gone!
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Saw Iggy at Max's Kansas City in NY in the summer of 1973....a high energy show. He's come a long way since then.
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Never a dull moment with this legend.
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Iggy was one of the pioneers of industrial music. From " I want to be your dog" and "TV Eye" with The Stooges through "Funtime", "Baby", "Mass Production", "Bang Bang", "Dog Food", "Bulldozer", "Run Like a Villain", and others from his solo albums, Iggy definitely helped lay the foundation for industrial and other forms of rhythmically aggressive, abstract music.
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between two ferns with Iggy Pop
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"I like all forms of music.. well I'm not a big polka guy" I love IGGY always just listening to him talk makes me feel better
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1:11:22: That long silence after the question "Do you believe in true love?" and his ambigous response... So moving!
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When the interviewer started with that question about his name i thought "oh boy, this is gonna suck" but he ended up asking really cool questions. Iggy is such a beautiful person, i'm so happy that i was able to catch him on his last tour.
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One of the last Rockstars standing! Unbelievable, how he managed to survive the most dangerous times of Rock&Roll ... and man it looks fucking great, I wish I could reach this age, and look so good. Did what he wanted, live as he wanted ... from me, only respect! A legend
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17:00 "I think all human beings are subject to the other human beings around you. There’s almost a terrorism of environment that is usually unspoken in everybody’s life. But there’s a group of people for everyone about whom part of your consciousness is thinking, “What will they think? What will the do? What can I do?”. So there is all that. You can flow with it. Or go against it." Amazing! I love him more!
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What a great human being, congrats Iggy on making it through the drug years, your reward was Post Pop Depression which I for one thank you for....just a great piece of musical work.
