“It’s a personal favorite of mine and we’ll do it the best we can,” Pop added. When many of his contemporaries are dead or mining. We had a lot of great songs but one never made it on to any albums,” he said introducing the angry serenade “I’m Sick Of You.” Iggy Pop: Every Loser album cover All of this makes it slightly eyebrow-raising that, at 75, Pop has suddenly returned to harder rocking. “A long time ago I was in a really special band just up the road in Detroit. The bands name shortened to the Stooges and their eponymous debut album came. Pop goaded them on, frequently asking for the house lights to be turned on to see the throngs of people, waving repeatedly at them with a big grin on his face and turning the microphone out to amplify the thousand-strong voices.īy the encore, Pop turned reflective ahead of a two-part Stooges offering, taking a minute to think on his Midwest roots planted just a few hours from where he stood Friday night. After relocating to Chicago, Iggy Pop formed the Psychedelic Stooges in 1967. The set’s double stack of “The Passenger” followed by “Lust For Life” was a nice homage to the era and a high for the audience who hung on to the former song’s “La la la la la la la la” chorus like it was a personal oath. In particular, the accompaniment of horns was a defining part of the show, providing a jazzy undertone that added to the primal, chemical energy of the night and harkened back to the time in the late ‘70s that Pop spent with David Bowie, a period that birthed so much of Pop’s epic solo material. Among them, guitarists Sarah Lipstate and Greg Fauque, bassist Kenny Ruby, drummer and percussionist Tibo Brandalise, Hammond/keys player Florian Pellissier, and horns players Corey King on trombone and Leron Thomas on trumpet. The band combined the wild and often shocking on-stage pranks by Iggy with a raw, blues-based garage rock that emphasized the darker side of rock and roll. The famous ensemble was not present at the Chicago show, but it will be hard for even their star wattage to live up to the exceptional instrumentalists that supported Pop at the Salt Shed. They blended seamlessly with the new material, blurring the lines of time across a span of nearly six decades in which Pop has been a huge influence in every punk movement and has continued to steer the ship, anchored by a well-preserved canon of work.įriday night’s concert was a rare one-off for Pop, a month shy of a few planned dates across the West Coast to promote his latest album, which will also debut his new backing army, The Losers - a group that includes Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, and Andrew Watt (the album’s mastermind producer) on guitar. Iggy, who was born James Newell Osterberg Jr. That album’s title track, “Death Trip,” “Gimme Danger,” and the set-ending piece de resistance “Search and Destroy” were high marks in the curated affair.
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