Iggy Pop interview: Playing with the Stooges is like being beaten up by a middle-aged gang
Iggy Pop and James Williamson in London, 1972. (Courtesy of Columbia Records)
When Iggy Pop and the Stooges played their final concert in 1974, Pop was knocked cold by a bottle hurled from a hostile audience. The band disintegrated amid broken glass, blood, drugs and ill will.
Yet over the last few decades, the lasting validity and impact of the Stooges’ three studio albums – “The Stooges” (1969), “Funhouse” (1970) and “Raw Power” (1973) – has been recognized, and Pop has become a punk godfather. At 63, he’s one scary godfather, too, the type of performer who still leaves overturned speaker cabinets, shattered microphone stands and blown minds wherever he goes.