I took tomorrow off from work. I’ve got a friend flying in from Minnesota to see the big Ron Asheton memorial concert with me, and our plan is to bum around Ann Arbor all day, visiting the bars that still exist from 20 years ago, when we lived together on Catherine Street, and talking about […]
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Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1974, Henry Rollins, I Wanna Be Your Dog, Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop statue, James Osterberg Jr, Love Jones and the Extra Toes, Michigan Palace, Nazi uniforms and the men who wear them, Neutral Zone, Ron Asheton, Ron Asheton Foundation, Scott Asheton, the Joe Piscopo of punk, The Stooges | 26 Comments
Iggy Pop on American Idol
I’m not sure how I feel about this. I guess shit like that can’t happen anymore, given how scripted everything is, and how nothing’s really live, but I would have loved it if they’d sent him out to do Real Wild Child only to have him pull an Elvis Costello and launch into something decidedly […]
Posted in Art and Culture | Also tagged American Idol, Iggy Pop, old men without shirts, punk rock, punks, Real Wild Child, Search and Destroy, Wild One | 6 Comments
Seeing Iggy Pop on April 19
I wasn’t planning to go to the Stooges show at the Michigan Theater on April 19, even though they’re probably the band, next to the Ramones, that made the biggest impact in my life. As I’d seen them play before, back when Ron Asheton was still alive, I didn’t see a point in going back […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Build a statue of Robocop in Detroit, concerts, Dinosaur Jr., Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop statue, Michigan Theater, Neutral Zone, Ramones, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, Ticket Master | 8 Comments