To our amazement... IGGY played the Motor City Roller Rink. On the corner on Van Dyke & 9 Mile in Warren Michigan. What the hell, we thought, so we went. This was during the time of "Dog Food, 1970 something....
a crew of misguided fans brought metal cans of real DOG FOOD and were throwin' 'em at The IG' ala "Metallic KO... they threw a Stroh's"... Iggy don't dig this and makes it known.
Tough Love I'd call it. Ron Asheton says when they played in Europe the crowd would spit at 'em... like rain.
Rock says in Finland they would buy a big old fish and bring 'em to heave at the band, very strange customs...
STOOGES bring out the worst in some people.
Anyway... Show goes on and my brother Tony managed to snap these pix and everyone has the Real Cool Time, deep in the heart of Warren, it ain't that far from Detroit, after all.
These pix by my Brother Tony "The Nail" Dorris at the Motor City Roller Rink Show in 1979 Gary Grimshaw did the sticker, from "instinct" Album Art.
We went and survived,
BIG
5 comments:
Iggy was there, but what do the Stooges have to do with it? They weren't there.
So sorry, I beg for mercy BR
I was there at that show. It was around the time of the SOLDIER album, and the band was an all-star punk lineup, Brian James from The Damned on guitar, Ivan Kral from The Patti Smith Group on keyboards, and Glen Matlock and Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols on bass and drums respectively. Someone was throwing eggs at the stage before the band even came on, I remember them smashing against the keyboards. Iggy's road manager, I recall he had a British accent, came out and bitched out the audience for the egg throwing, told them that unless it stopped there would be no show. Iggy came out pissed, but the show must go on, and it did. They sounded GREAT. Yes, unfortunately, there were always a few assholes at Iggy's shows.
Off by 1 year dude, that's the 1980 tour.
1980
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