IGGY POP; Motor City Roller Rink Show in 1979

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

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If Gary Grimshaw hadn't been the poster artist for the counterculture, he could have been its poster child." --The Detroit Free Press, December 12, 1999 Michigan's 100 Greatest Artists and Entertainers of the Twentieth Century.




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Gary Grimshaw
P.O. box 2028
Royal Oak MI 48068

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From Big Rich Video

DARK CARNIVAL: RON AND NIAGARA

DARK CARNIVAL-RON ASHETON & NIAGARA LIVE at Various Shows, by BIG RICH DORRIS BIG VIDEO......





I saw Destroy All Monsters alot... partied at their Farm House, outside of Ann Arbor.... a frequent visitor with a welcome case of Stroh's, late '70's... incredible still, it seems... Mike Davis, Ron Asheton and Niagara... what a gal. She's got a lotta style.



Dark Carnival evolved from the Monsters after that... I never shot video till later, got married and all in '80, started BIG Video'n around '88... tuck the boys in bed and go... a LOT of shit was goin' down! I was blessed with the chance to hang out and party and make these tapes... and friends, I was NEVER bored.