![]() "On the one hand there's this guy unwilling to be Caesar. Was I the guy who would bother to answer the phone? Yeah. Was I the guy who went and chatted up the local promoters? Yeah. On the other hand, was I the guy who bothered to actually go out of Detroit with no pennies in my pocket and tried to get a gig? Yeah. So eventually it was Iggy and the Stooges, so you have a little dichotomy set up there. So you make that compromise with them but they didn't dare do that with me so they'd do it behind my back. ' Oh, no, no, no, we'll decide who you are. It's like when you go into the Hall of Fame and say, 'Ok, great so all ten of the guys that were. Nobody told me the album was going to come out, nobody told me. Well later, little by little, we'd go far from Detroit and they'd just bill it: Iggy and the Stooges.įinally, when the second coming of the Stooges came around, they billed our gigs Iggy Pop (ex-Stooges). And I was humiliated and furious and I couldn't do anything about it. They were doing the product identification with me. And I was so excited and I ran in there and I got it and I turned it over and I was Iggy Stooge. There it is in the record store I used to work in. ![]() Finally, one day, it was late August, there it was in the window: (whispers) that's our record. I would walk to the record store, two miles into town every Tuesday for three months, waiting for our record to come out. I wasn't coming from like, 'okay, I've got a manager, I've got a plan.' I was just a kid from the Midwest. ![]() These are the three things a rock star is supposed to have. This is not Alice Cooper.' When they passed away they had houses, money and bad habits. Then when our first album came out they called me first and asked if I'd mind being Iggy Stooge and I said, 'yeah, I fucking mind. So these things started coming up and the next thing that happened was, little by little, the people would make a poster - I mean, we're talking about a dance where 200 people were going to come - it's like, the Stooges WITH IGGY, a show you won't forget - and we'd try to bonk that down but it kept coming out. See Iggy See him puke See him shit green See him jump Jump Iggy jump Then that would start to translate to reviews and then, of course, the fellas in the group would see a review or comments about our show and then, in the early group, I would wake up the next morning and there would be writing literally on the wall: And then you had a whole lot of other people who would say or write or still give interviews to the effect of, 'well, really the whole thing was this guy Iggy doing this thing and the group was just a bunch of these. Pop: Here's the deal, right from the get go you had people who liked the whole group. How great was the pressure from outside and inside to extrapolate yourself from the group? But with the release of Gimme Danger and an upcoming authorized biography, coupled with your possibile retirement, it's clear you're trying to set a public record straight before it's too late. But as Pop tells CBC Music in an emotional and candid interview, the tension born of that inevitable "dichotomy" would lead to a splintering of the original band, an act which would haunt the singer right through to its much-publicised 2003 reunion and the deaths of three of its original members.Īs the outlandish frontman for the Stooges, it's not surprising to hear that labels and managers tried to separate you from the group - to make you the star.
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