if you spend any time at ll on myspace (tim stop reading here)become friends with anton so you can get his bulletins. He updates several times a day and his posts are incredibly informative and 40,000 krazy kosmic kids kant be wrong!
Here are 2 articles juxtaposed and posted today
Student arrested over Va. Tech remarks BOULDER, Colo. - A University of Colorado student was arrested after making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said.
During a class discussion of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech, the student "made comments about understanding how someone could kill 32 people," university police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley said.
Several witnesses told investigators the student said he was "angry about all kinds of things from the fluorescent light bulbs to the unpainted walls, and it made him angry enough to kill people," according to a police report. Witnesses "said they were afraid of him and afraid to come to class with him," Wiesley said.
The student, identified by police as Max Karson of Denver, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of interfering with staff, faculty or students of an education institution. He had a court appearance set for Wednesday afternoon.
His father, Michael Karson, told the Camera newspaper that the comments may have been misinterpreted and questioned whether his son's free speech rights had been violated.
"I would have hoped that state officials would know their First Amendment better than they seem to," he said.
University spokesman Bronson Hilliard said privacy laws prevented him from releasing personal information about the student.
At Oregon's Lewis & Clark College, another student was detained by campus police Wednesday shortly before a vigil for the Virginia Tech victims when he was spotted wearing an ammunition belt. Portland police later determined that it was "a fashion accessory" made of spent ammunition, and said the man did not have a weapon. The belt was confiscated.
4 bombings in Baghdad kill at least 183 By STEVEN R. HURST and LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writers 47 minutes ago BAGHDAD - Suspected Sunni insurgents penetrated the Baghdad security net Wednesday, hitting Shiite targets with four bomb attacks that killed 183 people — the bloodiest day since the U.S. troop surge began nine weeks ago.
Late Wednesday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered the arrest of the Iraqi army colonel who was in charge of security in the area around the Sadriyah market where at least 127 people died and 148 were wounded in the deadliest bombing of the day.
It was the second massive blast at the market since Feb. 3.
Nationwide, the number of people killed or found dead on Wednesday was 233, which was the second deadliest day in Iraq since The Associated Press began keeping records in May 2005. Five car bombings, mortar rounds and other attacks killed 281 people across Iraq on Nov. 23, 2006, according to the AP count.
Interior Minister spokesman Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf declined to comment when asked about the staggering number of deaths Wednesday, directing an Associated Press reporter to Brig. Gen.Qassim al-Moussawi, the military spokesman. His phone was turned off.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the bombings "horrifying" and accused al-Qaida of being behind them.
Among the dead in the Sadriyah market bombing were several construction workers who had been rebuilding the mostly Shiite marketplace after the February bombing that killed 137 people, a police official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
The laborers typically finish work around 4 p.m. each day. One of those wounded, 28-year-old Salih Mustafa, said he was waiting for a minibus to head home when the blast went off at 4:05 p.m.
"I rushed with others to give a hand and help the victims," he said. "I saw three bodies in a wooden cart, and civilian cars were helping to transfer the victims. It was really a horrible scene."
The market is situated on a side street lined with shops and vendors selling produce, meat and other staples. It is also about 500 yards from a Sunni shrine.
About an hour earlier, a suicide car bomber crashed into an Iraqi police checkpoint at an entrance to Sadr City, the capital's biggest Shiite Muslim neighborhood and a stronghold for the militia led by radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
The explosion killed at least 41 people, including five Iraqi security officers, and wounded 76, police and hospital officials said.
Black smoke billowed from a jumble of at least eight incinerated vehicles that were in a jam of cars stopped at the checkpoint. Bystanders scrambled over twisted metal to drag victims from the smoldering wreckage as Iraqi guards staggered around stunned.
Earlier, a parked car exploded near a private hospital in the central neighborhood of Karradah, killing 11 people and wounding 13, police said. The blast damaged the Abdul-Majid hospital and other nearby buildings.
The fourth explosion was from a bomb left on a minibus in the central Rusafi area, area, killing four people and wounding six others, police said.
U.S. officials had cited a slight decrease in sectarian killings in Baghdad since the U.S.-Iraqi crackdown was launched Feb. 14. But the past week has seen several spectacular attacks on the capital, including a suicide bombing inside parliament and a powerful blast that collapsed a landmark bridge across the Tigris River.
In Israel, Gates said the military had anticipated that al-Qaida terrorists and other insurgents "would attempt to increase the violence in order to make the plan a failure or to make the people of Iraq believe the plan is a failure."
"Obviously the level of fatalities today is a horrifying thing. But I think it illustrates another point: These terrorists are killing innocent men, women and children who are Iraqis. They're killing their countrymen," he said at a news conference in Tel Aviv with his Israeli counterpart, Amir Peretz.
Meanwhile, to the west of the city, U.S. troops killed five suspected insurgents and captured 30 others in a raid in Anbar province, a day after police uncovered 17 decomposing corpses beneath two school yards in the provincial capital.
The raid took place early Wednesday near Karmah, a town northeast of Fallujah in Anbar, which has been a stronghold for Sunni insurgents.
American forces raided a group of buildings suspected of being used by militants and found explosives inside one of them, the military said in a statement. A helicopter was called in and dropped precision-guided bombs on the buildings, it said.
The soldiers came under fire and shot back, killing five Iraqis and wounding four others, the statement said. The wounded were taken to a military hospital and remained in U.S. custody. Twenty-six other people were detained as well, the military said.
The bodies found a day earlier at school yards in Ramadi, Anbar's provincial capital, were discovered after students and teachers returned to the schools a week ago and noticed an increasingly putrid odor and stray dogs digging in the area, police Maj. Laith al-Dulaimi said.
Ramadi had been a stronghold of Sunni insurgents and al-Qaida fighters until recently, when U.S. forces in the region and the Iraqi government successfully negotiated with many local tribal leaders to split them off from the more militant insurgent groups.
The U.S. military also reported that a suspected insurgent was killed and eight captured in two raids north of Baghdad on Wednesday. Some of the suspects were believed linked to al-Qaida in Iraq and to a militant cell that has used chlorine in car bombings, the statement said.
Separately, U.S. officials announced that last week they found 3,000 gallons of nitric acid hidden in a warehouse in downtown Baghdad. U.S. forces discovered the acid, a key fertilizer component that can also be used in explosives, during a routine search Thursday, the military said.
Iraqi troops also took charge of security Wednesday in the southern province of Maysan, a region that borders Iran and the fourth province to come under full Iraqi security control since the 2003 U.S. invasion.
A ceremony was held in Maysan's provincial capital of Amarah, 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, and was attended by senior Iraqi and coalition officials including Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie and the British commander in southern Iraq, Maj. Gen. Jonathan Shaw.
Al-Rubaie said that in order for a timetable to be set for the withdrawal of foreign troops, Iraqi forces and local authorities have to be ready to take over. He was apparently referring to calls by some Sunni Arab groups and al-Sadr's Shiite followers to set a timetable for a pullout.
"We should work to create these circumstances in all provinces, in order to revert security to Iraqis and end the foreign presence," said al-Rubaie, who represented al-Maliki, the commander in chief of Iraq's armed forces.
Al-Maliki was supposed to attend the ceremony but his trip was canceled without explanation.
im in interested but cant we cal it something more tasteful like Pussy Sounds, Labial Licks, Poon-Tang Action Rock, Hot Snatch Tracks, Snizz Tunez, or my personal favorite Muff Music.
This kid wrote a review of the Stooges show we went to...
I wrote this for my school's newspaper, hasn't been printed yet. It's a review of the April 15th Stooges concert. Enjoy:
So you're fifty-nine years old, you've made your mark, you've passed the proverbial torch to a new generation of kids who should be taking your specialty to a new level and making your peak years look like child's play. So what do you do then? If you go the route of one Jim Osterberg, better known to the masses as Iggy Pop, you simply don't ever slow down, burn out, or let yourself be bested by anyone no matter how young they are It was a normal night in the rest of Chicago on April 15th, 2007, but in a medium-sized venue known as The Congress Theatre, there would be 3500 people experiencing one long explosion of rock 'n roll fury by a living legend, virtually unmatched by anyone before or since.
The obligatory mix CD of like-minded music played as the instruments sat lonesome on the stage, leaving the audience in a state of anticipation so intense you could smell it. Understand this: Iggy Pop fans are dedicated, like a less decorated version of the Kiss Army. The fans (ranging in age from 14-60) waited eagerly, trying to pass the time. Some chatted amongst their friends or people they met that night, and some drank and drank some more. One fan, not ten feet from the front had no intention of moving, despite how much he had drank. So he relieved himself on the floor and onto the legs of a few within his vicinity. No one got angry, they all understood when he said, "I just didn't want to lose my spot."
Suddenly, like someone had shot them out of a cannon, Mike Watt, Ron Asheton, and Scott Asheton all dash on stage to their instruments and immediately blast into the oh-so-familiar notes of "Loose" from the Fun House record. Right on cue, Iggy Pop runs on stage and snatches the microphone for dear life to screams, cheers, and deafening applause. He had been on stage for seven seconds, and he already had the audience eating out of his hand. He bounced from one end of the stage to other uncontrollably, and did so multiple times before even breaking a sweat.
The band was planted downstage, leaving about 70% of the stage open for Iggy to move around freely, which he did. If Iggy stayed in one place for more than twenty seconds, it would be because he was dead. Even though center stage was open, he rarely went back that far. His place was with the audience. The majority of his time was spent along the edge of the stage where the fans reached out to touch or simply rock out with the godfather of punk rock, while he sang right into their faces and sprayed spit all over them, and sometimes handing the microphone over to them. When he wasn't singing, he would find other things to keep him busy, such as crowd surfing (much to the chagrin of security, who would have to drag him back), pouring water all over himself, or hopping six feet into the air onto the amps and humping them.
Halfway through the set, they jumped into a debut-album classic, "1969." Iggy, much to the annoyance of the security workers, invited everyone on stage to rock out with him. About fifty super-charged teenagers plow through the bouncers and rush the stage to sing, dance, and rock out with the Iguana Man. With much concentrated effort, the staff clears the stage when the song is over, even though every man, woman, and child on stage is trying to hug and kiss Iggy before they are removed from arms' reach of him.
The rest of the set is more of the classics, "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "1970," "No Fun," "TV Eye," "Down On the Street," and "Not Right," among others, with a few songs from the 2007 album The Weirdness thrown in including, "Trollin'," and "My Idea of Fun." The band played two encores with two songs each time, Iggy showing any weariness only once when he kneeled in the middle of the stage for about thirty seconds during one of the encores. The rest of the set was an eruption of passionate rock 'n roll like I've never before experienced in my life. The roof could've blown right off the building, and no one would've been surprised. Seeing Iggy Pop in person is one that any person will not soon forget. Keep in mind, also, two things: most of the songs played are almost thirty years old and still blowing peoples' minds and Iggy will turn sixty-years-old on April 21st. Doing what The Stooges did that night, especially if they can repeat that kind of performance every night of the tour, was no small feat.
It comes down to this: I've seen well over 150 bands play in the last 10 years, and this was easily the best show I've ever been to. Simple as that. So do yourself a favor, and go see Iggy Pop while you have the chance.
AND I LEFT HIM A COMMENT Hey, I was at the Chicago show and I HAVE to agree it was by far the best Ive ever been to. Iggy is the Greatest frontman ever, no question!
I have to say this though---Scott "Rock Action" Asheton was a fucking revelation. Mike Watt? Seemed like he'd been there from the beginning (especially when bashing out "Dirt"). Steve Mackay is a fucking genius! I was so thrilled to hear him blaring away. What a fucking great player. And on top of all that, my man, my hero RON ASHETON. He played his ass off. Ron is a GOD. As Watt said himself many years ago "Iggy is the show but Ron is the sound".
TO WHICH HE COMMENTED BACK That Watt quote is perfect. I was writing the review thinking to myself that I didn't mention enough about the rhythm section. I mean it's the Ashetons and Mike Watt, for fucks sake! The Ashetons are admired as punk rock holy relics, along with Joe Strummer, Johnny Ramone, and Greg Ginn. And Mike Watt is just simply one of the greatest bass players to grace the stage, and not just in skill, but he lays down so much personality when he plays.
I yelled out to Watt during one of the few moments of silence, "Long live D. Boon!" He smiled.
The truth of the matter is, though, that Iggy is the whole show, but Ron is the reason for the season, and I would've been just as honored to have met him (or any member for that member) as I would've been to have met Iggy.
If there's one major flaw in the piece I wrote, it's that I didn't have enough to say about Watt or the Ashetons, because they deserve way more credit than they receive.
here's the track listing if it makes you more/less interested in getting it. a lot of my girl friends (and guys too) wanted to hear some music like this, so that's why it has been made. but i'm more than happy to send you guys one!:
1. Liliput - Ain’t You 2. Nina Simone - Nobody Knows You When You Are Down and Out 3. Lesley Gore - Hey Now 4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date with the Night 5. Patsy Cline - Strange 6. Anna Oxygen - Dream. Dream. Dreams. (f. Mirah on vocals) 7. X-Ray Spex - Oh, Bondage! Up Yours! 8. Le Tigre - Deceptacon 9. Tracy + the Plastics - City 10. Deerhoof - This Magnificent Bird Will Rise 11. Billie Holiday - All of Me 12. Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One 13. The Rondelles - Like a Prayer (Madonna Cover) 14. Bratmobile - Panik 15. Heavens to Betsy - Stay Away 16. Cadallaca - The Trouble with Public Places 17. The Gossip - Ain’t it the Truth 18. The Spells - The Age of Backwards 19. Coco Rosie - Noah’s Ark 20. Elastica - Hold Me Now 21. Kaia - 16 22. Mirah - Light the Match 23. The Casual Dots - Bumblebee 24. Sleater-Kinney - Get Up 25. Erase Errata - Thief Detests the Criminal, Elements of the Ruling Class 26. Team Dresch - She’s Crushing My Mind 27. Aimee Mann - You Could Make a Killing 28. Excuse 17 - The Wedding Song
hey jackie, can i have an extra one? i want to send it to my friend katrin. unless, of course, you want to send it to her yourself. she lives in madison.
oh, and i don't think the dog is photoshopped. i looked it up... not hard, but i checked a few pages. but if it is, so what. this is the image of guinness biggest dog.
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I'm assuming that's photoshopped?
if you spend any time at ll on myspace (tim stop reading here)become friends with anton so you can get his bulletins. He updates several times a day and his posts are incredibly informative and 40,000 krazy kosmic kids kant be wrong!
Here are 2 articles juxtaposed and posted today
Student arrested over Va. Tech remarks
BOULDER, Colo. - A University of Colorado student was arrested after making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said.
During a class discussion of Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech, the student "made comments about understanding how someone could kill 32 people," university police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley said.
Several witnesses told investigators the student said he was "angry about all kinds of things from the fluorescent light bulbs to the unpainted walls, and it made him angry enough to kill people," according to a police report. Witnesses "said they were afraid of him and afraid to come to class with him," Wiesley said.
The student, identified by police as Max Karson of Denver, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of interfering with staff, faculty or students of an education institution. He had a court appearance set for Wednesday afternoon.
His father, Michael Karson, told the Camera newspaper that the comments may have been misinterpreted and questioned whether his son's free speech rights had been violated.
"I would have hoped that state officials would know their First Amendment better than they seem to," he said.
University spokesman Bronson Hilliard said privacy laws prevented him from releasing personal information about the student.
At Oregon's Lewis & Clark College, another student was detained by campus police Wednesday shortly before a vigil for the Virginia Tech victims when he was spotted wearing an ammunition belt. Portland police later determined that it was "a fashion accessory" made of spent ammunition, and said the man did not have a weapon. The belt was confiscated.
4 bombings in Baghdad kill at least 183
By STEVEN R. HURST and LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writers 47 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - Suspected Sunni insurgents penetrated the Baghdad security net Wednesday, hitting Shiite targets with four bomb attacks that killed 183 people — the bloodiest day since the U.S. troop surge began nine weeks ago.
Late Wednesday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered the arrest of the Iraqi army colonel who was in charge of security in the area around the Sadriyah market where at least 127 people died and 148 were wounded in the deadliest bombing of the day.
It was the second massive blast at the market since Feb. 3.
Nationwide, the number of people killed or found dead on Wednesday was 233, which was the second deadliest day in Iraq since The Associated Press began keeping records in May 2005. Five car bombings, mortar rounds and other attacks killed 281 people across Iraq on Nov. 23, 2006, according to the AP count.
Interior Minister spokesman Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf declined to comment when asked about the staggering number of deaths Wednesday, directing an Associated Press reporter to Brig. Gen.Qassim al-Moussawi, the military spokesman. His phone was turned off.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the bombings "horrifying" and accused al-Qaida of being behind them.
Among the dead in the Sadriyah market bombing were several construction workers who had been rebuilding the mostly Shiite marketplace after the February bombing that killed 137 people, a police official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
The laborers typically finish work around 4 p.m. each day. One of those wounded, 28-year-old Salih Mustafa, said he was waiting for a minibus to head home when the blast went off at 4:05 p.m.
"I rushed with others to give a hand and help the victims," he said. "I saw three bodies in a wooden cart, and civilian cars were helping to transfer the victims. It was really a horrible scene."
The market is situated on a side street lined with shops and vendors selling produce, meat and other staples. It is also about 500 yards from a Sunni shrine.
About an hour earlier, a suicide car bomber crashed into an Iraqi police checkpoint at an entrance to Sadr City, the capital's biggest Shiite Muslim neighborhood and a stronghold for the militia led by radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
The explosion killed at least 41 people, including five Iraqi security officers, and wounded 76, police and hospital officials said.
Black smoke billowed from a jumble of at least eight incinerated vehicles that were in a jam of cars stopped at the checkpoint. Bystanders scrambled over twisted metal to drag victims from the smoldering wreckage as Iraqi guards staggered around stunned.
Earlier, a parked car exploded near a private hospital in the central neighborhood of Karradah, killing 11 people and wounding 13, police said. The blast damaged the Abdul-Majid hospital and other nearby buildings.
The fourth explosion was from a bomb left on a minibus in the central Rusafi area, area, killing four people and wounding six others, police said.
U.S. officials had cited a slight decrease in sectarian killings in Baghdad since the U.S.-Iraqi crackdown was launched Feb. 14. But the past week has seen several spectacular attacks on the capital, including a suicide bombing inside parliament and a powerful blast that collapsed a landmark bridge across the Tigris River.
In Israel, Gates said the military had anticipated that al-Qaida terrorists and other insurgents "would attempt to increase the violence in order to make the plan a failure or to make the people of Iraq believe the plan is a failure."
"Obviously the level of fatalities today is a horrifying thing. But I think it illustrates another point: These terrorists are killing innocent men, women and children who are Iraqis. They're killing their countrymen," he said at a news conference in Tel Aviv with his Israeli counterpart, Amir Peretz.
Meanwhile, to the west of the city, U.S. troops killed five suspected insurgents and captured 30 others in a raid in Anbar province, a day after police uncovered 17 decomposing corpses beneath two school yards in the provincial capital.
The raid took place early Wednesday near Karmah, a town northeast of Fallujah in Anbar, which has been a stronghold for Sunni insurgents.
American forces raided a group of buildings suspected of being used by militants and found explosives inside one of them, the military said in a statement. A helicopter was called in and dropped precision-guided bombs on the buildings, it said.
The soldiers came under fire and shot back, killing five Iraqis and wounding four others, the statement said. The wounded were taken to a military hospital and remained in U.S. custody. Twenty-six other people were detained as well, the military said.
The bodies found a day earlier at school yards in Ramadi, Anbar's provincial capital, were discovered after students and teachers returned to the schools a week ago and noticed an increasingly putrid odor and stray dogs digging in the area, police Maj. Laith al-Dulaimi said.
Ramadi had been a stronghold of Sunni insurgents and al-Qaida fighters until recently, when U.S. forces in the region and the Iraqi government successfully negotiated with many local tribal leaders to split them off from the more militant insurgent groups.
The U.S. military also reported that a suspected insurgent was killed and eight captured in two raids north of Baghdad on Wednesday. Some of the suspects were believed linked to al-Qaida in Iraq and to a militant cell that has used chlorine in car bombings, the statement said.
Separately, U.S. officials announced that last week they found 3,000 gallons of nitric acid hidden in a warehouse in downtown Baghdad. U.S. forces discovered the acid, a key fertilizer component that can also be used in explosives, during a routine search Thursday, the military said.
Iraqi troops also took charge of security Wednesday in the southern province of Maysan, a region that borders Iran and the fourth province to come under full Iraqi security control since the 2003 U.S. invasion.
A ceremony was held in Maysan's provincial capital of Amarah, 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, and was attended by senior Iraqi and coalition officials including Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie and the British commander in southern Iraq, Maj. Gen. Jonathan Shaw.
Al-Rubaie said that in order for a timetable to be set for the withdrawal of foreign troops, Iraqi forces and local authorities have to be ready to take over. He was apparently referring to calls by some Sunni Arab groups and al-Sadr's Shiite followers to set a timetable for a pullout.
"We should work to create these circumstances in all provinces, in order to revert security to Iraqis and end the foreign presence," said al-Rubaie, who represented al-Maliki, the commander in chief of Iraq's armed forces.
Al-Maliki was supposed to attend the ceremony but his trip was canceled without explanation.
does anyone here want my all female (vags rock) mixed cd? i wasn't sure if anyone would be interested.
Jackie, we're always interested in vag!
im in interested but cant we cal it something more tasteful like Pussy Sounds, Labial Licks, Poon-Tang Action Rock, Hot Snatch Tracks, Snizz Tunez, or my personal favorite Muff Music.
This kid wrote a review of the Stooges show we went to...
I wrote this for my school's newspaper, hasn't been printed yet. It's a review of the April 15th Stooges concert. Enjoy:
So you're fifty-nine years old, you've made your mark, you've passed the proverbial torch to a new generation of kids who should be taking your specialty to a new level and making your peak years look like child's play. So what do you do then? If you go the route of one Jim Osterberg, better known to the masses as Iggy Pop, you simply don't ever slow down, burn out, or let yourself be bested by anyone no matter how young they are It was a normal night in the rest of Chicago on April 15th, 2007, but in a medium-sized venue known as The Congress Theatre, there would be 3500 people experiencing one long explosion of rock 'n roll fury by a living legend, virtually unmatched by anyone before or since.
The obligatory mix CD of like-minded music played as the instruments sat lonesome on the stage, leaving the audience in a state of anticipation so intense you could smell it. Understand this: Iggy Pop fans are dedicated, like a less decorated version of the Kiss Army. The fans (ranging in age from 14-60) waited eagerly, trying to pass the time. Some chatted amongst their friends or people they met that night, and some drank and drank some more. One fan, not ten feet from the front had no intention of moving, despite how much he had drank. So he relieved himself on the floor and onto the legs of a few within his vicinity. No one got angry, they all understood when he said, "I just didn't want to lose my spot."
Suddenly, like someone had shot them out of a cannon, Mike Watt, Ron Asheton, and Scott Asheton all dash on stage to their instruments and immediately blast into the oh-so-familiar notes of "Loose" from the Fun House record. Right on cue, Iggy Pop runs on stage and snatches the microphone for dear life to screams, cheers, and deafening applause. He had been on stage for seven seconds, and he already had the audience eating out of his hand. He bounced from one end of the stage to other uncontrollably, and did so multiple times before even breaking a sweat.
The band was planted downstage, leaving about 70% of the stage open for Iggy to move around freely, which he did. If Iggy stayed in one place for more than twenty seconds, it would be because he was dead. Even though center stage was open, he rarely went back that far. His place was with the audience. The majority of his time was spent along the edge of the stage where the fans reached out to touch or simply rock out with the godfather of punk rock, while he sang right into their faces and sprayed spit all over them, and sometimes handing the microphone over to them. When he wasn't singing, he would find other things to keep him busy, such as crowd surfing (much to the chagrin of security, who would have to drag him back), pouring water all over himself, or hopping six feet into the air onto the amps and humping them.
Halfway through the set, they jumped into a debut-album classic, "1969." Iggy, much to the annoyance of the security workers, invited everyone on stage to rock out with him. About fifty super-charged teenagers plow through the bouncers and rush the stage to sing, dance, and rock out with the Iguana Man. With much concentrated effort, the staff clears the stage when the song is over, even though every man, woman, and child on stage is trying to hug and kiss Iggy before they are removed from arms' reach of him.
The rest of the set is more of the classics, "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "1970," "No Fun," "TV Eye," "Down On the Street," and "Not Right," among others, with a few songs from the 2007 album The Weirdness thrown in including, "Trollin'," and "My Idea of Fun." The band played two encores with two songs each time, Iggy showing any weariness only once when he kneeled in the middle of the stage for about thirty seconds during one of the encores. The rest of the set was an eruption of passionate rock 'n roll like I've never before experienced in my life. The roof could've blown right off the building, and no one would've been surprised. Seeing Iggy Pop in person is one that any person will not soon forget. Keep in mind, also, two things: most of the songs played are almost thirty years old and still blowing peoples' minds and Iggy will turn sixty-years-old on April 21st. Doing what The Stooges did that night, especially if they can repeat that kind of performance every night of the tour, was no small feat.
It comes down to this: I've seen well over 150 bands play in the last 10 years, and this was easily the best show I've ever been to. Simple as that. So do yourself a favor, and go see Iggy Pop while you have the chance.
AND I LEFT HIM A COMMENT
Hey, I was at the Chicago show and I HAVE to agree it was by far the best Ive ever been to. Iggy is the Greatest frontman ever, no question!
I have to say this though---Scott "Rock Action" Asheton was a fucking revelation. Mike Watt? Seemed like he'd been there from the beginning (especially when bashing out "Dirt"). Steve Mackay is a fucking genius! I was so thrilled to hear him blaring away. What a fucking great player. And on top of all that, my man, my hero RON ASHETON. He played his ass off. Ron is a GOD. As Watt said himself many years ago "Iggy is the show but Ron is the sound".
TO WHICH HE COMMENTED BACK
That Watt quote is perfect. I was writing the review thinking to myself that I didn't mention enough about the rhythm section. I mean it's the Ashetons and Mike Watt, for fucks sake! The Ashetons are admired as punk rock holy relics, along with Joe Strummer, Johnny Ramone, and Greg Ginn. And Mike Watt is just simply one of the greatest bass players to grace the stage, and not just in skill, but he lays down so much personality when he plays.
I yelled out to Watt during one of the few moments of silence, "Long live D. Boon!" He smiled.
The truth of the matter is, though, that Iggy is the whole show, but Ron is the reason for the season, and I would've been just as honored to have met him (or any member for that member) as I would've been to have met Iggy.
If there's one major flaw in the piece I wrote, it's that I didn't have enough to say about Watt or the Ashetons, because they deserve way more credit than they receive.
as much as i like hot snatch tracks, all the cd's are made. so i'll make sure to get one to you and liz and you D!
here's the track listing if it makes you more/less interested in getting it. a lot of my girl friends (and guys too) wanted to hear some music like this, so that's why it has been made. but i'm more than happy to send you guys one!:
1. Liliput - Ain’t You
2. Nina Simone - Nobody Knows You When You Are Down and Out
3. Lesley Gore - Hey Now
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date with the Night
5. Patsy Cline - Strange
6. Anna Oxygen - Dream. Dream. Dreams. (f. Mirah on vocals)
7. X-Ray Spex - Oh, Bondage! Up Yours!
8. Le Tigre - Deceptacon
9. Tracy + the Plastics - City
10. Deerhoof - This Magnificent Bird Will Rise
11. Billie Holiday - All of Me
12. Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One
13. The Rondelles - Like a Prayer (Madonna Cover)
14. Bratmobile - Panik
15. Heavens to Betsy - Stay Away
16. Cadallaca - The Trouble with Public Places
17. The Gossip - Ain’t it the Truth
18. The Spells - The Age of Backwards
19. Coco Rosie - Noah’s Ark
20. Elastica - Hold Me Now
21. Kaia - 16
22. Mirah - Light the Match
23. The Casual Dots - Bumblebee
24. Sleater-Kinney - Get Up
25. Erase Errata - Thief Detests the Criminal, Elements of the Ruling Class
26. Team Dresch - She’s Crushing My Mind
27. Aimee Mann - You Could Make a Killing
28. Excuse 17 - The Wedding Song
deanna, do you still live on randolph?
Yes, until June 1.
hey jackie, can i have an extra one? i want to send it to my friend katrin. unless, of course, you want to send it to her yourself. she lives in madison.
oh, and i don't think the dog is photoshopped. i looked it up... not hard, but i checked a few pages. but if it is, so what. this is the image of guinness biggest dog.
yeah i can send you an extra one, no problem! they probably won't go out until next though, since i'm going to minneapolis sat and sun.
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