While working in a record store, Osterberg meets fellow dropouts Ron and Scott Asheton and Dave Alexander, who hang out in the store every day hoping to hear the latest releases. He decides to quit school to become a drummer in a blues band, and forms the Iguanas with some fellow young, white blues aficionados who dream of sharing stages in Chicago with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf.
Starting off a good student, Osterberg's working class background eventually alienates him in high school, leading him to gravitate toward Detroit's black community, and specifically, blues musicians. Although the city is one of the affluent hubs of the area, Osterberg lives with his family in a trailer park. James Jewel Osterberg grows up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, near Detroit.
He is the great rock and roll martyr who happened to live. With a new album, Skull Ring, that finally finds him cleaning up the Stooges' unfinished business, both on record and on stage, Iggy is approaching the end of his 50s as ungracefully as ever. Even the common ∘0s identity crisis couldn't diminish his iconic stature, although it forced him to conquer his demons and emerge stronger than ever. His overall recorded output may not live up to such an image, but there's no denying that at least the three albums he recorded with the Stooges have continued to inspire each succeeding generation. While many others succumbed to the decadent standards he set, or ultimately embraced more pretentious artistic pursuits, Iggy remains Iggy after three decades, unaffected by his mammoth accomplishments. Like Keith Richards, he has come to embody everything that's pure about the music, not only by surviving everything the lifestyle has offered him, but by revelling in all its danger and glorious dumbness. Rock and roll has produced many unique individuals, but few are in the same class as Iggy Pop.
0 kommentar(er)
