Twin Cities Music Highlights

Iggy and the Stooges

May 9, 1971

 Opened by the Litter.

Little Richard was originally scheduled, but his tour was cancelled.

Poster from the collection of Mark Freiseis
Iggy Pop photo copyright Mike Barich, St. Paul

Jeff G says Iggy “had a hundred foot cord on his mic and things got kinda scary when he ventured out into the crowd and got right into our faces before climbing up the wall onto the second floor.” Reviewer Michael Anthony cited “interminable setting-up problems and much hand-clapping from the audience,” but finally out came Iggy: “topless, frosted hair, lips painted, sequined, greased body.” Here’s more of Michael’s review:

Iggy’s act makes Mick Jagger look like Rudy Vallee. He minces, prances, crawls on the floor, and turns his long pouting lips to the audience. He works mainly in the audience, falling, shoving, jumping on the back bar and up onto the balcony and occasionally singing. Looking from the balcony, with Iggy below, the people mobbed around him, clapping, it looked like Friday night in Haiti. Forty-five minutes after they began, the other Stooges, mightily bored, walked off the stage and Iggy got up off the floor, climbed on stage and walked off.

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