Words of wisdom by Alan Vega
“This guy with blond bangs [Iggy Pop] – who looked like Brian Jones – came out onstage and at first I thought he was a chick. He had on torn dungarees and these ridiculous-looking loafers. He was just wild looking – staring at the crowd and going, ‘Fuck you!, Fuck you!’ Then the Stooges launched into one of their songs and the next thing you knew, Iggy was diving off the stage onto the concrete, and cutting himself up with a broken guitar. It wasn´t theatrical, it was theater. Alice Cooper was theatrical, he had all the accoutrements, but Iggy, this was not acting. It was the real thing.
Iggy´s set ended in twenty minutes, and somebody had the fucking genius to play Bach´s “Brandenburg Concerto” through the speaker system. The audience was throwing bottles and roses at him. I swear it was beautiful.
Do you know what I´m saying, man? It changed my life because it made me realize everything I was doing was bullshit.”
– Alan Vega (Suicide) in the early seventies
