A reminiscence on the nights, afternoons, and very early mornings where we felt like nothing else in the world even vaguely mattered. You will have your own gigs that you reckon we should have been at. These are the experiences of musicians, photographers, journalists, Double J listeners, and our own team.
These aren't the 50 best gigs that ever happened. Gigs that helped shape us as music lovers and, in some cases, as people. These are the shows that have stuck in our minds and that we continually rave about to friends. We've put together a list of 50 gigs that you should have been at. The past few years have reminded us just how vital live music is for our wellbeing. It's about the people we're with, the stage in life we're at, the anticipation in the weeks leading up and, sometimes, just the feeling in the air. It can lift our spirits like nothing else, and the joy it brings can stick with us for years.Ī great show goes well beyond the setlist, or quality of musicianship on stage. Live music is a mysterious and powerful force. The ACL sessions also saw Iggy performing Post Pop Depression’s closing track, “Paraguay.From superstars in stadiums to locals in tiny bars, these 50 concerts changed us forever. Homme, along with members of Queens Of The Stone Age and Arctic Monkeys backed up Pop for the performance. Iggy’s performance included The Idiot’s “Funtime,” the title track from Lust For Life as well as “China Girl.” Ever the collaborator, Pop had also recently released another album, Post Pop Depression, with Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme. Pop went on to become a highly influential, iconic artist in his own right and performed a number of songs from those fruitful days in Berlin during his 2016 Austin City Limits debut. Iggy also co-wrote a song Bowie would have a hit with in 1983, “China Girl.” It seemed that the music world had finally caught up with Iggy Pop. Both albums arrived in 1977 in the height of punk rock’s heyday and were well-recieved. In 1977, Pop signed to RCA and Bowie helped him write and produce two albums that launched Iggy’s solo career in earnest, The Idiot and Lust For Life.
Iggy, however, continued his collaborative relationship with Bowie and both artists relocated to West Berlin in the mid-1970s, which was a productive time for Pop and Bowie and also saw them cleaning up. Bowie, no stranger to subverting norms himself, would oversee the reunification of The Stooges and helped produce their 1973 album, Raw Power.īut The Stooges reunion was short-lived and Pop was struggling with heroin addiction. After The Stooges broke up for the first time in 1971, Iggy met another highly influential figure, David Bowie. But this was perhaps largely due to the band being ahead of its time as well as inner turmoils within the group. The Stooges’ 1969 self-titled debut and their now celebrated, seminal 1970 LP Fun House, did not do well commercially. One of the early tenets of punk rock, if there ever were such things, was existing outside the mainstream and The Stooges certainly experienced their share of that. Pop would attend a pair of Doors concerts in his formative years and was inspired by Morrison’s wild stage performance. While The Doors aren’t often called a proto-punk band, nobody at the time was more punk rock than Jim Morrison. But Iggy was also heavily influenced by Jim Morrison and The Doors. The term proto-punk is fascinating as a number bands in the 1960s have had the description tagged to their names, like The Who, The Kinks and more. Pop co-founded proto-punk band The Stooges in 1967. But the legendary frontman has another fitting moniker, The Godfather of Punk.
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