As you may recall, I have a sadistic appreciation for the greatest of all mid-performances failures:
rockers falling off stage. So, I'm really quite miffed to have let aged punk Godfather Iggy Pop's latest entry into the pantheon of rocker vs. gravity failures slip past my radar until now. The incident occurred at last month's Tibet House benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. Pop pulled a Moses, parting the crowd as he heaved himself into an orchestra pit of journos and photographers who, despite lauding him for decades, failed to support him physically. That small collection of craven concert-goers have unwittingly fucked things up for those of us who would've caught the
recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, as Pop has just
told Rolling Stone's Austin Scaggs:
When I landed, it hurt, and I made a mental note that Carnegie Hall would be a good place for my last stage dive.
So, in addition to The Stooges continuing to tour, in spite of
guitarist Ron Asheton's death, audiences won't even get take part in Iggy's trademark in-your-arms disregard of the fourth wall? That's shitty.
