In the past seven to 10 years, Pop says things have "gotten to be where they're really very nice," affording him a comfortable home on a walled, acre-sized property filled with trees. People, instead of coming up to you and saying 'You owe me $40!' - they're coming up and saying to me 'You're great, you changed my life.' " "I'm still experiencing for the first time things that my contemporaries were experiencing when they were in their late 20s and finally making it in rock 'n' roll. "Emotionally, I've been kind of lucky, maybe, that I didn't really begin to get worldly success until later in life," says Pop, born James Newell Osterberg Jr. This time around, age has settled in for their manic frontman, but so has a new prosperity that sees the rock 'n' roll guru, sometime actor and pop culture icon more famous today than he ever was. They were soon joined by "Fun House" saxophonist Steve MacKay.
Brothers Ron and Scott Asheton reformed the band in 2003 with Mike Watt on bass. It's been a long road from the Stooges' drug-fuelled days in the late '60s and '70s, when a life of excess eventually tore the band apart and contributed to the death of original bassist Dave Alexander in 1975. "I do everything my mom used to tell me to do, I'm just 50 years too late," he says, cackling during a telephone interview from his memorabilia-packed office.
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The wild recklessness of his youth is well documented, but these days Pop is drug-free, with a regular workout regime that centres on 40 minutes a day of qigong, a series of movement and breathing exercises akin to tai chi. You basically get a funereal experience disguised as fun." But the basic idea is to try to deliver something other than a corpse, basically, which is what I find at most rock shows. "Gosh, I don't climb the 30-foot speaker stack anymore - you do what you can do, you know. "I do as much as I can do," Pop says in a deep, gravelly voice from his home in Miami. Despite that, the veteran rocker, along with his band the Stooges, heads to Canada this weekend for a couple of shows in Montreal and Toronto with promises he'll offer more than most performers half his years can muster. TORONTO - Punk pioneer Iggy Pop is legendary for his live shows - a frenetic explosion of energy in which his wiry, half-naked frame shoots across the stage and back again, with an occasional trip to the edge of the stage to berate a lethargic onlooker.īut Pop, now 61, says the unbridled frenzy of his youth has been tamed with sobriety and age.
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