The Stooges play Detroit’s Michigan Palace Theatre. It will turn out to be the band’s last gig together before they call it quits.
Prior to the show Iggy Pop gave a radio interview in which he "called on" the Detroit chapter of the Scorpions MC. He allegedly screwed a member's girlfriend and now he wanted tell all about it. Iggy called the club a bunch of fuckin' rats. The club showed up and pelts the band with broken glass, beer bottles full of urine, eggs, ice, jelly beans, and shovels (yeah, I said shovels). Undeterred, Iggy continues to taunt the crowd/the club, “You pricks can throw everything in the world… your girlfriend will still love me.”
The band feeds off the crowd’s anger and continues to play. Iggy finally tells the crowd, “All right you assholes, wanna hear Louie, Louie? We’ll give you Louie. Louie, ” The Stooges then went on to play a forty-five-minute version of the Kingsmen classic, which includes improvised lyrics by Pop, in which he continues his verbal assault on the club.
The show finally ends after Iggy Pop focused his attention on one particular Scorpion heckler (believed to be the girl's boyfriend) and said: “Listen, asshole, you heckle me one more time and I’m gonna come down there and kick your ass.” The biker told Pop to come on down, so Iggy jumped off the stage and confronted him. The biker beat the living crap out of Iggy, putting an end to the evening's festivities.
The concert was captured live on a reel-to-reel tape machine and in 1976, The Stooges released the recording in an album titled Metallic K.O. It is thought to be the only rock album where you can hear beer bottles breaking against guitar strings. The album remains a favorite among Iggy Pop/Stooges fans.
The band feeds off the crowd’s anger and continues to play. Iggy finally tells the crowd, “All right you assholes, wanna hear Louie, Louie? We’ll give you Louie. Louie, ” The Stooges then went on to play a forty-five-minute version of the Kingsmen classic, which includes improvised lyrics by Pop, in which he continues his verbal assault on the club.
The show finally ends after Iggy Pop focused his attention on one particular Scorpion heckler (believed to be the girl's boyfriend) and said: “Listen, asshole, you heckle me one more time and I’m gonna come down there and kick your ass.” The biker told Pop to come on down, so Iggy jumped off the stage and confronted him. The biker beat the living crap out of Iggy, putting an end to the evening's festivities.
The concert was captured live on a reel-to-reel tape machine and in 1976, The Stooges released the recording in an album titled Metallic K.O. It is thought to be the only rock album where you can hear beer bottles breaking against guitar strings. The album remains a favorite among Iggy Pop/Stooges fans.
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