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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even harder to tell how to take what happens next: Iggy and his flunkies play "Raw Power," letting loose enthusiasm genuine and copious. Hard to criticize Iggy performing one of his great songs, and performing it pretty well. And there's the problem, I think. When Iggy was in the Stooges--before they became VH-1 "Behind the Music" material--the Stooges meant something. Sure they were a buncha high school drop-out glue-sniffing losers who made a hellacious garage noise with instruments they could barely play, but they had something to say. Basically: "screw you, I am human...
...suburban Michigan and not meaning shit to anybody, even yourself. That was Iggy 30 years ago; Iggy now is "Behind the Music." So now Iggy's on stage and 50 and performing the same songs he was then. Sure, the band's lousy and thrusts every single great song they perform through a meat grinder which turns'em into generic hard rock, but still: "Raw Power," "Search and Destroy," "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "No Fun," "T.V. Eye," "Lust for Life," "The Passenger," "I Got a Right"--I'd watch him play these songs dead, they're so good...
...songs is boring and bad; he's misogynist and even homophobic and makes stupid asides. He seems embarrassed to be doing this. There's no Iggy here. No point dwelling. Which is not to say j'excuse, but that these are uninteresting and common faults. He turns in a great cover of Jerry Lee Lewis' "Wild One" and encores with unnecessary covers of "Johnny B. Goode" and "Louie Louie." He flails, paracletic. His "ow"s better anyone's. He looks and acts like Iggy. We have had a good time and Iggy has put on a good show...
...ballad, he barely managed to keep a straight face through the second verse. Though the band's musical mix of grungy alt-rock and bouncy hoe-down country would have made for a decent concert by itself, it was their presence and stage antics that made it a truly great, entertaining show. Though the brothers Ween may be known for their adolescent humor and cheap laughs vulgarity, their on-stage satire was surprisingly incisive. At one point the band even asked for the house lights to be brought up and then proceeded to shoot pictures of the audience, bringing into...
...ship itself, progressed through a rendition of every fake farting noise that can be coaxed from the human body and came to a head with an extended lounge jazz breakdown. The Poop Ship never did come through for Ween, but that didn't stop them from delivering a great show for their fans and entertaining the uninitiated. So what if it's all a joke...