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...pair of blue jeans occasionally flashing one pallid cheek to the congregation. As he crooned in a raspy baritone, he slid one hand into his pocket and drew out an enormous Bowie knife, which he held to the guitarist's throat in a skinnyboned imitation of a hard-ass punk. After picking his teeth with the knife, the Boy tired of that toy, only to pick out a new one for the next number: a pink plastic pleasure machine, with which he caressed his bony pelvis in mock ecstasy between stanzas. As the set ended, the star slithered...
Rock audiences are no longer stunned by such performances, and Iggy Pop has a great deal to do with acclimating the public into this easy acceptance of the sensational. Ten years ago, Iggy and his Ann Arbor band, the Stooges, launched their careers and the genre of punk rock with a blend of nihilism and unheard-of histrionics. Iggy vomited on stage, stabbed himself with pencils, burned his skin with hot wax, flung himself onto broken glass and even leaped off the stage to harass the audience physically. Like a modern Dadaist, Iggy's style was confrontation, and his musical...
...without a record release, Iggy has turned toward greater musical sophistication and less emphasis on his once-anarchistic style. Collaborating with David Bowie (a close friend whom he accompanied on Bowie's 1975 American tour), Iggy has produced The Idiot, an album that blends the monotonic deadpan style of punk rock with electronic innovation. The same persona haunts this recording--an alienated soul tormented by nightmares and melancholy, ears buzzing with the constant drone of sameness--but the addition of Bowie as the chief composer gives this desolate voice a richer resonance...
Infant bands with no gold records, foreign groups on their first trip through L.A. and all teen-agers (punk rock) belong strictly to the C list, centered at a sticky-floored club called the Starwood. An unstated rule restricts them to the east end of the Strip until they mature or succeed...
Television: Marquee Moon (Elektra/Asylum). This group was one of the first, and is certainly the best exponent of punk rock. Its home is CBGB. a grotty Bowery bar that now exemplifies Lower Manhattan chic. There Tom Verlaine, who writes Television's lyrics, delivers raw, jabbing vocals in a declamatory, prepsychotic style similar to Patti Smith's. It is Richard Lloyd's nervy, blues-tinged guitar, however, that gives this band its distinctive sound. Lloyd has the potential to become a major spokesman for rock guitar. Joan Downs