Aside from the New York band Velvet Underground and fellow Ann Arborites the MC5, few rock bands could have prepared listeners for the Stooges' brand of potent, feedback-edged guitar crunch. The Stooges made their live debut on Halloween in 1967 and made no haste in raising the eyebrows of local rock fans. Christening himself Iggy Stooge, Pop then joined brothers Ron and Scott Asheton, who played guitar and drums respectively, and bassist Dave Alexander to form the Stooges. He moved to the South Side of Chicago in 1966 to take in that city's rich blues scene but returned to Ann Arbor the following year. As a teenager, the disenchanted Pop played drums in a garage band called the Iguanas, and after dropping out of the University of Michigan, in a blues band called the Prime Movers. Iggy Pop, born James Jewel Osterberg, grew up in a trailer park in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. By the mid-1980s, Pop impressed listeners once again with a string of albums that were still angst-ridden, if somewhat slicker than before. However, by the end of the decade it seemed to many that Pop had begun to mellow, and had been eclipsed by the very decadent thrash of punk rock that the Stooges had helped inspire. After the Stooges dissolved in the early 1970s, Pop went on to create a number of striking solo albums with the aid of British pop innovator David Bowie. Although never a major commercial draw, the Stooges' influence on later generations is inestimable. Often dubbed "the godfather of punk rock" by critics and fans, singer Iggy Pop became an immediate cult figure in the late 1960s as a member of the Stooges, a boundary-breaking rock band known for its ear-splitting guitars and nihilistic attitude. Addresses: Record company-Virgin, 30 west 21st Street, New York, NY 10010. Born James Jewel Osterberg, April 21, 1947, in Ann Arbor, MI.
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