Tom Snyder was one of the few interviewers who actually has a conversation,he's not just waiting to make a dumbass joke from what ever the guest says. He's genuinely interested.He also is a free-thinker,very rare in t.v.
watch his interview with charles manson, he’s literally the opposite of what you said. hes such an arrogant asshole who constantly interrupts manson and acts like a rude know it all
who gives af about any of these fools...yep 13 years ago i had some regard for Tom. I am guessing you are fond of Charlie STATE SPONSORED FOOL NUMBER 1. Real Convicted Felons do not get to go on tv interviews year after year after year, not fucking allowed. Charlies has about 24 interviews, knee to knee with Geraldo laugh out loud, NOT ALLOWED. Only consumers of everything fall for this shit.
I diggy Iggy but right now I'm feeling more sentimental for quality TV like the Tom Snyder show! An interview like this is not possible on american TV today. Thank you for the great post!
"Schmoozing with Tom Snyder"? Hell, Tom Snyder was one of the only American TV talk show hosts who would even consider showcasing the likes of Iggy, John Lydon, The Clash, et al., let alone actually having them on his show. Props to him.
I dug when he spoke of influences. Cab Calloway, Muddy Water and others. Tom Snyder said those artist are considered more main stream. Iggy says " not at the time they weren't". It is so ironic and as someone who attended many Iggy Pop performances the main stream wouldn't touch Iggy with a 10 foot pole back then. Now he is selling everything from Carnival Cruse Lines to Puma running shoes. You hear Iggy's music everywhere even shopping at JC Penny.Good on ya Iggy,A thriving Rock&Roll surviver!
I don't know why everyone talks shit on Tom Snyder. He asks legitimate questions to these people and isn't condescending. Most of the guests I've seen on his show had a certain shock value and were seen as juvenile or misunderstood in their time and he confronts them about how they feel about being labeled as this. He asks the questions in a very unbiased way.
Vic Morrow Chick vic gave a great performance as the brando heavy in blackboard jungle 1955 which had a star studded cast including sid portier, glenn ford, anne francis, jamie farr, richard kiley and played rock around the clock by bill haley. he was also in king creole with elvis and combat and the fugitive were my fathers fave shows. memories. tom was great.
lonehorseman09 I love 'The Blackboard Jungle'. Morrow just walked right in and beat out Steve McQueen and John Cassavetes for the role. When you're an unknown who beat two established actors you know you're good.
great interview. this is how interviews should be conducted. spur of the moment dialogue, hard pressing questions, and honest, uncensored answers. no note cards just fucking dialogue between two very respectable people. Excellent, excellent.
Ecstasy he peaked right as the interview started but he plowed on through, the professional he is Snyder got him speaking on subjects he enjoyed while he plateaued and relaxed he's perspiring and out of breath, classic signs my friends
Two guys who are just SO real. I have so much respect for them both. I wish I'd been alive when Tom Snyder was on the air, I would've watched his show religiously. He truly wants to get into people's minds. I love this interview and the one he did with the clash - he's not trying to perpetuate the stereotypes their fans, detractors or even themselves have...He wants to break that stuff down and really understand and help his audience understand their motives.
Hey, I think this was actually a good iggy interview. One of the best I've seen. See, I've seen a heap of Iggy interviews and read his biography, but I still can't overly relate to him, personally. On stage though, he is one of the greatest performers ever. Absolutely amazing. And the stooges were just another world. It blows my mind that it was all thought of.
Incidentally, I have to kinda take back my remarks about Iggy's appearance. I only just now realized that the missing tooth was from Iggy deliberately bashing his mouth with the mic during the performance that preceded the interview. He still looks pretty worn out, but the missing tooth was what really made him look like a fucked up hobo.
Iggy,Iggy how you rock so raw. I saw Iggy perform when he first started touring again in 1977. His concert was great and the Ramones opened for him. They too were great. How music has changed. I wish there was a time machine to relive those days. And boy is he hot, still today! He still puts on a great show up to the present. I hope when I am 60 I can move like that rare creature.
Decrepit? No. Reduced to schmoozing with Tom Snyder? Come on...! I love this interview. Tom Snyder, in my humble opinion was a great interviewer. Ziggy was great here. Funny, honest, and engaging. He is just being himself. I loved this interview!
Iggy was such a class act! And Tom was cool to see him for the genius he really is . There are two sides to every coin, and we usually just get one side from the media these days. That sucks!
@23Henrich Haha, yeah the interview with John Lydon (and Keith Levene) is legendary : ) Have you seen the interview he did with John Lydon a few years later? I think you can find it here on youtube.
Considering that Americans invented punk rock, I'd say that they have a pretty good grasp of it. But in the US, it's always been more of an underground phenomenon that influences pop culture without getting credit, whereas in the UK it was a huge mainstream movement and even bands like Discharge got on the charts.
Hey Steve(or whoever wrote this description):Iggy did look pretty "decrepit" around this period but not because ha had a smack habit, although @this point he was a heavy drinker. As far as his albums being soulless during the 80s I disagree;"New Values" & "Soldier" were both great albums & theres even some good tracks on "Party"...so FU!
I like the albums that you mentioned, even "Zombie Birdhouse" had some cool tracks like Run Like A Villain and Eat or be Eaten. I even liked his contribution with David Bowie on "Blah Blah Blah"; Bowie produced the album and wrote most of the music, I believe. BBB is Iggy's most well known and successful solo album, despite being straight up 80's synth-pop.
I know what you mean. I don't like how in the video description it says Iggy's reduced. Iggy Pop has never been reduced or forced to do anything. It also implies that he was washed up or something at the point of this interview, which is also total BULLSHIT! Iggy is immortally cool and will NEVER be washed up!
Nice one! I saw him backing the Pistols (imagine Iggy backing anyone?!?) in London years ago. One of the very best gigs I ever saw! I even got to touch him! Enjoy it mate. Will be one to remember!
gah.. I love Jim. He is a very cool guy, I know he was down and dirty for much of his life but thankfully he pulled out of it. I remember my best friend Kris and I taking him to Dennys on Sunset after a night out at the Whiskey and he was nodding out in his pie. We literally had to carry him out and take him home that was when he was living next to the Hyatt in the pink apts. It was a cold night must have been winter cuz he begged me to wear my long afghan fur coat. You Rock Jim!
So many of the great artists of my youth crashed and burned, glad to see Iggy Pop is alive and well today and smart as ever. Tom Snyder was a great interviewer, I think he was often better than Cavett and never patronizing or condescending.
Brilliant. A fav on my page and a look all kids should watch. He actually has a bit of brains and its refreshing to see Iggy conduct himself v the stage persona.
An exellent interview Iggy is the BOMB Im so glad his music is accepted as mainstream now I hope he is happy and content.. Saw the Stooges at the St Claire Shores Civic arena with Catfish Hodge . Too cool
@FungusMossGnosis Absolutely! Tom didn't always "get it", but he was open-minded, for the most part. First place I ever saw Adam & the Ants was on Snyder's show, and that was when almost no one in the US had heard of them. Tom was brilliant.
you really have to consider the time this was recorded. punk music was considered a threat to civil society. at this time, david bowie was considered scary to parents. iggy may have been on smack, but it wasn't a low point in iggy's career to be on tom snyder. he was also on dinah shore, with bowie, in 1977. they were promoting his album "the idiot", which is one of his best releases.
I love how endearing and sincere he is even though he seems high and/or exhausted from his performance. I'm glad he eventually sobered up. Everything in moderation. The way he appears in this clip is both saddening and endearing.
i love how norm macdonald did a callback to tom snyder's extreme close up technique of making someone looks even hobo and crazier looking on his video podcast with David Letterman
@PoorlyMadeFilms YOU, my friend, get it. I see so many clueless remarks about Snyder on UA-cam -- people who think they're so punk or whatever can't get past his hairdo or some such. But he did exactly as you said: dug deep for the truth.
Iggy had a lot of accidents on stage. Check out the interview Dinah Shore did with him when he performed Fun Time. He talked about his parents paying to replace his teeth. Iggy's basically nuts! Gotta love him.
SD, some of his best "commercial" music came from this era. 5"1 was awesome. Bang bang was also great. His tour with the Plasmatics was arguably his best.
@DrDespicable Of course, I agree; and I'll also say that Tom's show was often the first place I saw a deeper side to people who were already well known in America. His show was certainly more playful than Charlie Rose's hour, and I'd say more interesting on the whole.
RIP Tom Snyder, consummate professional and professional raconteur. God, he was great. Iggy is royally f-ed up here, and Tom treats him like he's lucid and making sense. Iggy IS making sense, in his own unique f-ed up Iggy way. Priceless.
Pretty good interview. I don't get all the people whining about Tom Snyder not being "respectful". What - was he supposed to do lines with Iggy and only ask fanzine trivia? Tom is responsible for bringing some of the neatest non-mainstream people into the Network Tv format. I'll take this over MTV any day.
Iggy has without a doubt "PAID HIS DUES" and deserves alot of respect for his talent and enduring misery for many years becuz "heroin" is only "fun" in the beginning!Then it's misery&suffering,and if the person knew what to expect from that addiction,they would of never came close to trying it!Cuz there is not a person nor Dr. alive or dead that can or could've described it in words or terms to make a person understand what they're in for&to deter them from ever trying it if it ever comes down their path! We are lucky we didn't lose Iggy on the way!!!!!!!!
Iggy Pop wasnt in a fucked up state in this interview, he was 33 here and had not toiched drink or drugs for 3 years. He was just being himself plus he had just finished performing, maybe thats why he seems lile he's high, becauae of the natural high one gets when they perform.
It's interesting that both Iggy and Alice (who's careers have often paralleled, except, as Alice even once pointed out, Iggy was street and Alice was showbiz) gave odd, walking wreck (read: inebriated) interviews on the Tom Snyder show.
Exactly WTF is wrong with people who are asking 'what's wrong with Iggy?', like they have no idea about the guy in his 'early' career...ask me, despite the drugs running through him in this interview he's more articulate / interesting than most fucks I know / meet everyday...Great video...
Snyder isn't condescending in this clip. My point was that he's only acting civil here because Iggy had gone out of his way to suck up to the rock establishment, and was therefore considered by Snyder to be established and "respectable". He initiated hostile exchanges with a lot of the punk rock guests during the string of punk interviews he was forced to do. That's what was so funny about the PIL interview. He didn't do anything to them, but he did have it coming.
Tom Synder at 0:45: "But, but, but, but, but..." Hey, Tom, Interviewing 101 teaches us that you don't interrupt your guest like that. You let him finish, and THEN you say what you want to say.
Tom Snyder has been very good to underground rock musicians. He willingly played the part of straight man journalist to their benefit. He gave a forum to many acts that were not mainstream in the least. Many think of TS negatively because of the Dan Ayckroyd impersonation, but to me, he was the new Dick Clark.
@firstcat Exactly. He was one of the only hosts in America back then, that would feature punk and new wave acts. He always gave them a fair shake, and as much as i like Lydon, he should have found someone else to give his routine to.
Does anyone have the remainder of the show with 5 foot 1 performance? Love the interview. Miss the Snyder show - it was spontaneous and fun. Iggy is brilliant,beautiful and an original. Those eyes!
Iggy Pop makes me wince at the fact that 99% of contemporary pop musicians are inarticulate buffoons. But then I will often shrug that off and bask in his commentary... Shine on!
I've never used drugs but any time I have finished playing on stage I probably seemed high as shit. I used to go into a totally different state of consciousness when singing live.
I give Tom Snyder credit - he interviewed Iggy Pop, The Clash, Kiss and U2 (among others). He tried to capture what the public was interested in at the time. However, you can tell he's indifferent to it and somewhat baffled by what "today's kids" were into. Snyder came from the get married and sit up straight generation. Everything that happened once the Beatles arrived has mystified people like him.
actually, toward the end he was. i saw him do a george gershwin tribute. and he always DID seem to be rooted in the ethos of the big band era (hiding his electric keyboards behind a huge grand piano).
Tom Snyder was the shit, smoking like a chimney and NO ONE can replace him, I remember him so frigin well watched him all the time as a youngun NOW I know Why I am addicted to Talk Radio such as Art Bell, c2c, Andy Dean(who is a DICK sometimes) and others. Iggy Pop is just so interesting, just like David Icke. Cheers to Old Tom Snyder!!!
Tom Snyder was one of the few interviewers who actually has a conversation,he's not just waiting to make a dumbass joke from what ever the guest says.
He's genuinely interested.He also is a free-thinker,very rare in t.v.
watch his interview with charles manson, he’s literally the opposite of what you said. hes such an arrogant asshole who constantly interrupts manson and acts like a rude know it all
who gives af about any of these fools...yep 13 years ago i had some regard for Tom.
I am guessing you are fond of Charlie STATE SPONSORED FOOL NUMBER 1.
Real Convicted Felons do not get to go on tv interviews year after year after year, not fucking allowed. Charlies has about 24 interviews, knee to knee with Geraldo laugh out loud, NOT ALLOWED. Only consumers of everything fall for this shit.
The Tomorrow show Tom Snyder I miss that show
I diggy Iggy but right now I'm feeling more sentimental for quality TV like the Tom Snyder show! An interview like this is not possible on american TV today. Thank you for the great post!
Loved it when he reminded Snyder that he'd started as a weatherman
"Schmoozing with Tom Snyder"? Hell, Tom Snyder was one of the only American TV talk show hosts who would even consider showcasing the likes of Iggy, John Lydon, The Clash, et al., let alone actually having them on his show. Props to him.
I dug when he spoke of influences. Cab Calloway, Muddy Water and others. Tom Snyder said those artist are considered more main stream. Iggy says " not at the time they weren't".
It is so ironic and as someone who attended many Iggy Pop performances the main stream wouldn't touch Iggy with a 10 foot pole back then. Now he is selling everything from Carnival Cruse Lines to Puma running shoes. You hear Iggy's music everywhere even shopping at JC Penny.Good on ya Iggy,A thriving Rock&Roll surviver!
"Why are you bleeding?"
"Oh, 'cuz I'm on your show."
LOL Iggy, you jokester, you!
I love the way he out smarts Snyder! Sir iggy always keepin it real
I don't know why everyone talks shit on Tom Snyder. He asks legitimate questions to these people and isn't condescending. Most of the guests I've seen on his show had a certain shock value and were seen as juvenile or misunderstood in their time and he confronts them about how they feel about being labeled as this. He asks the questions in a very unbiased way.
Grey Haas good point. i don't like
him because of his Charles Manson interview. he was a cunt.
Honestly, there's alot of shitheads in that business, but tom syder always rented hi guests with respect. Rip
i failed grade 9 cause of the first year of the tom snyder show-and it was worth it. 1973 to 1981 rip.
I can't get enough of him. His voice, his laugh and his smile have done me in.
Vic Morrow Chick vic gave a great performance as the brando heavy in blackboard jungle 1955 which had a star studded cast including sid portier, glenn ford, anne francis, jamie farr, richard kiley and played rock around the clock by bill haley. he was also in king creole with elvis and combat and the fugitive were my fathers fave shows. memories. tom was great.
lonehorseman09 I love 'The Blackboard Jungle'. Morrow just walked right in and beat out Steve McQueen and John Cassavetes for the role. When you're an unknown who beat two established actors you know you're good.
I have 'King Creole' and all 5 seasons of "Combat!" on DVD as well as many other of Morrow's movies and TV shows.
great interview. this is how interviews should be conducted. spur of the moment dialogue, hard pressing questions, and honest, uncensored answers. no note cards just fucking dialogue between two very respectable people. Excellent, excellent.
Ecstasy
he peaked right as the interview started but he plowed on through, the professional he is
Snyder got him speaking on subjects he enjoyed while he plateaued and relaxed
he's perspiring and out of breath, classic signs my friends
Tom may think Iggy is a low-life, but Iggy's the one explaining Nietzsche to him.
I don't believe Tom thought that at all. Tom was the rare interviewer who seems to respect artists and their intelligence.
Two guys who are just SO real. I have so much respect for them both. I wish I'd been alive when Tom Snyder was on the air, I would've watched his show religiously. He truly wants to get into people's minds. I love this interview and the one he did with the clash - he's not trying to perpetuate the stereotypes their fans, detractors or even themselves have...He wants to break that stuff down and really understand and help his audience understand their motives.
only true artists will get this video.
this is the not only the the greatest interview , this the greatest ..thing i've ever seen. this is a masterpiece , period
Hey, I think this was actually a good iggy interview. One of the best I've seen. See, I've seen a heap of Iggy interviews and read his biography, but I still can't overly relate to him, personally. On stage though, he is one of the greatest performers ever. Absolutely amazing. And the stooges were just another world. It blows my mind that it was all thought of.
Tom Snyder's Tomorrow was great TV. This is an example.
Incidentally, I have to kinda take back my remarks about Iggy's appearance. I only just now realized that the missing tooth was from Iggy deliberately bashing his mouth with the mic during the performance that preceded the interview. He still looks pretty worn out, but the missing tooth was what really made him look like a fucked up hobo.
"Why are you bleeding?"
"Because I'm on your show."
Greatness.
One of the most beautiful smiles :D
Iggy,Iggy how you rock so raw. I saw Iggy perform when he first started touring again in 1977. His concert was great and the Ramones opened for him. They too were great. How music has changed. I wish there was a time machine to relive those days. And boy is he hot, still today! He still puts on a great show up to the present. I hope when I am 60 I can move like that rare creature.
Finally found an interview with Iggy! Poor thing with the tooth! He sure is amazing! I'm glad people finally are giving him the credit he deserves.
he's terrifying to the general public because hes honest to himself. he is an artist. forgive him. his work stands the test of time. a true pioneer.
Decrepit? No. Reduced to schmoozing with Tom Snyder? Come on...! I love this interview. Tom Snyder, in my humble opinion was a great interviewer. Ziggy was great here. Funny, honest, and engaging. He is just being himself. I loved this interview!
He knocked out his tooth with the mic? I met Iggy in the 70's - super nice guy, very polite and articulate.
Most dont know, iggy was a popular jock in high school, voted most popular and most likely to succeed at pioneer high in a2
Iggy was such a class act! And Tom was cool to see him for the genius he really is . There are two sides to every coin, and we usually just get one side from the media these days. That sucks!
He told one interviewer that the one thing he enjoyed the most was going down to Carolina for a month every summer & golfing with his dad.
He certainly looks better today than 34 years ago. Insane.
I bet back when I was a kid Jim Carrey would have done an amazing Iggy impression.
The 90s were funny
Thanks for this. Every life has a rough patch, looks like this was his. Your text intro was great too.
i love tom because he never judged and was genuinely interested
@23Henrich Haha, yeah the interview with John Lydon (and Keith Levene) is legendary : ) Have you seen the interview he did with John Lydon a few years later? I think you can find it here on youtube.
"I'm quite happy to be me" Words of wisdom Iggy.
this was great.
thanks to whoever posted it.
Great interview. Best line "i'd rather have fun than anything else"
THANKS made my day.
Considering that Americans invented punk rock, I'd say that they have a pretty good grasp of it. But in the US, it's always been more of an underground phenomenon that influences pop culture without getting credit, whereas in the UK it was a huge mainstream movement and even bands like Discharge got on the charts.
Hey Steve(or whoever wrote this description):Iggy did look pretty "decrepit" around this period but not because ha had a smack habit, although @this point he was a heavy drinker. As far as his albums being soulless during the 80s I disagree;"New Values" & "Soldier" were both great albums & theres even some good tracks on "Party"...so FU!
I like the albums that you mentioned, even "Zombie Birdhouse" had some cool tracks like Run Like A Villain and Eat or be Eaten.
I even liked his contribution with David Bowie on "Blah Blah Blah"; Bowie produced the album and wrote most of the music, I believe. BBB is Iggy's most well known and successful solo album, despite being straight up 80's synth-pop.
I saw the 100 Tom Snyders play in Dallas. They were amazing.
What a great interview, thanks for posting it!
I know what you mean. I don't like how in the video description it says Iggy's reduced. Iggy Pop has never been reduced or forced to do anything. It also implies that he was washed up or something at the point of this interview, which is also total BULLSHIT! Iggy is immortally cool and will NEVER be washed up!
well said... that's what i love the very most about iggy... heartbreaking sincerity...
Nice one!
I saw him backing the Pistols (imagine Iggy backing anyone?!?) in London years ago. One of the very best gigs I ever saw!
I even got to touch him!
Enjoy it mate. Will be one to remember!
I saw one of his shows in that era. When I watched this a few minutes ago, I laughed so hard I remembered my age.
gah.. I love Jim. He is a very cool guy, I know he was down and dirty for much of his life but thankfully he pulled out of it. I remember my best friend Kris and I taking him to Dennys on Sunset after a night out at the Whiskey and he was nodding out in his pie. We literally had to carry him out and take him home that was when he was living next to the Hyatt in the pink apts. It was a cold night must have been winter cuz he begged me to wear my long afghan fur coat. You Rock Jim!
Agree, I wish the person who posted that would rename it -- that may be his view, but not that of those of us who love Iggy.
So many of the great artists of my youth crashed and burned, glad to see Iggy Pop is alive and well today and smart as ever. Tom Snyder was a great interviewer, I think he was often better than Cavett and never patronizing or condescending.
Brilliant. A fav on my page and a look all kids should watch. He actually has a bit of brains and its refreshing to see Iggy conduct himself v the stage persona.
An exellent interview Iggy is the BOMB Im so glad his music is accepted as mainstream now I hope he is happy and content.. Saw the Stooges at the St Claire Shores Civic arena with Catfish Hodge . Too cool
@FungusMossGnosis Absolutely! Tom didn't always "get it", but he was open-minded, for the most part. First place I ever saw Adam & the Ants was on Snyder's show, and that was when almost no one in the US had heard of them. Tom was brilliant.
you really have to consider the time this was recorded. punk music was considered a threat to civil society. at this time, david bowie was considered scary to parents. iggy may have been on smack, but it wasn't a low point in iggy's career to be on tom snyder. he was also on dinah shore, with bowie, in 1977. they were promoting his album "the idiot", which is one of his best releases.
I love how endearing and sincere he is even though he seems high and/or exhausted from his performance. I'm glad he eventually sobered up. Everything in moderation. The way he appears in this clip is both saddening and endearing.
I was thinking the same thing, as he glossed over that one!
i love how norm macdonald did a callback to tom snyder's extreme close up technique of making someone looks even hobo and crazier looking on his video podcast with David Letterman
@PoorlyMadeFilms YOU, my friend, get it. I see so many clueless remarks about Snyder on UA-cam -- people who think they're so punk or whatever can't get past his hairdo or some such. But he did exactly as you said: dug deep for the truth.
Snyder's was an awesome, eye-opening show--especially if you were a kid at the time.
Tom Snyder seriously thought Sun Ra was "conventional?"
This man is gawgeous.
I was talking about Igygy, but yes, sure.
Nice job, keep it up. New music from Brandon Jarod coming soon, great sounds!
Gotta love it!!! Takin' it so far. These were the days when Rock n' Roll stood for something.
-Meatgrinder
(The rock n' roll puppet)
Iggy had a lot of accidents on stage. Check out the interview Dinah Shore did with him when he performed Fun Time. He talked about his parents paying to replace his teeth. Iggy's basically nuts! Gotta love him.
Iggy pop ordinary bummer from zombie birdhouse IS my favorite song of them all!( yes ,i know,bad grammar)...the lyrics sum it all up for me.
SD, some of his best "commercial" music came from this era. 5"1 was awesome. Bang bang was also great. His tour with the Plasmatics was arguably his best.
@DrDespicable
Of course, I agree; and I'll also say that Tom's show was often the first place I saw a deeper side to people who were already well known in America. His show was certainly more playful than Charlie Rose's hour, and I'd say more interesting on the whole.
RIP Tom Snyder, consummate professional and professional raconteur. God, he was great. Iggy is royally f-ed up here, and Tom treats him like he's lucid and making sense. Iggy IS making sense, in his own unique f-ed up Iggy way. Priceless.
Pretty good interview. I don't get all the people whining about Tom Snyder not being "respectful". What - was he supposed to do lines with Iggy and only ask fanzine trivia? Tom is responsible for bringing some of the neatest non-mainstream people into the Network Tv format. I'll take this over MTV any day.
oops! I didn't mean to use 'today' twice in one sentence! Ignore the poor syntax!
Iggy has without a doubt "PAID HIS DUES" and deserves alot of respect for his talent and enduring misery for many years becuz "heroin" is only "fun" in the beginning!Then it's misery&suffering,and if the person knew what to expect from that addiction,they would of never came close to trying it!Cuz there is not a person nor Dr. alive or dead that can or could've described it in words or terms to make a person understand what they're in for&to deter them from ever trying it if it ever comes down their path! We are lucky we didn't lose Iggy on the way!!!!!!!!
Thanks :)
Iggy Pop wasnt in a fucked up state in this interview, he was 33 here and had not toiched drink or drugs for 3 years. He was just being himself plus he had just finished performing, maybe thats why he seems lile he's high, becauae of the natural high one gets when they perform.
I didn't know a ripped dude with a 10" hog could be considered decrepit?
Way ahead of his time....most still don't get it and never will. Thank GOD !
Iggy and Lemmy are the eternal men of the universe. They'll still be playing long after every one of us is dead and rotten.
It's interesting that both Iggy and Alice (who's careers have often paralleled, except, as Alice even once pointed out, Iggy was street and Alice was showbiz) gave odd, walking wreck (read: inebriated) interviews on the Tom Snyder show.
Exactly WTF is wrong with people who are asking 'what's wrong with Iggy?', like they have no idea about the guy in his 'early' career...ask me, despite the drugs running through him in this interview he's more articulate / interesting than most fucks I know / meet everyday...Great video...
Snyder isn't condescending in this clip. My point was that he's only acting civil here because Iggy had gone out of his way to suck up to the rock establishment, and was therefore considered by Snyder to be established and "respectable". He initiated hostile exchanges with a lot of the punk rock guests during the string of punk interviews he was forced to do. That's what was so funny about the PIL interview. He didn't do anything to them, but he did have it coming.
Tom Synder at 0:45: "But, but, but, but, but..." Hey, Tom, Interviewing 101 teaches us that you don't interrupt your guest like that. You let him finish, and THEN you say what you want to say.
The Tom Snyder interview with the classic KISS line-up is classic...an extremely stoned Ace Frehley alone is worth watching it, for the pure hilarity.
I agree completely, glad someone can see this.
Tom Snyder has been very good to underground rock musicians. He willingly played the part of straight man journalist to their benefit. He gave a forum to many acts that were not mainstream in the least. Many think of TS negatively because of the Dan Ayckroyd impersonation, but to me, he was the new Dick Clark.
this footage is a perfect anti-heroin advert lol...
Five foot 1 was my introduction to Iggy, great little upbeat riff and clever, amusing lyrics 👍
Iggy, not in his sharpest moment. But he's still a genius.
@firstcat Exactly. He was one of the only hosts in America back then, that would feature punk and new wave acts. He always gave them a fair shake, and as much as i like Lydon, he should have found someone else to give his routine to.
Good post. You are right, and the guy you responded to is too ignorant to comprehend how ignorant he is.
Iggy- a good man, the real deal, since the beginning.
Honest on stage and in interviews.
Heroin is a hell of a drug
and coke is the purgatory
Does anyone have the remainder of the show with 5 foot 1 performance?
Love the interview. Miss the Snyder show - it was spontaneous and fun. Iggy is brilliant,beautiful and an original.
Those eyes!
Iggy is such a force of music - he remains like Mt. Rushmore when others fade away and die! God bless ya Iggy.
Iggy's just waay too cool to care about what you think about him.He's a really great guy!!
Iggy Pop makes me wince at the fact that 99% of contemporary pop musicians are inarticulate buffoons. But then I will often shrug that off and bask in his commentary... Shine on!
Im looking for the COME ON DIE YOUNG mogwai interview.
I've never used drugs but any time I have finished playing on stage I probably seemed high as shit. I used to go into a totally different state of consciousness when singing live.
I give Tom Snyder credit - he interviewed Iggy Pop, The Clash, Kiss and U2 (among others). He tried to capture what the public was interested in at the time. However, you can tell he's indifferent to it and somewhat baffled by what "today's kids" were into. Snyder came from the get married and sit up straight generation. Everything that happened once the Beatles arrived has mystified people like him.
actually, toward the end he was. i saw him do a george gershwin tribute. and he always DID seem to be rooted in the ethos of the big band era (hiding his electric keyboards behind a huge grand piano).
Tom Snyder was the shit, smoking like a chimney and NO ONE can replace him, I remember him so frigin well watched him all the time as a youngun NOW I know Why I am addicted to Talk Radio such as Art Bell, c2c, Andy Dean(who is a DICK sometimes) and others. Iggy Pop is just so interesting, just like David Icke. Cheers to Old Tom Snyder!!!
Underrated and underestimated - brilliant genius artist.
In that fucked up state he still sounded more intelligent than the vast majority of mainstream pop musicians today.
@rsohlich1 , agreed. I lost my best friend to drug addiction. He left behind a wake of devastated people. Don't ever forget that. Godspeed.