The MAN,The MYTH,The MUG.

  "THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS IN MY COUNTRY!" The great SHEMP HOWARD ( Samuel Horwitz ) was born Mar.4, 1895. A USA Today poll ( under the heading 'statistics that shape our lives') asked Americans who their favorite STOOGE was. CURLY got 52% ( natch ), MOE 31%, LARRY 12%, CURLY JOE 3%, and SHEMP 2%...one percent LOWER THAN CURLY JOE ?!? No wonder RAW POWER took almost 40 years to go gold!

PS.Also happy B-Day to fellow Palladium STOOGE concert goer the Fabulous RAY DAY of CENTIMETERS and TREASON! fame...keep a lookout for RAY'S upcoming solo LP!
A little BBQ and What-Have-You!

R.I.P. ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

    Robert Mapplethorpe died of AIDS on this day(3-9) in '89. Here's one of the pictures he took of IGGY. Check out PATTI SMITH'S great book " JUST KIDS" for an account of her time with Mapplethorpe in NYC during the '70's.
WING

Hear Him Roar

"I LIKE GIRLS..."
    "...THEY'RE ALL OVER THIS WORLD!" Today is INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY. No nip and tuck for IGGY..what you see is what you get. IGGY has said he prefers
' midwestern girls ' but he was married to a Japanese woman ( SUSHI POP ) and is currently with a Nigerian/Irish one

( NINA ALU ). 

Foxy Lady

Say it ain't Bo

MARACA MAN
"SAY MAN" During the month of March 1955 JEROME GREEN joined BO DIDDLEY'S band. IGGY'S first record release was a recording of "MONA" by IG's first band The IQUANA'S. That's JG rappin' with BO on Mr. DIDDLEYS biggest pop hit "Say Man". In The ANIMALS version of BO'S "The Story of Bo Diddley" BO asks JEROME what he thinks of these young bands 'doing our material'. JEROME answers : " Where's the bar, man, please show me to the bar". I got this round.
  And check out BO'S customised scooter and self-customised guitar..everything with BO is customised!Hey Jerome!

MURDER CITY vs KILL CITY

  IGGY on the cover of DETRIOT!MURDER CITY COMIX from 1995. He's featured in a story called "German Secret Weapon." I guess the difference between "Murder City" and "Kill City" is in Detriot you get killed and in Los Angeles you kill yourself. No wonder IGGY moved to Florida.
Mayhem in South Beach

Not to Touch the Earth

R.I.P. Stan Stearns,who took this iconic shot of JFK Jr. at his fathers funeral. When he was a kid RON ASHETON met JFK Sr. and shook his hand. RON says that's when he decided he was going into show business.

HIGH HOPES

RIP Davy Jones

 UNLUCKY MONKEYS..Our respects to Music Hall performer, Monkee, TV star, and all around entertainer/nice chap

 DAVY JONES.
English Music Hall was always part of the equation with most English Invasion era bands ( KINKS, Herman, etc..), even The STONES ( circa 'Between the Buttons'). Of course, The STOOGES were having none of this, unless you count the piano on 'RICH BITCH' or 'PIN POINT EYES', which always sounded more like bordello/opium den music to me.
Fun fact: Bowie changed his last name from Jones to Bowie so he wouldn't get mixed up with Monkee Davy Jones.
Fun fact 2 : This is a rare green version of the famous Monkee/JIMI poster, most of them are the color blue.
Silent Monkees

I,CANDY

  Another shot from the "DINAH!" show from 1977. BTW both Dinah and IGGY had chart hits called 'CANDY'. Dinah's made #5 in 1945. IGGY'S 'Candy' made #28 in Feb. 1991, by far his biggest hit in the U.S. His follow up single 'BUTT TOWN' inexplicably failed to win the hearts of the American public and missed the charts completely, despite raves from Bevis and Butthead, the latter who claimed 'Butt Town' featured " the best lyrics he's ever heard."
NOT BUTT TOWN

SHORE LEAVE

DAYTIME FUNTIME...on this day(2/29) in 1916 singer/TV hostess DINAH SHORE was born. IGGY and BOWIE performed 'FUNTIME' and IGGY'S current single 'SISTER MIDNIGHT' on her daytime TV show back in 1977. She found it especially incredulous that SOUPY SALES kids were IGGY'S rhythm section. I still can't believe that I didn't stay home from work to watch it...no way I could have known that in 35 years I could watch it anytime I wanted to on a computer.
Debbie or Dinah?

RON STILL GONE...

...BUT NOT FORGOTTEN...Here's a great poster for a RON ASHETON tribute show held on his birthday in Ann Arbor..probably in 2009.   Pet peeve..posters and gig flyers without the year of the show.."GIG FLYERS"...that's SO Silver Lake 1994!

Destroy All Monsters!

WHO SLAPPED JOHN

RACE WITH THE DEVIL...Can't leave February without celebrating the bithday of the original leatherclad ( jacket AND pants) rebel rocker Sweet GENE VINCENT, born 2/11/'35. Here he is with a couple of disciples from the Reeperbahn region of Hamburg ( who would soon desert him and start wearing jackets without collars!?!). Check out Gene in rock action in "The Girl Can't Help It" which also features great performances by LITTLE RICHARD, EDDIE COCHRAN, JULIE LONDON, FATS DOMINO, THE TRENIERS of "Rocking is Our Business" fame and EDMOND "Old Sykes from The Wild Bunch" O'BRIEN singing "Rock Around the Rockpile".Sweet Gene Vincent

"They! Who the hell is They!?"

PICTURE THIS

IN THE FLASH...One of many pictures of DEBORAH HARRY by ANDY WARHOL. Blondie opened for IGGY on his very first solo tour but really who needs a pretext to post a pic of Deb...

Now I wanna be yer Deb

LOOKS A SCREAM

ANDY WARHOL died on Feb.22,'87. Andy wrote the foreword to IGGY's autobio "I NEED MORE". 

     "Buried deep in mass production...back on the line...back on the line..."