Iggy pop 1977 full#

Iggy pop 1977 full#

The set leads off with a March 1977 show from Chicago, with Bowie on keyboards the band is tight and sympathetic, but Iggy seems to be struggling to hit the material at full impact. The sound quality is well short of audiophile standards (these recordings appear to be audience tapes except for disc four, a 1979 show from Los Angeles that was taken from a radio broadcast, complete with periodic interruptions from the announcer), and while there are some amazing moments in these six shows, there's also more than a little dross along with way. Where the Faces Shine is a six-CD box set that documents Iggy and his various backing bands on-stage between 19, with each disc recorded during a different show from this period. While Iggy's comeback albums with Bowie earned him plenty of press, they didn't sell especially well, so Iggy did what scores of musicians have done over the years to pay the bills - he hit the road, playing clubs and small theaters in America, Europe, and the United Kingdom for months at a time as he devoted his evenings to doing psychic battle with his audience.

Iggy Pop went into a personal and creative free fall after the Stooges finally imploded in 1974, and while his re-emergence in 1977 with not one but two striking albums produced by David Bowie, The Idiot and Lust for Life, was little short of miraculous, they were also just the first steps in a long road toward Iggy reestablishing himself as a musician with something to say.