“Now that’s entertainment!” Iggy said as security shooed the crowd back to their seats at the finish. The fan favorite “Lust For Life,” the title track written by David Bowie for the 1977 album he also produced followed, with Iggy encouraging 30 or 40 fans to join him on stage for it.
That served as his intro to “The Passenger,” one of the highlights of the night with its rolling melody and rhythms, the crowd singing the la-la-la chorus with and without Iggy as it went. So knowing that about me, would you pick me up?” “Hey, I’ve been in a few jails around here,” he announced after “Strung Out Johnny,” my favorite of the six new songs in the set. No disrespect to Josh Homme and the band he assembled as producer and bandleader for 2016’s “Post Pop Depression” – a very good outfit indeed – but the Losers captured a rawness that approached Stooge-ian levels of mayhem on stage.Īnd Iggy, of course, was his delightfully Iggy self throughout the 18-song set whether he was expressing thanks to the crowd in his profane, happy-go-lucky way or sharing a story or stage with the crowd at times. In addition to Smith and McKagan, Iggy’s band includes his producer Watt on guitar, as well as Jamie Hince, guitarist in the Kills. Eye” – left me feeling pummeled, in a good way, thanks to the power of the players on stage. Which, honestly, it really did at the Orpheum on Monday as new songs and old hits – early on, we got Stooges’ favorites such as “Raw Power” and “T.V. Add to that a band that grew up adoring Iggy Pop with and without the Stooges, many of them taken under his wing when they were still young players, and the ingredients were all in place to make to make what Iggy described last fall as music that “will beat the (bleep) out of you.”
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