Get Loaded In The Park

Joined : 06 Mar 2007 Posts : 217 Location : Washington, DC

Yikes, hope Emma's OK! One of the stooges' reps who was there says sequrity was quite heavy handed, beating up some people for no reason, but press reports like this -- Iggy injured --
http://www.gigwise.com/news/45586/iggy-pop-suffers-nasty-injury-at-get-loaded-in-the-park-2008 are absolute bullocks.

Emma? Unsure

cb
http://iggypop.org

Subject: Re: Get Loaded In The Park Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:52 pm

why is it bollocks? i hope - if its at all true - that he's ok

also Cathy, are stooges playin ireland soon/again this year, a friend of mine told me he heard something in the news, or an interview recently

though he was probly talkin about the one i was at last month, or last last month whenever it was
_________________

Away Beyond The Ishkabob
And Over The Propran Sea
You'll Find A Place Called Stoogeland
Where Very Soon You'll Be

Joined : 06 Mar 2007 Posts : 217 Location : Washington, DC

Absolute Bullocks is a direct quote from management about press reports of injury to Iggy.

Don't know about additional Ireleand dates but if I do I'll post em!

cb sunny

http://iggypop.org

Subject: Re: Get Loaded In The Park Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:16 pm

thats good to know, at his age and everything u'no, u dont know when they may stiop u'no, but good to know

thanks
HJW
_________________

Away Beyond The Ishkabob
And Over The Propran Sea
You'll Find A Place Called Stoogeland
Where Very Soon You'll Be

Subject: Re: Get Loaded In The Park Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:05 pm

Hey all!

Just got back earlier so i'm pretty tired, its like 2AM or something, I'll upload the pictures tomorrow when i get stuff sorted out. I got some quite good ones but in the end i just wanted to watch and enjoy it.

I did get front row Smile

stayed there all day from 12. Well worth the wait and pain though!

Its nonsense about Iggy getting injured he was fine, did an encore n everything. He did go on the amps etc. a few times but i never noticed him in any pain.

The Stooges were all on amazing form, blew me away again completely, no other band beats them live. It was SO GOOD to hear Search and Destroy and I Got A Right aswell.

Before The Stooges came on their roadies and security built a kinda staircase for Iggy to come down to the crowd easier n stuff which was cool cos he was closer etc.

Security were pretty rough all day, Saw one guy getting strangled and pinned down n carried away which was bad! Dunno what he'd done. When Iggy invited everyone up, after a while security realised he was allowing the stage invasion and let people up fine. They were terrible during Gogol Bordellos set, the singer (Eugene) came into the crowd and was stood on the barriers etc. and we all had to hold him up and security wouldn't let him so he poured red wine on them from the bottle he had and tried to fight them, he just kept screaming "im a grown man let me go!" it was genius.

I was annoyed i didn't get up onstage for the stage invasion but i just couldn't get out cos people were crowdsurfing over me constantly and it was just too crushed to force myself over. Its bad when people are kicking you in the back of the head etc. My body is very battered today. Haha. I tried to use last years trick of telling security i was hurt and wanted out, then run onstage once your out. But they were just bothered about the crowdsurfers. But i can't complain too much cos i went onstage last time i saw them.
Its funny watching everyone dancing onstage though Smile

(After the gig i overheard a man saying when he went onstage everyone was after Iggy but all he wanted to do was hug the Ashetons and Mike, i loved that cos they deserve more attention!)

I didn't care later about not getting onstage when Iggy came down the front and held my hand and during Skull Ring he once pointed at me when he sang "hot chicks". no joke. It was all so surreal, Stooges gigs always are, it seems at the time its all just too good to be true. At one point Iggy was dancing or something and i was laughing and Steve noticed me laughing and he was laughing at me laughing, if that makes sense, that was cool.

During the gig Iggy was crawling around on the ground at the front, security didn't know what to make of him Smile

. He said his usual "I am you" "i need love" stuff, but i don't think i misheard it when he said "you try to be yourself, and no one fucking cares" - something along those lines, he kept shouting it over again at the end of a song, don't think i've heard him say stuff like that before.

But overall it was just an amazing gig, The Hives and Gogol Bordello were amazing as well, but The Stooges just beat everyone.

I'll upload the pictures i have tomorrow, hope everyone else that went ad an amazing time aswell! Hope The Stooges come back soon!
xxx
_________________
[i]Ooh yeah I'm a wild one

Subject: Re: Get Loaded In The Park Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:13 pm

Also i remember them playing:

(This isn't the actual order, just a list in my memory)

Loose
1970
1969
I Got A Right
Search and Destroy
Funhouse
Little Doll
Skull Ring
Mindroom
I Wanna Be Your Dog
Real Cool Time
No Fun
TV Eye
Down On The Street? - I Think
My Idea Of Fun
_________________
[i]Ooh yeah I'm a wild one

Subject: Re: Get Loaded In The Park Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:26 am

Emma, SO good to hear this all from ya...not hurt or something! Sounds as an amazing experience!!!!
And thnx yr giving us this report and sort of a setlist.
not much change i see....so the speciality announced earlier...was Search and I got a Right.

ah...the fans need to get ALL in front despite the stupid crowd surfers..cuz there it really happens..the interaction between the band and the crowd!!! What makes The Stooges so unique. I hate festivals..cuz of the mix with other bands fans Mad

Wish The Stooges stopped doin festivals!!!

Emma, think you did well to stay behind the barrier. On stage Iggy's not much making physical contact ofcoarse...especially not with the girls..I once saw a woman didn't want to let him go...brrrrr...though if yr behind the barrier in the front row...yeah...there he's checkin out where the real fans and nice girls 'r standing to get 'in touch' with. Sounds maybe extreme/girly to the ones who did'nt experience...but I guess you must be fuckin in heaven Emma!!!
_________________
Why did you leave your sticker on my
Forty-two dollar and fifty cent suite
In James Dean's head bed?

Joined : 22 Nov 2007 Posts : 348 Location : Chelmsford, UK

Don't forget Little Electric Chair.

My wife and daughter caught a bit of the Gossip's set and Beth Ditto was singing the words to I Wanna Be Your Dog over the top of Standing In the Way of Control.

Subject: Re: Get Loaded In The Park Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:16 am

I am still in heaven! Haha

I'm still hurting today, glad my foot didn't get even more wrecked though cos i have a sprained ankle that i injured from going too crazy at a gig about a month ago - still hasnt healed. I was praying it didn't get worse at Iggy but it seems alright.

Donald reminded me, i noticed Beth Ditto watching The Stooges at the side of the stage when they were finishing, seems she's a fan!
_________________
[i]Ooh yeah I'm a wild one

Subject: Re: Get Loaded In The Park Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:59 am

Photos:

Some were dark or really blurred so i uploaded any decentish ones.

Sorry if theyre too big.
_________________
[i]Ooh yeah I'm a wild one

Joined : 20 Jan 2008 Posts : 430 Location : London

A few great one's there Emma - cheers!

Subject: Re: Get Loaded In The Park Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:18 am

Yah...great sweaty dark atmosphere!!! thnx thnx!
_________________
Why did you leave your sticker on my
Forty-two dollar and fifty cent suite
In James Dean's head bed?

Age : 16 Joined : 12 Feb 2008 Posts : 157

Thanks for the cool reviews and photos !

No, they souldn't stop doing festivals ... cause I got a lot more chances to see the Stooges at a festival than at a "normal" venue... Wish they culd play at the Eurockéennes ...
(ok, it's egoist, but I can't help Smile

)
_________________
Got my electronic dream/Sonic reducer/Ain't no loser.
(not being cool is good for you)

Joined : 06 Mar 2007 Posts : 217 Location : Washington, DC

Hey y'all, here's a little recap of Get Loaded:

http://www.iggypop.org/iggynews.html

It's your first time Emma? OMG Irving Plaza in "99 -- Ave B tour -- my first time:) After the first night mosh pit of a 2 night run, the doorman said i didn't look like the same person (having cased the joint seeing Souxsie the night before) In the middle of the craziness -- Iggy surfing -- see my guy up in the VIP section talking to Joey Ramone, and find out later the opening act had offfered him a backstage pass and he didn't take it, the non iggy fan fool!!! The 2nd night I helped pull Iggy up into the balcony from the Marshalls, the crowd just surged forward to get him -- and he swung around and around on a pipe up there near the ceiling. Security and his son Eric and Jos were beside themselves! He looked around figuring how to get back, and by that time security was motioning him towards stairs, but he's bellowing"NOOOOOOOOO!" and jumps all the way back down to the stage! The crowd surges forward trying to take my place and a guy I met there pushed em back for me. Punk chivalry, haha!

Getting carried away here:) and loving it! geek

cb

Subject: Re: Get Loaded In The Park Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:22 pm

That sounded like a great gig!

Get Loaded was the 2nd time i've seen the Stooges though, i always get carried away when i tell people about when i've seen the Stooges Haha. Their gigs are just so exciting.
_________________
[i]Ooh yeah I'm a wild one

Joined : 22 Nov 2007 Posts : 348 Location : Chelmsford, UK

Subject: Re: Get Loaded In The Park Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:30 am

I'm surprised that Rick Person mentions it in his interview; lust for life and passenger!! kind of stupid..it 'll confuse the readers.
Rick Pearson should know or for better maybe explain that they 'r ONLY doin Stooges stuff.

cb your story; great to read!
_________________
Why did you leave your sticker on my
Forty-two dollar and fifty cent suite
In James Dean's head bed?

Joined : 22 Nov 2007 Posts : 348 Location : Chelmsford, UK

Er, that's what he did Zin scratch

Subject: Re: Get Loaded In The Park Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:52 am

Joined : 22 Nov 2007 Posts : 348 Location : Chelmsford, UK