Get on that bike, it's like a hyper-bath

[belfastguzzi]

"it's like a hyper-bath" – is that what he said? (about half-way through)

 

Old school Iggy (41) with Steve Jones

Iggy

[Admin Jaap]

I didn't understand much of what he was singing so I looked up the lyrics:

Maybe he was improvising?

 

"Cold Metal"

 

Uh

I played tag in the auto graveyard

I looked up at the radio tower

Rag tent by the railroad tracks

Concrete poured over steel bridge

Pondered my fate

While they built the interstate

 

I'm a product of America

From the morgue to the prisons

Cold metal, when I start my band

Cold metal, in my garbage can

Cold metal, gets in my blood

And my attitude

 

Yeah, a huh

 

Threw my hide in an automobile

Heard a song called "Drive the wheel"

Truckers, trailers, tractors caught me workin'

 

This is the song of my heritage

From the bad to the Buddha

Cold metal, that's what it be

Cold metal, from sea to sea

Cold metal, it's how we win

And also how we sin

How we sin, how we sin, how we sin, how we sin

 

Cold metal, in the afternoon

Sounds lovely like a Hendrix tune

Cold metal, it's the father of beat

The mother of the street

Cold metal, it rolls on by

Cold metal, gonna raise it high

Cold metal, it'll even fly

Rust buckets in the sky

Cold metal, got to be

Skeleton of the free

Cold metal, it's gotta be

Better save a tree

Save a tree, save a tree, save a tree, save a tree

Yeah

 

"I wanna be your dog"

 

So messed up I want you here

In my room I want you here

Now we're gonna be Face-to-face

And I'll lay right down In my favorite place

And now I wanna be your dog

Now I wanna be your dog

Now I wanna be your dog

Well c'mon

Now I'm ready to close my eyes

And now I'm ready to close my mind

And now I'm ready to feel your hand

And lose my heart on the burning sands

And now I wanna be your dog

And now I wenna be your dog

Now I wanna be your dog

Well c'mon

[jihem]

LOL, thanx David. (altho, for me, Iggy is at best with the Stooges and on this two AMAZING albums: "The Idiot" and "Lust For Life")

 

Yes, he says hyper-bath allright

 

 

Never personally met Iggy, but I was backstage at one festival where Iggy was playing and when he was escorted, rushing from his bus straight to the stage, the entire backstage had to clear up and no one could be left standing there, or even looking by the window to see him running by.

[belfastguzzi]

It's when he talks in the middle, Jaap – between the two songs.

 

"very few people talk to each other anymore

you've got tv for that, who needs friends, right?

and because of this, people feel kinda dirty

and when they get on that bike, it's like a hyper-bath

it's that air rushing by and cleansing you and making you...

and also the feeling that you can determine where you're gonna go"

 

- - - Excellent Iggy: at least 5% of that makes sense

[mdude]

 

- - - Excellent Iggy: at least 5% of that makes sense

 

5% of Iggy is more than most performers are able to do at max.

 

Saw him many years ago at the american caesar tour. that was brilliant. iggy in a glorious mood, mid-set he stumbles and hits his head on the monitor, blood gushes and he gets absolutely furious, totally legless with anger. his huge roadie/minder/son runs in and picks him up and literary carries him like a little baby bakstage. the band just keeps on pumping out, and after three minutes he comes in with a big bandage on his head, happy as a kite like nothing happened and the show goes on. Mr MoodSwinger...

 

and he likes his cars as well.

[jihem]

5% of Iggy is more than most performers are able to do at max.

 

I agree, he's totally amazing live, and contrary to a rather important pourcentage of rock stars, he has a fully operationnel brain that clicks nicely.

 

Iggy Pop in Miami