Iggy Pop's Rider!

[michael^heaven]

As if you need another reason to love Iggy Pop, the veteran rocker (and his band The Stooges) have the single most entertaining concert rider TSG has ever obtained. The document--all 18 pages of which you'll find below--describes Iggy's requirements in terms of amplifiers, security, lighting, stage set up, and dressing rooms. But unlike most similar documents, Iggy's rider is written in a rollicking, stream-of-consciousness fashion that delivers multiple laughs per page. Apparently written by roadie Jos Grain, the Iggy rider is peppered with witty gems, tasteless asides, and typos. For example, in describing how Iggy's dressing room should be made to "look less like a typical rock & roll dressing room," the rider suggests that promoters "just let someone loose with a little bit of artistic flair...Er, do you know any homosexuals?" Explaining the need for two heavy duty fans, Grain notes, "So that I can wear a scarf and pretend to be in a Bon Jovi video." Also, don't miss the backstage requirements of a Bob Hope impersonator and "a copy of USA Today that's got a story about morbidly obese people in it. Most amusing!"

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backsta.../iggypop1.html

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[Cosmigonon]

lmao

[michael^heaven]

I just finished reading the whole thing. Effing hillarious!! There's also a bonus for reading it in it's entirety. I'm not telling though & NO cheating!

[endymion]

The part about the festival in Spain is HILARIOUS.

[pod]

Posted this before actually. If all tech riders read like this I think techs would be a much more agreeable bunch.

I've done lighting here and there for shows, and you then realize why all techs are pissy.

[endymion]

Normally the good stuff doesn't go in the rider. The roadies show up and tell the venue people about their 'special needs'. I used to work for "Spinal Tech" on the UF campus, we did the tech for just about every kind of live show. When big acts (who shall all remain nameless) would come in to scout out the room the road manager would almost ALWAYS ask our contact to go out and buy drugs for them. It would be easier to name the bands who didn't ask us to find drugs for them than the ones that did. Some had very extensive and specific requisition lists. I know more about the drugs of choice for most 90s bands than I do about their music.

Hopefully it's been long enough now that I won't get anybody in trouble for talking about it in public. I never could tell anybody about it because most of the time somebody from student government (not Spinal Tech) would actually show up with the requested drugs just to try to meet the band or to keep them happy or whatever. Student government!

[pod]

Shows I've done, this was always handled by someone not on the technical or venue staff. That way both agencies were not liable if the "mule" got caught.

[endymion]

I usually saw it go down between the road manager and the rep from student government who booked the act. Spinal Tech was never involved except to watch it happen and laugh about it afterward. The student government people were so excited about the shows that they were trying to bring to the campus or with trying to meet the band that they would go out and get just about anything.

[pod]

Yeah it was always good for laughs. In our case it was usually a subcontractor or someone. The most one of our people did was relay a request.

[4040]

Just goes to show that most people have a crooked bone in them.
As for Iggy, when I was a manager at enterprise rent a car he rented a car off us and had all these kind of requests. One was to personally deliver the car to him. When I told his do boy his boss had to come in to sign the papers, he was like James M. is not going to like this. I was like who the hell is james and he says"Iggy pop." So i tell the kid to tell his fruit cake boss to come in. Finally the igster comes in and he wearing daisy duke jean shorts and one pink sandle. lets just say i had to go in the other room to bust out laughing.
By the way he lives off Biscayne and 79st I believe