Real name James Oaserberg or something like that. Iggy b/c he was drummer (yes drummer) in a band called the Iguanas. After seeing the Doors in concert, was mezmerized and started his own band,
the Stooges, which inspired all punk bands and basically there would be no punk without them, but they were not punk, there's no genre for that level of greatness. The first punk band that was punk, not
proto-punk, was the Ramones. Not Stooges
MC5 or Velvet Underground, tho they laid out the basics.
Jim Morrison: "Wanna see it! Right then(whips it out and jerks off) YOUR ALL FUCKING SLAVES!!!"
Iggy Pop: "Will outdo Jim Morrison and live to tell the tale"
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Stooges concert)
Iggy: (smeared in blood and peanut butter wearing only a thong and receiving oral sex): "
NOW I WANNA BE YOUR DOG!!!"