First gig. Early '68.
'The first gig we had was at the Grande Ballroom...the night before the show, we didn't know what Iggy was going to wear, so he said 'Don't worry, I'll come up with something.'
So we go pick him up and he's wearing like an old white nightshirt from the 1800s that went all the way down to his ankles. He had painted his face white like a mime, and he had made an Afro wig out of twisted aluminium foil.
As we were driving to the Grande Ballroom we were smoking joints. It was our first show and we were kind of nervous. Then this bunch of hoodlums pulls up next to us and tries to run us off the road. So were a nervous wreck by the time we got to the Ballroom. When we got out of the car, the black security guard in the parking lot said, 'Motherfucker, is that a mechanical man or what?' He was just laughing his ass off.'
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
'The first gig we had was at the Grande Ballroom...the night before the show, we didn't know what Iggy was going to wear, so he said 'Don't worry, I'll come up with something.'
So we go pick him up and he's wearing like an old white nightshirt from the 1800s that went all the way down to his ankles. He had painted his face white like a mime, and he had made an Afro wig out of twisted aluminium foil.
As we were driving to the Grande Ballroom we were smoking joints. It was our first show and we were kind of nervous. Then this bunch of hoodlums pulls up next to us and tries to run us off the road. So were a nervous wreck by the time we got to the Ballroom. When we got out of the car, the black security guard in the parking lot said, 'Motherfucker, is that a mechanical man or what?' He was just laughing his ass off.'
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
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