# Iggy Pop and the Stooges - funniest concert rider ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549 "2007-04-25T02:26:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/1 "2007-04-25T02:26:50Z")
I met Iggy Pop once when I was in college. I was working at a hotel off a major interstate and his tour bus was having troubles so they stayed the night with us. Not sure if “The Stooges” were with him. It was during his mid 80s “Candy Candy Candy I can’t let you gooooooooooooouuuuoooo…” phase. Sad really. But that aside, he was a sweet, charming, funny guy. Not at all like the time Michael Bolton’s brother stayed with us and completely let the staff think he was really Michael. They look alike, and he played right along…chump. Anyhoo…check out some of the requests he has for his concerts. Funny shit. “Double chained drum pedal with a footplate and a little blue placque that says ‘William Shakespeare slepy here for six months in 1568 shagging the arse off Ann Hathaway’”… wha? huh? Good read. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/2 "2007-04-25T02:37:44Z")
Errr, is there a link involved here somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/3 "2007-04-25T02:47:38Z")
No. You will just have to take my word for it. Frig! ok! Geesh… > **[The Smoking Gun: Public Documents, Mug Shots](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/)** > > Public Documents, Mug Shots ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/4 "2007-04-25T05:15:01Z")
That is a work of genius. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/5 "2007-04-25T06:13:23Z")
Wasn’t that posted last year? If it wasn’t here, it was [Fark.com](http://Fark.com). Brilliant, regardless. Thanks for posting it again, **newcrasher**. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/6 "2007-04-25T07:37:28Z")
[QUOTE=newcrasher] Not sure if “The Stooges” were with him. It was during his mid 80s “Candy Candy Candy I can’t let you gooooooooooooouuuuoooo…” phase. Sad really. [/QUOTE] They weren’t with him then. Also, Candy came out in 1990. [/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/7 "2007-04-25T08:52:26Z")
> [@Iggy's rider](#): > > I’d just like to say that the next time the Stooges get booked for their festival, I’m going to turn up with some pickled eggs, a small blue vibrator with a jelly dolphin balanced on the shaft, a set of dog-eared encyclopedias with the volume E-G missing, and a screw driver that’s accidentally been dropped in a toilet. > > And then,when they say, “That’s not the Stooges”, I’m going to say, “Yes it is!” > > And then they’ll say, “No it isn’t”. > > And I’m going to say, “Yes it is!!!” > > See how _they_ like it, the fuckers. Positively brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/8 "2007-04-25T11:07:51Z")
Oh, fuck, that’s funny. “Nobody goes home whistling the lighting.” The man’s a genius. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/9 "2007-04-25T12:10:28Z")
ummm, correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t bands like travel with their own equipment? You know, the drummer brings his own cymbals and doesn’t expect the masonic lodge or where ever they happen to be gigging will have 11.3cm tibetan drums made from circumcized yak’s and reincarnate lama femurs? ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/10 "2007-04-25T15:49:38Z")
[QUOTE=China Guy] ummm, correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t bands like travel with their own equipment? You know, the drummer brings his own cymbals and doesn’t expect the masonic lodge or where ever they happen to be gigging will have 11.3cm tibetan drums made from circumcized yak’s and reincarnate lama femurs? [/QUOTE] I thought that was odd as well. I can’t imagine a big-time drummer trusting some concert hall to provide a drum set to his liking… Joe ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/11 "2007-04-25T16:10:03Z")
Money. I assume if they use rented equipment, they get the promoters/venue to pay for it, they don’t have to transport and otherwise risk/beat up their own idrums and amps and can travel lighter or even fly in to gigs. I think the Stooges’ sound is not that hard to reproduce with rentals…also, while they’re pretty exacting in their requirements, they’re also playing fairly established venues that can handle that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/12 "2007-04-25T16:12:51Z")
[QUOTE=buns3000] They weren’t with him then. Also, Candy came out in 1990. [/nitpick] [/QUOTE] I think that was _Blah Blah Blah_. Although I thought “Candy” was kind of stupid, there’s a lot of great stuff on _Brick by Brick._ ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/13 "2007-04-25T16:17:54Z")
There used to be a website (I think it’s been taken down) that had actual scanned copies of riders for acts both large and small. The images were captioned by the website owners. One that I remembered was Mariah Carey’s, where it was pointed out that her rider called for Cristal champagne as well as bendy straws. The caption pointed this out, remarking, “Cristal and bendy straws?!? You can take the girl out of Yonkers, but…” :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/14 "2007-04-25T19:14:24Z")
> [@](#): > > There used to be a website (I think it’s been taken down) that had actual scanned copies of riders for acts both large and small. I don’t know what other websites may have done it, but [the Smoking Gun](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/) (which is where the Iggy Pop rider is posted) still has over two hundred of them. One interesting one is the [Beatles’](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0418051beatles1.html) one from 1965. The only dressing room items they asked for was “four cots, mirrors, an ice cooler, portable TV set and clean towels.” Their stage requirements were similarly modest. But they did have one demand: they refused to play before any racially segregated audiences. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/15 "2007-04-26T11:22:39Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] I think that was _Blah Blah Blah_. Although I thought “Candy” was kind of stupid, there’s a lot of great stuff on _Brick by Brick._ [/QUOTE] Dude, “Candy” was on Brick By Brick. [Alf] Look it up. [/Alf] Presumably, this so-called “great stuff” didn’t include “Butt Town”, “Candy” or “Living On The Edge Of The Night”. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-funniest-concert-rider-ever/401549/16 "2007-04-26T15:51:49Z")
[QUOTE=buns3000] Dude, “Candy” was on Brick By Brick. [Alf] Look it up. [/Alf] Presumably, this so-called “great stuff” didn’t include “Butt Town”, “Candy” or “Living On The Edge Of The Night”. YMMV. [/QUOTE] Yes, I know. That’s why I said: ‘Although “Candy” was stupid, there is a lot of great stuff on _Brick By Brick_.’