![]() In conversation, he is nearly guileless, and he listens intently and carefully. He has retained a bit of a round, Midwestern accent from his upbringing, outside Detroit. Though he has had Lasik surgery-“In Colombia, before it was legal here”-his vision is still imperfect, a malady he chalks up to doing too much intravenous cocaine. His hair is blond, shoulder length, pin straight, and parted in the middle, and his eyes are an oceanic blue. In recent years, his midsection has relaxed a bit, but he assured me, while patting it, that it remains quite firm. He is lithe, sinewy, and deeply tanned, with a torso that, for decades, has appeared so exquisitely and minutely muscled that an onlooker might reasonably assume it was painted on. I quit smoking here.”įrom afar, Pop resembles a bronze statuette. I tried to build myself back up from twenty years in harness-New York City, the modern American record industry, gruelling economy touring. “I’d go to the beach and come home, go to the beach and come home. After he moved to Miami, he started swimming every day. The extremity of the place-it is both environmentally tenuous and aesthetically vulgar-seems to suit Pop, who, in the late nineteen-sixties, as a member of the Stooges, helped invent and refine punk rock, a genre of music so menacing and physically savage that it is sometimes shocking that Pop has made it to the age of seventy-two. In 1995, he had bought what he described as “a very seedy condo” in Miami, and he has had a home in the city ever since. YOUNG IGGY POP PROFESSIONALIn late July, in a brief window between professional appointments, Iggy Pop drove to the mouth of Biscayne Bay, so that he could bob in its tropical waters. Ann Arbor High also saw the germ of what would become Osterberg’s stage persona a flamboyant, alter-ego named Hyacinth, based on a poem that he had written.This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. The addition of a bass player and guitarist really rounded out their sound, and they soon became a local fixture, playing dances and parties. When the two Jims got to Ann Arbor High School, they recruited a sax player and cut a demo in McLaughlin’s father’s studio. His ever-accommodating parents even gave up their master bedroom in the trailer to allow Jim more room for his kit. While in junior high school, he started to really hone his passion for the drums, and in 1963, he formed a two-man band called The Iguanas with a guitarist named Jim McLaughlin. Blue-eyed and good-looking, he had a penchant for preppy dress, played golf, and was on the school’s debating team. A cheeky and outgoing kid, Jim worked hard to make friends with the cool kids in junior high. As a boy, young Jim liked to hang out on a shelf over the tiny kitchen in the trailer and watch tv. The family was a bit of an anomaly in those days an only child, both parents working, living in a trailer park called Coachville Gardens. Louella had a full-time office job and doted on Jim Junior. When baseball didn’t work out for him, he took a job teaching high school English. Jim Senior played minor league baseball and even tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers at one point. James Senior had lived in an orphanage until he was 14 when he was adopted by two spinster Jewish sisters, which is where the family name Osterberg came from. Jim was born prematurely on April 21, 1947, to James and Louella Osterberg. But nobody could have anticipated what the future would hold for one of Muskegon Michigan’s son, Jim Osterberg. Lots of crazy sounds have emerged from all over the great state of Michigan, including ? and the Mysterians, the Amboy Dukes (with ol’ Cat Scratch Fever himself), Ted Nugent, MC5, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Bob Seger, Cradle, one of the early hard rock girl bands featuring Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, and Grand Funk Railroad, to name a few. So, as he rolls out his show across Europe in 2022 with 35 concerts already planned, here are some things you may or may not know about Jim Osterberg. ![]()
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