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When The Psychedelic Stooges play at Mother's, Romeo, Michigan, USA, singer James Osterberg is arrested for indecent exposure. Osterberg will later find fame as Iggy Pop.Full article:
Ron Asheton (guitarist, Psychedelic Stooges) : He had gotten a pair of brown vinyl pants and he wore them so much - the way he twists around and does his acrobatics, the crotch just split. So he probably was just hangin' out. And then he went backstage and came back with a towel wrapped around him or something. To tell you the truth, I don't know if it was an accident or not.
It was sort of like that Jim Morrison in that Miami thing. There was a girl in the audience whose father was a state policeman, and it just happened the post was right around the corner or something. And she went runnin' on down there and said, 'There's a naked man at the show.' And so the old dude who was the security guard - must have been in his 60's or whatever - was saying, "I'm telling you fellas right now, the state police are on their way.' And we're going, "Huh?'
So we're just sittin' in the dressing room and Iggy gets the word, and he's trying to split, he's getting the hell out of there. We thought, "Well, f---, we didn't do anything wrong. So what's the big deal?' So we're sitting in the dressing room, and the next thing I know the troopers start bustin' in - big scary dudes, crew cuts, and a couple of guns were out. They were't pointed or nothing, but hands were on guns. And they're going, 'Where's that Iggy?' We said 'He's gone sir, and we don't know.'
They looked all around and I know the (support band) Jagged Edge guy was so freaked out because those guys were speed freaks. He was just cowering in the dressing room. Hey, we were all scared.
The guy goes, 'You're all under arrest until we get that Iggy guy', 'Oh no!' Luckily a few moments later somebody comes up and says, "Yeah, Sarge, we got him.' And what happened was Iggy had been in the trunk of a car hiding, and he was making his way to another car that was going to drive him to Ann Arbor. And that's when the police got him.
So he spent the night in the clink, and then the next day his parents got him out early the next morning. For us it was like, 'Thank God we didn't have to sit in jail.'
That was the one and only time, at that show, that he actually got arrested. I mean, there were some close calls, but they got him crawling out of the trunk of a car.
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It was sort of like that Jim Morrison in that Miami thing. There was a girl in the audience whose father was a state policeman, and it just happened the post was right around the corner or something. And she went runnin' on down there and said, 'There's a naked man at the show.' And so the old dude who was the security guard - must have been in his 60's or whatever - was saying, "I'm telling you fellas right now, the state police are on their way.' And we're going, "Huh?'
So we're just sittin' in the dressing room and Iggy gets the word, and he's trying to split, he's getting the hell out of there. We thought, "Well, f---, we didn't do anything wrong. So what's the big deal?' So we're sitting in the dressing room, and the next thing I know the troopers start bustin' in - big scary dudes, crew cuts, and a couple of guns were out. They were't pointed or nothing, but hands were on guns. And they're going, 'Where's that Iggy?' We said 'He's gone sir, and we don't know.'
They looked all around and I know the (support band) Jagged Edge guy was so freaked out because those guys were speed freaks. He was just cowering in the dressing room. Hey, we were all scared.
The guy goes, 'You're all under arrest until we get that Iggy guy', 'Oh no!' Luckily a few moments later somebody comes up and says, "Yeah, Sarge, we got him.' And what happened was Iggy had been in the trunk of a car hiding, and he was making his way to another car that was going to drive him to Ann Arbor. And that's when the police got him.
So he spent the night in the clink, and then the next day his parents got him out early the next morning. For us it was like, 'Thank God we didn't have to sit in jail.'
That was the one and only time, at that show, that he actually got arrested. I mean, there were some close calls, but they got him crawling out of the trunk of a car.
(Source : not known)