6. Iggy PopThe Idiot

This was another time when Bon and I weren’t in sync with our musical tastes. For some reason we’d taken a bit of time off from the band and I started hanging out with some old schoolmates of mine who were deeply into The Doors. We’d listen to them a lot and get wasted, and it finally made sense to me. I started paying a bit more attention to them – I knew the stories, but it was the same as The Beatles, the reverence is what pissed me off rather than the music. I read Please Kill Me, Iggy goes on about how seeing The Doors in Ann Arbor changed his life and he took a lot of his style from Jim Morrison, I find that interesting, this ongoing, cyclical, string of ideas that link people over decades. The first influences on me as a frontman were Fad Gadget, Siouxie and Nick Cave.