First off, I apologize if the picture unsettles your breakfast. He's not exactly the prettiest man in rock.
Take a gander over at Iggy Pop's 18 page tour rider. Including such gems as:
- 1 x KORG 2000 DIGITAL RACK TUNER. Digital in the sense that it works via an electronically generated number system, not digital because it only works if someone holds it together with their fingers.
- 3 x MARSHALL VBA BASS AMPLIFIERS Make sure they’re good ones or we’ll all end up as wormlike web-based life forms in the bass player’s online literary diahorrea. Honestly. He’s like a sort of internet Pepys or Boswell, except without the gout and the syphilis. For all I know.
- We need: one(1) monitor man who speaks good English and is not afraid of death.… in Galicia in Northern Spain, they appear to think - if they just ignore riders like this, then supply a fat, beared hippy with a digital monitor desk (doh!) who doesn’t know *** about eq-ing, and monitor wedges that would be better suited to wedging doors open, and a load of stage managers and PA geezers and promoters reps who shout a lot - that this is the same as actually providing what a band needs in order to do a gig to the best of their ability. And that if they deny that their gear is no good, it will suddenly, mysteriously, become good. 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 set of dog-eared encyclopedias with the volumes E-G missing, and a screwdriver that’s been accidentally dropped in a toilet.
