Liquor and drugs

Take the way-back machine to 1977.

That must have been around the time Perry put his Elsinore in the pool.

Once I get on memory lane it's hard to stop.

Here's Iggy, singing about liquor and drugs.

Iggy is still among us; among the living.

Whoda thunk it?

And listen to how tight that band is.

Liquor and drugs.

Liquor and drugs and the grace of God...

We're still here!

I've got a torture film and a GTO

You've got to admit that Iggy had America nailed.

Way before Abu Ghraib and Gitmo.

But you know where he got it wrong?

The GTO.

Torture lives but the GTO is dead.

That latest iteration of the GTO, some unseemly import from Australia, didn't exactly rain glory on the brand.

From the early days of the 389 tri-power, the GTO meant something. It symbolized an insecure America showing the bulge in her pants.

The Ruskies had put a man into orbit before America. They were way ahead of us in the missile race, or so we were lead to believe.

But we had the GTO and they had what?

The GTO let America feel good about America long before Ronald Reagan whupped the Commies in Grenada.

Fifty years later the GTO is dead.

And Obama can't figure out how to close Gitmo.

Hypnotizing chickens

If you're into liquor and drugs you're gonna love this.

Iggy in his see-through pants.

This is Iggy on his way to icon-dom.

Not his most morally uplifting moment, but what the hell, nobody looks to Iggy for moral uplift.

Compared to those early Iggy shows, where the stage hands physically carry the Prime Stooge onto the stage, this is Iggy in control.

By the way, the reason that happened is that they wouldna got paid if Iggy hadn't made it on stage.