![]() ![]() But as soon as the first notes were struck, hundreds of fans poured on to the field, where they stayed for the rest of the day, pushing right up to the stage. The city police were there to maintain order, and they had been told that because of the rain people were not allowed on to the baseball field where the stage had been set up in the middle. Many fans were already lined up by the gates, some covered by plastic sheets, but at sunrise the clouds rolled away and it became a hot, bright day. We drove all night in the rain to get there: it was still raining hard when we arrived at dawn. I had been asked to cover the Cincinnati Pop festival. But as soon as the first notes were struck, hundreds poured to the stageīy the time of this picture, it was 1970 and I was working in Detroit for the short-lived rock’n’roll publication Big Fat Magazine. ![]() The city police were there to maintain order because of rain people were not allowed on the baseball field. One of the pictures from that session in 1968 was later used on the movie poster to promote Jim Jarmusch’s 2016 documentary on the band, Gimme Danger: The Story of the Stooges. I photographed Iggy’s new band the Stooges at the university’s Hill Auditorium. Later, Jim started a band called Iggy and the Iguanas, and thenceforth, he was Iggy. I was not particularly into the local rock scene but I did photograph activities on and around the university campus, including a band called the Prime Movers, in which Jim Osterberg played drums. Iggy Pop and I went to the same high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I graduated a year ahead of him.
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