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Mike,
I read somewhere that in the 60s, The Jimi Hendrix Experience once opened for the Monkees(!) in arguably the biggest booking combo mistake in Rock & Roll show promotion history. Also, I found it strange that the Sex Pistols on their only US tour in 77' performed at the Longhorn in Austin(?) TX. Somehow I couldn't imagine British punk rockers playing in a Country/Western oriented Texas club.
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Iggy and the Stooges played at all sorts of venues in southeastern Michigan and throughout the midwest at the time.

They once played at Hill Auditorium, the Carnegie Hall of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Iggy emerged from an elevator trap door in the center of the stage as the Stooges blasted their sonic boom as the set opened. I was laughing with a friend of mine at the absurd grandiosity of it all and the Ig greeted our chortling with a heartfelt 'Shut up!'

They played live on the Robin Seymour Show, a kind of Dick Clark teen dance program from Detroit. Seymour asked Iggy if he was all right after he'd thrown himself to the floor, atop the mike stand and stood up bleeding from his arm, saying 'It's real blood!' Iggy said he was OK.

I saw them some time during the seventies opening for Dr.John and Captain Beefheart in Toledo, Ohio.

Midwesterners at the time may have been much hipper than you might expect from today's vantage point.
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This was James Williamson's first gig with them. "Zeke" is playing bass.

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