35+ years later, this is still the greatest live show I have ever seen:
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Iggy was immense. It was the middle of July, and the venue was so hot, he was cloaked in the stream rising from his body, like some ghostly apparition. For the chorus of "Five Foot One", he was hanging upside down from the pipes in the ceiling above the mosh pit. And after what my buddy called "The 120 minute Iggy Pop workout", he was outside waiting under the awning at the front of The Channel, thanking the crowd for attending as they filed out.