Thankfully, he put away the cutlery long ago, allowing his long-suffering pectoral region to wrinkle with dignity. (As Iggy admits, his early fans were sketchy weirdos.) One particularly insane instance, at a particularly insane point in his career, involved slicing an X into his chest with a knife after failing to entice someone in the audience to stab him. Self-mutilation soon became his version of Pete Townshend's windmill or Mick Jagger's rooster walk, the rock-star move fans would come out expecting to see. He started with a splintered drumstick at a college gig in 1969 and kept going from there, using whatever sharp object happened to be on hand at any particular show. On a body scarred with history, this is where he carved his legend-and that's meant 100 percent literally. He decided right then that his days as a human projectile were over.Īdam's rib. It was the punk equivalent of Michael Jordan blowing a dunk on his third comeback with the Washington Wizards.
Although Iggy gradually shed his various stage stunts as he grew older and less out of his mind on drugs, he kept stage diving into his 60s-he invented the move, so why not?-until 2010, when he launched himself into the audience at Carnegie freaking Hall and splatted on the floor, dislocating his shoulder.
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