Iggy Pop – How I plan to talk to kids

I plan to communicate with my kids via my blog.

I got the idea from the article on Jim Morrison of Doors and Iggy Pop – The Doors’ disaster at Michigan by Alan Glenn.  I get regular update – Michigan Today – from U of Michigan where I studied. I love these Malcolm Gladwellesque articles. How one incident becomes the catalyst for something completely different and unexpected. All of Gladwell’s articles are like that.Though I have not heard Iggy Pop much, love these following type statements

“At the time [Iggy] was being reviled, around 1970, rock music revolved around virtuosity,” says Paul Trynka, former editor of Mojo magazine and author of the biography “Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed.” “Once his impact was felt, from 1977, rock music revolved around feelings, emotions—like boredom, frustration, incoherent rage, and the joy of loud, explosive rock and roll. Without Iggy there’d be no Sex Pistols, no Nirvana, no White Stripes.”

Just finished his book What The Dog Saw – “nineteen brilliantly researched and provocative essays that exhibit the curiosity his readers love, each with a graceful narrative that leads to a thought-provoking analysis.”

Coming back to my kids, they love music. So I want them to learn the history of music. Especially the history of modern music. Well, they are free to learn anything else they want, but I have always been intrigued by the connection between rebellious music and social change of the 60′s and 70′s in the U.S. How the Civil Rights Movement, the war in Vietnam and other momentous upheavals had a direct impact on music. Or was it the other way around?

I have requested my kids to read the article about Iggy Pop and how he was inspired by what happened to Morrison at U of Michigan and pretty much changed the course of rebel music. Iggy is from Michigan and debut in 1967 in Ann Arbor. Both my kids were born in Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor is also the place where Kennedy initiated the Peace Corp. Also the place of wonderful riots and stone throwing during the 60s in protest of the war in Vietnam.

Next time my kids visit their birthplace hope they see the place in a whole new light.