October 10 2006
Mr. Pop Requests
posted by Steven Shaw at 2:00 pm
The Smoking Gun’s Backstage Pass page has published over 200 band technical requirement “riders” — from artists including Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Beck, Crosby Stills and Nash — but none has come close to the rider for the reformed Iggy & The Stooges.
Written by roadie Jos Grain, probably with some input from others in the tour party, the document comes up with some of the usual rock and roll stuff … “Oh yes, and Iggy adores breaking cameras so really it’s best not to get too close to him…”
It also goes off on some highly entertaining tangents:
By the way, our guitar roadie Chris assured me that the Panda is not of the genus “bear” but is actually part of the “Pig” family. Could this possibly be true?
On backstage security:
We will require the use of two dedicated and intensely loyal security persons to be stationed at the entrance to each of the two dressing rooms. Or do I mean one at each? Otherwise that would be four, and we only need two, one at each door. Wait a minute…
And if you’ve ever wondered what goes on in Iggy’s dressing room:
Somebody dressed as Bob Hope. Doing fantastic Bob Hope impersonations and telling all those hilarious Bob Hope jokes about golf and Hollywood and Bing Crosby. Oh God, I wish I’d been alive in those days, so Bob Hope could have come and entertained me before I went off and got shot…
Check out the full document here at The Smoking Gun.