H – and I think the cover is grea 1 CONTENTS Cover by Heather Harris © 2011 ‘Hotel From Hell’ by Sue Fox p205 Frontispiece by Dolorosa De La Cruz ‘The Wellness Of Mister Sic’ by Chris Madoch ‘Tribute To Ron Asheton With Iggy And The p207 Stooges, Ann Arbor Mi 4.19.11’ text and photos ‘Attack Of The Giant Reptiles’ by Hank Kirton by Heather Harris p4 p229 ‘Interesting Times: Summer of Love’ by Andrew ‘Rubric’ artwork by Richard Reynolds p238 Maben p20 ‘Thomas Roi’, David Thomas interviewed by Artwork by F.X. Tobin p28, p40 Kate MacDonald p239 ‘Something Bad Inside’ by Nick Tosches p29 ‘Brains’ by Bob Pfeifer p246 ‘Why The Bird Cage Sings’ by Matt Leyshon, ‘Enter The Dream’ Pam Wilson interviewed by images by Aurora Loveday p41 Lana Gentry, artwork by Pam Wilson p252 ‘Kagayaku Mahoutsukai’ Tony Visconti ‘Inevitable’ by Claudia Bellocq, artwork by interviewed by Díre McCain p50 Ricardo Acevedo p258 Sharron Kraus ‘Words In The Key Of Sadness’ by Kim ‘Beautiful Twisted’ interviewed Dallesandro p70 by D M Mitchell p264 ‘What Did You Do In The Eco Wars Daddy?’ by ‘Venus in Rags’ by David Gionfriddo p269 Feral Kelly p78 Contributors’ Links p292 ‘Junkie Funeral’ by dixe.flatlin3 p83 Paraphilia Books – Advert ‘Day Of The Piss Cat’ text and image by Stagger End Piece by Dolorosa De La Cruz Lloyd p94 ‘The Dogs Rock Forever’ text and images by Heather Harris p98 Editors Artwork by Susan Te Kahurangi King p113, Díre McCain p122, p127, p125, p157, p172, p197, p245, p251, D M Mitchell p268 ‘The White Typewriter’ by Charles Christian, Contact Paraphilia images by D M Mitchell p114 [email protected] ‘The Sinking of Venice’ by Chris Nosnibor, images by Guttersaint p123 Website ‘Gods & Gamblers’ Blackfire Revelation interviewed by D M Mitchell p128 www.paraphiliamagazine.com ‘Death Wish Chameleon XII’ by Cricket Corleone, photos by Richard A. 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The band: co- founders Iggy Pop vocals/subversion + April 19, 2011, Ann Arbor, MI, Tribute to Scott “Rock Action” Asheton drums, James Ron Asheton with Iggy and The Stooges Williamson (Raw Power and Kill City and friends Deniz Tek, Henry Rollins MC- releases co-writer) on guitar, Mike Watt (the ing and hilariously monologuing, young Minutemen, Hyphenated-Men, fireHOSE, band The Space Age Toasters who opened Hellride, the Secondmen and at least four with Stooge covers, and a small symphonic other bands) bass, Steve MacKay (Funhouse) orchestra that backed the Deniz Tek on saxophone. Organizer: Kathy Asheton with guitar portion of Stooge songs after the all proceeds benefiting the Ron Asheton actual band’s set. The Michigan Theatre, Foundation, sold out venue capacity: 1,700 rapid all-ages (http://www.ronashetonfoundation.org) its 4 mission to fund veterinary care for needy Bizarre factoid: a sturdily built male animals, subsidize public school music security guard passed out from the massive education plus promote animal welfare and body heat of the animated crowd (despite it assist all aspiring young musicians. (You snowing outside some 24 hours earlier) and see where the young band and orchestra fit had to be revived with ice. Not exaggerated in now.) Cinematic documentation: famed apocrypha at all: he was treated right next American auteur director Jim Jarmusch. to your humble Paraphilia photojournalist. More than any prior performance of the concert in this deluxe oldskool, gilded reunited after 3 and 3/4 decades Iggy and movie palace (“Welcome home Iggy and The Stooges, this gig celebrated fans as The Stooges!” spangled on the theatre’s much as musical panegyrics to the beloved, marquee.) These Stooges, hometown once- late founding guitarist of The Stooges. underdogs-now-Rock and Roll Hall of You’ll meet some of them in a moment. Famers normally entertain rather larger Both jet-setting Stooge enthusiasts and the capacity audiences, usually festivals of 10K locals alike scored an up close and personal to 40,000 strong. 5 6 surfing and his surprising demeanor. He grinned often and warmly espying his hometown people cheering on one of their own. Another payoff: no matter how familiar the wondrous music to its cognoscenti who’ve heard all the new shows on myriad tech formats, they were still in for surprises galore live. You can read about thoroughbred racing, you can study bloodlines and pedigrees, you can think you know it all as a racing fan. But you don’t, not until you experience racing in person and actually hear the thundering hooves louder than you ever thought possible and witness the horses even more magnificent in their extreme and sweaty power than you ever imagined. Same with Top Fuel Drag Racing. Or Iggy “This is one of the best photos of Iggy and The Stooges. today...very cool and sexy~” “Classic Iggy in- the-crowd shots, like those pictures in Surfing Magazine that they take inside the curl” “This is the baddest Iggy has looked in years!” (Facebook music enthusiasts admiring the few photographs I’d leaked of the gig.) And why not? (not the compliments to me, the ones to the singer.) For festival band gigs, Iggy Pop rarely encounters neither Stooges purists en masse nor unbarricaded crowd adulation within which to foist his famous contortionist, still shirtless, utterly feral, fearless and buff at 64, mega-physicality. The ritual crowd stage invasion (despised by security everywhere) usually has to suffice in place of his wildly extreme audience interactions of yore. The payoff at this intimate gig was his prolonged crowd 7 I’m an advocate of all senses firing on all Gasped another FB proclaimer to me, “I cylinders, and the Ann Arbor show had it actually was SHOCKED at the intensity of all amongst bizarre happenstances you this band.” don’t get on the aural stuff-- Iggy crawling Testimonial from a fan at the Michigan into the audience to stare at people, lungs Theatre (abetted by social network addenda heaving and dripping gallons of sweat on through her whimsical correspondence): all around him (fun olfactory too I’ll bet; a report on touch upcoming,) prolonged “Mademoiselle Professoressa” teaches one crowd surfing by him, constant smiles to of the more lyrical Liberal Arts at a the crowd of despite the requisite fearsome university level and had to be there. She expressions donned for such hardcore, indeed has been there for most domestic kickass material, far more band interaction Iggy and The Stooges shows since her than one might suspect and of course, that revelatory initiation in 2010. She’d done the selfsame band making all the complicated, heavy lifting of Serious Illness but didn’t breakneck speed music seem... easy. I’ve know the outcome after post-op recovery. also heard new converts espouse this as the Number One on her bucket list was viewing best live reunion band around, bar none. Iggy and The Stooges live, which she 8 immediately accomplished 5/2/10 at the The madness can’t last forever. Your basic Hammersmith Apollo in London for the Dionysian cult of the Mysteries!” As for a band’s first set of all Raw Power material seemingly reserved university professor since 1974, by three of its four original embracing the fearsome rep of the world’s instigators (abetted by Watt and MacKay.) most pro-active, wild band, she notes, “I Unexpected bonus #1: with dozens of sometimes tell my students that if no one is others she lept onstage in the ritual stage pissed off at you, you’re not doing your invasion to dance to “Shake Appeal,” and job.” managed to paw Iggy (empirical evidence Very first month online, I wanted to up on YouTube) with the pronouncement research what was the adult version of that he may look Florida-tanned wrinkly, fandom, to better hone the appeal of my but his skin is soft. Bonus #2: life imitated own photo-taking and writing, settling on art and mimicked the lyrics as it were: raw Alan Rickman (pre-Harry Potter) sites to power had a healing hand. view what grownups wrote about grownup When she got home, tests proved she was stars without the kiddie spamming. The good to go for a very long time. Mlle. Prof actor seemed like an intelligent guy who explained, “When my surgery and put a lot into his roles and worked prognosis turned out so well, I kind of continually, fomenting fan discussions wondered how I was going to fill up the anew.