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Athens / Greece / July 2007
Athens, as you know, is a city that iggy truly loves. during the 80's-90's he was worshiped like a greek god here and became something like emperor of greece. his concerts were always absolute triumphs. however, as sad as it is for me to say, the greek crowd doesn't deserve iggy anymore. as i'm still very tired and still in shock, i'll just give you the plain facts in brief: iggy came onstage like a storm and just gave everything and more. he did one stagedive after the other, and in fact spend a lot of time of the first part of the show in the crowd. he was unbelieavable, even with his own unique standards. just incredible. during "i feel alright" he hit some notes so high i've never heared from him before. actually i was expecting him and the band a bit tired as they had played so many gigs in the previous weeks, and paris just two days before, but he performed like there was no tomorrow. even after the show was over, the band was packing instruments and people were leaving, he returned on stage, called the band back, and said "i will do one more song for you guys, 'cause you're weird". and this was when it all turned bad, for a gig that otherwise would have been a top one. as iggy had kneeled at the front of the stage to introduce "i'm fried", a squeezed tin can was thrown by a total jerk, flew like a ninza weapon and hit iggy on the forehead, right above his eye........... iggy started bleeding badly and was dizzy, this was all too bad, too freaking bad. still, GOD iggy pop went on and sung the song, holding a towel on his face to stop the blood.... he said "you can't stop me, i am immortal!" and yes, he IS!!! we all know that. even if his body dissapears in, say, a century from now, he will still be immortal!!! we all KNOW. this time he said it himself as well; we'd better all believe it. however, and as it's the second time a thing like this happens in greece, and as sad as it is for me to say, the greek audience -that was as well very cold this time- doesn't deserve iggy pop giving his heart and soul for them, let alone his blood... …Yiannis Karantonis