How big was the Iggy Pop show at the Michigan Theater? Very big

Blow by blow, Rolling Stone recounts local boy made good (and bad), Iggy Pop’s show at the Michigan Theater. Not as good as being there… but a nice rub-salt-in-the-wound for those who missed it. Excerpt: “The Michigan Theater – which is around the corner from where the Stooges first met and played together – is a gorgeous, restored movie palace from the Twenties. It’s the kind of place where they still tear your ticket because they don’t have scanners, and ushers immediately chastise anybody who steps one foot into the aisle. They were not prepared for Iggy. “I promised I wouldn’t do this,” he screamed about 20 minutes into the show. “We’re in a nice fucking theater…but invade the stage!” At least 100 fans dove onto the stage and crowded it to the point that Iggy was thrashed about like a rag doll and neared knocked down to the ground many times. It took a good five minutes for everybody to clear everybody off.” Read the rest of the story here.