Veteran filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s anxiously awaited Stooges’ docu is set to make its debut in New York on October 28th and Los Angeles on November 4th. Gimme Danger – which seems to riff on the title of The Rolling Stones’ 1970 documentary, Gimme Shelter – premiered in Canada last week at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In advance of the big U.S. screenings, Jarmusch and his team are fanning the flames of anticipation with a teaser a clip – one that captures Pop’s infamous “peanut butter incident.” Clearly, this was one of the formative moments in punk-rock’s bare-knuckled, completely unapologetic, climb to the top.
Check out the footage (below). The scene is set at a Stooges’ show in Cincinnati in June of 1970, just as punk was blowing up the American music scene. A shirtless (go figure) Iggy Pop is making forays from the stage out into the rabid crowd on the floor. He eventually stands atop the skyward-reaching hands of audience members as if he’s surfing on a human wave. Then, out comes the peanut butter.What happens next could ruin PB&J sandwiches for you, forever. Behind the condiment-smearing Pop, the band plays an extended version of the ripper “1970″ (also known as “I Feel Alright”) from The Stooges’ album, Fun House (1970).
In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Iggy and The Stooges #78 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. Not too shabby for a group of unassuming kids from Ann Arbor, MI.
Here’s the clip via Rolling Stone:
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