Motorbooty #5 featured a tour of the Stooges Wax Museum.

Mythical (or is it?) museum for the works and career of Iggy Pop. Also known as the "Stooges Wax Museum", it was located - or would have, had it existed - in the ICC's Luther Buchele Cooperative House on Hill Street, which was also the one-time home of the evolving stream of the MC5, the White Panther Party, and the Rainbow People's Party.

Overheard by Bob Dively: Customer in music section: "Do you have any Iggy Pop?" Target Kid: "The pop is over the food section."

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• After 40 years, "The Stooges" — local band's landmark album — still strikes a chord, AnnArbor.com, August 2009

Forty years ago this month, the album “The Stooges” was released by the Ann Arbor band founded by Iggy Pop, to nearly non-existent sales and generally scathing reviews. Still, it has survived the test of time as one of the — if not the — records most often cited as inspiring the punk rock movement.

• TMQ Zine Archive reviews Motorbooty #5 (1990), with its MC5 interviews and feature on the Stooges Wax Museum
• Photo of the "Stooges Wax Museum" by flickr's immame; all rights reserved
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art holds Martin Schoeller's 'Iggy Pop' 2001 Chromogenic print; it's not on display, and the image is not on the web.
• Iggy Pop @ Get Loaded in the Park, Gig Reviews on New-Noise.Net

Since Trainspotting, Pop’s cult status has only grown more formidable – the band's recent name-check in Juno tells you all you need to know about what the smart kids are thinking. But unlike youth heroes of "the Forever 27 club”, Iggy Pop is immortal. He’s like the Highlander – the only way to dispatch with him is a swift beheading. And don’t think he hasn’t tried. Pop is a living museum piece, but more a hands-on exhibit in the Science Museum to the Rolling Stones’ dusty relics.

• Don't Get Fooled Again, Metafilter.
• The Indianapolis Art Museum wants Iggy to start a blog.
• Iggy Pop on the Dinah Shore show, 1977, Boing Boing

He reveals to Dinah Shore that his mom worked at a military technology company that made bombs and missiles, and his dad ("Mister Pop") taught media communications at a local high school. At the time, brothers Tony and Hunt Sales, sons of the recently departed comedian Soupy Sales, were playing in Iggy's band.