Iggy Pop

“I was shooting away, not really paying attention to the actual action, when I caught a glint of something metallic in my viewfinder. Looking up, I saw that Iggy was clutching his microphone in one hand, had a nice-sized kitchen knife in the other, and he was covered in blood. He had slices and little stab wounds all over his chest. He jumped off of the stage and began climbing all over the audience, who seemed anxious to get covered in Iggy. I grabbed my wife and got the heck out of there!”

Iggy Pop performs at the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in West Hollywood, California, 1974. In 1996, this photo was used as the cover art for California Bleeding.