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Lot #7399
Iggy Pop Original 1977 'King Biscuit Flower Hour' Reel-to-Reel Tape

Estimate: $400+

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Description

Original 7-inch reel-to-reel tape containing a recorded broadcast of an early Iggy Pop performance on the King Biscuit Flower Hour on May 15, 1977, which also aired a performance by hard rock band Nazareth. The reel comes with its original storage box marked on the spine, “British Biscuit Iggy Pop #1,” and the cover bears an affixed label: “British Biscuit, Iggy Pop/Nazareth, May 15, 1977,” marks above in pencil, “KSAN.” Includes its original broadcast timing sheet from DIR (D.I.R. Broadcasting Corporation), the syndicator of King Biscuit Flower Hour, giving instructions on how to air the show. The Nazareth reel is not included. In overall fine condition.

From the archives of Norman Davis, the co-host of the pioneering punk radio show The Outcastes on KSAN-FM in San Francisco, America's first regularly scheduled punk rock radio show. For nearly two years, The Outcastes went live every Friday night from 2 to 4 a.m. (Saturday morning) and featured some of punk’s biggest early stars, including Devo, The Cramps, Roky Erickson, The Nuns, The Dead Boys, Iggy Pop, and the Sex Pistols. He interviewed Paul Cook and Steve Jones on January 13, 1978, a day before the band’s final concert at the Winterland. The interview was notorious for its airing of unedited expletives used by Cook and Jones, profanity that could have potentially cost the radio station its license.

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