TV Eye Live 1977 or is a live album by Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...

 originally released in 1978. Iggy took a $90 000 advance from RCA Records

RCA Records

RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...

 to finish out his contract with a live album. According to allmusic.com, the album was assembled from soundboard tapes. Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...

 doctored them in a German studio, quickly and cheaply for around $5,000. The album features recordings from concerts at The Agora

Agora Theatre and Ballroom

The Agora Theatre and Ballroom is a concert club located in Cleveland, Ohio. The Agora name was previously used by two other Cleveland venues in succession, the latter of which was destroyed by fire in 1984...

 in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

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 on March 21 & 22, 1977; The Aragon

Aragon Ballroom (Chicago)

The Aragon Ballroom is the name of a ballroom in Chicago, Illinois.Located on West Lawrence Avenue approximately five miles north of downtown in the Uptown neighborhood, it was built in 1926 and designed in the Moorish architectural style with the interior resembling a Spanish village and named...

 in Chicago, Illinois on March 28, 1977 and The Uptown Theater

Uptown Theater (Kansas City)

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 in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

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 on October 26, 1977.

The album is notable for the presence of David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 on keyboards

Keyboard instrument

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 and background vocals for selected tracks and the rather crushing bass

Bass guitar

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 and drum

Drum

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 sound.

Track listing

1. "T.V. Eye"
2. "Funtime
   Funtime (Iggy Pop song)
   "Funtime" is a song written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop, first released by Pop on his 1977 album The Idiot.It has since been covered by multiple artists, including Blondie, Boy George, Bebe Buell, R.E.M. and The Cars.- Details :...
   
   "
3. "Sixteen"
4. "I Got A Right"
5. "Lust For Life"
6. "Dirt"
7. "Nightclubbing"
8. "I Wanna Be Your Dog"

Personnel

• Iggy Pop: vocals
• David Bowie
  David Bowie
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
  
  : piano (on tracks 1, 2, 6 & 8)
• Ricky Gardiner
  Ricky Gardiner
  Ricky Gardiner is a guitarist and composer.He has played in his own outfit, Beggars Opera, and also with David Bowie and Iggy Pop. For Bowie he played lead guitar on the 1977 album Low. He worked with Pop on Lust for Life the same year. The album included "The Passenger", regarded as one of Pop's...
  
  : guitar (on tracks 1, 2, 6 & 8)
• Stacey Heydon: guitar (on tracks 3, 4, 5 & 7)
• Scott Thurston
  Scott Thurston
  Scott Troy Thurston is an American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and session musician. He is currently a member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, in which he sings harmony vocals and plays guitar, keyboards, and harmonica....
  
  : guitar, piano, harmonica, synthesizer (on tracks 3, 4, 5 & 7)
• Tony Sales
  Tony Sales
  |Tony Fox Sales is an American rock musician. A bass guitarist, Sales and his brother, Hunt Sales, played with Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop and Tin Machine with David Bowie.-Early life and career:...
  
  : bass
• Hunt Sales
  Hunt Sales
  Hunt Sales is an American rock and roll drummer who has played with Todd Rundgren, his brother Tony Sales, Iggy Pop and Tin Machine.- Personal life : Hunt Sales is the son of 1950s/60s television comedian Soupy Sales...
  
  : drums

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