{"id":806418,"date":"2020-04-15T13:11:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=984595"},"modified":"2020-04-15T13:11:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:11:43","slug":"iggy-pop-pays-tribute-to-punk-style-icon-jimmy-webb-proust-in-streetwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/iggy-pop-pays-tribute-to-punk-style-icon-jimmy-webb-proust-in-streetwear\/","title":{"rendered":"Iggy Pop Pays Tribute to Punk Style Icon Jimmy Webb: \u2018Proust in Streetwear\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iggy Pop<\/a> paid tribute to Jimmy Webb<\/a> \u2014 the punk style icon and New York City boutique owner beloved by rock royalty \u2014 in a statement to Rolling Stone<\/em> following Webb\u2019s death Tuesday at the age of 62<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJimmy was a ragged ray of sunshine in a world that\u2019s getting darker,\u201d Pop wrote. \u201cBeing close with Jimmy involved a deluge of flowers, gifts, voice mails, texts and very long telephone conversations. The flowers tended to be fantastically huge floral arrangements and the gifts invariably wrapped in pink leopard skin, spritzed with glitter and little gold stars like the kind you get in kindergarten for being a very good boy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Pop also reminisced about meeting Webb for the first time. \u201cI first heard of Jimmy from a couple of frightened co-workers at Trash and Vaudeville, the New York rock boutique he managed for years,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThey told me I had a stalker but Jimmy wasn\u2019t that bad, just a relentlessly enthusiastic fan who enjoyed your fame and oddity so much he wants to be you, and why not?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the kind of guy who you don\u2019t think you would miss until you do and then you miss him a lot, kind of Proust in streetwear, showing his asscrack.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Webb died Tuesday following a bout with cancer. Following his death, artists like Billie Joe Armstrong, Duff McKagan, Sebastian Bach and more shared remembrances of the longtime Trash and Vaudeville manager who later opened his own NYC shop, I Need More. <\/span>\u201cI knew he had been battling an illness for a long time and he showed incredible stamina and pluck in the fight,\u201d Pop added. \u201cThis is someone whose grave will be visited with flowers, cigarettes and love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Read Pop\u2019s entire tribute to Webb below:<\/span><\/p>\n

Jimmy was a ragged ray of sunshine in a world that\u2019s getting darker. He became close with my wife Nina and I over the years. Being close with Jimmy involved a deluge of flowers, gifts, voice mails, texts and very long telephone conversations. The flowers tended to be fantastically huge floral arrangements and the gifts invariably wrapped in pink leopard skin, spritzed with glitter and little gold stars like the kind you get in kindergarten for being a very good boy. Both in texting and long hand, Jimmy never used the cursive or any smaller case letters, everything was in full speed caps with unending exclamation points. I first heard of Jimmy from a couple of frightened co- workers at Trash and Vaudeville, the New York rock boutique he managed for years. They told me I had a stalker but Jimmy wasn\u2019t that bad, just a relentlessly enthusiastic fan who enjoyed your fame and oddity so much he wants to be you, and why not?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This is the kind of guy who you don\u2019t think you would miss until you do and then you miss him a lot, kind of Proust in street wear, showing his asscrack. For some years now, Jimmy lived alone in a basement apartment in Murray Hill and dedicated his life to his store \u2018I Need More\u2019, and to the people he collected through that theatre and a theatre it was, and he was it\u2019s star, gossiping, laughing, cackling but always encouraging and spotlighting what he thought was beautiful about the people and world around him. It was his dream to have a store-as-theater like this, in the tradition of let it rock, manic panic and Trash and Vaudeville, also to be somebody and he really was so, he got where he needed to go. I knew he had been battling an illness for a long time and he showed incredible stamina and pluck in the fight.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This is someone whose grave will be visited with flowers, cigarettes and love.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iggy Pop paid tribute to Jimmy Webb \u2014 the punk style icon and New York City boutique owner beloved by rock royalty \u2014 in a statement to Rolling Stone following Webb\u2019s death Tuesday at the age of 62. \u201cJimmy was a ragged ray of sunshine in a world that\u2019s getting darker,\u201d Pop wrote. \u201cBeing close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 01:31:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}