Danny Says Page #9

I couldn't even answer that.

- Danny:
They were f***ing up,

- I didn't know what to do.

It was not something I was

equipped to deal with.

There's no...

You cannot...

cope with heroin use in

someone you're working with,

or as a partner,

or you're dependent on.

That's the worst drug

in the world.

And if it's someone you love,

it's tragic,

but you're helpless,

and everything

is gonna self-destruct.

Boy...

I think when I said enough was

when The Stooges rented a truck

and they went under one of those

highway overpasses where it says.

"If you're over 12 feet tall,

don't come under this thing"

(imitates engine)

And they destroyed the truck.

The top was shaved off.

They destroyed everything in it,

all the instruments and stuff

which they were liable for.

They destroyed the overpass!

So when I got a bill

from the city of Ann Arbor

for whatever it costs to repair

a concrete highway bridge,

that was enough.

So no, no, no,

this is a sign.

I'm so proud of the way

that Scott Asheton, our drummer,

drove the 12-foot U-Haul

under the 10.5 foot underpass.

The top of that U-haul

literally peeled back

exactly like.

Popeye's can of spinach.

Gladly handed.

Iggy and his music

and his dancing

and his band and his antics

and his bills

to David Bowie.

I'm happy to do it,

he didn't keep me on board.

I got out

when the going got tough.

Otherwise I could have said,

"I'm giving up everything

in my life, and..."

I have to pee, I have to...

"...giving up everything

in my life for Iggy

and sweeping everything aside,

and I'll move into

a cheaper apartment and

get a different lifestyle,

- and stop using drugs.

- 'cause they're expensive and...

It'll all be for Iggy."

Well, I didn't.

I don't know if I could have!

Iggy:

I was staying in Danny's house,

and he had gone out to Max's,

and he started calling me.

- "You really should.

- Get down here,

David Bowie is down here and...

You could do yourself some

good, he wants to meet you."

And I was watching.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,

repeatedly on the verge of tears

as I saw Mr. Smith confronted by

the foul corruption

of the status quo

and the people in charge.

But finally I thought...

- (sighs)

- "Okay."

- (clicks fingers)

- They started talking.

So fast about...

"One thing I hate most

in the world, music."

And...

I was so glad to just say...

They hit it off such big time

because they're both so smart.

(phone ringing)

- Nico:
Hello.

- Danny:
Hi.

- Nico:
Who's this?

- Danny:
Danny.

- Nico:
Oh, Danny!

- Danny:
Yes, hello.

Nico:
Hi,

are you at the Tropicana?

Danny:
Yes, I am.

Who's working for you?

Nico:
Warner Brothers,

but they aren't very bright.

Danny:
No, I'll see, we should

be able to get you something.

Nico:
Yes. I need to work.

- Danny:

- Yes, I want you to work.

- Nico:
How's the weather?

- Danny:
Beautiful.

- Nico:
Yes?

- Danny:
Yes, it is.

How's the weather there?

It's cold, huh?

- Nico:
Hmm, a little.

- Danny:
Yeah.

(Nico sighs)

- Okay, I'll talk to you.

- Later, darling, okay?

- Nico:
Yes.

- Danny:
Give my love to Paul.

Nico:
Okay.

- Danny:
Call me here.

- f anything comes up.

- I'll see what I can do.

- Out here and

- I'll call you back.

- To let you know, okay?

- Nico:
Yes, please.

- Danny:
Okay, for sure, I will.

- Nico:
Okay.

- Danny:
Okay, baby, be good.

Nico:
You too, bye-bye.

- ("Evening of Light"

- by Nico plays)

Danny was close to

the entire Andy Warhol crowd.

And one day he brought Nico in,

and I knew who Nico was.

- And she brought in.

- Her little harmonium,

And she sat and she played.

Lord of lunacy

In the moon

of the frozen beyond...

(imitates harmonium)

And as usual, he sat there when

I'd bring up an artist and...

"Like, well, I guess so!"

You know, here comes...

Get me John Cale

on the phone once again.

Jac:
Was it off the wall?

Unbelievably so.

But so what?

- It's not gonna be.

- An expensive record to make.

And she's an interesting artist,

and let just see what happens.

Danny:
And she sat...

And read books of poetry

looking for a title.

And she found it in Wordsworth,

"The marble index

of the mind gone..."

something or other.

And she liked that phrase.

She was... a poet.

Jac:
Danny was having continual

problems with Bill Harvey,

and Bill Harvey came to me

one day and he said,

"Either Danny goes or I go."

- Danny:

- He called me into his office,

Blamed me for circulating

this water cooler rumor about

his daughter's pregnancy.

- Then he started.

- Punching me in the head,

And saying, "Get out, get out!"

Jac:
I said, "I know

he's an irritant to you,

I think he has value...

But I probably am not gonna

fight you on this one."

And I didn't.

- And it was probably the correct.

- Decision for the business,

But it wasn't quite the correct

decision for my conscience.

Danny has always been...

the sand in the oyster

around which

you hope to grow a pearl.

- Danny:

- And that was my last day there.

It was best to leave

after your boss

punches you in the head.

I wouldn't stick around.

(laughs)

I was not wanted.

- Saw The Cockettes at the Palace.

- Theater in San Francisco,

And of course I loved them,

they did "Pearls Over Shanghai".

- Then they were coming.

- To New York,

So I found out

who the promoter was,

- who was bringing them here,

- and I said,

"Well, let me be

their press agent."

("Pearls Over Shanghai"

(by The Cockettes plays)

- Fayette Hauser:

- Every single time I saw him.

n the office at the Anderson,

he was on the phone,

corralling every single person

who had any fame and glory

in the city at the time

to come to this opening,

and they did.

They sat there stone-faced,

waiting for a performance

that was more polished

than the kind of

instantaneous, anti-theater rave

that we were communicating

in San Francisco.

The famous one is, Angela.

Lansbury stood up and said,

- "Let's get the f***.

- Out of here!"

And the audience began to flee.

But Danny, unphased,

went forward with it all

and got us

as much press as possible.

Art needs

a translator like that.

Danny was a catalyst

for a lot of people.

Some people can be artists,

can be great,

but they can be floating

in the sphere,

unrecognized or unknown.

He would bring the artist

into the society and

put them on a platform and

define the platform and say,

"Here, this is the artist that

you need to pay attention to."

Danny:
At that point, as at

many others, I needed a job.

And my best friend, Steve Paul,

- said he needed.

- A personal assistant.

And someone to drive him around.

His dream was that the Winter

brothers were gonna be

unstoppable, inevitable,

on television, on parades

and in Super Bowls.

Because what could be better

than two albinos!

Whoa, think of the visuals.

One of them is the world's

fastest blues player.

Is that...

That's an oxymoron.

The blues is...

(imitates blues slow sound)

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