Tributes To Ron

http://www.nme.com/news/the-stooges/41922


Mogwai pay tribute The Stooges' Ron Asheton


Stuart Braithwaite calls the guitarist's work 'amazing'



Mogwai frontman Stuart Braithwaite has paid tribute to Ron Asheton – The Stooges guitarist who was found dead at his home yesterday (January 6).

Braithwaite has joined stars including Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and his bandmate Iggy Pop in speaking about Asheton's influence on music.

"I think the way he played guitar and the way The Stooges played as a band took rock music back to the primeval basics," Braithwaite told NME.COM.

He added: "He seemed to play really instinctively, really raw, he had amazing guitar playing. Songs like 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' were really simple but with the kind of riff that you can't believe no-one had thought of before. That was just absolutely amazing."

Asheton, who died aged 60, was found dead in his home after a suspected heart attack. Police reported that his body may have been there for several days.

Ann Arbor music community mourns death of Ron Asheton, guitarist for The Stooges

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/01/ann_arbor_music_community_mour.html

Ann Arbor music community mourns death of Ron Asheton, guitarist for The Stooges

by Roger Lelievre | The Ann Arbor News
Tuesday January 06, 2009, 2:16 PM

Friends and fans of influential rock guitarist Ron Asheton reacted with shock and sadness Tuesday as they learned that he had been found dead at his Ann Arbor home.

Asheton, 60, was a member of The Stooges, a garage-rock band formed here in 1967 and headlined by another former Ann Arborite, Iggy Pop. Asheton's buzz-saw guitar riffs on the band's first two albums helped build the foundation for punk rock.


Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead early today in his Ann Arbor home."I am in shock. He was my best friend," Pop said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon. Ranked No. 29 on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list, Asheton, who kept a low profile locally, was also known for his work with the area bands Destroy All Monsters, Dark Carnival and others.
"It's a real shocker. I was at Ron's house for his annual Christmas Eve party, everything seemed fine, he seemed healthy," said Scott Morgan, leader of the Stooges'-influenced Ann Arbor band Powertrane and a close friend of Asheton's since junior high school.

Morgan said Asheton will be remembered not only for his unique, three-note style of guitar playing, but for his down-to-earth attitude, a sentiment echoed by John Carver, who owned the Ann Arbor rock and roll club Second Chance in the 1970s and early '80s. Carver remembered Asheton as "a kind and gentle, good man ... a legendary figure from a legendary band."

Police were called to Asheton's house on Ann Arbor's west side early Tuesday by Asheton's personal assistant, who had not been able to reach him for several days. There was no sign of foul play or drug use, and Asheton likely had been dead for several days, police said.


MTV Shows: Last MTV video Interview with Ron Asheton



Alan Goldsmith, an Ann Arbor-based music journalist who knew Asheton for nearly 30 years, said his status never went to his head.

"He was always approachable and always helpful to local bands. And he could go on for hours with stories about show business and people he'd run into over the years."

"When the whole Stooge reunion happened (in 2005-07), he started to get attention and people were focusing on his place in history," Goldsmith said. "The last three or four years he was starting to get the notoriety, attention and financial rewards for all the work he had been doing. It's too bad he didn't get to enjoy that more."

Leni Sinclair, a Detroit-based rock music photographer, said she was saddened by the news.

"He was a mesmerizing guitar player. He was not a showman, he didn't show off very much, but if you listened it just got into your blood. I saw him at the Fox (Theater) when they had a reunion after a long absence. I was immediately transported back to the Grande Ballroom (a Detroit venue of the 1960s and '70s). He was one of the greatest guitar players coming out of this area, I believe."


The Stooges have been nominated several times, including this year, for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the band has not been inducted. This year's inductees are expected to be announced in late January.

In a 2007 interview with The News, Asheton said he didn't mind that The Stooges had been overlooked by the rock hall. "What, this is our third or fourth time turned down? I think it's really funny," he observed, adding that if the band did eventually get it, "That's cool. ... It would be nice to be there with the names that are there."

The Stooges completed an European tour last month.

Greg Upshur, of Stockbridge, recalled meeting Asheton in the early 1980s when his band, The Seatbelts, opened for Destroy All Monsters. The two hit it off and Asheton wound up producing a 45-rpm single for the Detroit area band.

"He was the sound of The Stooges. I don't think Iggy Pop would be Iggy Pop if it wasn't for Asheton's licks," Upshur observed. "I'm sure a lot of rock and roll people are going to very, very sad today."

An additional statement, attributed to Iggy Pop, Stooges drummer (and Asheton's brother) Scott Asheton, saxophonist Steve Mackay, bassist Mike Watt and The Stooges' management and crew reads:

"For all that knew him behind the facade of Mr. Cool & Quirky, he was a kind-hearted, genuine, warm person who always believed that people meant well even if they did not. ... As a musician Ron was 'The Guitar God,' idol to follow and inspire others."

Dianna Frank, an Asheton fan and marketing manager for concert booking agency Live Nation in Detroit, remembered Asheton as the calm in the midst of the storm that was a Stooges live show.

"Much like Neil Young or Keith Richards - great sloppy guitarists in their own right - (Asheton) proved that it's not necessary to be technically proficient to become one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time. I don't think there's another player out there who could match that psychotic, primal sound he had. His playing on The Stooges 'Fun House' record is just jaw dropping in its raw, brutalist power. He was unparalleled - nobody can match that sound.

"The sound coming from his guitar was just the most unbelievable thing I had ever heard; bursts of feedback-laced shrapnel. I was awe struck then, and I still am to this day every time I play their records," Frank said.

Asheton's body was taken to the University of Michigan Medical Center, where an autopsy was to be conducted. Cause of death won't be determined until toxicology reports are complete, which could take about a month.

Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

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Danny Fields who signed the Stooges to Elektra (and managed them briefly in '71) has written a tribute to Ron (with a great photo of Ron wearing his Iron Cross FIrst Class medal) can be found at:
http://thehoundblog.blogspot.com/
the same site the has the photo of the Stooges line up with Bill Cheetam and Zeke Zetner. There's a link there to a site called Never Get Off The Boat which has the Funhouse box for free download (look at the list of links on the right side of the page).

thanks nervousnorvus - that's a great pic of Ron and great tribute by Fields too

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jan/06/ron-asheton-stooges


The Stooges

The Stooges ... Ron Asheton (left), conveyed a sense of monotony and urgency

The curious perfection of Ron Asheton's guitar playing did not lie in his technical agility, but somehow in its flaws; a blemished, blistered kind of playing that bewildered some and inspired many.

Asheton, who has died suddenly of a suspected heart attack aged 60, was a former accordian player and Beatles obsessive who would go on to be co-songwriter and founder member of the Stooges, along with his brother Scott on drums, bassist Dave Alexander and inimitable frontman Iggy Pop. Borne of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the late 1960s they were a band fired up by the sound of the Stones, and Harry Partch, and Ravi Shankar, by Gregorian chants and the drone of the car plants, and Hendrix, the Who and MC5. They lived together, crashed about in basements in a muddle of marijuana and Farfisa keyboards, made a din and soon took to the stage.

When the Stooges signed to Elektra in 1968, it was on the strength of their live shows, which not only incorporated vacuum cleaners, peanut butter, genitalia and thrashing limbs, but showcased their half-jammed, half-growled songs of exhilaration, rebellion, boredom and the thumping desire to escape. As Lester Bangs put it "[they] carry a strong element of sickness in their music, a crazed quaking uncertainty and errant foolishness that effectively mirrors the absurdity and desperation of the times, but I believe that they also carry a strong element of cure, of post-derangement sanity."

It was Asheton who gave the Stooges that lurch, that feedbacked scrawl, that billow of bad air that still arises whenever their records play. Pop, for all his exquisite posturing, was essentially a nice boy, the kind of kid who won poetry contests and dreamed of being a Chicago blues drummer; Asheton was, in Pop's own estimation, "basically a thug" – a quality he deemed essential to the role. "They test you with that thug mentality," he once said of guitarists. "They ride you to the edge."

There was something vital about the way he played – though in the early days he could barely play at all, fuzz-toned and wah-wah-ed to the hilt – that managed to convey all the inarticulacy of adolescence, the sense of menace and compulsion and balled-up potential, not to mention the sheer red-bloodedness of youth. Consider the two-chord line that pulsed through 1969, a line that hovered between monotony and urgency, that told of the coming wave of another year, and provided a backdrop for Pop's deliberately throwaway lyrics: "Well it's 1969 OK, all across the USA/Another year for me and you/Another year with nothing to do." It sounded like a curdled version of a Beach Boys song.

A couple of years ago, I interviewed Pop about the re-formation of the Stooges, a band he said he associated with "disaster, flames, failure". He spoke of Ron quite tenderly then, with a respect and a warmheartedness, telling of the creative satisfaction he drew from working again with his original band of "troubled people" and most particularly, his favourite thug of a guitarist: "I tried to get them to do a song with Peaches on [Pop's solo album] Skull Ring and they refused," he laughed. "It was Ron actually. He's gonna kill me for saying this. I said, 'Go on the internet, check her out, you'll love her!' He left me a message: 'Jim, I looked at that Peaches. Bitch needs a shave.'"

on NME small tribute to Ron of Glenn Mattlock:
http://www.nme.com/news/the-stooges/41927

Ron Is Eternal

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/01/iggy_ron_asheton_is_eternal.html

IGGY POP HAS CONTACTED MOJO to reflect on the life and times of fallen Stooges’ guitarist Ron Asheton, whose death, at the age of 60, was confirmed on January 6.

Speaking to MOJO’s Editor-In-Chief Phil Alexander, the frontman admitted to being overwhelmed by Asheton’s tragic passing.

“It did seem as though he’d always be here,” agreed Iggy on the subject of Ron’s glowering presence. “Although this person was very fragile and I knew it, there was something eternal about him. He also had an eternal guitar style. It wasn’t really American muscle rock. It wasn’t R&B. It was so unique, they had to come up with a different way of describing it.”

Iggy also reflected on his 45-year relationship with Asheton, recalling his desire to form a band with him in the pre-Stooges days.

“I was a big, big fan of his even before he picked up the guitar,” commented Iggy. “I’d seen him play bass and I’d watched the way his fingers moved. He had that scuzzy, slightly ill/sensitive, unencumbered-by-musculature look that all good musicians should have. I thought, This guy would not look or sound out of place in the Stones, Kinks or Pretty Things. This guy’s got something that’s beyond just a local cover band.”

During the course of an hour-long conversation, Iggy also confirmed that he, Ron and drummer Scott Asheton had plans to record a follow-up to 2007’s The Weirdness for which material had already been written.

Iggy’s full tribute to Ron Asheton appears in the next issue of MOJO on sale on January 28.

Phil Alexander

Great Tributes to Ron, including James Williamson, Niagara and many more, plus Ron on front cover of Detroit's Metro Magazine.
http://metrotimes.com/music/story.asp?id=13608[/url]

thanks metallicko!

great avatar! could you post it in the ron photos thread?

metallicko wrote:

Great Tributes to Ron, including James Williamson, Niagara and many more, plus Ron on front cover of Detroit's Metro Magazine.
http://metrotimes.com/music/story.asp?id=13608[/url]

The link isnt working for me.

heavy liquid wrote:

metallicko wrote:

Great Tributes to Ron, including James Williamson, Niagara and many more, plus Ron on front cover of Detroit's Metro Magazine.
http://metrotimes.com/music/story.asp?id=13608[/url]

The link isnt working for me.

take out the [/url] at the end.

Shakes wrote:

heavy liquid wrote:

metallicko wrote:

Great Tributes to Ron, including James Williamson, Niagara and many more, plus Ron on front cover of Detroit's Metro Magazine.
http://metrotimes.com/music/story.asp?id=13608[/url]

The link isnt working for me.

take out the [/url] at the end.

lol, I didn't even realise that was there! Well I'm a retard! Thanks.

didnt realise that either HL!

thanks shakes

thanks metallicko!!!!!!!!!

metallicko wrote:

Great Tributes to Ron, including James Williamson, Niagara and many more, plus Ron on front cover of Detroit's Metro Magazine.
http://metrotimes.com/music/story.asp?id=13608[/url]

Great article. Thanks for sharing.

From ATP Festivals
http://www.atpfestival.com/atp/Events/ATPBreeders/News/View/0901061536-1.php
REGARDING THE DEATH OF RON ASHETON
All of us at ATP would like to express our deep sadness on hearing of the death of legendary Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton. The Stooges were one of the very first bands to play our Don't Look Back season, playing Fun House, and also appeared at two of our festivals. All of these shows were amazing and will live long in the memories of everyone who attended. Ron was a wonderful person to work with and will be sadly missed by all of us who met him.

I posted this in the other item, but it belongs here:

http://blurt-online.com/features/view/260/

my friend joe who used to work at SST sent me this email a short while ago and i believe that it's a forwarded message from mike watt - if it's already up here, sorry about that but thought i'd pass it along:

people,

finding hard to tell you about us losing brother ron asheton
to this world... but not his sound or spirit!

sailor w/mouth hung open, unfocused stare - trying to ponder
the sea, me.

so... bass

for ronnie
cats
love



push on w/cleveland friends finding so cal warm

scarcity of tanks

http://scarcityoftanks.blogspot.com

thursday, january 15 at 9 pm
at harold's place
1908 s. pacific av.
san pedro, ca
(310) 832-5503

friday, january 16 at 9:30 pm
at the smell
247 s. main st. (enter through back alley)
los angeles, ca
(213) 625-4325

saturday, january 17 at 10 pm
at di piazza's
5205 e. pacific coast highway
long beach, ca
(562) 498-2461



I just cut this stupid mustache off...

Wasn't sure where to post this - or whether people have seen this before, but I thought this was a really cool article about Ron and Iggy's relationship. It's four pages long so it inevitably focuses on Iggy a little bit more.

http://www.state.ie/blog/interview-the-stooges/

that was a great interview/article, Parry, thanks

cant believe all that animosity was only cleared up a couple years ago, and in ireland! lol

obviously iggy knew it had hurt ron but i dont think he knew how much, im glad they reconciled before he died, thats something

Found Rock&Folk's February edition today. Two pages + two full-page pics. I can try and translate it. Nothing I found really original.

yeh translate it angusyd - you've done good ones before!

I've done it as good as I could, hope it's understandable. Okay, the article was written "in a hurry", but still some mistakes piss me off, like the mispelling of "Ann Arbor" or "fIREHOSE".

RON ASHETON
1948-2009
The Stooges’ guitarist died of a heart attack in his house in Ann Harbor, aged 60. Tribute to the man and his fundamental riffs and solos.

Ron Asheton is not dead. Guys like him never really kick the bucket. They just slip away, or forget to come home and let something behind them. Something to listen to, something to survive. The Stooges’ guitarist from 1967 to 2009 – with a break from 1974 to 2003 – plays on a lot of records which, hastily departed, he didn’t take with him. He left some hell of a trace, about fifteen albums, of the time he spent in earthling bands. What he didn’t leave was his secret and at the same time the mystery of his playing, simply the most vital in the history of an instrument whose course was deviated by Ron and a handful of other geniuses. Because, though the Stooges wouldn’t have been heard of without their leader, that ultimate rock’n’roll animal, original punk who drained the most radical terms of their meaning, everyone knows that without Asheton’s guitar, their music wouldn’t have branded people’s minds that way. It wouldn’t have revolutionized anything. Because that’s precisely the point with the Stooges, a band as fundamental as the Beatles, the Stones and the Velvet Unerground. Everyone else, let’s not forget it, just followed.

The scene takes place at night. On a French airport, in 2003. The airfield in Bourges gleams. Preceded by a roar over the trees and forecasted by a few lights shining in the dark, a jet lands on the runway with a commonplace din who barely makes Alain Lahana’s blue-jean tremble. Lahana is Iggy’s (with or without the Stooges) French booking agent. The steps come into contact with the plane’s door and Alain hurriedly climbs the stairs to greet Iggy. Hugs and introduction of the Asheton brothers. The lights of the city reflected in Ron’s eyes give him a child-like look. Standing at the top of the stairs like an emperor, he looks around, draws a long breath, tasting a joy he deserved but no longer expected. At the foot of the plane, he draws out a camera and asks a photo of him and the other Stooges. With the jet in the background. A behaviour that speaks volumes, for a picture which could never have been a keepsake. On his happy days, Iggy Pop maintains that it’s because Ron and Scott, his drummer brother, got him out of the gutter to form the Psychedelic Stooges in 1967 that he returned the favour, thirty-five years later, agreeing to re-form the band. Whatever the time and his own mood, Ron Asheton claimed that it was because Iggy had seen a Stooges Project gig in the beginning of the 2000’s that he had realized and been forced to admit he’d never been so good as with them. It’s maybe true, but it’s also arguable, and, in any case, beside the point. What really matters, and it’s what the Stooges’ close friends, who rarely express themselves, think – not to be confused with those who, since his departure, on the internet or wherever else, describe, with stock expressions, Ron Asheton’s personality, although they didn’t know him…- is that the dream came true.
Everyone’s pleased that the fate and the improved moods of the most concerned, have enabled that ultimate ride which lasted at least five years. Add the six first (until “Raw Power”), and, without really meaning it, the Stooges have played together longer than the Beatles. Sold less records, yes, but traumatized several generations of wannabe rockers, literally fascinated with their three first albums and consolidated in their certainty by prestigious go-betweens like the Sex Pistols, Nirvana or the White Stripes, three major bands, representative of their time periods, who, as they admit it themselves, wouldn’t have existed without the Stooges. “In France, ‘I Wanna Be You Dog’ is the new national anthem”, earnestly said Ron Asheton to the local Ann Harbor newspaper in 2007. Iggy just has to turn up in front of the stage and go ‘Now I wanna’, and the multitude yells ‘Be your dog!’…” Ron wasn’t lying. After a gig, the leader of a French rock band, of which no member was twenty yet, declared recently to his friends : “All Ron Asheton, all of his power is in the first bars of ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’. A striking mess of guitar which echoes the intro of Deep Purple’s ‘Speed King’, another killer song. Those first bars symbolize the power of rock, that no-one is able to pass better than Ron Asheton.”

Set the records of the primal rock straight
Born on the 17th of July, 1948, in Washington, Ronald Asheton tries several instruments, one of which being the accordion, before sticking to the guitar at the age of the first hairs. When his family moves to Ann Harbor, he plays in the Dirty Shames, then founds the Stooges with James Osterberg, former drummer in the Iguanas and the Prime Movers, already better known for his extravaganzas as Iggy. Legend claims that it’s on the Halloween night in 1967 that the band, also comprising Ron’s brother on drums and the bassist Dave Alexander, plays for the first time in its town, birthplace of groups such as Commander Cody, Bob Seger’s or those Rationals the guitarist loves. Spotted by Elektra when opening for the MC5, the Stooges bring out a self-titled album two years later, produced by John Cale. The basis of a powerful rock, as seminal as the urban pop of the Velvet Underground, are laid and reinforced with the release of “Fun House” the following year, even madder, but which doesn’t sell more than its predecessor. Elektra decides to get rid off the band of whose shows mostly turn into riots and whose songs the radios of that time refuse to air. In 1973, David Bowie, who has nose for these things and is on the crest, helps the Stooges, via his manager Tony Defries, to get a contract with CBS and to release the controversial “Raw Power”, which he makes a point to produce. Extreme – during a short stay in England, the Ashetons have seen the Who at the Cavern and have never gotten over it-, elusive, in both literal and figurative meanings, and ahead of half a decade of the punk movement it will later appear as the natural godfather, the band doesn’t survive this new commercial failure and Iggy Pop starts a solo career marked with highs and lows, less and less numerous as the years go by. After a couple of dull years, Ron Asheton will successively collaborate with New Order (no relation to the English band risen from the ashes of Joy Division) and Destroy All monsters, a very… destroy band, whose singer Niagara influenced most of the female rockers. At the beginning of the 80’s, Ron joins the ex-Radio Birdman, Rob Younger, Deniz Tek and Warwick Gilbert, and Dennis Thompson, former MC5 drummer. Under the name New Race, they give a series of memorable gigs whose spirit, a little chaotic, will be immortalized by the live album “The First And The Last”. After another drought period, Ron Asheton returns in the middle of the 90’s with The Empty Set, whose “Thin, Slim & None”, released in 1996, has as a bonus the album “Flunkie” published five years sooner. Against all expectations, he acts in “mosquito” (with Gunnar Hansen, star actor of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”) and can also be seen in two Z-movies, “Frostbiter : Wrath Of The Wendigo”(with Scott!) and “Legion Of the Night”. He then joins Niagara, to publish “The Last Great Ride” under the name of Dark Carnival. Although he doesn’t have only good memories of “Raw Power”, a record dominated by James Williamson, guitarist and composer who relegated him to the bass as a replacement for Dave Alexander (left behind because of severe alcoholism and dead in 1975), released in the middle of the glam era under Mainman’s control, Ron Asheton agrees, after an invention from Michael Stipe, to team with Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Mike Watt (Minutemen, Firehorse), Don Fleming (Gumball) and Mark Adam (Mudhoney) to be part of the soundtrack of “Velvet Goldmine”. Under the name Wylde Rattz, they deliver a thundering version of “TV Eye”. In the same breath, Jay Mascis, guitarist of Dinosaur Jr, and watt invite Ron Asheton to appear on stage with them for a few songs when they come to Ann Harbor. A handful of gigs followed and that’s how the Stooges Project was born, a band with various singers (Eddie Vedder, Josh Homme, Evan Dando, Bobby Gillespie…) and whose repertoire consists only of songs from the two first albums by the original band. Finally, on the 27th of April, 2003, Iggy Pop, the Asheton brothers and Mike Watt set foot on the big Coachella stage and set once and for all the records of the primal rock straight. A stroke of luck for the brothers Iggy has “shamefully dropped in the middle of the 70’s” according to some people, this one-off wasn’t one since the resurrected band will give other shows (the show on the 14th of April 2004 in Detroit was filmed for a DVD released by Pias), more often in France than anywhere else, thanks to an uncommon booking agent, and also to Rock&Folk, a magazine renowned for his unfailing support of the Stoogian cause. On the 13th of September 2003 in Magny-Cours, the band plays in France for the first time and will often set the French stages on fire until the first half of 2008. A year before, the Stooges had finally released a follow-up to “Raw Power” with the honest “The Weirdness”, recorded nice and quickly in 16-tracks (without a single computer in the studio) by Steve Albini.

His best friend
Apparently, a heart attack did it, and Ron Asheton’s body was found on his sofa, on the 6th of January 2009, several days after his death. The autopsy will probably say more. In Ann harbour, they talk about a Christmas disrupted by quarrels, about guitars quickly loaded in a van. We don’t want to know anything about this. We prefer, without even closing our eyes, see Iggy and his Stooges, on an equal footing – the singer and the Asheton brothers shared in three equal parts the profits of their reunion – on the Zénith stage, at the Palais des Sports or on the Rouen docks, closing the Armada. Or imagine them arriving in a van on the beaches of the Normandy landings, where Ron Asheton had chosen to take a walk during a short break in June 2006, with the Grand Hotêl in Cabourg as a base. A feat, because, on tour, Ron would never leave his room (he barely agreed to go for a drink for his 57th birthday after the gig at the Voix Du Gaou in 2005). Excessively stressed, anxious of being late (a genuine phobia), “keen to get bored” according to close friends, Ron Asheton lived above all for the magic moments he spent on stage with the Stooges. For the two brothers, this reformation was some kind of a miracle, and we expect that Scott sink into the gaping void left by Ron. At the moment of giving that article, written in a hurry by a single person, but that the whole crew probably whises to sign, Iggy Pop just declared he had “lost his best friend”. We deliberately left him alone, but let him know we were there, whatever happens. For him and his eternal band. Up above, Dave Alexander will plug his bass again and Art Collins, Iggy’s manager, deceased in 2005, rubs his hands. He’s already got half of the Stooges.

JEROME SOLIGNY

Angusyd van Hyman wrote:

. What he didn’t leave was his secret and at the same time the mystery of his playing, simply the most vital in the history of an instrument whose course was deviated by Ron and a handful of other geniuses. b][/size]

well, they got this part absolutely right!


thanks angusyd!

this Jerome guy is a believer..

Thanks Angusyd!

"..the Stooges have played together longer than the Beatles. Sold less records, yes,
but traumatized several generations of wannabe rockers.."

"Up above, Dave Alexander will plug his bass again and Art Collins, Iggy’s manager,
deceased in 2005, rubs his hands. He’s already got half of the Stooges"

hahahahaha