"Thanks a Million Ron" Jan 17th Detroit

"Thanks a Million Ron" Jan 17th: Detroit Music Hall for the Performing Arts.

RON ASHETON TRIBUTE NIGHT
Niagara and Colonel Galaxy invite friends to pay tribute to the late Stooges guitarist, Ron Asheton as they host, “Ronnie…Thanks A Million”, Saturday, January 17th at 9PM at the historic Music Hall Center For The Performing Arts in downtown Detroit.

Details here from the Barman at the I-94 Bar:

http://www.i94bar.com/newspage.html

cb
http://iggypop.org

sounds like a real special night!

think iggy will shock the world and show up?

he's in canada is he not, doing that suspect ''Suck" thing?

though he probly wouldnt show up anyway, altho i dont think it would be in a snobby way, just he wouldnt want to

I will probley go.

This will be the only public event honoring Ron. The funeral will be private. Donations to the animal fund...more later,

cb
http://iggypop,org

I wish I lived in Detroit

I will be there for sure.

G, F#, E wrote:

I wish I lived in Detroit

Same here.

Me too. I'm in the middle of the desert! lol.

StoogesMySpaceAdmin wrote:

Me too. I'm in the middle of the desert! lol.

At least you're in the right country!

Oh. Oh yeah. lol.

so, anybody think iggy's gonna show?

I do, I think Iggy will show up.

for anybody who goes to this...
obviously, we are all expecting a full report...

Yeah, feel free to email me @ the myspace page. Thanks.

apparently there were appearances by cheetah chrome, scott asheton and various dark carnival members. i found very little info when i searched the internet earlier but i would expect full reports to appear soon.

hmmm...
i'm kind of surprised there wasn't an immediate report from detroit area members of this board...

i found this:

Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton honored at tribute

BY BILL McGRAW • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • January 17, 2009


One of the best moments of the memorial tribute for famed Stooges' guitarist Ron Asheton at the Music Hall Saturday night came after several punkish bands had taken the stage and kicked out raw, driving numbers, including some Stooges tunes.


Out on the stage marched Terry Bradley with a set of bagpipes. He wore a plaid kilt and official bagpiper's uniform, and he stood ramrod straight as he piped "MacCrimmon's Lament," a mournful tune whose droning notes filled the auditorium and silenced the partying crowd.


As Bradley played, video clips projected on the stage's rear wall showed Asheton playing in such local bands as Destroy All Monsters and Dark Carnival, and the videos also featured the artist Niagara performing in an outfit that included an undergarment with tassles. One clip showed a man wagging his tongue.


"One of Ron's last wishes was to be piped to the afterlife," said Bradley.


That melange of images and sounds captured the anarchistic nature of the tribute to Asheton, who was found dead of natural causes in his Ann Arbor home Jan. 6. He was 60.


The snowy night and a huge crowd for a monster truck show at nearby Ford Field delayed the arrival of some audience members, who drifted in throughout the evening, many with a drink or two in hand.


"This is one of those situations that Ronnie would have found hysterical," said the emcee, Colonel Galaxy, a local music scene figure. "A blizzard and monster trucks."


While Asheton was not a household name, he was highly influential in the world of rock music, and cofounded the legendary Stooges in 1967 in Ann Arbor with his brother Scott and the famous Iggy Pop, who did not appear on stage Saturday night.


Rolling Stone named Asheton the 29th greatest guitarist of all time, and when Asheton died, the highly regarded Guardian newspaper of London said in an obituary that his "aggressive and elemental guitar playing" was responsible for much of the Stooges' sound.


On Saturday night, musicians and speakers honored Asheton's memory as a pioneer who showed the way for a couple of generations of guitarists.


"Ron Asheton in my opinion was what punk rock was all about," said John Holmstrom, editor and founder of the New York-based Punk magazine. "For every punk band I covered in the 1970s, the Stooges were the No. 1 influence."


Ricky Rat, a guitarist for Bootsey X and the Lovemasters, who performed at the tribute, said when he heard the Stooges' "I Want to Be Your Dog" for the first time, he said, "Wow! What's this?"


Rat added: "You couldn't compare it to anything. Millions of people in the world could play the guitar to 'I Want to Be Your Dog.' But no one could play it quite like him."

Cool. Thanks for posting.

thanks for the article, sounds like a good night and fitting tribute

never thought I'd see 'Macrimmond's Lament' mentioned in a Stooges context...

thanks for posting

There's a short video on youtube :
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=PlhkwEVRA9s&feature=channel

Didn't know bagpipes could sound like this.

it's beautiful
listening to it.. makes me sad again

that was nice, hope they all enjoyed it, wish i couldve been there, ill have to go to detroit someday, since it was his favourite place and just for the whole stooges, MC5, sonics rendezvous thing really, and motown, waow alot happened there, and to visit the grave

thanks for posting