In that Metro Times piece, there's also a weird exchange with Kim Fowley. When asked to supply his memories of Ron, he just ends up talking about himself. Really bizarre and really unattractively self-absorbed, and more than a little deranged and unhinged.
It should really be titled 'Kim Fowley's Top 5 Memories of Kim Fowley', or even 'Kim Fowley's Top 5 Memories of Ron Asheton's Memories of Kim Fowley'.
"KIM FOWLEY, PRODUCER, WRITER, HUSTLER, LEGEND
Kim Fowley's Top 5 Memories of Ron Asheton:
1) Ron Asheton and some of the Stooges told me they'd heard "Outrageous" by Kim Fowley before they cut their first album.
2) Ron's singer, Iggy Pop, told me personally that he loved "Secret Police" by the Belfast Gypsies, produced and co-written by Kim Fowley.
3) Ron Asheton called me in Santa Monica, Calif., one morning in the early '70s and asked me if I wanted to be the new singer of the Stooges. I replied "No."
4) Ron Asheton asked me to come to a jam when he and Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson were forming the New Order. I showed up and ate fast food but didn't sing.
5) Ron Asheton called me on the phone in the late '70s and declared Niagara to be GOD."