Admit it, when Iggy and the Stooges were in their formative stages, would anyone have guessed a Stooge would have lived to be 60? Ron Asheton, the immortal guitarist who defined The Stooges , died Jan. 6 of undetermined causes. Ron also was instrumental in the Ann Arbor band Destroy All Monsters, working with the always-fascinating Niagara. RIP brother Ron. I'll always want to be your dawg.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Dead Stooges, Dead Dawgs - Asheton RIP
Admit it, when Iggy and the Stooges were in their formative stages, would anyone have guessed a Stooge would have lived to be 60? Ron Asheton, the immortal guitarist who defined The Stooges , died Jan. 6 of undetermined causes. Ron also was instrumental in the Ann Arbor band Destroy All Monsters, working with the always-fascinating Niagara. RIP brother Ron. I'll always want to be your dawg.
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Man you're into a whole slew of music I've never heard of. I'll have to go glom off amazon .com and listen to the little blurbs of your taste...!
When I was like 13 or 14, my mama said, "I don't care if you go listening to that Frank Zappa or Alice Cooper, but don't you ever go listen to that Iggy and the Stooges." So of course I was sold. Thanks, mom.
RunninL8, I should mention that Terry Gross closed her Fresh Air show on NPR today with a memorial spin of "Search and Destroy" by Iggy and the Stooges. What a pop culture moment! Almost made me cry.
"I'm a street-walkin' cheater with a
heart full of napalm.
I'm the runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb."
Gotta love it.
oh no... I love "I wanna be your dog"... I have it on my blog playlist..
gotta live each day like it is your last.. I keep forgetting that... too bad it always takes things like this to remind us...
i just listened to a few minutes of "My Idea of Fun" so I could relate to your loss.
Rock on Ann Arbor,
and rock on Loring
Wow, I didn't even know the song "My Idea of Fun"!
Bill Holdship, former editor of Creem and an old friend from East Lansing, just did this ultimate front-cover Ron Asheton tribute in the Metro Times:
http://metrotimes.com/music/story.asp?id=13608
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