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Fuck this slays me. If you don't know who The Stooges are do yourself a favor and run to pick up a copy of Funhouse. You can hear everyband you are listening to now in that record.
From Pitchfork Media: According to the Ann Arbor News, Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead this morning in his home on the city's west side. Asheton's personal assistant contacted police last night after not being able to reach him. Police found his body on his living room couch, and he appeared to have died several days ago. No causes have been reported yet, but police don't suspect foul play. Asheton was 60 years old.
Along with his brother, drummer Scott, Asheton was one of the four founding members of the Stooges, and he stayed with the band throughout its ridiculously influential initial seven-year run, from 1967 to 1974. On Raw Power, the band's third album, he gave up the guitarist spot to new member James Williamson, switching instead to bass. After the band's breakup, Asheton did time with bands like Destroy All Monsters and New Race. Asheton reunited with the Stooges in 2003, first appearing on Iggy Pop's Skull Ring and then on the much-bashed 2007 reunion album The Weirdness.
If you don't know who The Stooges are do yourself a favor and run to pick up a copy of Funhouse.
^^THIS^^
I really cannot stress this enough. Fun House is one of those very, very select few albums that I can honestly say changed my life; completely took everything I thought I knew about punk (music in general, really) and just shook it up and flipped it on its head. The Stooges basically invented the U.S. protopunk scene in the late sixties / early seventies. As Garageland said, that album has influenced - at least to some extent - pretty much every musician out there today, and many from the past as well. The White Stripes, Sonic Youth, The Sex Pistols, Red Hot Chili Peppers... the list goes on and on.
I cant add anything that the two guys above me didnt already say. Just that losing Ron Ashton is a terrible loss for all of us that like any music. His work has influenced everything over the last couple of decades.
Post by lordrockinhood on Jan 6, 2009 18:49:18 GMT -5
"September 22, 2008, The Stooges were nominated to possibly be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The inductees will be announced in January 2009"
So glad I got to see them last year, everyone should listen to Funhouse tonight
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