Got my first Stooges album when I was in the 6th grade in 1970.

I still have it.

For their genre, The Stooges had no equal.

RIP, Ron.

Damn, another good one bites the dust.

The RIPs are already pouring in teh ole UtubeZ.

RIP Ron. Enjoy the "Funhouse"

Rest easy Ron.

Ron at his finest:

And while we are on the subject, fuck David Bowie for the production job he did on "Raw Power".

That's like hypnotizing chickens.

Iggy pop and the stooges are a perfect example of why music is awesome.

And while we are on the subject, fuck David Bowie for the production job he did on "Raw Power".

#7 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-01-06 06:08 PM | Reply

Get the remastered version. The production is better.

But since you brought Bowie up, screw him for taking Iggy in a new direction that gave us "Lust for Life" and "Real Wild One." I'm sure Iggy enjoys cashing the checks for those two T.V. jingles.

I'll never forget when a mate of mine and I were in Syracuse back in the early 90s watching Marilyn Manson at a small club before he hit it big.

We were right next to the stage and every time between songs, we'd shout at him "HEY, IGGY! PLAY SOME STOOGES TUMES, MAN!"

If you've never seen Marily Manson have a giggle-fit, it's really something to behold.

I know, tangential to the article, but it proves how influential the Stooges really were.

But since you brought Bowie up, screw him for taking Iggy in a new direction that gave us "Lust for Life" and "Real Wild One." I'm sure Iggy enjoys cashing the checks for those two T.V. jingles.

#12 | Posted by anton

That whole "Main Man" group led by Ton Defries fucked up more than one artist during that period.

I saw Iggy hanging out in a Detroit club years ago. He made Keith Richards look like a poster child for health.

He made Keith Richards look like a poster child for health.

#15 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2009-01-07 09:41 AM | Reply

Iggy is a mixed bag. His face looks like it has been run over by a lawn tractor. His body is scarred pretty badly due, at least in part, to self-mutilation. Otherwise, the guy is ripped.

I think Iggy should be a role model to the youth of America. There is nothing wrong with self-mutilation

ANTON

Iggy must have left his addictions behind. He must have to still be alive and kicking.

Iggy must have left his addictions behind. He must have to still be alive and kicking.

That doesn't explain Keith Richards, AU.

Or even Hunter Thompson. If he hadn't shot himself over a knee injury, he'd probably still be around.

Hell, it doen't explain ME!

"Hell, it doen't explain ME!"

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy . . .

REV

Look at the pic WISGOD posted.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy . . .

"Peyote, cocaine, mushrooms, NyQuil, BC Bud, absinthe, two tabs of blotter and a bagel are part of a balanced breakfast." - Rev. Damien Darko; 2004.

""Peyote, cocaine, mushrooms, NyQuil, BC Bud, absinthe, two tabs of blotter and a bagel are part of a balanced breakfast." - Rev. Damien Darko; 2004."

Are you kidding? That NyQuil stuff will kill you.

"Peyote, cocaine, mushrooms, NyQuil, BC Bud, absinthe, two tabs of blotter and a bagel are part of a balanced breakfast."

Which reminds me, Rev. Somehow I missed your New Year's Eve bash. I'm not sure exactly where I went or what happened but it's been coming back to me in little bits and shattered pieces like an acid flashback from an Arthur Brown-Grateful Dead-Iron Butterfly concert on a dark and stormy night in the pass leading to the field of Armageddon.

Are you kidding? That NyQuil stuff will kill you.

Do not mock the Q!!!

Which reminds me, Rev. Somehow I missed your New Year's Eve bash. I'm not sure exactly where I went or what happened but it's been coming back to me in little bits and shattered pieces like an acid flashback from an Arthur Brown-Grateful Dead-Iron Butterfly concert on a dark and stormy night in the pass leading to the field of Armageddon.

Actually, Doc, by your description, you were there, but left before things got interesting.

Well, next year, perhaps? I promise to be good.

Cocaine quit being fun about the time dealers discovered Manitol

Since we're on the subject:

Hunter Thommpson was correct in regards to the effects of an ether binge on the average upright mammal. He failed to mention, however, and I can't stress this enough...

DON'T DRINK IT STRAIGHT!

Either huff it or mix it with something less damaging to the mind, like PCP.

Headless Hunter Thompson was a coward that blew his brains all over a wall for his son and grandson to discover.

Headless Hunter Thompson was a coward that blew his brains all over a wall for his son and grandson to discover.

Meh, it was just a lesson in human biology. The body can't survive if the brain is reduced to a fine, red-grey mist.

Stick it deep inside, cause I'm loose!

To anybody who knocks the Bowie production of Raw Power I completely disagree. I have both the original and the new. All Iggy did was bump the production values to a wall of sound. Old carrot top's version is wayyyyyy cooler.

Nyquil, the single best-marketed medication ever.

"Capital N, small y, Big Fucking Q!" : Denis Leary

/no cure for cancer or stupidity.
//let's all get stupid, because we're all already sca-rooed.

Old carrot top's version is wayyyyyy cooler.

#34 | Posted by vsheri9457

Yeah, it was cleaver how you can hardly hear the guitar on "Search and Destroy"

Yeah, it was cleaver how you can hardly hear the guitar on "Search and Destroy"

#36 | Posted by wisgod

I hear it quite clearly. I like how it weaves in and out instead of being right in your face. You pay more attention to it.

And I'm half deaf. And the other half doesn't hear very well either.

ps. there is a great video somewhere on utube of iggy in a taunt with some asshole in the audience flipping him off and spitting at him. After informing him that his girlfriend wanted to screw him and that he has manboobs, he hawks a major loogy right in the punks face.

awesome

Took me a while to "get" the Stooges, but once I did, holy canoli. Them boys could rock. Iggy's solo stuff went way downhill by the 80s (and got better again in the 90s), but there's not much in rock's canon that has more raw power than the Stooges' stuff. They knew that rock & roll is supposed to be dangerous.

RIP Ron.

Angela Bowie was sent over to keep the band under control in the early days according to "Backstage Pass" They where more than she could handle, and she's a tough Bi-bitch.

Open Up and Bleed is an awesome bio of Iggy that goes into great detail on the early history of the stooges.

Ron and Iggy did this show in the early 70s called Death of a Virgin with Ron in a Nazi uniform beating the crap out of Iggy the 'Virgin'.

Ah! A member of the Band, huh?
One of The Stooges?
Must not've paid 'im much though....

You know-that's what make him a "Stooge"....

That's a great pic.

"...and shattered pieces like an acid flashback from an Arthur Brown-Grateful Dead-Iron Butterfly concert on a dark and stormy night.."

For God's sake and Doc's sanity, please, don't let him know that he was really at an Arthur Godfrey-Lawrence Welk-Ray Conniff concert on that dark and stormy night.

Hans

Iggy is a split personality: Jimmy Osterberg the charming school boy and Iggy the . . . .Iggy

Bummer-especially as I read this stooge ashton koucher dies

Bummer-especially as I read this stooge ashton koucher dies

~Northguy3

Dude, where's yer FF?

Right here. FF fer NG3!

Be Well.