Stop Smiling (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
The guitarist and founding member of the Stooges was found dead this week in his Ann Arbor home (a cause of death has not yet been determined). The Detroit Free-Press has published tributes from a range of Michigan-area musicians, including Leni Sinclair and members of MC5, and the Ann Arbor News is reporting on an [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
Along with their fellow Detroit-area residents Alice Cooper and MC5, the Stooges pioneered a style of garage rock which didn't find much of an audience outside Michigan in the late Sixties and early Seventies but fed into the psyche of the next generation of musicians and is still influential today. The New York Dolls and the Ramones, especially, picked up on the two albums the original Stooges line-up...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
Along with their fellow Detroit-area residents Alice Cooper and MC5, the Stooges pioneered a style of garage rock which didn't find much of an audience outside Michigan in the late Sixties and early Seventies but fed into the psyche of the next generation of musicians and is still influential today. The New York Dolls and the Ramones, especially, picked up on the two albums the original Stooges line-up...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
As the guitarist with the Stooges, Ron Asheton helped to shape the sound of punk rock. While the on-stage wildness of the band’s iconic lead singer Iggy Pop grabbed much of the attention, it was Asheton who drove the band’s raw rock’n’roll sound, a curdled late-1960s cocktail of exhilaration, rebellion and boredom, with his relentless and noisy guitar playing.
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Maybe my favorite Stooges song, “Dirt”, which Ashton co-wrote. Radio Exile As of 2009, The Stooges have been nominated induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Whether they get it or not, The Stooges place is already cemented in the history of music Ron Asheton, which every Stooge will tell you, was a huge [...]
pHinnWeb (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Ron Asheton , who played guitar for The Stooges , has died at the age of 60. The Stooges were born in the late 1960s in Ann Arbor, near Detroit, in the aftermath of psychedelia and garage rock explosion; often joining on gigs The MC5 , who considered The Stooges their "little brother" band. Like Scott Asheton, his drummer brother and fellow Stooges member, Ron Asheton always remained in the shadow...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
We gave our own tribute to Ron Asheton yesterday, after the news broke of his untimely passing. Tributes have been flowing elsewhere, as well as an official statement from camp Stooge. The official statement reads: "We are shocked and shaken...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Stooges frontman Iggy Pop says he's in shock about the death of 'my best friend'
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ron Asheton, a guitarist and founding member of the influential rock band The Stooges, was found dead at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Tuesday, police said.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ron Asheton, a guitarist and founding member of the influential rock band The Stooges, was found dead at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Tuesday, police said.
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
The whole site and concept is about as useful as Spiro Agnew weighing the relative merits of MC5 and the Stooges and concluding that he really digs the vocal stylings of Anne Murray instead.
Snerkology (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
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Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Original Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton (above, right, flanked by Niagra) was found dead in his Ann Arbor residence earlier today. Asheton, 60, would be a pivotal enough figure in rock history were his only contribution his playing on the first two Stooges albums, but subsequent stints in New Order, Destroy All Monsters and perhaps [...]
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
The Ann Arbor News reports that Stooges' guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead in his home this morning. This is sad news for anyone who gives a shit about real, American punk rock: Asheton pretty much invented it on The...
Super Tech News / Published News (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
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