It’s weird that people still try and paint the Stooges like they were these cavemen who couldn’t play their instruments. Fun House isn’t the work of amateurs
I love Ron Asheton. He is a huge influence and inspiration for me as a guitarist. This video clip bugs me. They act like Ron didn't do any outside of the Stooges. His work with Destroy all Monsters and Dark Carnival is absolutely great! The work he did during that time with Niagara was so much more rocking and inspired than what Iggy was doing during that same time period. Yeah, Iggy got the fame and some major label backing, but Ron kept it real and underground. Ron was a musician's musician for the raw, punk, underground rockers. His influence can not be overstated. Long live Ron Asheton!
blah blahs Ron played in an Australian based band called New Race as well. They have an album called First and Last put out in 1981. It had Denis Thompson from MC5 on drums and the rest of they guys were out of Australian / American band Radio Birdman.
@@davedrewett2196 yep and nowhere as good as with iggy i cringe just thinking about the 2 last stooges teleases not rons fault..iggy ru out of songs back in 1990 if u ask me .love ron and scott stooges best concerts i ever saw..f sure..only the clash live .could have..hold their own...againat the mighty stooges live..
And the coolest drummer ever oooh get goosebumps just thinking about them Godly gigs..made all punkbands seem like a bunch of wAnnabees except the clash who were killer live band he..
@@hellsbells1151 Couldn't stand the Clash. Didn't like their music or the vocals. Saw the Stooges in a tiny club 3 nights in a row in the late 70s, nothing compares.
Growing up in Michigan at the age of 17 I was able to see the Stooges numerous times. Many times opening for the MC5. Often at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit. What an incredible experience that was absolutely life changing. I feel very lucky to have been there at that time.
To Whom who cares to hear my story, I was a 16 year kid at The Eastown Theater, I saw the Stooges there at least 8 times, I always tried to play like Ron, but i could never get it right, i don;t know if Iggy remembers this, but i do , one night i was sitting on the floor in front of the stage, and Jim was stabbing Pencils into his arm, blood running down his arm, and a girl sitting next to me yelled IGGY I WANT TO FUCK YOU, well he did a stage dive, he invented this, not a Band in the 80;s, and he landed in front of me, i was Trippin Man, he crawled up in my face and looked at me, i was in Shock, then he went to the Girl next to me and had his way with her, there was NO Security at the Eastown at this time, people could do whatever they wanted to do, I went home a Different Person, 16 years old , and what the Hell did i Witness that night, It changed my life, I am Forever a Stooges Fan, I will take a Lie Detector test to this, It is the Truth, RIP, to Ron and the others, What A Band, Cousin Figel
I LOVE Ron's playing on those Stooges albums--and his bass playing on Raw Power (when you can hear it!) is super melodic and exciting. His work with Destroy All Monsters, The New Order and New Race is worth re-discovery too!
Saw them many times at The Grande Ballroom when they were known as The Psychedelic Stooges, a few times on the bill with the MC5. Talk about ball bustin'.
@@kirk2269 i met wayne kramer like 20 years ago he signed my guitar however i didnt like his solo stuff for some reason mc 5 got pretty dated iggy? stooges never ever he ...must have bedn great back then mc5 now? noo iggy is GOD/HOLY DOG KING..WOEF WOEF FOR THE RIP STOOGES..HE .
What kept Ron looking SO young until the day he died? No drugs, remained single, remained kid-like, well preserved? His little blue-eyed brother actually looked older than him!
From what I understand, he did drugs, just not "the hard stuff"...in the Stooges doc "Gimme Danger" Iggy talks about how he had to get Ron stoned on weed to get him motivated to play in their early days.
AND DIED! RATHER EUH U MEAN LIKE A FAT CHILD? I DONT AGREE. WHATS NEXT? HE WAS A GOOD CHURCH GOEEER? HE DIDNT WATCH PORNHUB? SAINT RON AMEN U MUST BE AMERICAN..OR BLIND CAUSE I SAW..A RATHER PLUMP...60 YEAR OLD ..OK OF COURSE I LOVED THE WAY HE LOOKED BUT INDEED..IF NO MAC DONALD KILLER MACS WHO KNOWS .HE COULD EVEN HAVE OUTLIVED ..EUH 90 ? Y OLD IGGY ..SMIRK..SNIFF I MISS ..KING RON
long live the motherfucking stooges!.i won't be into garage rock,hard rock,heavy metal,punk rock,hardcore punk,grunge,shoegaze,no wave or noise rock(or whatever countless multiple sub-genres of rock n'roll music have !) if not for iggy pop and the stooges!.anything and everything's going on with modern rock n'roll music for the last 40 years or so is from these guys!.they laid the foundations!.
Ron's great! He was a great guitarist as well as being a big teddy bear. He really deserves a lot of credit for the music but like most, never got the credit he deserved in life.
Ron Asheton was underrated!So many follow up bands were influenced by his awesome guitar playing!Radio Birdman ,Nirvana,and all the sup pop bands mostly,He was The Godfather of Punk.RIP Ron!
radio birdman after the stooges BRILLIANT LIVE BAND EVEN 12 YEARS AGO JUST MINDBLOWING GREAT INSANLY GREAT STOOGEY 1 RADIO BIRDMAN BEST AUSSIE LIVE band ever
@@leahflower9924 Brian did it in the 1960s,and wore the whole uniform,cap and jackboots too,although not on stage I don`t think.He looked amazing in it.
@@mjh5437 I saw a video about Brian Jones and all his women and they happened to show a pic with Anita pallenberg and yeah he had the entire outfit even with the eye thing lol
Ron was the real deal american artist just like hunter, burroughs, and hemingway they liked guns and the american free lifestyle. they dont make them like him anymore !
It's great that the Ashton's got their due, finally late in life. Unfortunately for a long time Iggy said a lot of bad hurtfull things about them especially Ron. It's a shame heart diesease ran in their family. As Ron gave great informative interviews . To me Scott was one of the compelling characters in rock history. The quiet tough guy.
Actually bad diets ran in their family. Hearts don't build up artery plaque until later in life and it's all from animal fat cholesterol. He could have lived so much longer had he just changed what he ate.
I m sure he was best band ever iggy just made crap for 15 years instead of...well i can die saw em 4 times best gigs ever of course. + the iggy+ stooges w j w and scott on drums bxl best set list ever my fav cock in my pocket such a underated romantic ballad sleazy fucked up ..and top .
I remember going to a concert at University of Michigan, Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, MI. Timothy Leary gave a speech with The Stooges as the Musical Guests. About 1970 or, phomoninal performance.
If you get it. Sometimes when the times end, everything falls apart and everything that comes after falls short. The scene made Asheton, just like Asheton made the scene. Most bands that played at the rock and roll spiritual mecca called The Grande, were touched by something. Something very Detroit. The Rationals, SRC, Stooges, MC fuckin 5. The gateway to Modern American Punk......some still call it rock and roll. Green Day, Slash??? C'mon boys.
I was fortunate enough to see Destroy All Monsters three times in Chicago in the late 70s. Actually not many people knew Ron was in that band, they mainly came for Niagara.
At 2:43 John Holmstrom *(Punk Rag) is f.o.s. Misinformed!!! Ron & Scott were in other bands--"Dark Carnival" "D.A.M.--Destroy All Monsters" "New Order" and "Sonic Rendezvous"!!! In the later 70's, they were at odds with Iggy in the first place and busy working on other avenues of their craft, including Ron's "acting" endeavors. As far as the Living with 'MOM' deal, Ron lived with his Mother mainly because of the death of his father many years prior, and the fact that she was alone!!! Scott was always living away from home. At 2:43 Joke was...John Holmstrom--at the expense of Ron Asheton*****(R.i.P. bro).
Don't get me wrong I love Ron Ashton but I truly love James Williamson because he plays his guitar more harder and very confrontational as Ron Ashton does. What I mostly love about Ron Ashton is when he played and recorded on The Stooges first album and mostly the introduction of I wanna be Your Dog.
It's awesome that he finally got into the hof even though the politics of the thing are so rotten. There's another band that deserves to get in for their own innovations in Rock and that's JETHRO TULL. How do you have 12 platinum records as well as 5 gold and never get so much as a pat on the back? Ian was an original and used to be a critic's darling.
Cus the stooges literally started/popularized this type of punk rock when there was no example of them at the time. Ron was literally robbed from fame, money, etc. And pretty much died w nothing. That band you mentioned did nothing but refine a genre that already existed
"his name remains virtually unrecognized" yeah, by the average person - but anyone who knows anything about rock n roll knows who and how important he is
Ron did not write all of the music on the 1st two albums. Dave Alexander did some too. Ron was a major contributor to the sound on the ones he did not write. That is true. The Dum Dum boys were a potent pissed off group. Adding Iggy to that was like strapping two more rocket engines onto a 3 engine rocket with a savage well focused Uber pissed off smart guidance system. Boom!
@@leahflower9924he wrote We Will Fall- yeah that kinda sucks but Dirt and Funhouse are his riffs. I also think he came up with the title for Down on The Street
I used to see Ronny and Scotty at the diner in Ann Arbor alot in the middle of the night, and enjoyed our conversations even though Scotty rarely said.more than 2 or 3 words a a time
Saw the Stooges at the Upstairs Ballroom Lima Ohio late 69. Ron and the band were a sonic amazement. Iggy on the other hand scared the shit out of me and everyone there. His abuse of the audience was a huge distraction from the band. I'm glad I saw them but if Iggy would of been half of himself the show would of been better. Personally, I thought Ron looked perturbed when the band stopped while Iggy performed audience intimidation. Give me the MC5 any day. Same Detroit energy, less antics.
