![]() ![]() The highly influential Stooges Raw Power album turns 50 Wednesday. At 75, he has replaced his Stooges with an assembly of all stars including Duff McKagan ( Guns & Roses), the guitarists Stone Gossard ( Pearl Jam), Dave Navarro ( Jane's Addiction) and the drummer Chad Smith ( Red Hot Chilli Peppers), for his new album, Every Loser, where he shows that he has lost none of his former ardour.When it comes to the sin of helping to invent punk rock, Iggy Pop still ain’t got time to make no apology. So it would be sort of ludicrous to try and tour as Iggy and The Stooges when there's only one Stooge in the band.' Six years later, in 2023, Iggy is still around. Basically everybody's dead but Iggy and I. On 22nd June 2016, while the band was the subject of Gimme Danger, (a documentary directed by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch), the guitarist, to no-one's surprise, made an official statement: ' The Stooges are over. To make up for Ron Asheton's absence, Iggy called James Williamson back to the fold for a furious rock'n'roll festival, which saw him singing in true punk style like never before. The album Ready to Die, released in April 2013, would round off The Stooges' discography. His brother Scott followed suit on 15th March 2014, as did saxophonist Steve MacKay on 10th October 2015. Two years later, on 6th January 2009, Ron Asheton was found dead. The Stooges (or what was left of them at least) took to the stage once more and released The Weirdness in 2007. In 2003, Iggy reconnected with the Asheton brothers again and the saxophonist Steven Mackay. ![]() He even had moments of genius, like the two incredible releases 'The Idiot' and 'Lust For Life'. The Iguana's solo career rolled on, nonetheless. However, drugs, alcohol, and big egos would eventually bring an end to the Stooges, with Iggy ending up in a psychiatric hospital. Many would rank Raw Power in the Top 10 greatest rock albums of all time. In fact, in 1997, he would remix the album to restore all its original power and ferocity. The Stooges' frontman would later criticise Bowie for making the whole thing less wild than it originally was. Iggy wails, howls, mewls and cries, singing as if fire and blood were spewing from his gullet. Just look at the song titles! 'Search & Destroy', 'Penetration', 'Gimme Danger', 'Raw Power', 'Death Trip'. Pushed into the studio by David Bowie, the group concocted a bomb of an album-and Iggy was the detonator. With Raw Power, Iggy consolidated his status as a legend. By now, Dave Alexander had left the band, passing on his bass to Ron Asheton, with James Williamson entering the fold to take care of the guitars. It would be almost another three years before Iggy and his Stooges released the third instalment of their adventures. People at the time would have struggled to believe that their next release would be even more cataclysmic. It's a bold record which doesn't shy away from experimentation, as is evident on all ten minutes of 'We Will Fall', where the band's instruments are entangled with John Cale's viola. This first jaw-dropper of an album from Iggy Pop 's Stooges was produced by former Velvet Underground member John Cale. The Iguana and his band of cretins channelled that sentiment into their music, revelling in their stunning manifesto of nihilism: a kind of shamanic garage rock, carried by such hymns as 'I Wanna Be Your Dog', '1969' and 'No Fun'. The war in Vietnam was grinding on, and America's youth was pissed off (it was 'No Fun', in the truest sense of the phrase). Armed with flimsy wah-wah and fuzz pedals, Ron Asheton's guitars thundered a wake-up call the prehistoric rhythms of Scott Asheton and Dave Alexander hammered away and the lizard-Caruso couldn't but call for rebellion. The Stooges' first seismic tremor was released in the summer of 1969, and it caused quite a stir among critics and the general public. As you might expect, this industrial city is the birthplace of a lot of aggressive rock. A factory town couldn't but give birth to rock music as aggressive as the noise of its machines. The band was named after the American comedy trio, The Three Stooges, who were popular during the middle of the 20th century. The Stooges began their adventure Ann Arbor, a city just a stone's throw from Detroit.
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