A righteous piece in the L.A.Times from San Pedro's Mike Watt on the Stooges' Ron Asheton, who was found dead at home in Ann Arbor, MI earlier this week...
Watt, bassist for punk groups the Minutemen and Firehose, was invited in 2003 by Iggy Pop to join the Stooges when the seminal Michigan band reunited for its first performance in nearly 30 years at the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival. He continued to perform and record as a Stooge for the next 5 1/2 years alongside founding members Ron Asheton, the guitarist who was found dead this week at age 60; his brother, drummer Scott Asheton; and saxophonist Steve Mackay. Watt spoke Tuesday to The Times' Randy Lewis about being in the band with Ron Asheton. What follows is Watt's remembrance of his close friend and colleague.
Read it in full here.
Stooges tracks here.
1 comment:
Nice article. Mike Watt is about as standup a guy as there is. Great memories of seeing him with the Minutemen with D. back in the day.
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