Iggy Pop

[voivod]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...1iggypop1.html

[Charvel2]

That was an entertaining read. The best concert I ever saw was Iggy Pop on the Instinct tour way back in 1989. I don't know if they had a requirement for his dressing room to be 'decorated by a homosexual' back then, but he was bloody good.

[RevolutionMan]

wow he is a psycho path. i would hate to work one of his shows. the guys in the strokes were drunkin dicks when we were setting up for the virgin fest in toronto, but wow iggy takes the cake.

[Otis5150]

I fogot about those. Check out the Foo Fighters rider, with jokes courtesy of Dave Grohl

[chefcraig]

Damn.

The Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton found dead at 60

ANN ARBOR, Mich. –Punk guitarist Ron Asheton of The Stooges has been found dead in his Ann Arbor home. He was 60.

City police Sgt. Brad Hill says there were no signs of foul play, and the death appeared to be of natural causes.

Hill says officers discovered Asheton early Tuesday after they were called to his home around midnight by an associate who hadn't heard from him in several days.

Asheton was an original member of The Stooges, the influential protopunk band founded in Ann Arbor in 1967. Asheton's brother, Scott, was the band's drummer.

Asheton's distorted guitar was a hallmark of the Iggy Pop-led group's late-1960s and early-1970s sound

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090106/...it_ron_asheton

[RRMB]

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The body of guitarist Ron Asheton, a founder of the Stooges, was discovered today by police at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, his record company Virgin Music said. He was 60. No cause of death was given.

Asheton was central to the sound of Iggy Pop’s band, whose hits, including “TV Eye” and “No Fun,” helped inspire punk rock. He played guitar and then bass on the albums “The Stooges,” “Fun House” and “Raw Power.” He joined the Stooges reunions and “The Weirdness,” the 2007 comeback CD.

“He was a great friend, brother, musician, trooper,” Iggy Pop and the other Stooges said in a statement e-mailed by Virgin. “For all that knew him behind the facade of Mr. Cool & Quirky, he was a kind-hearted, genuine, warm person who always believed that people meant well even if they did not.”

(Mark Beech writes for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)

To contact the writer on the story: Mark Beech in London at mbeech@bloomberg.net.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...p48&refer=muse

[Charvel2]

RIP. I'm glad he got a taste of the glory days with the Stooges reuinion before he passed.

And now Iggy's selling insurance on UK TV.

[looper_guy]

Crap. I feel just a bit older now than a few minutes ago.

[Yesterdays]

These rock star deaths in which the subject dies alone always unnerve me. Especially when we know he had at least one sibling. Ironically, during The Stooges heydey, Ron was the one who didn't have a heroin problem. Given the nine lives of the Stooges this is very sad.

[Daisy Hill]

enjoy!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-o...ging-timeline/

[loveevhsince79]

Enjoy???? What's weird is the picture from 2003 is really one of the best ones posted not that he was ever attractive in the face but boy howdy did he really go down hill from there.

[SassyLassy]

Iggy Pop's creepiness is much better heard than seen.

[avhevhmashdlr]

anybody here have extra eye bleach? i ran out!

what has been seen, cannot be unseen.....

i want to scrape my eyes out with a rusty spork....

here...he describes what i feel after clicking and looking at the link pics....

[BeautifulGirl5150]

He's old, really old!! What did you expect?

[SLEEPER5150]

That's, uhhhhhhhhhh.......yeah.