How I Started Playing With The Stooges
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Artist:The Stooges
Iggy calls me, I was in the middle of a tour. I flew back from Memphis to do it and then I went back in five more weeks and we played with [guitarist] Ron [Asheton}. Like I said, I was helping J. Mascis out before, he asked me to be part of The Fog; I asked him to do some gigs of just Stooges songs, so when we came to Ann Arbor, he goes, "You know Ron, why don't you call him up?" So he ended up coming down and playing with us.
The Stooges, back in the day.So we took him on tour and did gigs in England, and then Sonic Youth got invited to curate this All Tomorrow's Parties thing. They said, "Why don't you come do this, but have Scotty [Asheton] on drums?" He brings Scotty aboard and we do some more gigs in Europe. Then Iggy decides, after 29 years, he wants to do Stooges gigs and he really likes playing with the Asheton brothers — yeah, he really does, man, there's a thing there. It's trippy seeing them right there in their 50s, and I see them all together in the room and there's a neat thing, there's something about a band in a perfect political state — perfect state of little-boy humanity. Here, we're gonna go make songs and play them for people, and even though the years go by, you can see it there and they like it a lot, and I love it a lot.God, me and D. Boon were 16 years old listening to The Stooges. If he would've told me, "In 30 years, you're gonna be playing with them" — What?!
The Stooges, back in the day.So we took him on tour and did gigs in England, and then Sonic Youth got invited to curate this All Tomorrow's Parties thing. They said, "Why don't you come do this, but have Scotty [Asheton] on drums?" He brings Scotty aboard and we do some more gigs in Europe. Then Iggy decides, after 29 years, he wants to do Stooges gigs and he really likes playing with the Asheton brothers — yeah, he really does, man, there's a thing there. It's trippy seeing them right there in their 50s, and I see them all together in the room and there's a neat thing, there's something about a band in a perfect political state — perfect state of little-boy humanity. Here, we're gonna go make songs and play them for people, and even though the years go by, you can see it there and they like it a lot, and I love it a lot.God, me and D. Boon were 16 years old listening to The Stooges. If he would've told me, "In 30 years, you're gonna be playing with them" — What?!
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