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Looking Back

Random thoughts on the 60's Michigan rock scene.

Memories of the Stooges and Ron Asheton

(From an email on 09.14.08 reminiscing about Detroit rock with JT from WNMC's In The Red radio show)

"My coolest Iggy memory was an all day concert at Delta College in Saginaw....I'll find the date. It was one of those things where you had to be there. But the thing about Iggy was that he was scary. No one really knew what he was going to do....if you were down front you really had to watch out for flying objects like mic stands. He was really good at acting totally crazed. It was scary and your heart would race.
But for me, the coolest thing was the HYPNOTIC groove of Ron Asheton....it was very powerful music....it was like a machine rolling off the stage....definitely not something you'd catch by listening to a CD. I remember he had a nazi armband and a military hat....he looked like an SS guy....just bad to the bone. The Asheton bros. and the bass player were in their own world--they completely ignored Iggy and would just roll with those awesome repetitve riffs while Iggy went about his totally unpredictable hijinx..."

-BP

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