This is completely bumming me out, another legendary band is finished with



Thanks for showing us what a funhouse sounded like, Ron.

Your brutal, insistent and primitive guitar riffs was everything punk aspired to be. Thanks for teaching us that simplicity can hit you like a ton of bricks, thanks for bringing rock back to its very core

your devastating wall of nihilism will be sorely missed

Nyuk nyuk ny...*THUD*

That is sad, although I thought the three stooges had all died years ago.

BKITU: Nyuk nyuk ny...*THUD*

you know, I was considering submitting this with that as part of the headline.

/subby.

Sadly, Iggy's been dead since 1996. It's just that nobody can screw up enough courage to tell him.

I guess his lust for life just wasn't enough.

Bummer... that's no fun.

HappyHarryHardOn: Thanks for showing us what a funhouse sounded like, Ron.

FARKING THIS.


/I have the complete "Funhouse Sessions" on my iPod, so pretty much every day one of those 120+ tracks comes up on shuffle

RIP Ron

Thanks for the sound that changed it all.

His pretty face is going to hell.

... and yet Keith Richards still lives.

HappyHarryHardOn:

your devastating wall of nihilism will be sorely missed

*snicker*

Today We Mourn A Stooge.

balls .... I could say "I guess the Mosquito finally got him"

... or "Now the lead singer from Destroy All Monsters can go back to Radio Birdman"

.... or "who will buy Rock Action a root beer now?"

.... or "Say hi to Dave Alexander for me"

.... or "some guys will do anything to get out of mom grounding you for dropping out of school to go to England to buy some Beatle boots"

but I guess I'll just say "Thanks" for letting me jump onstage and put my head practically inside your amp during "I Wanna Be Your Dog" at the Orpheum in Boston a few years back. And thank god you guys were actually able to get back together and create some seriously good memories and go out as "on top" as 3 degenerates from Ann Arbor could.

See ya, you awesome semi-fat bastard. I'll drink a beer for you in Ypsilanti if I'm ever out that way.

Shemp wanted for questioning.

Will Curly Joe replace him?

RIP punk god.....

He is on the death trip and it's no fun.

RIP

/No fun

Ghoulie Mask-your handle a tribute to Hockeytown & "stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls...but don't get caught"

Y'know what would be depressingly awesome? If they played all 9 minutes of "We Will Fall" for his funeral procession.

That would be creepy rock awesomeness.

nope, a tribute to number 30, Gerry Cheevers, B's legend.

But let us get back to mourning a Stooge.

Damn. Saw them at Lollapalooza '07. They absolutely killed. Iggy invited the crowd to rush the stage and when they did, the band just kept on playing. Harder. And louder. Especially Ron.

An incredibly awesome show, and an indelible memory for me.

RIP. And goodnight, funhouse man.

sad. RIP

Marla Singer's Laundry: HappyHarryHardOn:

your devastating wall of nihilism will be sorely missed

*snicker*

should have kept it at "Wall of noise' but went overboard, uh?

HappyHarryHardOn: Marla Singer's Laundry: HappyHarryHardOn:

your devastating wall of nihilism will be sorely missed

*snicker*

should have kept it at "Wall of noise' but went overboard, uh?

Just kidding, you know I loves ya

BKITU: Nyuk nyuk ny...*THUD*

i was saddened by the headline - asheton was a musical hero of mine. but this made me laugh out loud.

BKITU: Nyuk nyuk ny...*THUD*

Damn. This is not the metallic K.O. I was expecting today.

RIP you magnificent noisy bastard.

Damn, this is awful. I actually knew him through a friend that Ron did a movie for. Today's not a good day at all. And even though the movie didn't make a lot of cash, Ron did a lot of good work on it, and...it's just a bummer, man. I don't know what else to say.

Valdes: That's what you get rock hall!!! That's what you get for not letting them in!!!

YOU FILTHY farkERS!!!

Yep. They did the same with one of the guys in Dave Clark Five.

I put Fun House on as soon as I heard. Damn, what a shame. How Iggy and Scott outlasted him is a mystery for the ages.

I read 'Please Kill Me' a few years ago, and Ron came off as probably the nicest guy in the book. The story of him becoming friends with a post-stroke Larry Fine (from the other Stooges) was really cool.

/Rest in Peace, you glorious Stooge.

That said, I hope James Williamson gets to be in the R&R HOF ceremony in Asheton's place. Are he and Iggy on bad terms?

AspectRatio: Mourn

Beat me to it.

/also His Pretty Face is Going to Hell

Link

This is the only thing that makes me feel sort of ok about this:


The early line-up of the Stooges are touring with Iggy, but without you? Would you play with them again if they asked you?

The Stooges have been up for Hall of Fame a number of different times and they never made it and we probably will never make it, but if they did and they wanted me to I would do that for them. I would rehearse it. I can still play, I'm a bit rusty. But I don't think I would do a Stooges reunion. There were some great days and it's good to be young, but other than that it was pretty tough. Although there were good memories too. We were young and wild and unfettered by anything, skipping out on hotel bills and doing nutty stuff.

goddammit that fu*king sucks...

RIP

Valdes: Are he and Iggy on bad terms?

I dunno about now, but AFAIK they ended on bad terms back in the 70's. My memory of 'Please Kill Me' says Ron seemed pretty negative about Williamson too, though that may be because the guy took his guitar gig and Ron got demoted to bass.

/I like Asheton's playing a lot more than Williamson's, though James is the more technically skilled guitarist.

As a youngin who really wanted to see The Stooges one day, this news is a big heartbreak. Henry Rollins was right when he said that everyone should have a copy of 'Fun House'.

R.I.P. Ron Asheton

As a youngin who really wanted to see The Stooges one day, this news is a big heartbreak. Henry Rollins was right when he said that everyone should have a copy of 'Fun House'.

Valdes says everyone should have a copy of Raw Power first.

Valdes: As a youngin who really wanted to see The Stooges one day, this news is a big heartbreak. Henry Rollins was right when he said that everyone should have a copy of 'Fun House'.

Valdes says everyone should have a copy of Raw Power first.

Might as well pick up the Self Titled album too while your at it.

wigglebiscuit:

Valdes: Are he and Iggy on bad terms?

I dunno about now, but AFAIK they ended on bad terms back in the 70's. My memory of 'Please Kill Me' says Ron seemed pretty negative about Williamson too, though that may be because the guy took his guitar gig and Ron got demoted to bass.

/I like Asheton's playing a lot more than Williamson's, though James is the more technically skilled guitarist.


Didn't the reunited Stooges refuse to play any Williamson-era songs?

Might as well pick up the Self Titled album too while your at it.

And all the bootlegs done after Raw Power was issued before the band broke up too.

I'm really choked that I never saw the reunited Stooges now. Fun House is one of my favourite albums ever and this is really heartbreaking.

Was he covered with bruises?

So if i'm not mistaken, he's second from left?

That guitar flourish at the end of "1970" keeps going through my head...

Search and Destroy, you fark.

/ tried posting this before, it's awesome Search and Destroy put to scenes from Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket (new window)

// Makes me want to kill, it really does.

RIP

DrBenway

Didn't the reunited Stooges refuse to play any Williamson-era songs?

I don't know if they refused, but when I saw them at the Memphis in May show, they didn't do anything off of Raw Power, so I would guess that was the case.

/crazy awesome show