Following Ron's death, Williamson returned and the Stooges continued, though Scott curtailed his touring commitments after a severe stroke in 2011. In 2007 came a fourth studio album, The Weirdness.
In August 2005 they made triumphant appearances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals and gave a riotous performance of Fun House at Hammersmith Apollo. The Ashetons contributed to Skull Ring, Pop's 2003 album, which paved the way for a full-blown Stooges reunion. In 2000, Scott and Ron Asheton teamed up with the Dinosaur Jr mainman J Mascis and the Minutemen bassist Mike Watt and started performing Stooges material with occasional help from other devotees like Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream. Scott Asheton rejoined Pop in 1978 to help out on a European tour, but mostly concentrated on other projects including Sonic's Rendezvous Band, led by the former MC5 guitarist Fred Smith. "We were put in a sideman position in our own band," he said. By autumn 1972 Pop and Williamson were in a London studio and called on the Ashetons to help record Raw Power, with Ron switching to bass and the powerful Scott on drums again. Elektra dropped them and Scott went back to Michigan.īowie had introduced Pop and his new songwriting partner, the guitarist James Williamson, to his manager Tony DeFries, who helped get them a new deal with CBS. Scott was so high that he drove the band's rented truck through the roof of a bridge in Ann Arbor, injuring Pop and two roadies and damaging their equipment. But the group was heavily into drugs, with Ron the only one not using heroin. He broke out the peanut butter and started smearing it all over himself," said Scott. That's where that famous photo where he's walking on people's hands was taken. The Stooges then were a shambolic, if memorable, live act, as immortalised in Midsummer Rock, filmed at the Cincinnati Pop Festival in June 1970. It contained "1969'' and "I Wanna Be Your Dog'', which became staples of their incendiary stage set, as did "Down On The Street'' and "T.V. They recorded their self-titled first album in New York with John Cale producing. The Stooges' repertoire and outré behaviour then provided the blueprint for British punk-rock groups like the Damned, the Sex Pistols –who cut "No Fun'' from The Stooges for the B-side of their third single "Pretty Vacant" in July 1977 – and Penetration, the County Durham band formed by Pauline Murray in 1976, who were named after a Raw Power track. They also inspired the next wave of back-to-basics American bands, particularly the New York Dolls, the Dictators and the Ramones. The Stooges and their 1970 follow-up Fun House went against the hippie grain and failed to find an audience at the time but influenced performers like David Bowie, who championed them and mixed their third album, Raw Power (1973). Formed by Pop, the original self-destructive frontman, guitarist Ron Asheton, his younger brother Scott on drums and their friend Dave Alexander on bass, the Stooges unleashed the most primal garage rock with their eponymous debut in August 1969. When Iggy Pop and the Stooges were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, the statement that the group "created punk-rock well before the genre even had a name" was no exaggeration.
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