If the MC5 were Detroit's political spokesmen for the disenchanted
youth of the 1960s, then the Stooges were the loutish kids,
heckling from the back of the room. While conventional wisdom says
they could barely play their instruments, the Stooges left an
indelible mark on the world of punk rock, and the band's initial
three albums--The Stooges, Fun House and Raw Power--are bona fide
classics. In The Stooges: Head On author Brett Callwood treats the
band's story not just as an early chapter in the career of its
famous front man, Iggy Pop, but from the Stooges' beginnings at the
end of the 1960s, to its end in the early 1970s, and to its reunion
in 2003 through the present. In compiling this exhaustive account
of the band's history, Callwood interviewed all of the central and
sometimes Stooges members, including Iggy Pop, Ron and Scott
Asheton, James Williamson, Mike Watt, Steve Mackay, and Scott
Thurston, and largely lets the band tell its own story in numerous
long quotes. Callwood details the band's genesis as teenage friends
in Ann Arbor, their time living together in their legendary party
houses in the 1960s, and the recording of the three original
Stooges albums. He examines the addition of James Williamson to the
band on Raw Power and how it changed the band's sound and dynamic,
along with the band's fateful meeting with David Bowie on its first
British tour. As Iggy broke out as a solo artist during the 1970s
and 1980s, Callwood charts the Asheton brothers' post-Stooges
experiences, with Ron's turns in The New Order, Destroy All
Monsters, and Dark Carnival, and Scott Asheton's time with the
Farleys and Sonic's Rendezvous Band. He also provides an overview
of Iggy's solo career, the seeds of a reunion that were planted
with a collaboration on Iggy's Skull Ring album, and the eventual
reformation of the band and the recording of their fourth album,
The Weirdness, in 2004. Originally published in the U.K. in 2007,
The Stooges: Head On has been revised to expand on the original
story and also to consider Ron Asheton's untimely death in 2009 and
his musical legacy, the band's fate without Ron, and the Stooges'
long-overdue introduction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
2010. Fans of the Stooges and those interested in the roots of punk
music will enjoy this intimate and informative volume.
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