Ron Asheton RIP

Bummer! Dude wrote like 4 out of the top 10 best rock n roll riffs of all time.
If you feel like OD-ing on the dude in his prime: http://nevergetoutoftheboat.blogspot.com/2008/12/stooges.html

RIP

Didn't the Stooges literally come back from touring Japan like a week ago?

Stunned. Shocked either way but moreso given the momentum, now grinding to a halt.

:( :( :(

seems extra sad to me that dude was dead for days before anyone found him

I didn't want to hear that :(

Isn't that pretty much what happened with Damon Edge?

But he was weird, Ron was a big cuddly sweetheart

Oh my fucking g-d, no!!

This guy was probably the main reason I bought a wah-wah pedal. I'm now doubly thankful that a friend dragged my hermitic ass to Massey Hall last August to see him and his fellow Stooges in (Rock) action. Gonna listen to Funhouse tonight (and maybe plug in and jam along, who knows.)

RIN, indeed...

holy shit:( RIP

Very sad - I"m going to give the extra tracks on those elektra re-issues a good, deserved listen to today

RIP Fun House=Best album ever

WORST YEAR EVER

I was prompted by this thread to read Ron's wiki, & discovered this curious fact: Asheton also acted, appearing with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre star Gunnar Hansen in Mosquito which came out in 1995 as well as in two other films, Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo and Legion of the Night.

The man in leaner times:

http://www.nndb.com/people/893/000118539/ronasheton03.jpg

RIP dude.

It was my sisX0r that found him.

I'm still processing this, and don't really want to talk about it until I talk to D, but... Jesus. Obviously dealing with a lot of grief right now, on several different levels.

R.I.P.

w0w

(sorry to hear about your personal involvement in this terrible event)

Kate, please give sisXOr a big hug from me, and one for yourself. xoxox

wow. He won't be a forgotten boy. RIP.

will play stooges all day in tribute

ROCK ACTION RIP

METALLIC KO made my ears bleed

I could not give a rat's ass about Madonna but god bless her for this:

The Sadness. :(

RIP

Wow, a 60 year old drug addict rock star dies? I dont believe it!!!
Come on people, is this really a shock to anyone? What is with all the mock shock then??? Seriously, its totally annoying!

RIP

loooooooord RIP

Why was my thread questioning if Asheton was the best punk rock guitarist of all-time (steve jones, johnny thunders, johnny ramone, etc)--a thread which poses a much more provacative topic than the obligatory ROck Star Dead so everyone must post a RIP message" one like this one-- locked???

this site has become a boringly predicatable and mastabatory echo chamber...

...seacrest out!

keep asking the tough questions edvonblue

RIP rock action

jeez... trollus ignoramus
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ignore EVB... belongs in the same list as PEW and CRW

― EdVonBlue, Tuesday, January 6, 2009 7:24 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Just sayin', like

Listening to the Fun House sessions box now.

Ron and Ed VonBlue jammin in heaven 2nite

My dad saw them on Halloween in '69.

I could have seen them at SXSW a few years ago, but I didn't.

RIP

I saw them at Roseland in 2004 or 2005; some MTV-sponsored benefit or something (for one of those orgs that's more about "raising awareness" than actually, you know, accomplishing something). The other acts on the bill were "acoustic Godsmack" and some terrible acronym-named band I can't even remember now. But the Stooges were pretty great. At that point nobody knew they were gonna record The Weirdness, though they did play at least one (and maybe two) of the Stooges songs from Skull Ring.

Never saw 'em. I wish I could post a link for a European documentary (possibly French?) that I saw on bootleg, where Ron was showing the film crew The Funhouse. I'd imagined this to be some ominous brownstone tenement, but it's a sitcom-perfect suburban home. Whose inhabitants must have been not a little freaked out to see a group of leather-clad middle-aged dudes peering through their windows. Priceless.

Sad as it is to see him go, at least Ron got to see the critical clock turn round, and play a few years of big, wild shows to committed fans around the world.

Remaining Stooges statement on Asheton:

http://thequietus.com/articles/00950-surviving-stooges-pay-tribute-to-asheton

Sad as it is to see him go, at least Ron got to see the critical clock turn round, and play a few years of big, wild shows to committed fans around the world.

word. it's like the arthur lee thing (though maybe not to the same degree). he seemed to be having fun playing with dinosaur and stuff five years ago, but the stooges live, funhouse gigs and everything, it's a pretty neat way to end things. so glad i got to see them. hearing ron play sprawling blues guitar on all'a those tatty bootleg studio releases is testament to how great he was.

Soukesian OTM

So that troll most likely was PEW. He's signed his inflammatory shit with the same "Seacrest out..." bullshit in the past.

I have no respect for anyone who STILL believes in internet trolls...I mean come on people. This is 2009 not 1999!!!

By the way, I do thinkg Asheton was the best punk rock guitar player of all time. Johnny Ramone was second.

I saw the Stooges close out Bumbershoot 2005 (in Seattle). Everyone was integral to making that a fun show. Ron was the guy who stood there and made it seem so easy.

And a very sweet, open and generous guy. This is so sad.

fwiw, we've re-posted an interview with Ron that I did that we ran in Arthur No. 6 in 2003. There's some good stuff in it, and a great last line.

This somehow makes the theft of all their gear last year seem even more shittier.

oh no RIP

Damn, this is bumming me out. Wasn't gonna post, 'cuz what do I have to say? But godspeed and ever after, Ron.

saw the stooges @ coachella in 2003, asheton still had it. RIP

Man, what a fucking bummer to read about this.

In a 2003 interview with the Free Press, Asheton said he got great satisfaction from the recognition the Stooges had begun to receive — even if it was a long time coming.

“When I was a young guy coming up, going to the Grande Ballroom every weekend, I got to see my heroes play. Jeff Beck, the Who, everyone. I didn’t want to be a fanboy, but I’d stand there and wait — ‘I just want to say hi, this was great.’ I saw them walk by me with blank stares like they were zombies. I said to myself, you know, if I ever make it, I’ve got at least one minute for everybody who wants to say something. So I talk to people, and that’s what’s exciting now.”

FUCK

I saw the Bumbershoot show, and then the Weirdness tour. Rest in peace.

Edward, one of these kids would be the Dusty-Dusty fan? Or has she moved beyond Russian literature?

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, January 9, 2009 6:14 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, that's her, youngest person to coin an ilx meme... she's gone primitive and moved on to the stooges and ac/dc

Where/when did Iggy say that? Link?

― big papa cigarettes (╓abies), Friday, January 9, 2009 10:50 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

http://www.iggypop.com/

youngest person to coin an ilx meme

uh.jpg

here's a taste of what ron was doing in between stooges. ron & niagara of destroy all monsters jamming w/sonic's rendezvous minus sonic. not sure of the date - looks early 80s. hot stuff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Race

and especially http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_and_Last

RIP Scott

dammit dammit dammit