Mick Mars vs James Williamson vs Ron Asheton vs David Bowie

no don't.

here's a jw interview from abt ten years ago

Metal Mike, today:

yeahh that's like the only Williamson interview of any length in the last 3000 years, and where the Vox AC-30/treble boost (the classic 60's amp he lucked into in London for the Raw Powerrecordings) info surfaced.

it has always seemed ridiculous when people label the stooges some sort of "punk rock" precursor...they were trying REALLY HARD (in the last 1/2 of their lifespan) to be a cool heavy metal band. with a hybrid morrison/sky saxon lead singer for sure, that is no doubt the sole link between 1966 garage rock singers and its redux as 70's punk (singing) 10+ years later. (hell, i can testify as a singer-in-training back then, putting down vocals as the same time as the fuzz guitar to get something like 200 songs onto tape by graduation day May1973/UT austin).
but ron/scott on rhythm section at the Whiskey 1973 were pure balls-to-the-wall hard/fast heavy metal, no doubt about it. they were one of my favorite live rhythm sections i ever heard in my life.

through a stock unmodified Marshall williamson was just average as a live guitarist (same as Jon Tiven critiqued him, in Zoo World i guess). (or maybe his own NHRP zine). also unnoteworthy as a "live performer."

Dave Q and Metal Mike should team up on the ultimate Stooges biography.

According to Mojo, JWilliams(on) (heh) spoke to Iggy after Ron died, and discussed standing in for Ron if they got inducted into the R&R Hall of fame.

For all that JWill was described asnasshol, there's nothing in "Open up and bleed" as to explain why, there's nothing but compliments for Ron's Bass from JWi, eeven to the statement that the drums and the bass are way more important than the guitaring.

there's nothing but compliments for Ron's Bass from JWi, eeven to the statement that the drums and the bass are way more important than the guitaring.

This bit is in reference to the Mojo article, not the book.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/09/03/stooges-reunite-with-raw-power-guitarist-prep-atp-gig-and-tour/

Threat or menace? May be difficult for James to lose the habits of playing slack key being a conformist square for Sony most of his life.

Williamson played on two of my all time favorite Stooges tracks IIRC: the raw and gruelling "Open up and bleed" and " I got a right", which is the kind of natural, perfect rock'n'roll song that doesn't come along very often. He's OK by me.

If these old codgers can do justice to "Head on", "Heavy liquid" and "Rubber legs" and the rest, and get them down on some sort of newfangled recording device which is not cassette based and hidden in a stolen handbag next to a noisy bar, I'll be very happy indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lWilnFkMtA

If these old codgers can do justice to "Head on", "Heavy liquid" and "Rubber legs"

Practically speaking, that would mean an old codger jam band.