Iggy Pop has said of his confidence in The Stooges recording new material after the death of their guitarist Ron Asheton last January.
Asheton, a founding member of The Stooges, died aged 60, but the group had been working on new material before the guitarist’s untimely death.
He has been replaced by follow axe-man James Williamson, who joined the group back in 1971 and featured on the famous 1973 album “Raw Power”. Iggy told Billboard that the returning guitarist is “already on me like a greased cat”.
Mr. Swiftcover.com added “He’s sending me riffs, so I did some vocals to a couple of them and it’s starting to sound like something”. The band are also hoping to re-record some heavily bootlegged Stooges tracks going all the way back the 70s.
Pop and the gang are returning to the road and indeed “Raw Power” this year too. They will play two gigs at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in May, to mark the fifth anniversary of the ATP’s Don’t Look Back season, in which artists are asked to perform classic albums in their entirety.
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