{"id":1287,"date":"2009-01-08T00:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T04:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2009-01-08T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T04:26:11","slug":"ron-asheton-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1287","title":{"rendered":"Ron Asheton: RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I read last night that Ron “Rock Action” Asheton was dead, my first thought was to crank “Down on the Street” or “TV Eye” really, really loud… but, my second thought was that it was 10:30 at night and since both my wife and daughter were asleep with bad respitory infections, that’d be a really inconsiderate thing to do.\u00a0 So, instead, I put on “Fun House” much, much more softly than I wanted to and instead drew a picture of The Stooges in my sketchbook, which I prestent for you here with a minimal bit of Photoshop coloring:<\/p>\n

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Like most folks who become interested in American rock and roll, I’ve had a “Stooges phase” and the passing of guitarist Ron Asheton is a sad occassion.\u00a0 It’s a cliche to point out that a Stooges record like “Fun House” really does sound as fresh today as when it was recorded… but what’s just as relavent is what a record like that sounds like relative to, say, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Simon and Garfunkle or Chicago’s first record, both of which topped the year-end album charts in 1970, the year “Fun House” was released.<\/p>\n

Ron Asheton was a fabulous guitarist in a seminal rock band–and he died far too young.\u00a0 He’ll be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I read last night that Ron “Rock Action” Asheton was dead, my first thought was to crank “Down on the Street” or “TV Eye” really, really loud… but, my second thought was that it was 10:30 at night and since both my wife and daughter were asleep with bad respitory infections, that’d be a … <\/p>\n

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