(Vocal/instrumental group, 1967–74) This Detroit quartet’s focal point was Iggy Pop (James Osterberg, vocals), fronting Ron Asheton (guitar), Scott Asheton (drums) and Dave Alexander (bass). Tiring of psychedelia, they had dug down to a raw three-chord bedrock for an eponymous maiden album in 1969, promoted with increasingly more manic stage performances at odds with the prevailing ‘laid-back’ ...
‘Thin White Duke’. During this hectic period Bowie also found time (with assistance from Ronson) to produce seminal albums by Lou Reed, Transformer (1972), and Iggy Pop and The Stooges (Raw Power, 1973), write and produce Mott The Hoople’s ‘All The Young Dudes’ and star in the film The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976). Frazzled from the perks ...
(Vocals, b. 1947) One of the most significant figures of the 1970s, Iggy Pop (real name James Osterberg) was hailed as the godfather of punk. But when The Stooges called it a day in 1971, he was viewed as a spent force and it was only the persistence of David Bowie that led to The Stooges reconvening for ...
their own acts to record at Stax. Stewart was inducted to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2002. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | The Stooges | Sixties | Rock ...
Indie guitar legend Johnny Marr (b. 1963) was born John Maher in Manchester, England to Irish Catholic parents. He grew up in a household where music was a constant fixture, and he recalled, ‘I always had guitars, for as long as I could remember.’ Guitar technique came easily to young Johnny, and he quickly mastered ...
in Seattle, Washington. He was inspired to play guitar by Kiss, subsequently backtracking to the music which inspired them – The New York Dolls, MC5, The Stooges and The Velvet Underground. He bought his first guitar, a Guild S-100, which he would use throughout his career, and formed his first band in high school. ...
what McLaren was looking for. He called them The Sex Pistols while the band called Lydon Johnny Rotten. Drawing on their own (and McLaren’s) heroes – The Faces, The Stooges and The Who – The Sex Pistols developed a raw, volatile set, dressed in bondage clothing with safety pins and spikey hair. They attracted a small but dedicated ...
Moore and Ranaldo, which characterized their sound. In addition to Glenn Branca, they were influenced by Can, The Velvet Underground, The Patti Smith Group and The Stooges, as well as the speed and intensity of early 1980s hardcore punk bands Bad Brains, Minor Threat and Black Flag. Moore relies on alternative tunings as part of ...
that nobody had a clue what to call it. Drawing their wild, high-energy style from such Detroit-based rock acts of the late-1960s and early 1970s as MC5 and The Stooges, and boasting an androgynous, long-haired look that made The Rolling Stones look like choirboys, glammed-up east coast quintet The New York Dolls were America’s first real punk ...
included ‘an assault on the culture by any means necessary, including dope and fucking in the streets.’ Self-Destruction You won’t find an anti-establishment manifesto with Iggy & The Stooges, but they certainly helped themselves to the sex and drugs. A band with one finger permanently on the self-destruct button, singer Iggy Pop would cut himself onstage or ...
you can play, it’s about how well you can communicate. Its roots go back to the beginning of rock’n’roll in the 1950s. The rebellious spirit of MC5 and The Stooges in the 1960s helped to define the punk attitude, while Velvet Underground singer Lou Reed and the sleazy glam of The New York Dolls put flesh on punk’s bones ...
, furious but focussed. Elektra Records managed to keep the word ‘Motherf***ers’ out of the title but left it on the record to the outrage of middle America. August The Stooges Wanna Be Your Dog Hard on the heels of MC5 came fellow Detroit scoundrels The Stooges, fronted by trailer-park-trash singer James Osterberg (a.k.a. Iggy Pop), who was ...
Life. New Values, released in September 1979, saw Iggy revert to a fan-pleasing hard rock sound, with former Stooge James Williamson producing and playing guitar and touring Stooges member Scott Thurston on guitar and keyboards. Held in high esteem by aficionados, New Values contains two Iggy classics in ‘I’m Bored’ and ‘Five Foot One’. Despite this, ...
January The Sex Pistols Get The Bullet On 6 January 1977 EMI Records terminated its contract with The Sex Pistols, saying it was unable to promote the group’s records ‘in view of the adverse publicity generated over the past two months’. The media furore over the Pistols’ TV appearance six weeks earlier had barely abated and now politicians were weighing ...
Wild Side’. In fact, Bowie’s early Seventies production work is a veritable litmus test of his respect for specific artists. He also offered a helping studio hand to The Stooges – pioneering punk-metallers coming to the end of their tumultuous life – and their frontman Iggy Pop, who was just beginning his solo career. In Mott The Hoople he ...
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