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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Stooges' Guitarist Ron Asheton - Dead at 60
This is "No Fun" at all. The NME reports Ron Asheton, founding guitarist and bassist for proto-punks the Stooges, featuring Iggy Pop on vocals, was found dead from an apparent heart attack in his Ann Arbor, Michigan home. He was 60. http://www.nme.com/news/the-stooges/41900
A lifelong scribbler of short stories, lyrics and grocery lists, since 1998 Spyder has been reporting on the New York City music and cultural scene for the New York Waste, NYRock.com and U.K. based Soundcheck-magazine.com. When not out on the town or in front of the computer, Spyder can be found playing bass for several local NYC rock bands, including glam punk rock'n rollers Detox Darlings which he founded in 1996 with his wife the ever effervescent JetSet Jenna.
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