Iggy phoned up his old friend Williamson and invited him back into the band, confident he’d be able to regain his old chops.
He died of a heart attack in 2009, leaving the group in need of another original Stooge. The Stooges reformed in 2003, but it was the original lineup with Ron Asheton on guitar. “The only time we even spoke after the split was during a few business calls about publishing.” “Iggy and I ended on really bad terms,” he says. The Stooges became a distant memory from a brief period in his youth. He put on a suit and went to work every day, not so much as touching a guitar for nearly 30 years. See Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins as Iggy Pop in ‘CBGB’ MovieĪfter the Stooges split in 1974, Iggy went to a mental hospital and Williamson went to California State Polytechnic University, eventually landing a job as Vice President of Technology Standards for Sony.
“If we made any money, we would have killed ourselves because we were taking so many drugs.” “Looking back, it’s probably better that we didn’t have any success,” Willamson says. (Williamson’s work on Ready to Die marks his first collaboration with Iggy in over 30 years.) Iggy and Williamson wrote the eight songs on Raw Power together, but the album tanked, heroin abuse consumed the band, and when they played their final show at Detroit’s Michigan Palace in 1974, they were literally dodging beer bottles all night. His teenage dream turned into a bit of a nightmare not long after guitarist James Williamson joined the band in 1970. That’s still the glory of it, and I wanted to honor the institution and honor the group.” This is my teenage dream, having a band that makes records and plays gigs. “It’s a lot of work, but I felt it was something that had to be done. “I didn’t do this expecting to make money out of it,” he tells Rolling Stone. Iggy Pop knows that the new Stooges album, Ready to Die, is unlikely to compete with Justin TimberlakeandTaylor Swift at the handful of record stores that still exist.
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