Ron Ashton RIP

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Author Message   skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 59 Registered: 10-2008 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 03:33 pm:    http://www.nme.com/news/the-stooges/4190 0 tv eye will be getting blasted out in heaven tonight   Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1339 Registered: 01-2005 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 08:13 pm:    ROn will be missed for sure. The Stooges should have made it into the Rock 'n Roll HOF years ago.   Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1509 Registered: 10-2004 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 08:13 pm:    Of course, the sad irony is that now they probably will make it into the HOF.   Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1352 Registered: 09-2006 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 08:50 pm:    They haven't yet? Good god, shows you how much I pay attention...I just assumed.   Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1340 Registered: 01-2005 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 10:32 pm:    They are in the final list for this years inductees. Jeff hit the nail on the head with his comment about making it in now that Ron has passed.   Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1341 Registered: 01-2005 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 10:33 pm:    They are in the final list for this years inductees, but Jeff hit the nail on the head with his comment.   Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2539 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 - 11:15 pm:    I saw him play with J. Mascis and Mike Watt at SXSW in Austin, TX in March 2001. Here's what I wrote afterwards in The Irish Times. The last time I saw J. Mascis was with Dinosaur Jr 10 years ago in the long gone McGonagles. He looks the exact same now - long, lank hair and baggy t-shirt over an ample gut. The guitars are still turned to 11 too. It's tonight's hottest show due to the whispers about who's playing with him. Mike Watt of Minutemen and Firehose is his bassist as they go through 20 minutes of old Dinosaur and new Mascis material, but then the moment we've all been waiting for happens. Ron Ashton, former guitarist of The Stooges, walks on and plugs in. There are two generations of left-field US rock history on stage together and it's guitarmageddon as they play a set of Stooges songs with Watt on vocals. Awesome.