So, according to an article in some Ann Arbor newspaper, I'm not sure which one and when I update this post a little bit later I'll have a link to give you, guitarist and founding member of The Stooges, Ron Ashton, has died at his home in Michigan. According to the article the police found Ashton dead on his couch. Read the article, get the details. But what we should definitely do is remember just how badass Ron Ashton fucking was. Ashton, along with Iggy Pop and his fellow Stooges bandmates, plus bands like the MC5 and The Velvet Underground were the main groups of the garage-punk movement in the late 1960s. These were the bands that laid the groundwork from which punk rock could spring about a decade later, and Ashton and his axe were an integral part of that. And thank God he was. Without him rock history would be definitely lacking.
Ron, here's to you.
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