{"id":4179,"date":"2014-03-19T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/03\/19\/scott-asheton-drummer-in-the-stooges-dies-at-64\/"},"modified":"2014-03-19T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:37:35","slug":"scott-asheton-drummer-in-the-stooges-dies-at-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/03\/19\/scott-asheton-drummer-in-the-stooges-dies-at-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Asheton, Drummer in the Stooges, Dies at 64"},"content":{"rendered":"


Scott Asheton, the original drummer and one of the founders of the influential rock band the Stooges<\/a>, died on Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich.\u00a0 He was 64. The cause was a heart attack, his daughter, Leanna Asheton, said. Formed in Ann Arbor in 1967, the Stooges \u2014 Mr. Asheton, the singer Iggy Pop, the bassist Dave Alexander and the guitarist Ron Asheton, Scott\u2019s brother \u2014 boiled down rock \u2019n\u2019 roll to its aggressive base elements in songs about boredom and desire. Over time, through their small and powerful discography and the hundreds of bands they inspired, they left a lasting mark on rock music<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Their sound was powered by Mr. Asheton\u2019s drumming, its hard, whacking grooves and patterns on songs like \u201cNo Fun,\u201d \u201cDown on the Street,\u201d \u201c1969,\u201d \u201cT.V. Eye\u201d<\/a> and \u201cRaw Power,\u201d seemingly adapted from Bo Diddley, Motown and early Little Richard.<\/p>\n

Nicknamed Rock Action \u2014 he had the words tattooed on his left forearm, with a lightning bolt through them \u2014 Scott Randolph Asheton was born on Aug. 16, 1949, in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 After the death of his father, Ronald, a Marine Corps pilot, his mother, Ann, moved the family to Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n

Mr. Asheton could be tight-lipped compared with his more voluble brother Ron and the gregarious, exhibitionistic Iggy Pop, who said of him in an interview on Tuesday: \u201cHe was the Marlboro man, a man of few words and unquestionable masculinity, and he was the moral and spiritual enforcer of the group.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Stooges, originally the Psychedelic Stooges, began as kind of amateur avant-gardists \u2014 \u201clike jazz gone wild,\u201d Iggy Pop once said. They played their first gig on Halloween<\/a> night, 1967.\u00a0 Scott Asheton\u2019s homemade drum set, as his brother recalled it, included a 55-gallon oil drum, timbales and a snare, though no cymbals.<\/p>\n

Within a year, living and rehearsing together in a series of rented houses, the group got its style and songwriting in line, started opening for bands at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, and was signed by Elektra Records.<\/p>\n

After releasing the albums \u201cThe Stooges\u201d (1969), \u201cFun House\u201d (1971) and, with a lineup change, \u201cRaw Power\u201d (1974), the band broke up, challenged by commercial failure, problematic management and members\u2019 own drug habits.<\/p>\n

Mr. Asheton went on to play in a few other bands in the late 1970s. By the 1990s he was dividing his time between Michigan and Florida.<\/p>\n

The Stooges reunited in 2003, with Mr. Asheton on board. In their second life they toured the world, playing to many more people than they did the first time around. Mr. Asheton played on the band\u2019s album \u201cThe Weirdness,\u201d released in 2007.<\/p>\n

Ron Asheton died in 2008, and Scott Asheton, experiencing sudden illness, dropped out of the band\u2019s tour in the summer of 2011. He played on the Stooges\u2019 2013 album, \u201cReady to Die,\u201d<\/a> but did not take part in the tour that followed.<\/p>\n

In addition to his daughter, an actress, Mr. Asheton is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; his stepsons, Simon and Aaron Wallis; and a sister, Kathleen Asheton.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe drummed songs<\/em>,\u201d Iggy Pop said. \u201cHe had terrific force in his hands, and a natural power-punch, a knockout punch, without flailing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cHe always played truth on the instrument \u2014 always.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Source: NY Times
Photo Credit: NNDB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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