>original guitarist comes crawling back
>only let him play bass
Ice cold man, ice cold.

Ron Asheton > James Williamson

>>127181508 (OP)
Fun House is better, therefore Asheton won

I wonder how that convo went.

>Yeah, the thing is you're kinda shit at guitar. We can let you pound away at root notes on bass though.

>>127181508 (OP)
>>127181602
>>127181613
Williamson was appropriate for what Iggy wanted for the album, faster and meaner.

>Following the band's 1974 breakup, Ron Asheton returned to Ann Arbor, Michigan and spent most of the rest of his life living with his mother in her large house. He was an avid collector of horror movies, military history books and Nazi memorabilia and regalia, which included uniforms, medals, pins and a Nazi flag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Asheton#Post-Stooges

>>127183235
He was proto-punk in more than just music

>>127183235
he's literally me

>>127181508 (OP)
Not how it happened. The Stooges were basically in limbo after Elektra dropped them. Then Bowie came on board and basically resurrected the band, and they signed with CBS. Iggy asked the Asheton brothers to come back after they had auditioned a bunch of people for the rhythm section and didn't like any of them. Ron agreed because he wanted to be back in the band and because it was basically a free trip to England (Ron was the biggest Beatles fan in The Stooges.) Scott agreed because he didn't give af.

Williamson is fine but I honestly prefer Asheton's guitar playing, and I think he should have played guitar on Raw Power. But then Williamson would have thrown a fit and quit the band. So what can you do? Iggy would eventually pay for having James in the band anyway, after the guy went crazy from drugs/drinking.

>>127183344
A lot of Williamson’s riffs seem derivative of Asheton’s. Listen to the opening of No Fun and then the opening of Search and Destroy, before the lead part starts. It’s not the same thing, but it’s close.

>>127184629
I've noticed that before. It's certainly possible. I'm not sure how involved Ron was in the creative process of Raw Power. I'd guess it was very little, I don't think he wrote anything. Ron came up with a lot of the riffs on the first album, and some of the ones on Fun House, like Dirt. Iggy did write all of these songs though, so it might also be a case of him ripping himself off too.

>>127183235
>>127183289
He's wearing a swastika armband in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgGb6RLilwQ

Psychedelic nazis are cool.

>>127184629
>Listen to the opening of No Fun and then the opening of Search and Destroy, before the lead part starts.
Good observation. A lot of new songs come out of jamming on old ones.