Ron Asheton – Rolling Stone’s Greatest Guitarists

Ron Asheton – Rolling Stone’s Greatest Guitarists

Nobody ever accused Ron Asheton of being a nice guy. “Any guitar player worth his salt is basically a thug,” his lead singer, Iggy Pop, once said. “They test you with that thug mentality. They ride you to the edge.” Asheton was the Detroit punk who made the Stooges’ music reek like a puddle of week-old biker sweat. He favored black leather and German iron crosses onstage, and he never let not really knowing how to play get in the way of a big, ugly feedback solo. In 2003, Asheton joined Iggy and the other Stooges for their first gigs in nearly thirty years. He still sounded like a thug.

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