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Iggy on latest Stooges reunion
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 4 November 2009
Iggy Pop has confirmed he will be rejoining The Stooges for a one off show later this year with a plan to tour properly next year. This despite the death at the start of the year of the band’s guitarist Ron Asheton. It was announced earlier in the year that the band’s other seventies era guitarist James Williamson would be returning to performing after thirty years to fill the gap left in the current Stooges line up by Asheton’s demise.
Talking to 6Music about the latest Stooges reformation, Iggy said: “The band have been rehearsing more without me than with me because I’ve been doing other things this year. But we have been rehearsing all together more recently. We’re going to be doing a one-off show in Brazil in a few weeks but the real touring starts next year”.
Commenting on performing without Asheton, he added: “We’re all very sorry about Ron. [But] his spirit within the group remains with the rest of us and he is still a presence within the group without being on the physical plain”.
