2013
Year: 2013
Ron Asheton – King of the Stooges!
Ron and Scott Asheton were the nucleus of the Stooges, the greatest fucking punk band in the world. Having attended Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan, with Iggy Pop (né James Osterberg), the Asheton brothers were hoodlum types who attracted other punks with their erratic, wild behavior. As Iggy said of the Ashetons, “These guys were the laziest delinquent sorts of pig slobs ever born. Really spoiled rotten and babied by their mother. [Their] dad had died, so they didn’t have much discipline at home.”
Alice Cooper’s Dead Drunk Friends!
By Alice Cooper as Told to Legs McNeil - I first met Alice Cooper at a party on Park Avenue in the mid-1970s. It was really one of those, “I’m not worthy” moments. Alice was one of the few guys I truly respected back then, because he’d made it on his own terms: by “driving a stake into the heart of the peace-and-love Generation,” and by playing delinquent rock ‘n’ roll for punks like me.
Happy, Happy, Happy! – A Memory of Arturo Vega – VICE.COM
Joey Ramone, Arturo Vega, and me in the studio in 1978. Photo by Tom Hearn
EARLY ALICE COOPER VIDEO: STUDIO FILMING “BALLAD OF D FRY”, 1971
Clips from German TV Show Beat Club, circa 1971, of the original Alice Cooper band playing Ballad of Dwight Frye, posted on Youtube by drummer Neal Smith.
David Bowie Stole my Suicide Record So I Ripped the Hubcaps off His Limo – VICE
By Legs McNeil
Legs writes a guest blog this week at VICE.COM
In my ongoing attempt to rebuild my vinyl collection, I was recently perusing a Brooklyn hipster record store and came across the new David Bowie album, The Next Day. I've been enjoying quite a few lesser-known Bowie cuts lately, so I decided to throw caution to the wind and really get wild. I bought the record.
This is a real feat for me, as I've never bought a record on faith alone. I'd been hearing good things about the record, and I was curious to hear what an artist like Bowie had to say at the end of his career or—if the rumors are true about his having cancer—at the end of his life.
On Seeing TELEVISION in Santiago, Chile
By Paulett Auscencia - On Seeing TELEVISION in Santiago, Chile