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Apr 12 2010

Happy 4th!

Posted by CJ Marsicano in AKB48, Ace Frehley, Ai Kago, Ayumi Hamasaki, Berryz Koubou, Blogging, Buono!, C-ute, Guns n' Roses, Hank Williams III, Hawthorne Heights, Iggy Pop, Kiss, Koda Kumi, Maki Goto, Meat Puppets, Mission of Burma, Morning Musume, Morning Musume In America, Puffy AmiYumi, SCANDAL, The Husky, The Stooges, Victory Records, W, Whiteberry

Fourth Blogging Anniversary, that is…

I almost forgot to post something today, but I have a good excuse: Today was also my fiancee’s bridal shower, and guess who had to schlep gifts back and forth in his car? Yep…

I should note that for the past few weeks I’ve been – on top of planning towards the wedding and subsequent move into mine and my wife-to-be’s new apartment – finishing up the novel (yeah, still… but then again if I didn’t have to hold a day job it would have been finished already), working on a screenplay for Script Frenzy, working on a couple of reviews for this blog (they’ll be up this week), and working on my guitar.

And last night, boy, did I work on my guitar… I got this thing (Epiphone Les Paul) a few months ago, but I never changed the strings until last night. Such was my Saturday night:

Ready to start restringing - I always start with the low E.

And to keep things J-pop related, here’s another part of what helped keep me sane, especially today:

And what's keeping me sane through all this? Good music, of course!

Besides, I couldn’t figure how to equal or better the live MoMusu and Stooges clips from last year! But what I can do is (even though I didn’t get this finished until after midnight when the 11th became the 12th) update a list I posted two years ago on my second blogging anniversary at MotokoAoyama.com, which would make this “A List That Took Four Years To Make”:
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Dec 15 2009

This Week’s Entry In The About Fucking Time Department…

Posted by CJ Marsicano in Iggy Pop, The Stooges

stooges

From the Detroit Free Press:

No fun? Yes, fun!

After failing to move past the nomination ballot seven times since becoming eligible in the mid-‘90s, legendary Michigan band the Stooges has made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it was announced this morning.

The group, formed in Ann Arbor in 1967 by singer Iggy Stooge/Pop (born James Osterberg) and brothers Ron and Scott Asheton and Dave Alexander, is considered one of the most influential of its time — an era that was among the fertile in Michigan’s storied music history, producing contemporaries like the MC5, Bob Seger and Ted Nugent.

The Stooges were in many ways the ugly stepchild of that scene, never widely popular even in their heyday. But the band — creator of hard-rock templates such as “I Wanna Be Your Dog” and “No Fun,” — later came to be seen as spiritual and musical godfathers for legions of punk and alternative bands. Nirvana, Sonic Youth and the White Stripes are among those who’ve cited the influence of the band’s grinding, grimy sound and bored — and often nihilistic — perspective.

The Stooges had been broken up for nearly 30 years when Iggy and the Ashetons reformed in 2003, winning wide acclaim for a series of live shows, and even a gig backing Madonna when she was inducted into the Rock Hall in 2008.

The sad footnote to the coming induction is that guitarist Ron Asheton died in January at his home in Ann Arbor of natural causes. By several accounts, he was the Stooge who was most desiring of the respect that only came his way long after the Stooges had disbanded.

“We’ve been rejected seven times, and we would have set a record, I think, if it happened again,” Iggy Pop told Rolling Stone of the band’s election. “It started to feel like Charlie Brown and the football. I had about two hours of a strong emotional reaction after hearing the news. It felt like vindication. Then I kind of scratched my head and thought, ‘Am I still cool? Or is that over now?’ ”

The list of other bands to be inducted at ceremonies in New York on March 15 couldn’t provide much more contrast with the Stooges: artsy progressive rockers Genesis, Swedish pop kings ABBA, harmonizing rockers the Hollies and ska-reggae star Jimmy Cliff.

James Williamson, the other Stooges guitarist (he played guitar on Raw Power while Ron Asheton played bass) added his own view on the long-overdue induction on his Facebook page:

“Tonight I’ll be raising a glass to an awful lot of people…secretly I believe we were chosen to balance the choice of ABBA getting in…I do take some pride in getting in over KISS, but am saddened that the great singer/songwriter Laura Nyro wasn’t selected although she was hardly ‘rock and roll’, but then she`d have to stand in line on the point.”

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Apr 21 2009