Gimme Danger Page #10

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(Scott) Then we did the Asheton, Asheton

Mascis Watt thing

which Jim got ear of

cause people wanted to hear those songs

and we were playing the old Stooge songs

and getting good reviews

so that sparked Jim...

...to want to get the band

back together.

I gave Ron a call, I still knew

the phone number was the same

at his home from, uh, 1966

and, uh, he said

"Yeah! I'll do it."

I remember going to my mom's house

Ronny was there

and, uh, my mom's, you know

I walk in and she's going

[whispers]

"Guess who just called?"

And I'm like, she goes "Iggy."

And she was so excited, you know

cause she was like..

Thought it was the coolest thing

that Iggy called

and the band's getting back together.

So in a weird way, it was

the cats Don Fleming and Jimbo

Dunbar who asked Ronny,

I mean, this is my guess

to do that "Velvet Goldmine"

that kinda started

the whole ball rolling.

And then that sickness in a weird way

and J saying "Come on aboard."

He had... somehow, you know,

I don't know exactly

but I think this was the dynamic

that led to the...

...2003 Coachella.

Before we left

the st-left the studio

we got a call from Coachella

and they offered us a show.

To be honest

at what would be a good price

for a Iggy Pop show, but, um..

If I was gonna work with "The Stooges"

we're communists!

We split all the money.

So I had, uh, only way

I could do it was say

"Well, you'd have to give us

three times that,"

and I thought they'd go away

and they came back

and said "Okay."

[instrumental music]

[crowd cheering]

Woo!

Ah!

Everybody!

Now look out!

[rock music]

(Scott)

When the band got back together

I was so happy.

It was a dream come true, it was just..

Oh, my God, finally!

I'm back with the band.

[indistinct singing]

(Mike) I could tell that

they really enjoyed

playing with each other,

I could really tell

that they were glad to be doing this

even with all those years in between.

[rock music]

Yeah!

I'm so messed up I want you here

In my room

I want you here

(Iggy)

Certain parts of history

have repeated themselves

both in the history of this

reunification of our group

which, I prefer to call it

that rather than a reunion

and one thing that

happened was, uh, you know, we..

We did a substantial period with

with Ron doing the guitar.

Now I wanna be your dog

Well come on

(Iggy) The last time I saw

him was, uh, after the show.

I opened the door

and-and he and Scotty

were sitting in profile

at the end of the room

and they were surrounded

by young Slovenian musicians.

So I just saw that they were busy

and, um, split.

I last saw him in profile.

He popped up in my dreams

a few times since then...

...and he never spoke or looked at me.

It was always sort of

more something like,

uh... you know.

The guy in "The Third Man" or

the guy in "The French Connection"

always walking by

and you can't quite catch him.

He was a lot like that.

When he passed away

it coincided with James

retirement as a Sony Executive

and...

...he wanted to rock

and...

...I was sure that there

was nothing else meaningful

that the group could do other than

do his,

do-do some things with him

doing his material.

And having just finally

done the right thing

thirty years,

thirty-five years later

with Ron's material

to do the same thing for his

and complete the job.

Iggy's talking to me about,

"Well, you wanna play guitar?"

and I'm going, "Well..

"I don't know,

I mean, I haven't played guitar

in thirty years, so.."

Uh, but I, but I felt like that, uh..

And this is the truth, is I felt

like that these guys were

you know, they're my buddies

I mean, I know these

guys from my twenties.

And so, they needed me,

you know, to do this

and I, I felt like

I needed to step up and do it.

Raw power it's a more than soul

Got a son called rock and roll

Raw power honey just won't quit

Raw power I can feel it

Raw power honey can't be beat

Get down and a kiss my feet

Everybody's always

tryin to tell me what to do

(James)

I really had no intention

idea or wildest dream

that I would be playing, you know

guitar again for "The Stooges."

I mean, it was really the

furthest thing from my mind.

[rock music]

(Iggy)

They were a group of the

slightly more popular

slightly more physically aggressive

guys in my class.

And there were about four

or five of them at the time.

I'd been to one or two

of their homes, used to eat

French fries with them across

the street from school.

So one of them had a car

his dad had given him.

They came out

they did three things, one of them said

"Yeah, look, his dad drives a Cadillac

"and he lives in a trailer.

Car's bigger than his house!"

Few of 'em got together

"Let's see if it shakes."

And they started pushing it

and trying to shake

the trailer on its foundations

which it would not.

Uh, but you did feel, you could feel it.

Uh, yeah, I want to be friends

with these guys and, uh

I admired certain things about them.

One of them jumped in the bathtub and

made some sort of remark

about the size of the, the bathroom.

Ever since I've been out to get 'em.

Ever since, you know.

I'll bury those guys.

[crowd cheering]

Uh!

We three here are the surviving Stooges.

[cheering]

Ron and Dave woulda gotten

a big kick outta this

and, uh, Ron was pissed off

that it didn't happen

while he was alive.

I don't know how he feels about it now

he's probably sitting up there in heaven

having martinis with Brian Jones

trying to flick ashes on our head.

Music is life

and life is not a business.

Ron Asheton knew this

and Ron was cool.

The "MC5" are cool.

[crowd cheering]

My friend, Danny,

who discovered the band is cool

and Nina, my beautiful wife

you're cool!

All the poor people

who actually started

rock and roll music are cool.

(female #2) Yeah!

[cheering]

Thank you Stooge fans!

There may be three of ya up there

and I'll bet there's a couple

in the fancy seats.

So thanks for being so... cool.

[rock music]

Yeow!

I'm so messed up I want you here

And in my room I want you here

And now we're gonna be face to face

And I'll lay right down

in my favorite place

And now I wanna

Now I wanna

Now I wanna

And now I wanna be a dog

Now come on

[music continues]

[barking]

Uh! Yeah!

Come on, Ron!

Play! Play!

[indistinct singing]

I'm in f***ing Detroit

I salute you now

Now I'm ready to close my eyes

Now I'm ready to feel your hand

Lose my heart on the burning sand

(Iggy)

Come on! Do it, Michigan!

Now I want to be your dog

Now I want to be your dog

Now I want to be your dog

Well come on

Now..

I don't want to belong

to the glam people

I don't want to belong

to the hip, hip-hop people

I don't want to belong

to the, to any of it.

I don't want to belong

to the TV people...

...alternative people, none of it.

I don't want to be a punk.

I just want to be.

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[gong booming]

[guitar music]

Gimme danger little stranger

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