RIP Ron

2008 is now dead, big business art will crumble with the credit crunch, its time for the real talent to storm the barricades - as Supertouch blog perfectly summed up 'hair metal is dead, its time for punk'... the new year festivites are over, the hungovers survived (and i hope you all had a good time)...so now its time for 2009 and the focus on making it the best year ever!!! The Dilly is back and will be in rude health and i have some awesome things lined up to balance out the silence on the zine front...i've been planning and plotting - waiting so that now things will be regular and better rather than my 2008 track record of starting and stopping shit due to being BROKE...anyway...i was geared up and pysched to hitting up this blog HARD tonight but sadness took over and i dont feel like blogging now as news has reached me that the great and now late Ron Asheton is dead.
There are some bands or musicians you can take or leave,but for me the stooges are a band i passionatly LOVE to death, and so the passing of the maker of many of my all time favourite riffs is dead...well to me its a very very shit day...
OK so the weirdness was quite forgettable but with their recent reformation it was nice to see them getting their just time in the limelight (the other stooges, not iggy - hes always been around)...and so i would have loved to have seen the stooges more times live as were still a phenomenal force live and i personally would have loved to have seen if he could top 'no fun' or 'i wanna be your dog'...he probably wouldnt have but at least there was a chance...
Also dont forget he was part of the awesome Destroy all monsters, which are well well well worth looking up if you get a chance (and get the pictureboox book 'Geisha this')..a greatly overlooked art collective that would be huge if they were a current group.
RIP Ron Asheton
PS normal arty farty blogging tomorrow