Stooges Master File

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Director: Jack LeFelt

Producer: H. Spencer Young, p.


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Producer: Edwin Samuelson, p.

RON ASHETON of The Stooges


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Background and Narrative Page 1

Interview Highlights Page 16Crew Bios Page 25

Documentaries in the Current Entertainment Market Page 26

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I moved back here for good in 1977

and this has always been headquar-ters. Its nice to have a home whereyou can be yourself and not feelweird about your parents buggingyou. Everyones spent a lot of timehere...Iggy...this was one of our hang-outs. Matter of fact, this is where wemet Dave Alexander. He used to live

right down the street so this subdivi-sion has a lot of meaning...goodold number 107

*For exclusive use in STOOGE

Ron Asheton, 1989 Interview

We were pretty much anything

goes. We werent even really tryingto do songs. Mostly it was just elec-tric jazz. Sort of a wild, free-form,energy-jazz, free-form, electricfreak out.


Ron Asheton, 1989 Interview Ron Asheton, Archival Interview

Plenty of times Id stay up all night

just to make sure the lads wouldntburn down the house. Iggyd be nod-ded outat that time he didnt smokefiltered cigarettesLucky Strike ora Camel its like burning his lip, thecouch has millions of burn holes. Everyday Id wake up and smell smoke. Oh,the mattress caught on fire down the

basement. Thered be a perfect trail ofburned mattress from the basementthrough the house and out the door.

For licensed use in STOOGE

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I have six cats, a pet raccoon who

comes every night with my possumand skunks. So every night they comeon my deck to see whats left of thecat food because what the cats donteat from the day I save up and putout in their bowls at night. I give themleftovers thatve sat too long in therefrigerator, old cheese...Ive known

them all since they were babies.Plus Ive got two pit-bulls, Butch andWah-Wah.



He called me on the phone

once in 25 years. Then in 2003 hecalled me up and asked if me andmy brother would be interestedin doing a project. He goes youdont have to answer now. Youcan wait two weeks and thinkabout it. I said I dont need twoweeks I say yes right now.


Ron Asheton as Russell

Legion of the Night, 1995

Heather might even take you back.Aint love grand!



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It wasnt until I sat cross from Ron and heshowed me how to play I Wanna Be Your Dogthat I was suddenly enlightened as to what it

is that makes the Stooges one of the greatestrock and roll bands on the planet. It wasnt theprimitivism, it wasnt the three chords and thatwhole thing about getting to the essence ofrock and rollyeah, theres something reallybeautiful about that and it was the blueprint forpunk and all that and thats greatbut it washow Ron was playing as much as what he wasplaying. He was playing it with a very sublime

swing. Thats when I realized what differenti-ates the Stooges from everything else in hardrock, high energy music...is that they reallyknew how to swing.

Original Interview, 12/9/2009

The guys in The Ramones loved andidentified with the Stooges and sortof modeled themselves after theAsheton brothers, in ways. They were abig influence. The spirit and personalityof the Asheton brothers definitely suitedthe mindset of The Ramones.


Tommy Ramone,The RamonesThurston Moore, Sonic Youth, Wylde Ratttz

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He goes, Fasten your seatbelt, heresFun House...in reverse. And he plugs

in this little pig-nose amp and startedplaying, song for song, the entire recordbackwards. It went on til about six inthe morning. He was sweating, I couldntbreathe...so fucking cool....


Iggy was the cherry on top, whatmade it function and made it whole.But the foundation is this noiseand its much more guitar noisethan it is anything else.Ron Ashetons guitar style is asfundamental in its own way asSteve Croppers guitar style, ScottyMoores guitar style or Chuck Ber-rys guitar style...


Jim:

Iggy made all these great recordsthat I love, but Iggy and Ron are just...Miles and Coltrane. Thats the crmede la crme. I mean, the guy couldplay happy birthday and it wouldsound like the Stooges.Don:Exactly! Its that sound and you cantell its in his hands, its the way he

plays it and the way it comes out ofthe amp. Anybody else could havethat setup and it doesnt sound likethat.


Don Flemming & Jim DunbarProducer & Music Supervisor, Created Wylde Ratttz

Colonel Galaxy, Dark Carnival Manager, Rons Best Friend Dave Marsh, Editor, Creem MagazineAuthor, Louie Louie: The History and Mythology

of the Worlds Most Famous RocknRoll Song

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Fun House is one of those few master-

pieces in rock and roll. After that, theystuck Ron on bass and brought in amusician instead of an artist so youended up with music instead of art.

Original Interview , 11/22/2009

It seemed like all the people who

started all the early punk and newwave bands in America were theonly Stooges fans in their town.

Archival Interview

Jello Biafra, Dead KennedysJohn Holmstrom Founder, Punk Magazine

The first Stooges...with Iggy,

Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton andDave Alexander...they were mostintense thing Id ever seen.

Archival Interview

Dee Dee Ramone, The Ramones

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Its one of those things that comes

up. Do I really wanna throw away...Do I just want to have somebody inmy life that was really important,and we did something together andthen totally throw that awayhavethat trail off into oblivion and thenend my life and have that come tonothing? Have there be no sort ofthread? No humanity in the thing?

That bothers me.

Iggy Pop, Archival Interview

The Stooges liked the british

pop stars and they all wantedto be pop stars. I liked the bluesand wanted to be, like a bluesman poet but none of us couldplay, really, so we put it to-gether and came out with theStooges.


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We hadnt really sat down in the same

place with no other people aroundfor...30-odd years. Were really not thekind of guys that are like, Hey DUDE...!But you feel, physically, when yourenext to the only people that you ever didanything lasting with when you were ayoung adultthe only time in your lifethat was really burningly creativeyouwill feel something. Its a physical thing.

You feel...solid. Then we went around thecorner and had a drink and a sandwich,talked about what we were going to doand then the next day we went in andstarted doing it.



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As it stands, I think theyre the great-est band in the history of rock and roll.

Archival Interview

Nitebob:Ive worked with hundredsof guitar players over the past 35-40years. Ron Asheton did not sound likeanybody else. It was unique, primal,all-encompassing sound. You sat thereand went, Wow, this is big. It wasntyour usual two-hour jammy and lets go

off into space stuff.Natalie:It wasnt getting high music. It was get-ting down music.


Nitebob & Natalie

Sound Engineer & Stooges Fan Club Pres. 68-74

Josh Homme

Queens of the Stone Age, Crooked Vultures

Iggy was the show but the music

behind him...thats Ron Asheton.Thats the solid base that Iggy wasbased on. Ron Asheton stands outas a musician and thats his wealth,thats his legacy. As time passes,people who know music are goingto know Ron Asheton. I always re-member him as the quiet one, thesensible one in the stooges.


Russ Gibb, Owner, Grande Ballroom

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It was the best music I had ever heard inmy life and he was the best performer I hadever seen.

Archival Interview

Reading from her diary:

June 7, 1978. 2:13 a.m. We came back fromToronto. Very enthusiastic audience. Veryhate/love. Ron Asheton! Youre washed up!Moments pass in complete silence. I whis-per, Ron, say something. He lights a ciga-rette. The audience is spellbound. Ron says,Hey asshole. You dont have anything to be

washed up about, dude. Crowd goes wild.Original Interview, 12/5/2009

Danny Fields,Elektra Records/Stooges Manager Niagara,Partner/Bandmate

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Producer: Edwin Samuelson, p. 25

Jack Lefelt spent the last ten years writing, creating, directing and producing video content

for various digital media platforms, lm and television. Choice projects include 25 Years of

Punk (narrated by Lou Reed) and The Grunge Years for VH1; The G-Hole and Empire

Arcadia for MTV; The Red Carpet Fashion Attack, Get Fresh, The 5 and ADD Bio for

MTV.com. Jack conceived, piloted and launched many of these shows for MTVs digital media

platform and interviewed nearly 100 artists from MIA, Mars Volta and Method Man to the Foo

Fighters, Christina Aguilera and Adam Sandler. He also served as Carson Dalys scriptwriter

and oor producer for the daily afternoon television program Total Request Live. As a writer,

Jack managed all editorial copy appearing on MTV.com, which amounted to about 4,000

promos a year for the home page, music hubs and newsletters in addition to games, features,

polls and quizzes. In a position at MR magazine as Features Editor, Jack provided in-depth

editorial coverage of the mens fashion industry from retail to runway, celebrity proles and

industry analysis. He also conceived and launched a new streetwear fashion lifestyle

magazine called Fusion, which served as MRs sister publication and combined consumer and

trade distribution. Jack developed a daily column called The Coolest Place On Earth for the

travel website whatsgoingon.com and contributed to the book it was basedon, 100 Things To

Do Before You Die (Taylor Publishing). Additional writing samples can be found in The Village

Voice, Revolution, Mens Health, VH1.com and Maxim, among many others.

As manager of the rock band Back in Spades featuring Jackson Smith (son of Patti Smith and

legendary MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith), Jack secured the band a distribution deal with

Shock records in Australia/New Zealand and a domestic deal with Indie rock label Tee Pee

Records before the bands untimely demise. The creator and owner of Gravy clothing

company (1993 1996, R.I.P.), Jack was charged with business and all creative operations for

the full collection of young mens clothes. He recently completed a novel Cheap Thrills.

Contact Info:

917-445-7180

[email protected]

http://www.lefelt.com

Edwin Samuelson is a videographer, critic and producer based in New York City. After

studying communications and IT in college, he decided to start his website

DVDmaniacs.net (which eventually became AV Maniacs.com). He has also logged in

several years as the host of The Cineles, a public access lm review show. Edwin

maintains a presence for the show via YouTube, where it has attracted a noteworthy

cult following.

Edwin has translated his love of cinema into prolic production work in the home

video eld. Hes worked with various DVD authoring and production companies,

creating supplements, commentary tracks and other various elements for a variety of

cult and exploitation icks. I n recent years, he has produced several DVDs himself,

including the critically-acclaimed 42nd Street Forever series. His current specialty in

the DVD eld is shooting featurettes and interviews for various home video releases:

recent work includes interviews with director Alejandro Jodorowsky for Santa Sangre,

director Jerry Schatzberg for Panic In Needle Park and Oscar winning producer Ron

Bozman for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

In addition to his lm-related work, Edwin is a passionate fan of music who has lmed

numerous live concerts over the years, including Big Star and Nada Surf. He's most

rewarding experience was lming his favorite band, The Stooges, in concert.

Currently, Edwin is merging AVmaniacs.com with the Cineles and pursuing further

video and documentary that will unite his cinematic and musical passions. He is proud

to be a part of lmmaking team for Stooge.

Contact Info:

212-737-0768

[email protected]

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