The Stooges – The Stooges LP (Whiskey vinyl) For Sale

Proto-punk trailblazers The Stooges – Iggy Pop, Ron and Scott Asheton, and Dave Alexander – may have sounded like they were from the Stone Age, but the Ann Arbor quartet predicted the future of rock n roll with the untamable sonic assault of their John Cale-produced self-titled 1969 debut on Elektra Records. The essence of punk years before the genre existed, The Stooges  furious music was a howling, visceral, fuzztone-drenched, and unprecedented vortex of sound. The Stooges influence is legion – to name all of the bands, singers, and would-be rock stars who drank from the well could fill 1,000 phone books, wrote author Mike Edison. There is not a hard or heavy band anywhere on the planet that s not in earnest awe of The Stooges.