“ Search And Destroy originated at RG Jones Studio in Wimbledon,” Williamson explains. But nowhere was this enduring template for rock’s future more effectively, and appropriately, deployed than on Search And Destroy. Across the entire album, a combination of pounding rhythm and searingly aggressive lead breaks finessed a style of guitar playing subsequently adopted by Sex Pistol Steve Jones and countless others. This component was a large part of the record’s magic. But with the style that I had evolved on Raw Power there’s no air for anybody else. “At first Ron was delighted to have the job. Shaped by Pop and Williamson’s latest compositions, most significantly the defining fury of opening track Search And Destroy, the album – which would ultimately be titled Raw Power – was based on an intrinsically different Stooges sound, a sound within which Asheton’s guitar would have been surplus to requirements. Ron was a bass player before he was a guitarist.” “I get a bad rap for this, like I pushed Ron out,” says Williamson, “but I was the one who got him to come back. For the first two Stooges albums, Ron Asheton had been the band’s guitarist, but now, with latterly recruited Williamson’s characteristic lead lines taking precedence, he’d been (in his mind atleast) demoted to bass. The Ashetons were delighted to be back, but there was already an as yet largely unspoken bone of contention. And so it was that a call went out to Detroit, and original Stooges Ron and Scott Asheton rejoined the line-up of a band now subtly, but significantly, rebranded as Iggy And The Stooges.
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