Strangely Perfect

I’ve been (and still am!) busy over the last few months moving house and otherwise making a new life for myself.  Despite this, I did find time to go a see an event that I never thought would happen – James Williamson & Iggy Pop playing on stage together- for the first time in 30 [...]

No doubt hoards of guitar players were avidly checking James Williamson’s fingers in this clip, just to make sure they had it right! For me, I’m just glad I’ve got to see it in case I die before May or something else happens. The guy is still great – so many fills, so many runs, [...]

Something I never thought could happen, given everything that James Williamson has said, is the news that 2010 sees the return of Williamson to play ‘proper’ guitar with The Stooges. ( ‘Proper’ comes from Iggy’s historical description of the band a few years back while speaking to Melvyn Bragg.) This is the interview (for a [...]

C#m      D         A          E       D E       B       D   F#m     G       D       E E D F#m             E D Still when I was crying F#m You were on my side C#m     D               A          E Angel, you can come and see me here tonight C#m      D                    A                E Angel, of course you’re always more than [...]

Earlier this year when Ron Asheton died, I remarked (see Nazi Ron Dies) that it was funny how life takes us on different paths.  James Williamson is now an IT executive for Sony and Iggy Pop is doing car adverts… Well, it turns out that there’s been a problem with that.  The Advertising Standards Agency [...]

I Wish I Was a Girl – by The Pink Fairies Wem Copycat, Wem Copycat, Wem Copycat Ironic or what? Oh I tripped down the street in my fashion, Arousing Ladies passion, But they misunderstand my eyes, They don’t know that I’m just after their guys. The instrumental and vocal bit after the verse above [...]

Ron Asheton Dies at Home Tempis fugit and all that.  Ironically, the day after I saw Iggy Pop doing an advert on telly for car insurance, Ron dies at home with no suspicious circumstances.  Amazing. The first time I heard “Down on the Street” knocked me over.  I was just stunned. I heard “Search and [...]

Apocalyptica featuring Till Lindemann: Helden Since I first heard this version, it won’t leave my head, which means for me, as a lingering tune, it fully deserves the soubriquet, “Strangely Perfect”. I don’t care if no-one agrees with me as music is something that is perceived in an individual’s mind, at one point in time.  [...]

Showing how the excuse to shoot down a spy satellite is a cover story for bravado and secrecy. This is proved by reference to the two, very public, Shuttle disasters, comparing at a simple science level the logic behind certain statements.

Discussion of Iggy Pop painting by Alistair Campbell. If contact can be made, I’d like Alistair to do the new covers for the forthcoming releases.

Iggy Pop – Shades. Don’t mind it being there for now.