Ready to Die

Ready to Die

$17.95
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Personnel: Iggy Pop (vocals); James Williamson (guitar); Steve MacKay (saxophone); Scott Asheton (drums); Toby Dammit (percussion).Recording information: Candy Bomber Studios, Berlin; Fantasy Studio; Groove Masters, Santa Monica, CA; South Beach Studios, Miami; Studio 606, Northridge, CA.Photographer: David Raccuglia.Ready to Die arrives with none of the heady expectations of The Weirdness, the 2007 comeback that found Iggy Pop and the Asheton Brothers, aided by the sturdy Mike Watt, attempting to re-create some of the madness of Funhouse. For a variety of reasons it didn't work, but it wasn't so much an embarrassment as it was, well, weirdness, from a band weighed down more by its own ongoing internal tensions than its legacy. A little over a year after its release, Ron Asheton died and the group did what they did last time they were hanging by a thread: they brought in guitarist James Williamson. Back in 1973, he was the fuel that propelled Raw Power, an album that found Ron sitting

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