(Williamson's work on Ready to Die marks his first collaboration with Iggy in over 30 years.) Iggy and Williamson wrote the eight songs on Raw Power together, but the album tanked, heroin abuse consumed the band, and when they played their final show at Detroit's Michigan Palace in 1974, they were literally dodging beer bottles all night.
His teenage dream turned into a bit of a nightmare not long after guitarist James Williamson joined the band in 1970. That's still the glory of it, and I wanted to honor the institution and honor the group.' This is my teenage dream, having a band that makes records and plays gigs. 'It's a lot of work, but I felt it was something that had to be done. 'I didn't do this expecting to make money out of it,' he tells Rolling Stone. Iggy Pop knows that the new Stooges album, Ready to Die, is unlikely to compete with Justin Timberlake and Taylor Swift at the handful of record stores that still exist.
