![]() Alexander died in 1975 of a pulmonary edema that was linked to his heavy drinking. After he was ousted from The Stooges following the disastrous Goose Lake International Rock Festival, he returned here to live with his parents. Stooges bassist Dave Alexander grew up here. The Alexander Family Home - 2900 block of Mason Ave. Beginning in 1967, Osterberg would take a bus from Coachville Gardens to rehearse with the Ashetons in their basement and the three would eventually add the Ashetons' neighbor, Dave Alexander, to the mix, forming the nucleus of the original Stooges. Ron Asheton played guitar in the Chosen Few and was known around down for his mod fashion sense. Osterberg knew Ron and Scott Asheton from the local music scene. The Asheton Family Home - 100 block of Highlake Ave. He could often be found playing golf with his father at Pat’s Par Three course, which is now the driving range at Miles of Golf. We’ll run them down in generally chronological order:Ĭoachville Gardens - Tucked away on the east side of Carpenter Road south of Packard in Pittsfield Township, this modest mobile-home park was where Osterberg grew up as an only child of working parents. Join us now for a tour of some of the landmarks - some standing, some long gone - that defined the Stooges’ time in their hometown. Still, if you squint just right and set your imagination free, you may be able to conjure a vision of the Ann Arbor where Osterberg transformed himself from an athletic, bookish honor student at Ann Arbor High School into a “street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.” It can be hard to remember Ann Arbor without chain coffee and sandwich shops, or with an influential music scene that would spawn breakout groups like the MC5, SRC, Bob Seger and an unlikely band of misfits, who, despite an abject lack of record sales, would endure as the primary architects of punk rock and eventual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The Stooges. When the Stooges arrive in Ann Arbor for their sold-out homecoming show at the Michigan Theater on Tuesday, they’ll return to a city that bears little resemblance to the sleepy college town in which both Iggy Pop (nee James Osterberg) and drummer Scott Asheton (and his late brother, guitarist Ron Asheton) were raised.
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