With the addition of a piano player ( briefly Bob Sheff and then Scott Thurston ), the Stooges toured for several months, starting in February 1973.

David Michael Alexander ( June 3, 1947 – February 10, 1975 ) was an American musician, best known as the original bassist for influential protopunk band The Stooges.

The Stooges ( also known as Iggy and The Stooges ) are an American rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan first active from 1967 to 1974, and later reformed in 2003.

Blue Ash toured and opened for such acts as the Stooges, Bob Seger, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent and more but for lack of sales they were dropped by Mercury Records in May, 1974.

The 1974 show was the final Stooges show until the band's reunion in 2003.

As a result, the studio opted not to renew the Stooges ' contract when it expired in late December 1957.

Highlights included performances at several events involved with the All Tomorrow's Parties concert series, Pop's 60th birthday on the stage of San Francisco's Warfield Theater, touring with the Lollapalooza festival, and a performance of two Madonna covers at the Michigan-born singer's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in protest of the Stooges ' failure to receive an induction into said institution despite six nominations.

With its sludgy mix of hard rock, punk and metal, heavily influenced by Iggy Pop's original proto-punk group The Stooges, coupled with Arm's twisted lyrics and vocal delivery, Green River greatly influenced both its peers and bands that followed them.

It also alludes to Iggy Pop's band, The Stooges in that both words share a similar meaning (" rat " and " stooge " both being terms for someone who is an informer ).

Early during the segment, " Down on the Street " by The Stooges ( Iggy Pop's best-known band ) is played in the background.

Other songs included " Funtime ", a proto-gothic number that Bowie advised Pop to sing " like Mae West "; " Dum Dum Boys ", a tribute / lament for Pop's former Stooges band mates (" an exceptionally insensitive use of old colleagues for theatrical effect ", in the words of biographer Joe Ambrose ); and " Mass Production ", a harsh, grinding piece of early industrial electronica.

In their retrospective review, Allmusic gave the album five stars out of five, writing " Fun House is where Iggy Pop's mad genius first reached its full flower ; what was a sneer on the band's debut had grown into the roar of a caged animal desperate for release " and calling the album " the ideal document of the Stooges at their raw, sweaty, howling peak.

At this point, the Stooges, with the notable exception of Ron Asheton, had all become serious heroin users.

** Zeke Zettner ( The Stooges ), 25 ( heroin overdose )

Kaaren ( seated with hat ) watches as Bud Jamison ( right ) endures The Three Stooges ' unorthodox courtroom behavior in Disorder in the Court.

The Corn Palace at Mitchell, S. Dak., `` the world's corniest building '', has a carnival through Sept. 23 headlining the Three Stooges and Pee Wee Hunt.

Stage diving and crowd surfing were originally associated with protopunk bands such as The Stooges, and have appeared at punk, metal and rock concerts.

Within their first year at Columbia, the Stooges became wildly popular.

During their 23 years spent at Columbia, the Stooges were never completely aware of their amazing drawing power at the box office.

") Thinking their days were numbered, the Stooges would sweat it out each and every year, with Cohn renewing their contract for another year at the eleventh hour.

Cohn's scare tactics worked for all 23 years the Stooges were at Columbia ; the team never once asked for — nor were they ever given — a salary increase.

The Stooges appeared in 190 film shorts and five features while at Columbia.

With the onset of World War II, the Stooges released several entries that poked fun at the rising Axis powers.

Shemp, however, was hesitant to rejoin the Stooges, as he had a successful solo career at the time of Curly's untimely illness.

The films were aimed at the kiddie-matinee market, and most were farce outings in the Stooge tradition, with the exception of Snow White and the Three Stooges, a children's fantasy in Technicolor.

The Stooges also tried their hand at another weekly television series in 1960 titled The Three Stooges Scrapbook.

In the end, it is the durability of the 190 timeless short films the Stooges made at Columbia Pictures that acts as an enduring tribute to the comedy team.

" It turns out to be Joe the bartender ( Shemp ), and Egbert changes direction and walks quickly toward his pal as the song finishes in the underscore ( coincidentally, the song was at one time a recurring theme song for The Three Stooges, a comedy team that Shemp Howard later joined ).

When frightened or fleeing from danger, Zoidberg makes a high-pitched whooping sound, similar to Curly in The Three Stooges or squirts ink at his attacker.

Although they sold few records in their original incarnation and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences, the Stooges are widely regarded as instrumental in the rise of punk rock, as well as influential to alternative rock, heavy metal and rock music at large.

During this early period, the Stooges were originally billed as the " Psychedelic Stooges " at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan, and other venues, where they played with the MC5 and others.

The following year, the band released their self-titled debut album, The Stooges, but it did not sell very well, nor was it well received by critics at the time.

Shortly thereafter, the Stooges officially reunited, performing a series of live shows in the United States and Europe, with Watt on bass at Ron Asheton's request, and Fun House-era saxophonist Steve Mackay.

* Iggy & The Stooges reunion at Coachella!

A description on the official Fire Deuce website describes their style as :" elements of Coheed and Cambria's unique style alongside the hard-rock influence of bands such as AC / DC and Guns N ' Roses, the raw energy of The Stooges, and the rocking punk riffage of Turbonegro, to create a brilliant, must-have record any Coheed and Cambria fan will love ..." "... Fire Deuce, can easily be considered the new Spinal Tap, or, at the very least, The Darkness done right.

In the fall of 1979, the show was cut down to a half-hour by removing The Robonic Stooges and Woofer And Whimper, Dog Detectives ( which had been spun off into a separate half-hour ) and broadcast on CBS Sunday mornings on and off until January 1981.

Doran ( far right ) takes the dignified approach as Curly Howard proceeds to shave a cream pie off her face in the Three Stooges film Three Sappy People.

As they make their getaway in the confusion, the Stooges spot Slipp and take off after him.

The New York duo Suicide played spare, experimental music with a confrontational stage act inspired by that of The Stooges.

In 2002, the two shared the stage for two shows in London, with Barlow singing I Wanna Be Your Dog along with Mascis, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton and Mike Watt, who had been performing Stooges songs as " Asheton, Asheton, Mascis and Watt ".

He is chiefly remembered today as the creator of The Three Stooges, but had a successful stage and film career of his own.

The New York duo Suicide played spare, experimental music with a confrontational stage act inspired by that of The Stooges.

During Iggy and the Stooges ' 2007 performance at Glastonbury Festival, several Wispa fans invaded the stage armed with a banner saying " Bring Back the Wispa.

Influenced by Detroit rock groups including MC5 and The Stooges, they used extended distorted guitar solos and psychedelic sound effects, coupled with surreal imagery and stage antics, especially on early albums such as Funkadelic ( 1970 ), Free Your Mind ... And Your Ass Will Follow ( 1970 ), and Maggot Brain ( 1971 ), producing over forty singles, including three in the US top ten, and three platinum albums.

That same year Monogram Pictures teamed him with the urbane stage comedian Frank Fay for a comedy series ; Fay left the series after the first entry, and was replaced by a more appropriate foil, fellow vaudeville veteran Shemp Howard, who had been one of the Three Stooges before being replaced by his brother Curly.

The Main stage was reserved for headliners Massive Attack, Soulfly, Iggy and the Stooges, Cypress Hill as well as Brand New Heavies, Goldfrapp, The Wailers, Peaches, Rambo Amadeus, Partibrejkers, Emir & Frozen Camels, Darkwood Dub, Obojeni Program, Adam Freeland, 4hero, Neneh Cherry, and especially reunited for-one-night-only 1980s Novi Sad favourites Luna.

* Prior to his untimely death, Ron Asheton of seminal protopunk band The Stooges used Reverends on stage for current reunion shows with the group, notable for launching the career of Iggy Pop.