![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But I came to find out that he visited Hawaii frequently with his wife, Anne, so we became friends outside of music. But we finally did in 2011 and continued to occasionally touch base like when the Stooges would play Australia. Though he had grown up there and there were many parallels to our careers, we’d never met. James Williamson: This all came about after Deniz and I met when we did the Ron Asheton tribute show in Ann Arbor, in 2011. Williamson used his Weissenborn (left) to record “Penetration” and “Night Theme” for Acoustic K.O., his Gibson B-25 (middle) to compose the music on the Stooges’ classic album Raw Power, and this ’67 Martin D-28 on Acoustic K.O. We recently spoke to Williamson and Tek to get the story on their past, and their new collaboration, Acoustic K.O. is a stripped-down affair highlighted by readings of two tunes from Raw Power (“I Need Somebody” and “Penetration”) and two from Kill City (“Night Theme” and “No Sense of Crime”). ![]() With a title modeled after the Stooges’s lo-fi 1976 live album Metallic K.O., Acoustic K.O. In ’07, the latter was inducted into the Australian Music Hall of Fame. Tek later played with Ron Asheton in a band called New Race, and reunited with Radio Birdman. Inspired by the Stooges, he formed Radio Birdman, an influential band that offered the classic Radios Appear in 1977, and split shortly after sessions for its second album in ’78 that disc was issued three years later as Living Eyes. Like the Stooges, Tek hails from Ann Arbor, Michigan, but by the early ’70s was living in Australia. The event spurred the band to record 2013’s Ready to Die. In 2009, the Stooges gathered for their induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Williamson retired from the music biz in the early ’80s and became a successful electronics engineer. But Williamson and singer Iggy Pop stuck together to record songs issued in ’77 as Kill City. Raw Power was not a quick commercial success, and its failure led to the band’s split. Williamson replaced Ron Asheton in the Stooges in time for the band’s 1973 classic, Raw Power, which included the in-your-face anthems “Search and Destroy” and the title track. But when Stooges guitarist James Williamson recently collaborated with renowned Radio Birdman axe-wielder Deniz Tek, each reached for an acoustic. For many, its sound and aggression were embodied by Iggy and the Stooges. The words “proto punk” arouse recollections of furiously strummed guitars and amps cranked to 10. Tek is playing a USA Hardtail Strat while Williamson has a Les Paul Custom reissue in silverburst finish and fitted with custom-made Lollar Leopard Lady/Raw Power pickups. Tek and Williamson during rehearsal for a Ron Asheton tribute concert in 2011. ![]()
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