10/09/2011
“ We went to see The Who at the Cavern. It was wall to fucking wall of people. We muscled through to about ten feet from the stage, and Townshend started smashing his twelve-string Rickenbacker. It was my first experience of total pandemonium. It was like a dog pile of people, just trying to grab pieces of Townshend’s guitar, and people were scrambling to dive up onstage and he’d swing the guitar at their heads. The audience weren’t cheering; it was more like animal noises, howling. The whole room turned really primitive-like a pack of starving animals that hadn’t eaten in a week and somebody throws out a piece of meat. I was afraid. For me it wasn’t fun, but it was mesmerizing. It was like “The plane’s burning, the ship’s sinking, so let’s crush each other.” Never had I seen people driven so nuts-that music could drive people to such dangerous extremes. That’s when I realized, This is definitely what I wanna do. „
—Ron Asheton, The Stooges
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