The place of The Stooges in the history of punk rock is impossible to over-exaggerate. More than any other band, the Detroit-based four-piece of frontman Iggy Pop, guitar and drum playing brothers Ron and Scott Asheton and bass player Dave Alexander created the blueprint for post-Stones hard rock with the release of their seminal, self-titled debut in August 1969. The following summer, in July 1970, they upped the ante by releasing their freewheeling second album, Fun House, a tight but experimental set that saw them – their line-up augmented by sax player Steve Mackay – incorporate the influence of free jazz into their hard-driving, ragged sound. Fun House remains an album by which all American rock albums are measured, its ferocity and scope failing to find an audience at the time b...
