“Iggy Pop may have taken up golf in Miami, but when properly motivated, he’s still plenty capable of sounding like the original dead-end kid wriggling out of a straitjacket. On Skull Ring, motivation arrives in the form of Ron and Scott Asheton, the two surviving members of Pop’s pioneering protopunk band the Stooges, who reunite […]”
“I take no pleasure in this, waiting to review *Skull Ring*. *Lust for Life* is on its third spin, I'm biting my nails, looking at Iggy's outstretched tongue in the liners to his latest, and wondering what happened to the guy. To forestall the inevitable, I figure I ought to at least get my good friend Lou on the phone, get his opinion on the elder Mr. Pop; very few people know Ig better, after all”
