![]() ![]() James graciously consented to break his silence on April Fool's Day, 2001, joining us at the Bar from his California home to provide his insights and perspectives on the Stooge saga. These days, he makes his living in the electronics industry, and has logged a couple of decades far from the rock'n'roll circus, in the pristine corporate world of California's Silicon Valley. Following the Stooges' dissolution in 1974, he soldiered on with Iggy through the "Kill City" album before putting down his guitar to start a career as a recording engineer and take his degree in electrical engineering, resurfacing briefly to produce what many consider the Pop's last album of merit, 1979's "New Values."įor the last couple of decades, he's been an elusive figure.the only one of the principal surviving Stooges not interviewed by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain in their research for "Please Kill Me," he appeared briefly in the segment of VH-1's "Beyond the Music" devoted to Iggy, but other than that.silence. Later years have seen the release of a plethora of rehearsal, demo, and live recordings of that seminal band, which have only broadened and deepened the extent of Williamson's accomplishment. ![]() James Williamson staked his claim to rock'n'roll immortality based on just eight songs, but what songs they were.the ones comprising Iggy & the Stooges' epochal 1973 "Raw Power" album, still cited as a prime influence by purveyors of Rock Action from Stockholm to Seattle to Sydney. James Williamson in 2011 - Robert Matheu photo
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