The Stooges Working On New Music – Mike Watt In Rolling Stone

The Stooges Working On New Music – Mike Watt In Rolling Stone

Five years after the last Stooges album, the band is working on new material, bassist Mike Watt tells Rolling Stone. “I’ll tell you this: James Williamson a few months ago had me put bass on nine songs that he gave to Ig [Iggy Pop] and Ig is writing up words,” says Watt, who’s played with the Stooges since 2003. “So I just know there are new tunes and in fact in November he wants me to do some more. I don’t know about some album or whatever or what the plan is with that stuff, but very interesting.”

… For Watt, who still views himself first as a Stooges fan, the thought of new material is exciting on many levels. “I think James came up with some good licks and the way Ig fleshes them out, I’m very curious,” he says. “But I don’t know if they have an album planned. I’m also looking at it as, ‘Whoa, maybe new songs to do at gigs.'”

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