Keith Moon and Ron Asheton both liked to wear t-shirts, but while The Who’s drummer went through a whole catalogue of POP designs, The Stooges’ guitarist only favoured the one. His shirt of choice featured Stroker McGurk tear-arsing about on a go-kart: ‘fun on wheels – for everyone!’. Tom Medley was the cartoonist, his main gig in the fifties was with Hot Rod magazine (see here). I suspect Ron bought quite a few Stroker T’s, cos he wore it from at least the Autumn of ‘68 to the Summer of ‘72. As a teenager my shirts rarely survived two washes . . .
Outside the Stooge Manor House, September 1968. Photo Ron Richardson in The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story
Iggy steals Ron’s shirt: The Stooges at the Fifth Forum, July 1969. Photographs by Peter Yates (from here)
Out On The Street: Ann Arbor, 1969. Photo Glen Craig in Total Chaos: The Story of The Stooges
from Ed Caraeff Iggy and the Stooges: One Night at the Whiskey, 1970
Fun House sessions by Ed Caraeff. May 23, 1970
Cincinnati Pop Festival, 13 June 1970. Photo by Tom Copi
King Sound, Kings Cross, London July 15, 1972. Photo Mick Rock
To be continued . . . .