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James Robert Williamson (born October 29, 1949) is an American guitarist, songwriter, record producer and electronics engineer. He was a member of the iconic proto-punk rock band The Stooges , notably on the influential album Raw Power and in the reformed Stooges from 2009 to 2016.
Official website of James Williamson, born October 29, 1949 in Castroville, Texas: American guitarist, songwriter and record producer best known for his contribution to the protopunk rock band Iggy and the Stooges.
James Williamson may very well be one of rock's most enigmatic guitarists—a “forgotten boy," if you will. As lead guitarist for iconic proto-punk band the Stooges in the early 1970s, he helped pioneer a new, rawer music that would heavily influence future legends such as the Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious, Johnny Marr, Kurt Cobain, the Red Hot ...
Oct 11, 2018 · James Williamson’s simple, violent rhythm work, searing leads, and iconic raunchy distortion on “Search and Destroy”—and all of the Stooges’ Raw Power —helped light the fuse and inform the sound of the punk rock revolution as it was ripe to explode. Williamson’s guitar work on Raw Power is imprinted within punk rock’s very DNA ...
James Williamson's gear and equipment including the Gibson Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar and Blackstar Artisan 30H Guitar Amp Head. Get the gear to sound like James Williamson and get their tone.
The elusive and impossibly influential guitarist made Iggy and The Stooges’s world-changing “Raw Power” LP and some of Iggy’s finest solo recordings before disappearing for decades and...
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Apr 30, 2018 · By Darren Paltrowitz. published 30 April 2018. James Williamson has the distinction of having not only played guitar in the Stooges, but serving as a co-writer on all of the songs on their seminal 1973 album, Raw Power.
