About James Williamson (musician)
James Robert Williamson is an American guitarist, songwriter, record producer and electronics engineer. He was a member of the proto-punk rock band the Stooges, notably on the album Raw Power and in the reformed Stooges from 2009 to 2016. Between his stints in music, Williamson worked in Silicon Valley developing computer chips. Most recently he has continued as a solo artist. Despite this connection, the two were barely acquainted at the time, with Asheton recalling that "the first time I played with them, that was the last time James played with them. I remember moving to Detroit—it was the summer when Martha and the Vandellas' "Heatwave" was a smash hit record. When Williamson was in the ninth grade in Detroit, he formed his first rock band, The Chosen Few, with schoolmate and future SRC vocalist Scott Richardson.
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