Production Details - Music- Rock & Roll History

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Curt's band, the Wylde Ratttz are made up of some well known indy rockers – original Stooges guitarist, Ron Asheton, Mark Arm of Mudhoney, Don Fleming of Gumball, Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and Mike Watt of the Minutemen - and they perform the music in the film and on the soundtrack. But it's actors who play the band on the stage behind Curt. Stooge Ron Asheton admires Todd's attention to detail, "It's really great to hear the Wylde Ratttz, us guys, playing that music with a guy pretending he was Iggy. Even though they just hired some actors and it was all back lit so you couldn't see their faces, the actors they chose, they were playing the proper guitars that Dave [Alexander] and I had played. One guy had a white Stratocaster which you could see, and the other guy had a Precision bass, which Dave had for a little while."

There was some controversy over the version of TV Eye that ended up on the soundtrack. Mudhoney singer Mark Arm disappointed by version of song that replaces his vocals with actor Ewan McGregor's. and yet most of us are probably perfectly happy with Ewan's version, imperfections and all.