“Once I stared working with Ron and Scott again,” Pop explains, “it was important to me intellectually that the group be resurrected, not just reunified. Pop also hopes to do some recording with the current Stooges lineup and is already in the midst of writing new material. tour as long as no one else expires or breaks. “We haven’t booked farther in the States because right now the world has made better offers…But I’m certain that sometime within the cycle we will do a proper U.S. “This year will probably heavier on the international (dates),” Pop says. 3 performance of “Raw Power” at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Monticello, N.Y. Pop says he expects the band - which played a November “warm-up date” in Brazil - to do “not more than about three months” on the road this year 25 shows are already booked, he says, starting April 14 in Bourges, France, and including a Sept. In the wake of founding guitarist Ron Asheton’s death in January of 2008, Pop rekindled his relationship with James Williamson, who joined the group in 1971 and was Pop’s chief collaborator on “Raw Power.” Original drummer Scott “Rock Action” Asheton remains, as does bassist Mike Watt, who’s been a Stooge since the group’s 2003 reactivation, and saxophonist Steve Mackay.