Thomas "Zeke" Zettner was a member of rock band The Stooges

The Stooges

The Stooges are an American rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan first active from 1967 to 1974, and later reformed in 2003...

. Zettner had originally been a roadie

Road crew

The road crew are the technicians or support personnel who travel with a band on tour, usually in sleeper buses, and handle every part of the concert productions except actually performing the music with the musicians...

 for the band, but replaced original Stooges bassist Dave Alexander

Dave Alexander (The Stooges)

David Michael Alexander was an American musician, best known as the original bassist for influential protopunk band The Stooges.-Biography:...

 after the Fun House album (1970). Alexander's drinking problem

Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...

 had made him an unreliable performer.

Death

Zettner himself was a heroin addict, and did not last long as a member of The Stooges. Jimmy Recca

Jimmy Recca

Jimmy Recca is an American musician best known as a former bass player in The Stooges via an incarnation that existed from early 1971 until their first break-up on July 9, 1971....

 soon replaced him as bass player. Zettner died of a heroin overdose on 10 November 1973. His death is mentioned in Iggy Pop's song "Dum Dum Boys" from The Idiot

The Idiot (album)

The Idiot is the debut solo album by American rock singer Iggy Pop. It was the first of two LPs released in 1977 which Pop wrote and recorded in collaboration with David Bowie...

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