Dave Alexander's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

In the record

David Michael Alexander (June 3, 1947 – February 10, 1975) was an American musician, best known as the original bassist for influential proto-punk band The Stooges. The birth-card coordinate for June 3 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2010 Performers with The Stooges induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2010 Performers — inducted member of The Stooges

The Ace of Spades coordinate

Dave Alexander's birthday maps to the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Dave Alexander. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

Live Ace of Spades meaning page

Dave Alexander in the public record

He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of The Stooges. After his family relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan, from Whitmore Lake, Michigan, Alexander attended Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, where he met brothers Ron and Scott Asheton. "Zander" (as Alexander was known) dropped out after 45 minutes on the first day of his senior year in 1965 to win a bet. Later in 1965, Ron sold his motorcycle and then went to England to see The Who and to "try and find The Beatles". Alexander and the Asheton brothers soon met Iggy Pop and formed The Stooges in 1967. Although Alexander was a total novice on his instrument, he was a quick learner and subsequently had a hand in arranging, composing and performing all of the songs that appeared on the band's first two albums, The Stooges and Fun House. He is often credited by Pop and was credited by the late Ron Asheton in interviews with being the primary composer of the music for the Stooges songs "We Will Fall", "Little Doll" (both on The Stooges), "Dirt" and "1970" (both on Fun House). Alexander was fired from the band in August 1970 due to performing whilst intoxicated at their appearance at the Goose Lake International Music Festival.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Dave Alexander (musician) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 7 of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Dave Alexander, and not a forecast of induction.

Wisdom and insight into the nature of love

After his family relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan, from Whitmore Lake, Michigan, Alexander attended Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, where he met brothers Ron and Scott Asheton.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: family.

Also on the record

1. After his dismissal, Alexander was replaced by bassists Zeke Zettner and Jimmy Recca, though Ron Asheton played bass on the first studio album post-Alexander, Raw Power.
2. Alexander remained close friends with both Asheton brothers, as well as with Bill Cheatham, who was a roadie and high school friend of both Alexander and the Asheton brothers.
3. Alexander did not join another band after his dismissal from The Stooges, instead mainly relying on money made from investments made in the stock market to make ends meet.
4. Alexander died of pulmonary edema in 1975, at the age of 27 in Ann Arbor, after being admitted to a hospital for pancreatitis, which was linked to his alcoholism.

Other inductees with this card

• Bill Ward — 2006 Performers with Black Sabbath
• Billy Powell — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Charlie Thomas — 1988 Performers with The Drifters
• Curtis Mayfield — 1991 Performers with The Impressions; 1999 Performers
• Debbie Harry — 2006 Performers with Blondie
• Gene Vincent — 1998 Performers; 2012 Performers with The Blue Caps
• Jarobi White — 2024 Performers with A Tribe Called Quest
• John Cale — 1996 Performers with The Velvet Underground
• Lloyd Price — 1998 Performers
• Michael Clarke — 1991 Performers with The Byrds
• Missy Elliott — 2023 Performers
• Sheryl Crow — 2023 Performers
• 3 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Dave Alexander's birth card?

The Ace of Spades. June 3 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Dave Alexander's dates come from?

Birth date 1947-06-03 is the day-precision date on Dave Alexander's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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