WTF? MIKE WATT / GEORGE HURLEY MINUTEMEN DUET?

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if this was raised before, i'm sorry. i couldn't find it. but wtf? will this be any good??

http://www.atpfestival.com/events/line_up.php?event=13&view=238

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Without D.Boon? No.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

goddamn wouldn't a firehose reunion be more tasteful?

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

they did it last year at the la atp. watt and hurley plow through the minutemen songbook. your brain supplies the guitar parts. there was nothing tasteless about it. musically it was a little rough but good.

it knocked me out, but i'm not really capable of being objective.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Watt can pull it off if anyone can. Or maybe they do, "Take 45, D."

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

watt and hurley plow through the minutemen songbook. your brain supplies the guitar parts

And the vocals, too?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

watt sang a bunch to begin with. i don't remember whether watt sang the boon songs or they did them w/o vocs--i'm pretty sure watt sang some of them. it's not important anwyay.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

so just the drums and the bass, as is implied, huh?

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

from the hootpage:

" another blast to the past was playing last week w/minutemen/fIREHOSE drummer george hurley as a duo doing minutemen tunes at the all tomorrow's parties festival in long beach (only a few miles from pedro... I could've 'pert-near paddled my kayak over!) - hadn't played most of those tunes in like twenty years. george was amazing! I'm gonna play more w/him when I get time - no wonder we spent fourteen years as a rhythm section! the folks in the crowd were really righteous, they sang all of d. boon's guitar parts and it touched me much. "

george hurley + mike watt
san pedro, ca
may 21, 2004

01. the maze
02. definitions
03. sickels and hammers
04. joe mccarthy's ghost
05. paranoid chant
06. black sheep
07. joy
08. search
09. monuments
10. ruins
11. the punch line
12. history lesson - part one
13. fanatics
14. fake contest
15. bob dylan wrote propaganda songs
16. beacon sighted through fog
17. the anchor
18. self-referenced
19. cut
20. dream told by moto
21. june 16th
22. anxious mo-fo
23. one reporter's opinion
24. it's expected I'm gone
25. toadies
26. the glory of man
27. retreat
28. the big foist
29. political song for michael jackson to sing
30. love dance
31. ack ack ack ack
32. little man with a gun in his hand

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

DEAN GULBERRY TO THREAD.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Weird. I just found this thread.

Anyways, it was pretty damn great. The crowd was going nuts and singing all of the parts. It was clear that everyone was very into it and that most were big Minutemen fans. Even better was that it was in the very bottom of the center of the Queen Mary and there were two or three blaconies above us with people hanging over the edge and singing along. I really enjoyed it.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

ok as a treat for hardcore minutemen fans this does sound neat.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

BLACONIES

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

DOUBLE RACISM.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah I think this would be cool to see. I wish they'd do a show on the east coast for once. it's easy to criticize this kind of thing but if they want to do it and people want to hear it, I see no problems. a lot of the Minutemen records sound a bit rough and chaotic to begin with, removing the guitar parts wouldn't change that a whole lot.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 16 September 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://corndogs.org/

― long & wonky, Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Specifically, http://corndogs.org/watthurley%2011-08-03.html

― todd (todd), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this said ". . .MINUTEMEN DIET?"

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Watt is looking awfully fit these days, but I wouldn't want to do what he had to to pull it off.

I would so buy the Mike Watt Grill though. BBQ ECONO!

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he mainly lost weight from the illness his new album's all about. the first time I saw him after he'd recovered from it, the difference was startling.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, that's what I was referencing. pics I saw from his initial shows freaked me out.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

a lot of the Minutemen records sound a bit rough and chaotic to begin with, removing the guitar parts wouldn't change that a whole lot.

WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, one of those pages linked from the corndogs.org page answered a question I've wondered about lately: What's George Hurley been up to lately?
A: 'Mostly construction'.

― Mike Dixon, Friday, 17 September 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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