Go See Mike Watt

Top Cats is a smaller club, it would have been a cool show.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT HE WAS GREAT LAST NIGHT.

HIS NEW BAND IS THE BEST BAND HE'S HAD SINCE MINUTEMEN...THEY DID BOC, TONS OF MINUTEMEN, SOME NEW STUFF THAT SOUNDED GREAT, ROKY ERICKSON, RED KRAYOLA, STOOGES....FUCKING BEST SET I HAVE SEEN IN A FUCKING LONG ASS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEN.......GRANT HART (WHO HAD OPENED THE SHOW AND WAS GREAT)....GOT UP BEHIND THE DRUM KIT AND GREG FUCKING NORTON CAME OUT AND THEY SAT IN WITH WATT AND THE GUITARIST AND DID LIKE A 15 MINUTE VERSION OF "LITTLE JOHNNY JEWEL" BY TELEVISION....FIRST TIME THEY HAD PLAYED TOGETHER SINCE 1987!!!

OH AND DURING "FUNHOUSE" JAM HE STARTED TO PLAY THE BASS RIFF TO "A LOVE SUPREME" AND STARTED SHOUTING "COLTRANE"

woah that is AWESOME. i saw Watt like 5 times in high school, but i haven't seen him in years! greatest dude ever, total bro etc.

yeah he fucking stayed behind for like 45 minutes talking with fans after the show....then he fucking ended up staying at my friend's house cuz he still just rolls up into a city and figures he can crash at someone's house....fuckin econo still.

Trying to remember the last time I saw him...probably a set with Dos at the first ArthurFest.

i'd seen him with nels cline but this band seems to be in tune with him so much more than anything else besides the minutemen..

guitarist is tom watson from slovenly/red krayola...the drummer is from pedro he said, younger dude named raul morales...

(google says morales was in the punk band Five Year Plan i guess)

That sounds awesome. I treasure my memories of having seen the Minutemen live a few times. Plus the movie doc. I wish I had seen him with the Stooges. I hope this group's coming to DC.

he said they have a new album coming out they recorded in brooklyn while on tour

oh shit i forgot they also did a pop group song and 2 wire songs

M@TT HE1GES0N - !!!!!!!!!!!!

They'd still be scraping my brain off the ceiling this morning had I borne witness to that.

i saw dinosaur jr a few weeks ago and Watt's new band was opening for 'em (The Missing Men i think?) arrived kinda late so i missed most of the set though. sounded pretty good from what little i heard though!

yeah, i just saw him on the last stop of the dino tour a few weeks ago. he WAS great. band was super tight. watt kept punching the cymbals and almost (drunkenly?) fell into mascis's big ass amps.

apparently Mike Watt and the Missingmen's new album "hyphenated-man" has been released in Japan and nowhere else. putting aside the fact that all American indie labels should be ashamed that none of them have released it domestically, I'm having a hell of a time trying to figure out how the hell to hear it, legally or otherwise, short of trying to order an import CD from the Japanese HMV website.

he's prolly still in his columbia deal, tbh

i dunno...when i interviewed him before Secondman's Middle Stand, he said he owed Columbia that one more album and was planning other projects for indie labels

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=RDCP-1007

$26 import cd price for Americans.

http://www.hootpage.com/hoot_hyphenated-man.html

whereas "...engine room" dealt w/my pop's life in the navy as a metaphor for the story of the minutemen and "...middle stand" was a parallel to dante's "comedia" dealing w/an illness that almost killed me in 2000, this third opera is quite different in that it has no standard narrative (libretto!) meaning no regular beginning-middle-end and is as it were "simultaneous" in the way a mirror from just inside my head - right in this middle-age moment of mine - was then shattered into thirty pieces and then each piece stuffed in the head to show a piece of my state of mind (or out-of-mind) as of now. "thirty tunes?" yes, they're little ones... actually they're "thrirty parts" of one big tune.

as much as I love Watt and want to support him, I can't possibly imagine paying almost $30 and waiting 2-4 weeks for shipping to hear a new album in 2010.

Go read the Invisible Jukebox with Mike Watt in the latest Wire. Hilarious. He says something about thinking Bob Dylan is like your crazy aunt or something like like that. Pot meet kettle. Lots of good stuff, though. Among the more interesting stuff though, he says that Ed has talked to him about a fIREHOSE reunion...

I do strongly suggest everyone in the immediate SoCal area who can attend this show should:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144087528975525

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WELL.

The details in question:

JANDEK
(Mike Watt on bass, Benjamin Miller of Health on drums)

Time Saturday, January 8, 2011 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Location CRYSTAL COVE AUDITORIUM AT UC IRVINE
Created By ACROBATICS EVERYDAY

Hyphenated-Man is a really dope album, btw, maybe the most overtly Minutemen-esque thing Watt's done since the Minutemen. i high recommend paying exorbitant import prices to get a CD shipped to you from Japan, or finding it some other way if possible.

People like Mike Watt.

Still being around.

Make me feel less lonely.

I won't be at the gig mentioned as on another tectonic plate.

But still. He's still here. Last time I saw him, that Cnt from Ohio was ruining stuff, the brave captain.

I loved the hose

jandek and watt...woah...i hope someone bootlegs the backstage conversations

we jandek econo

i saw the hyphenated man band live doing stuff off the album....was ragin'

def the most minutemen shit he's done since the hose

ACK

ach. soz...spill yer beanz into the pee troff

r u bill the cat?

He made a rather cryptic remark in a recent Wire interview that suggests that fIREHOSE might be getting back together.

I'd go see them again...fIREHOSE was a great band to see live.

i'd really just be chomping at the bit for any opportunity to see george hurley play drums live

Oh absolutely!

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-0505-mike-watt-20120505,0,3909090.story

nice interview with Watt about his new photo book and kayaking and music

in-store today southern cal folks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0cde24yqY&feature=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGKxBblSMmE&feature=relmfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcjR3Joznyg&feature=relmfu

il sogno del marinaio with
MIKE WATT

Haven't listened to this yet, or seen them. Have you? What do ya think?

I really love both of the records and saw them earlier on this tour and thought it was good. The two Italian cats in the band are great. In St Paul they introduced this song "Zoom" from their first record as being inspired by/a tribute to Robert Wyatt and all of sudden it dawned on me that kind of Soft Machine-y, early Wyatt pop-prog-ness really informs the music.

It's in general a lot jazzier, groovier than the Missing Men stuff or even the Second Men, plus Watt is much more a part of the band rather than being the frontman, the swap vocal duties, etc. Andrea Belfi, the drummer in particular is really good, but the whole band works.

So yeah, good stuff.

ah cool, didn't realize the album had come out!

Last time I saw Watt it was the bass/drum/keys trio thing. Not sure a lot of the people in attendance knew what to make of it.

New Watt + Missingmen U.S. tour announced last week:

http://www.hootpage.com/missingmen-2019-tour-dates-as-of-190524.jpg

Venues TBA, I guess.

I've seen Watt with the Missingmen twice, doing the Hyphenated Man album. Both incredible shows. I also saw him a couple of years ago with Tom Watson from the Missingmen on guitar and Jerry Trebotic from the Secondmen on drums, and that was one of the most amazing rock bands I've ever seen.

Haven’t seen him in awhile, may go to this tour ‘s show near me. Watt jammin econo with no days off on tour

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"march 15, 2019
original flipper drummerman stephen depace has asked me to join him and original guitarman ted falconi along w/former scratch acid/jesus lizard singerman david yow for a european flipper tour this upcoming july/august... I'm way into it!"

never really heard any of his stuff apart from the recent and rather good Mike Baggetta album Wall Of Flowers that he plays on.

https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/releases/stove-top/

👀👀👀

His work ethic and desire to just play with all kinds of people...it's quite a thing.

So did Mike Watt actually frequent ILXOR a couple of decades ago, and then he got banned? If so, WTF?

Anyway, I completely missed his show last month at the Mercury Lounge - didn't even know about it until now. I've seen him before but that was years ago (with Grant Hart and the Meat Puppets no less). I found one brief clip of him singing Richard Hell's "Another World."

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Was Watt playing with Hart and the Pups or it was three separate acts ?

...either way sounds like a great show!

I saw him play here a couple of weeks ago. Well, heard him, because he was sitting down and I couldn't see him. I would say the current trio is ... fine. You get the Watt vibe, but like, I dunno, Lally and Canty in the Messthetics, it's familiar but different enough to be its own thing. Did a Richard Hell cover, iirc.

two pretty good watt albums out in just the last few weeks, with mssv and pierre de gaillande's working batterie.

Seen him twice recently once with The Missingmen (was so incredible and amazing) and once with MSSV (meh)

He's the best.

I have this tattoo on my leg.

https://i.imgur.com/4l1oT7X.jpeg

Was Watt playing with Hart and the Pups or it was three separate acts ?
Separate acts, but it was great. I posted about Hart before as it was his last NYC show. In hindsight, the best set was Watt - I was right in front and was astounded by his bass-playing. Never in a million years would my fingers ever be as dexterous.

FWIW, BV coverage of that show: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/meat-puppets-mike-watt-grant-hart-played-brooklyn-bowl-pics-setlists/