― Dave225, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Mark, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Colin Meeder, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
Top Cats is a smaller club, it would have been a cool show.
― earlnash, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
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!!!
― Brolotov Cocktail (n/h) (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 16 May 2009 18:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
OH AND DURING "FUNHOUSE" JAM HE STARTED TO PLAY THE BASS RIFF TO "A LOVE SUPREME" AND STARTED SHOUTING "COLTRANE"
― Brolotov Cocktail (n/h) (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 16 May 2009 18:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
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.
― ian, Saturday, 16 May 2009 18:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Brolotov Cocktail (n/h) (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 16 May 2009 18:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
Trying to remember the last time I saw him...probably a set with Dos at the first ArthurFest.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 May 2009 18:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
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...
― Brolotov Cocktail (n/h) (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 16 May 2009 18:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
(google says morales was in the punk band Five Year Plan i guess)
― Brolotov Cocktail (n/h) (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 16 May 2009 18:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
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.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 May 2009 18:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
he said they have a new album coming out they recorded in brooklyn while on tour
― Brolotov Cocktail (n/h) (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 16 May 2009 18:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh shit i forgot they also did a pop group song and 2 wire songs
― Brolotov Cocktail (n/h) (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 16 May 2009 18:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
M@TT HE1GES0N - !!!!!!!!!!!!
They'd still be scraping my brain off the ceiling this morning had I borne witness to that.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 16 May 2009 19:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
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!
― geekquel (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 May 2009 20:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
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.
― circa1916, Saturday, 16 May 2009 22:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
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.
― some dude, Monday, 1 November 2010 20:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
he's prolly still in his columbia deal, tbh
― OH AND ITS WAVVES (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 November 2010 20:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― some dude, Monday, 1 November 2010 20:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 November 2010 22:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― some dude, Monday, 1 November 2010 22:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
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...
― john. a resident of chicago., Tuesday, 9 November 2010 03:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
I do strongly suggest everyone in the immediate SoCal area who can attend this show should:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144087528975525
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
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― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
WELL.
The details in question:
JANDEK(Mike Watt on bass, Benjamin Miller of Health on drums)
Time Saturday, January 8, 2011 · 7:30pm - 10:30pmLocation CRYSTAL COVE AUDITORIUM AT UC IRVINECreated By ACROBATICS EVERYDAY
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
jandek and watt...woah...i hope someone bootlegs the backstage conversations
― there was usic in the cafes at night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
we jandek econo
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
ach. soz...spill yer beanz into the pee troff
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
r u bill the cat?
― there was usic in the cafes at night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
He made a rather cryptic remark in a recent Wire interview that suggests that fIREHOSE might be getting back together.
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
I'd go see them again...fIREHOSE was a great band to see live.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 01:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'd really just be chomping at the bit for any opportunity to see george hurley play drums live
― the pussy re-upholstery gang (some dude), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 02:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh absolutely!
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 5 May 2012 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
in-store today southern cal folks
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