The Man In The Van w/a Bass In His Hand : A Mike Watt Thread

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A safe place to discuss this guy´s bands, music, stories....

Minutemen or fiREHOSE?
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His interview with Maron was pretty cool...and yeah, this guy is the best.

I love his work with nels and J Mascis specially.
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I'm not near as familiar with Watt as I should be. My experience with him has been the Minutemen discography, the one FH record I own, ball-hog, and his voice cameos on Daydream Nation and one of those Pearl Jam pirate radio sessions.

He seems like a hilarious guy but also dead serious. I'll always kick myself for missing his free in-store show at Cactus Music a few years ago.
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contemplating the engine room is getting a vinyl pressing for the black friday record store day.
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Yeah, his chemistry with Cline is great. I hope they do more stuff together.
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I havent been paying attention to Mike´s solo career in a while.
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Oh yeah me too. I love the Minutemen and the first two. I also love what he did with The Fog.
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that live show was the download that came with the black friday record store day vinyl (instead of an actual album download). doesn't appear it has received any sort of physical release.
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I didnt know that...i still have to get that chicago show.
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