mike watt's Profile |
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the man in the van w/a bass in his hand |
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| Age: | 50 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | SAN PEDRO, California |
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| Height: | 6' 1" |
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| Last Login: | Jun 3, 2008 (579 days back) |
About Me |
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everybody, first stooges gig was a blast (tour dairy here )... leave again thursday for more... AND also I get to record in brighton w/ sam and then in dublin the day after bloomsday w/ estel like I have recently w/these most dear music friends: tobacco ("black yogurt") spielgusher proj (six of the sixty we did) the clubber lang gang ("for broken people") kawaii kedo ("beat it up") hiroshi-san ("pursuance") kind people, kind people to watt - thank you! same w/everyone flowing nice vibes here... thank you! on bass, watt read this from the japan times soft and gentle?
oh yeah, out now on smog veil records: unknown instructors "the master's voice" (hear me on bass and reading my poem in your town w/out you on a tune by the same name along w/ joe baiza on guitar and george hurley on drums here ) - - - - - and also michael t. fournier's book: "double nickels on the dime" (part of the 33 1/3 series) read "mike fournier takes on the minutemen" in the weekly dig - - - - - watt paddling his kayak towards the angels gate: .. some more watt on youtube: w/the missingmen w/cobra verde on chimping tour diary thurston on first meeting me w/banyan w/the stooges w/the secondmen w/j mascis + the fog w/the black gang (joe baiza + bob lee version) w/the black gang (nels cline + bob lee version) shovin' off to go dance like a fool ridin' the big train w/fIREHOSE w/the minutemen w/chris murphy + steve hodges and some not on youtube but still video: w/ray barbee and chuck treece plus some not video but still audio: w/the stooges on npr.org some watt on bass on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/wattfrompedromusic (click here and 4 songs you'll hear) + wikipedia watt entry + + watt's march 18, 2007 sxsw spiel w/robin cook (all nine parts!) + + gibsonbass.com watt piece + + watt on new estel album + + a mike watt piratepods.com spiel + + a mike watt radio perfik spiel + * click here for info on the double-dvd minutemen ..ary "we jam econo" -- the punk vault "we jam econo" review (click here) -- digitally obsessed! "we jam econo" review (click here) -- boston's weekly dig "we jam econo" review (click here) -- allmusic "we jam econo" review (click here) -- scott thill talks to "we jam econo" director tim irwin and producer keith schieron for morphizm (click here) -- craig phillips talks to "we jam econo" director tim irwin for greencine (click here) watt + the go! team in melbourne, australia after getting to jam w/them on january 31, 2006 more word's-eye view from watt's diary of touring w/iggy + the stooges during 2008 where he got to work the bass! * watt's diary of touring w/iggy + the stooges during 2007 * watt's "big day out 2006" tour diary * gallucci drummer timothyben's recollection of their jan 25, 2006 gig in sydney, australia w/watt on bass * watt's stooges in europe and argentina 2006 tour diary * mike watt + the missingmen "parallel universes" tour 2006 diary - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - folks, I have to tell you I've had my inbox swamped... holy smoke! if I don't get back to you, please understand but I am trying. you might have better luck posting a question at the mike watt bbs ... and as for comments, I'm most grateful for the generous words but you don't have to thank me for the add cuz I thank you for giving me a hoot in the first place - don't worry, it's much understood. I also have found the servers here are kind of slow so to help things load quicker, please scissor the graphics for a post and please know that this myspace place sometimes tosses comments into the vortex - that's beyond my control and I'm sorry if it happens to you. thanks much. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "punk is whatever we made it to be" sticker I give all proceeds to www.doctorswithoutborders.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - next watt gigs! iggy pop + the stooges watt gets the incredible honor of adding bass to the legendary team of iggy and the asheton brothers in some re-ignited stooge fury! saturday, june 7 at the tw classic festival werchter, belgium saturday, june 14 at the isle of wight festival isle of wight, england monday, june 16 at the some days never end festival dublin, ireland friday, june 20 at the heineken jammin festival venice, italy friday, july 4 at the skaanevik blues festival skaanevik, norway sunday, july 13 at the la grande armada rouen, france saturday, july 19 at the garden nef party festival angouleme, france saturday, july 26 at the race and rock festival lahti, finland saturday, august 2 at the download festival 2008 camden, nj sunday, august 3 at the osheaga music and arts festival montreal, canada wednesday, august 6 at massey hall toronto, canada sunday, august 10 at the virgin mobile festival baltimore, md sunday, august 24 at the get loaded in the park festival london, england thursday, august 28 at the berlin citadel music festival berlin, germany saturday, august 30 at the rock am see festival konstanz, germany tuesday, september 16 at the amphiteater gelsenkirchen, germany wednesday, september 18 at the stadtpark freilichtbuhne hamburg, germany monday, september 22 at lodovy dvoryetz saint petersburg, russia wednesday, september 24 at b1 moscow, russia saturday, september 27 at the palais des festival cannes, france * click here to have watt let you know about his upcoming gigs |
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My Interests |
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| my bass , my bike and my kayak |
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I'd like to meet:someone w/a lot of patience! and: eddie hazel mike watt apparently has38,532myspace friends many birthdays dreams are free, motherfucker kaori screamingcat shimmy mi-gu yuka petra nels cline melt- banana the germs the stooges official page p. k. 14 the pop group the go! team sonic youth roky erickson flaming lips sistas in the pit deerhoof ccr t.rex kernel drop wire el may sam dook gary floyd kyoka recess records raul morales eva dos james jamerson bootsy collins charles mingus john entwistle william s. burroughs allen ginsberg jack kerouac charles bukowski charles plymell william faulkner james joyce dante alighieri schooner hospital ship listing ship sinking ship kxlu wfmu stanislav sophie view all of mike watt's apparent myspace friends |
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Music:john coltrane"...you know because like it's a - its' a big reservoir, man, that we all dip out of" |
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Movies:zatoichi (but only w/ shintaro katsu )and anything w/humphrey bogart "I won't play the sap" |
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Television:"the prisoner" w/patrick mcgoohan (1966-1968)"questions are a burden and answers are a prison to one's self" |
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Books:"the sand pebbles" by richard mckenna"damn your flag! damn all flags! it's too late in the world for flags." "living my life" by emma goldman "if I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution." "in the hand of dante" by nick tosches "her. she whose movements and the movements of the skies had since become one." "fear and trembling" by soren kierkegaard' "the conclusions of passion are the only reliable and convincing ones." "leaves of grass" by walt whitman' "have you reckoned a thousand acres much? have you reckoned the earth much? have you practiced so long to learn to read? have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?" |
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Heroes:my ma (she's pregnant w/me here in this 1957 shot) and pop:plus d. boon , raymond pettibon , richard meltzer , kaori tsuchida , kira , rilakkuma , tony nineteen and... |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| Occupation: | thudstaff worker |
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My Blog |
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t + bmsr |
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| people,after getting these two black moth super rainbow cds in the mail plus the upcoming tobacco one from mister tom and then listening to all three much/constantly, I feel it's my duty to let you al... Posted by mike watt on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:01:00 PST |
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charles plymells tribute to "we jam econo" |
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| people,so righteous that charley wrote this for d. boon, georgie and myself after seeing the "we jam econo" minutemen documentary - much much respect to him! you can see what he wrote here:http://hoot... Posted by mike watt on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:16:00 PST |
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funanori |
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| people,I am happy to tell you the first three funanori songs are all mixed by kaori tsuchida and coming out as part of split cd ep called "a tiny twofer" on september 3, 2007 through transduction reco... Posted by mike watt on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:52:00 PST |
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Many Birthdays, dreams are free, motherfucker, Kaori505, screamingcat, mi-gu, Yuka Honda, funanori, Gary Floyd, KXLU, Stanislav, The Go! Team, john, Tish, Magnificent Bastard, pluto (( dwarf planet )), Daniel Marini, bdboozE, My Sabbatical, Vetronova, SodaCan, Luke Laven, Stand Alone Burner, Dödspolarna, < Paolo >, milque, Helios Creed Tribute Album, phreaksbasket, Singing Bicycle, Christos is in mother f...in Paris, smiling TJ, tomomi, hi frontier, Paul, Elephants reclaim Ivory Tusks : Steve Mensh, Phoenix, Carol Chaos, --j-o-z-e-f-a-l-e-k-s-a-n-d-e-r-p-e-d-r-o--, adam ( .. ), ^v^Pura TxNxT^v^©, Von Hindenburg, Old Overholt, GLEN, Wannafre, Moonlight Drive, .The Stranger., Troy Gregory And The Stepsisters, FleetingTrance, Bluto, Ennio Villavelha e a Trupe Ectoplasmática, 102, The Ocean Fracture [New single available now!], ALDO (alternative grunge), Sea Cow, sonic lozenge, JEREMY, Lot, International Brotherhood Of Consequential Truth, Lfavio, Snoop
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