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Portsmouth, Virginia, U. S. Genres. Punk rock, hardcore punk, post- punk, alternative rock, art rock. Occupation(s)Bassist, vocalist, songwriter. Red Tails Full Movie Part 1.
Instruments. Bass guitar, vocals. Years active. 19.
Labels. Columbia, SST, New Alliance, Kill Rock Stars, Clenchedwrench. Associated acts. Minutemen, Firehose, Ciccone Youth, Dos, Banyan, The Reactionaries, Bootstrappers, Hellride, Big Walnuts Yonder, J Mascis + The Fog, The Stooges, Porno for Pyros, The Black Gang, The Secondmen, Unknown Instructors, Anywhere, Il Sogno del Marinaio, Funanori, The Clubber Lang Gang, Floored By Four, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters. Websitewww. mikewatt. Michael David "Mike" Watt (born December 2.
American bassist, vocalist and songwriter. He is best known for co- founding and playing bass guitar for the rock bands Minutemen, Dos, and Firehose.
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He is also the frontman for the supergroup Big Walnuts Yonder, a member of the art rock group Banyan and involved with several other musical projects. From 2. 00. 3 until 2. The Stooges. CMJ New Music called Watt a "seminal post- punk bass player."[1] In November 2. Watt received the Bass Player Magazine lifetime achievement award, presented by Flea.[2]Biography[edit]Early career[edit]Watt was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. When he was young, Watt's family moved to San Pedro, California, where he became good friends with D.
Boon. Watt and Boon picked up bass and guitar, respectively. Watt was a fan of T. Rex and Blue Öyster Cult, while Boon's exposure to rock music was limited to Creedence Clearwater Revival, another Watt favorite. The Minutemen[edit]In 1.
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Watt and Boon formed a band called The Reactionaries with drummer George Hurley and vocalist Martin Tamburovich. The band later became Minutemen with another drummer named Frank Tonche, who only lasted two shows with the group; Hurley, who had been in the short- lived new wave group Hey Taxi! Minutemen first formed, rejoined Watt and Boon.
After signing with SST Records in 1. Minutemen began touring constantly, releasing a number of albums along the way. Their music was based on the speed, brevity, and intensity of punk, but included elements of jazz, folk, and funk. In 1. 98. 4, Watt met Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler during a Black Flag/Minutemen tour.
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They soon became romantically involved, and subsequently began collaborating on songs, including material on Minutemen's final album 3- Way Tie (For Last). They also formed a two- bass duo, Dos, and have since recorded and released three records. Minutemen ended tragically on December 2. Boon was killed in an automobile crash while driving to Arizona with his girlfriend. Their fifth full- length album, 3- Way Tie (For Last) had already been scheduled for release at the time of the accident. In the documentary film We Jam Econo, Watt mentioned that the last time he saw Boon, he had received lyrics for 1. Richard Meltzer for a planned collaboration with Minutemen.
Minutemen were also planning to record a triple album with the working title 3 Dudes, 6 Sides, 3 Studio, 3 Live as way to counteract bootleggers. Firehose[edit]After Boon's death, Watt was profoundly depressed; he and Hurley initially intended to quit music altogether. Sonic Youth invited Watt to hang out with them in New York City in 1. Madonna's "Burnin' Up" (with additional guitars by Greg Ginn) on the first Ciccone Youth. EP, and Watt played bass for two songs on the Sonic Youth album Evol. Watt cites this period as critical in inspiring his post- Minutemen career saying, "The first thing I did was Thurston asked me to play bass on Evol. That was a big highlight, man.
Like, 'What, you want me to play without D. Boon?'"[4]Subsequently, Ed Crawford, a Minutemen fan who drove to San Pedro from Ohio, persuaded the Watt/Hurley rhythm section to continue playing music.
Firehose was formed soon after. Following three releases on SST, Firehose was signed to Columbia Records by A& R man Jim Dunbar.
Shortly after the release of 1. Mr. Machinery Operator, the band decided to call it quits. Watt and Kira married in 1. Firehose's break- up. However, both their friendship and Dos have remained intact; they even recorded their third album, Justamente Tres, not long after their divorce.
Solo career[edit]After working with Firehose, Watt began a solo career. Halfway Full Movie Online Free. His first album, Ball- Hog or Tugboat?, featured appearances from dozens of musicians (many were Watt's peers from the 1. SST era), including Henry Rollins, Eddie Vedder, J Mascis, Carla Bozulich, Evan Dando, members of Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Black, Nirvana, Soul Asylum, Jane's Addiction, the Beastie Boys and the Screaming Trees. The album and its supporting tour were Watt's first taste of mainstream fame, when Vedder and Dave Grohl of Nirvana were part of his touring group. After Vedder returned to his Pearl Jam commitments and Grohl began working with his new band Foo Fighters, Watt formed his only four- piece touring group to date, The Crew Of The Flying Saucer, featuring guitarist Nels Cline and two drummers. In 1. 99. 6, Watt contributed bass lines to two songs on Porno for Pyros' second album, Good God's Urge. He subsequently ended up being the bassist for the tour that followed the release of the album.
He made an appearance in an episode of Cartoon Network's Space Ghost Coast to Coast. In 1. 99. 7, Watt released Contemplating the Engine Room, a punk rock song cycle using naval life as an extended metaphor for both Watt's family history (the album has a picture of his father in his Navy uniform on the cover) and the Minutemen.
The album, which was critically well received, features a trio of musicians including Nels Cline on guitar, and Watt as the only singer. Watt went on to play in such groups as Banyan (with Stephen Perkins and Nels Cline) and Hellride, a sometime live outfit that plays cover versions of Stooges songs. He also played in The Wylde Ratttz with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and The Stooges' Ron Asheton, recording a song for the film Velvet Goldmine.
Watt also recorded a bass line to send to the Pennsylvania space- folk band The Clubber Lang Gang for their record Now Here This, on the track "For the Broken People". Starting in mid- 2. Watt began playing bass for a psychedelic/progressive rock band called Anywhere with the Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler- Zavala and Christian Eric Beaulieu of Triclops! In 2. 01. 5 Mike Watt joined the Waywords and Meansigns project, a collaborative project setting James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to music.[5][6]Illness, recovery and The Stooges[edit]In January 2. Watt fell ill with an infection of his perineum,[7] forcing him into emergency surgery and nine weeks of bedrest in his San Pedro apartment. Initially unable to play his bass, he rebuilt his strength with intense practice as well as live club gigs where he performed sets of Stooges covers with Hellride in California and with J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr. Murph in New York City under the name Hellride East.
In 2. 00. 0, Mascis asked Watt to participate in a world tour behind Mascis' first post- Dinosaur Jr. J Mascis and the Fog's More Light.
At several of the shows, Ron Asheton formerly of The Stooges joined Mascis and Watt onstage, wherein the group would play entire sets of Stooges songs. Watt and Mascis later joined Asheton and his brother, Stooges drummer Scott Asheton, for a one- time- only performance at a Belgian festival under the name Asheton, Asheton, Mascis & Watt. In 2. 00. 1, Watt was one of several bassists invited to participate in the sessions for Gov't Mule's The Deep End, partly on the recommendation of Primus' Les Claypool. Watt and Gov't Mule recorded a cover version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Effigy" for the album.
The sessions were immortalized in the documentary feature film Rising Low.