did a radio show w/brother steve yesterday in between stooges gigs and also updated my tour diary but I'm behind here w/the correspondence thing - thank you much for bearing w/a touring watt, really - thank you much.
on bass, watt
maybe you wanna see mark stewart /the pop group documentary?
" from august 2008, the documentary on/off: mark stewart - from the pop group to the maffia by toni schifer will be gracing selected cinemas and film festivals. the film retraces the singer's steps and paths from the early days of the pop group right up to the present. schifer, who followed mark around for a full two years, has crafted a detailed, often intimate portrait of the artist, supplemented by interviews with a. o. mark stewart himself... the dvd will be released by monitorpop in october/november 2008. http://www.monitorpop.de "
this pop group had huge impact on us young minutemen, huge! maybe you can't know?
"dear old south land"
had three notes in each measure
but they weren't used to that kind of syncopation
yeah!
I told them teenagers
I played it
I taught them
finally though they had to suffer
because he liked his playing
but my interests went deeper
but my interests went deeper
I've discovered there's other folks named mike watt but I'm the one frompedrowho works thethudstafffor a living. I am the son of a sailor, he worked engine rooms for the navy. I got into playing music w/my best friend d. boon (his ma put me on bass when I was thirteen) and we're mostly known for a band we started in 1980 calledthe minutemen. after he was killed in a van wreck in 1985, I played w/ed fROMOHIO and minutemen drummer george hurley for seven and half years as fIREHOSE 'til 1994. since then, I wrap units of cats around projects though I've had a two-bass-only band calleddosnow for twenty plus years w/kira. I'm also on bass for the re-ignitedstoogeswhich is a total mindblow. a lot more info on me is at the web site I maintain,http://hootpage.comwhich I callmike watt's hoot page and you can see where I'm making the low flow next there.
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.
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!
