mike watt
mike watt
the man in the van w/a bass in his hand

Male
51 years old
SAN PEDRO, California
United States



Last Login: 7/11/2009
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    mike watt's Interests
Generalmy bass, my bike and my kayak


Musicjohn coltrane



"...you know because like it's a - its' a big reservoir, man, that we all dip out of"


Movieszatoichi (but only w/shintaro katsu)

and

anything w/humphrey bogart

"I won't play the sap"


Television"the prisoner" w/patrick mcgoohan (1966-1968)

"questions are a burden and answers are a prison to one's self"


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?"


Heroesmy ma (she's pregnant w/me here in this 1957 shot) and pop:

watt's ma and pop

plus d. boon, raymond pettibon, richard meltzer, kaori tsuchida, kira, rilakkuma, tony nineteen and...




     mike watt's Details
Status:Divorced
Body type:6' 1"
Zodiac Sign:Sagittarius
Occupation:thudstaff worker



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   mike watt's Blurbs
About me:

"the lighthouse keeper"

shipwrecked now
on the raft
on my belly
my arm leaning over the side
w/my hand in the sea
soaking deep cuts carved by rope
I was clinging to

marooned like
some kind of driftwood

I think of the lighthouse keeper
I try to think of one thing
but it always turns out to be two
the lighthouse
the lighthouse keeper
one inside the other
beacon slowly turning round
round stairs inside
up and down
round and round
up and down
in my mind
I even hear the foghorn
moan

on my back now
thundercloud over me
it bursts
filling my open mouth
surprise
I will not die
of thirst
this day



                              on bass, watt







much respect to ronnie!


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sage advice from
mister t. monk here:

advice from thelonious monk



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go see this pop group documentary!

trailer here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ZhOcd9rD9E

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the mike watt e.p.

check out "the mike watt e.p."
by the widow babies now!


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   recent collaborations w/most dear music friends:

   detective instinct ("cat eye light" and "healthy eyes")
   cartavetro ("we need time")
   kings of lowertown ("mystic river")
   spielgusher proj (six of the sixty we did)
   the clubber lang gang ("for broken people")
   kawaii kedo ("beat it up")
   hiroshi-san ("pursuance")


* see me make chow for ben wolfinsohn *

* read this from the japan times *






soft and gentle?

   would we have embarked on this stream had we known?


   I've discovered there's other folks named mike watt but I'm the one from pedro who works the thudstaff for 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 called the 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 called dos now for twenty plus years w/kira. I'm also on bass for the re-ignited stooges which is a total mindblow. a lot more info on me is at the web site I maintain, http://hootpage.com which I call mike watt's hoot page and you can see where I'm making the low flow next there.

   oh yeah, I like to take pictures of sunrises and pelicans in my town too.






sanshin   bass player magazine, april 2007


the watt from pedro showthe watt from pedro show

* click here for the watt from pedro show (july 5, 2009 edition w/on-air guest kim white up now at twfps.com)



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unknown instructors

new unknown instructors
"funland" (third album) out now!


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   and also michael t. fournier's book:

double nickels on the dime

"double nickels on the dime"

(part of the 33 1/3 series)


read "mike fournier takes on the minutemen"
in the weekly dig



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   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:

soft focus watt interview w/ian svenonius

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

watt in the studio
(click here and six
songs you'll hear)


   + wikipedia watt entry +

   + watt's march 18, 2007 sxsw spiel w/robin cook (all nine parts!) +

   + gibsonbass watt interview +

   + 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"

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 - 2006
watt + the go! team in melbourne, australia after
getting to jam w/them on january 31, 2006


read what watt, tom watson and raul morales wrote in the mike watt + the missingmen "prac'n the 3rd opera" tour 2009 diary (there's a week worth from peak too!)

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



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   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.

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"punk is whatever we made it to be" sticker



I give all proceeds to
www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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next watt gigs!



mike watt + the missingmen
a trio for my third opera w/ tom watson and raul morales

saturday, july 11 at 10 pm
benefit for surfrider
at di piazza's
5205 e. pacific coast highway
long beach, ca
(562) 498-2461

friday, july 17 at 9 pm
at harold's place
1908 s. pacific av.
san pedro, ca
(310) 832-5503
FREE ADMISSION!

friday, july 24 at 11 pm
at the redwood bar + grill
316 w. 2nd st.
los angeles, ca
(213) 680-2600

sunday, august 9 at 5 pm
at liquid kitty
11780 w. pico bl.
los angeles, ca
(310) 473-3707

saturday, september 19 at 10 pm
at the joshua tree saloon
61835 29 palms highway
joshua tree, ca
(760) 366-2250



the emma goldman
bust-out brigade

watt joins bassist devin hoff in a benefit for leonard peltier

thursday, july 23 at 7 pm
at submission
2183 mission st.
san francisco, ca
(415) 255-7227



nels cline and mike watt
along w/ yuka honda and dougie bowne
do their first gig as floored by four

saturday, august 1 at 7 pm
for the summerstage series
at rumsey playfield
central park (manhattan)
new york, ny
(212) 360-2777



mike watt + the secondmen
featuring original secondmen pete mazich and jerry trebotic

friday, august 7 at 10 pm
at the redwood bar + grill
316 w. 2nd st.
los angeles, ca
(213) 680-2600

saturday, august 22 at 10 pm
at the cellar
201 e. broadway
long beach, ca
(562) 495-9000



jim o'rourke + mike watt
in a quartet w/ akira sakata and pikachu

tuesday, september 1 at 6:30 pm
at fever
setagaya-ku
tokyo, japan
+81 3 6304 7899



brother's sister's daughter
"kill yr tv 09" release party

wednesday, september 2 at 6:30 pm
at o-nest
shibuya-ku
tokyo, japan
+81 03 3462 4420



mi-gu
"pulling from above" release party
(I do guest performance w/them)

tuesday, september 8 at 6:30 pm
at daikanyama unit
shibuya-ku
tokyo, japan
+81 03 5459 8630




* click here to have watt let you know about his upcoming gigs




Who I'd like to meet:

   someone w/a lot of patience!

   and:



eddie hazel

mike watt apparently has 44,977 myspace friends
many birthdays

dreams
are free, motherfucker

kaori

screamingcat

shimmy

yuko

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

tobacco

deerhoof

ccr

t.rex

sistas
in the pit

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


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 dreams are free, motherfucker 


 Kaori505 


 screamingcat 


 mi-gu (yuko araki) 


 Yuka Honda 


 funanori 


 Gary Floyd 


 KXLU 


 Stanislav 


 The Go! Team 


 The Stooges-Official Page 





mike watt's Friends Comments
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Farmen





Jul 11 2009 1:24 AM

My Garden

in the sun and in the rain
and in the day and in the night

pain is a flower
pain is flowers

blooming all the time

-C. Bukowski
lonebird





Jul 11 2009 1:24 AM

brother watt. . . thankx 4 the good times and the kind words. . .always got a lil some for everyone.
El Robbyachi





Jul 11 2009 1:24 AM

Awesome show last night at the dollhut! Thanks for coming down and spreading the thump around.
Spurv Lærke





Jul 11 2009 1:22 AM

Thank You Mr Watt!
Thrifty Astronaut





Jul 11 2009 1:21 AM

just heard another one of my songs on your show, i just thought id say thanks
NIRE EEL





Jul 11 2009 1:08 AM

Peace and lOVE from Bud and Erin Rhodes....love to see you come back to the Duckroom or the Pageant
Chris





Jul 11 2009 1:08 AM

Thanks 4 the add... I saw your band at the Chameleon club with Dinosaur Jr it changed my life, the best show ever !!!
PHREAKSBASKET





Jul 11 2009 1:07 AM

Hey Watt, have a great 4th!!!
and thanks again for Jacksonville Beach , FL!!!!
Donovan Stokes





Jul 11 2009 1:07 AM

Hey there, thought you might enjoy this vid,the other bass player is using a new bass I designed, made Road Tough!
HCorecaminhos





Jul 11 2009 1:07 AM

Hi... Mike... thnx for the add... Tú eres un monstruo, el bajista de referencia del punk... Gran labor con los Stooges, Minutemen... Greetings from Galicia... By the way, Beatiful bass... Bye... y un placer
al Qaeda





Jul 11 2009 1:07 AM

I just picked up the "Al Qaeda & Mike Watt August 2009" shirts and should be getting the records and posters any day now. This is going to be a blast!!!
Brain Surgeons





Jul 3 2009 12:06 AM

Forget love. All we need is
watt!

xxx
D
Family of Lightbulbs





Jul 3 2009 12:06 AM

Hi Mike! My name is Tim. I would first like to say that your music has been an inspiration to my music and my life for sometime now. Second I would like to tell you to check out an HBO documentary titled "Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech." I don't watch much TV, but I happened upon this and it made me really think, and then it made me think that more people should pay attention to what is going on around them. "The road to Auschwitz was paved with indifference." Most people don't give a fuck about what is going on in the world unless it directly affects them. So I figure that anyone who puts themselves out there to the public, such as you or anyone else who is known by more than just the people who they associate with directly, should know what can happen in America when people do not agree with what you do, say , think, or feel. Not sure why I think you might share similar views on this, but you just might. By the way, you played one of my songs on your podcast once. I just found it.... I was in prison when you played it. Would be more than thrilled if you played something new, I like it better. Check out the page, the top is toned down country-esque, but towards the bottom there's some rockin for sure. Peace Mike Watt, and You should play in Peoria, IL. I have a very nice country home you are welcome in anytime.
Brian Paugas





Jul 3 2009 12:05 AM

Hey Watt,
Thanks for playing my song on your show. Quite an honor for me. Plus I got a few people hooked on to TWFPS. You totally made my day, man. Much respect...
The Mama Suki





Jul 3 2009 12:04 AM

Caught the tail end of last nights show at the Old Town Pub, so bummed. Oh, well . . . sounded good for a second.
Ernie





Jul 2 2009 10:41 PM

Thanks Mike!
Hur†





Jul 2 2009 10:41 PM

thank you
NOT COOL





Jul 1 2009 9:28 PM

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the nice message!

You are are a big influence on us and and a continued inspiration.

Much love from South East London,

Not Cool
Big Blue World





Jul 1 2009 9:28 PM

So glad you're doing great! Hope to see you soon...
Hur†





Jul 1 2009 9:28 PM

thank you
Willowbrook





Jun 30 2009 1:49 AM

THANKS YOU!
MicSmythe





Jun 30 2009 1:49 AM

The Watt From Pedro Show is good... great eclectic selections. Good work!
JASON





Jun 30 2009 1:49 AM

Great show at the Prospector last night!!! Looking forward to your trip to Joshua Tree in september.
Jamie





Jun 30 2009 1:48 AM

once again , thanks for being you ! and thanks for your kindness . wanna jam ? :]
Death In Disguise





Jun 30 2009 1:48 AM

heya mike, what's up man?

i wish i could catch those upcoming shows yr doin' with al queda, but i'm stuck in the midwest! booo! hopefully someone will record em and up em to youtube or something...

hope all is well!

best,
cory / demonologists
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