mike watt
out now!
il sogno del marinaio debut album "la busta gialla"
please also check out the spielgusher album,
the dos album "dos y dos" and my third opera
"hyphenated-man" out on clenchedwrench
* click here to have watt let you know about his upcoming gigs *
next watt gigs!
mike watt + the secondmen
featuring pete mazich and jerry treboticfriday, june 7 at 10 pm
at the observatory
3503 s. harbor bl.
santa ana, ca
(714) 957-0600
mike watt + the missingmen
featuring tom watson and raul moralesfriday, june 14 at 10 pm
at di piazza's
5205 e. pacific coast highway
long beach, ca
(562) 498-2461
il sogno del marinaio
andrea belfi and stefano pilia w/watt in yet another powertrio!sunday, june 16 at 8 pm
at whelan's
dublin, ireland
sunday, november 24
at the atp - end of an era festival
camber sands, england
iggy and the stooges
w/watt on bass trying his hardest for them!read watt's tour diary!
saturday, june 1
at the free press summer festival
houston, tx (usa)
saturday, june 8
at the ink n iron festival
long beach, ca (usa)
thursday, june 20
at the meltdown festival
london, england
saturday, june 22
at areal tj slezan
frydek-mistek, czech republic
monday, june 24
at the inmusic festival
zagreb, croatia
wednesday, june 26
at stora scenen pa liseberg
goteborg, sweden
friday, june 28
at the peace and love festival
borlange, sweden
sunday, june 30
at the garorock festival
marmande, france
thursday, july 4
at the rock in roma festival
rome, italy
saturday, july 6
at la base de loisirs de pratgraussals
albi, france
tuesday, july 9
at the les deferlantes d'argeles sur mer festival
argeles-sur-mer, france
thursday, july 11
at the ippodromo del galoppo
milan, italy
saturday, august 3
at the lokerse feesten
lokeren, belgium
tuesday, august 6
at the zitadelle spandau
berlin, germany
friday, august 9
at arena open air
vienna, austria
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.
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About me:
go to my hoot page for more infos
http://hootpage.com
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watt on fakelook:
watt on shitter:
the debut floored by floor album came out september 28, 2010 - check it out!!
floored by floor myspace page
"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:
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go see this pop group documentary!
trailer here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ZhOcd9rD9E
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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?
oh yeah, I like to take pictures of sunrises and pelicans in my town too.
* click here for the watt from pedro show!
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new unknown instructors
"funland" (third album) out now!
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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
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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 (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
+ 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"
--> 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
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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Details
- Status: Divorced
- Height: 6' 1"
- Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
- Occupation: thudstaff worker
Interests
General
Music
Movies
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?"
Heroes
my ma (she's pregnant w/me here in this 1957 shot) and pop:
NAVEL 2 years ago
snOre 2 years ago
Since 1979 2 years ago
AMERICAN MALE GIANT SQU… 2 years ago
CocaineAbortion 2 years ago
MODOTTI 2 years ago
ROUGHMAX 2 years ago
snOre 2 years ago
dronjo kept by 4 2 years ago
The Dyeing Merchants 2 years ago
10 of 23MoreEurope, Mr Watt?
Great shOw in Jax,FL great to see and hear you again, thanks for letting snOre Open hope to jam again in the near future, best wishes and respect,Anthony//snOre
Thanks for rockin' Baton Rouge
'Seems like old times' =)
..and Tom
Give me some sugar, baby!
-Jenny
cant wait for the show in ohio!
ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great mike. you are beautiful!!
Hi there Mike, thanks a lot for your friendship.
Pump it up that bass frequecies...
Enjoy the worst italian swamps
Greets
Ciao
Max
see ya in March looking foward to watt/missingmen thanks for coming back around our(FL) way much respect and longtime fan,Anthony//snOrer
I was up old my band's stuffs. this band called "slow divers" without relation slow dive of creation label.slow divers is like television & pavement ,folk implosion. please listen!
Come to Victoria now will yah!!