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tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Tue July 21, 2020 9:24 pm

Yeah, all those Stooges covers are here:

https://wylderatttz.bandcamp.com/album/wylde-ratttz

I don't know the Wall of Flowers record! I'll see if I can find it. Trying to keep up with Watt's projects is maddening.

VinylGuy · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm **Posts:** 36100

tragabigzanda wrote:

Yeah, all those Stooges covers are here:

https://wylderatttz.bandcamp.com/album/wylde-ratttz

I don't know the Wall of Flowers record! I'll see if I can find it. Trying to keep up with Watt's projects is maddening.

Its on Spotify.

Yeah, i relaxed with following him and what he was doing because its impossible. I recently saw he was playing stuff with Porno For Pyros so that might happen soon.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Thu July 23, 2020 11:46 pm

Listened to Ball-Hog today. Just one of my all time favorite albums, even though I generally disregard the back half. Tracks 1-9 are pure gold, and perfectly sequenced.

I’ve never liked E-Ticket Ride. Forever... is a fun Minutemen cover, and the Maggot Brain cover is fun too. The rest of the back side is more jazzy/silly, and I’ve never gotten much from it. But those first nine tracks...holy shit.

VinylGuy · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm **Posts:** 36100

I loooove Ball Hog. What a fucking incredible project. Can you imagine something like this today? and with those stars touring with you?

I love E Ticket Ride, but i agree with the back half.

Do we know who is the guys Kathleen was talking about?

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Fri July 24, 2020 12:46 am

VinylGuy wrote:

I loooove Ball Hog. What a fucking incredible project. Can you imagine something like this today? and with those stars touring with you?

I love E Ticket Ride, but i agree with the back half.

Do we know who is the guys Kathleen was talking about?

It’s been debunked as a joke, you can find that on the internet somewhere. But I’m sure Dando, and probably a great others, would fit the bill

VinylGuy · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm **Posts:** 36100

tragabigzanda wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

I loooove Ball Hog. What a fucking incredible project. Can you imagine something like this today? and with those stars touring with you?

I love E Ticket Ride, but i agree with the back half.

Do we know who is the guys Kathleen was talking about?

It’s been debunked as a joke, you can find that on the internet somewhere. But I’m sure Dando, and probably a great others, would fit the bill

really? I read somewhere that it was true. Yeah, Dando could fit.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Fri July 24, 2020 12:51 am

VinylGuy wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

I loooove Ball Hog. What a fucking incredible project. Can you imagine something like this today? and with those stars touring with you?

I love E Ticket Ride, but i agree with the back half.

Do we know who is the guys Kathleen was talking about?

It’s been debunked as a joke, you can find that on the internet somewhere. But I’m sure Dando, and probably a great others, would fit the bill

really? I read somewhere that it was true. Yeah, Dando could fit.

This wasn’t where I read it before, and it’s hardly solid journalism, but...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/exclaim.ca ... tt_on_what

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Mon November 30, 2020 4:51 am

Watt just contributed to this pretty f'n amazing cover of Coltrane's A Love Supreme:

https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/a ... pse5OxLIls

washing machine · **Posted:** Wed October 04, 2023 3:29 pm

I've been listening to Jeff Tweedy's reading of the Minutemen chapter in the Our Band Could Be Your Life audiobook.

I've heard the story of Watt learning about tuning before, but it always cracks me up. Essentially he insists that before he learned about guitar/bass anatomy, he thought tight or loose strings was a preference.

There's another story about him cruising up and down a Hollywood Boulevard seeing man-whores soliciting and thinking they were just dudes looking for rides or jobs.

Mike Watt was/is a charmingly naive guy.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed April 03, 2024 3:36 pm

Maybe the first "must own" Watt project in a long while?

https://improvedsequence.bandcamp.com/a ... rzo-imp108

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed April 03, 2024 3:43 pm

I've listened to this song three times and I'm in love.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed April 03, 2024 4:13 pm

Ordered the LP. The first track...wowzers. When that Hendrix guitar comes in I just swoon.

VinylGuy · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 5:10 pm **Posts:** 36100

Yeah, pretty cool track

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