a word's-eye view from mike watt of the stooges recording their first full studio album in thrityfour years!wednesday, october 4, 2006 - ann arbor, mithis is a very VERY exciting time of my life and look what's on me: fucking sickness. well, threating anyway cuz I'm trying my hardest to break my leg off its ass cuz fuck any shit that's trying to bring me down at this point in time. here let me ...
folks, just back from overseas and am doing anew issue release party for pedro zine "the rise andthe fall" (http://theriseandthefall.com) tonight aspart of:_los punkinhedz_which is money mark, john wicksand myself in some intense jamsthat's tonight, thursday,september 7 at 11 pmat spacelandhttp://www.clubspaceland.com1717 silver lake bl.silver lake, ca(323) 661-4380http://www.myspace.com/lospun...
good people,I'm back for a tiny bit, finding myself drowning in inbox and trying to bail as much of it out as I can w/two more stooges gigs - what a blast and a honor in europe coming (should be back september third) but first two here (in cali) this weekend:_chris murphy_ (http://chrismurphymusic.com)watt's been inivited for some free-form wailw/violinist chris and a drummer of his choice,thi...
One thing about this gig is you think school is gonna be over, but you're always having to get in front of the class and read your paper. The whole idea of school being a part of your life — I don't think you ever can quit. I read this thing Buddha said: "When you stop learning, you stop living." And that's the truth. I'm not always the boss. I found you can't learn everything when you're the b.
peoples,tried to catch up as much as I could w/emails but after three days home (the pracs in miami/ann arbor went great though it was much a pants-shitter for me as far as my nerves and fears), I must bail again w/the stooges - this time to do gigs in belgium, hungary, slovakia and holland. I did get to paddle and pedal some thoug. should be back aug twenty.
the double-dvd release of the minutemen documentary "we jam econo" has been confirmed for june 27, 2006 on plexifilm. there's three hours and fortytwo minutes of extra content besides the ninety minute feature being shown in theatres now. you can pre-order now to get it before it hits the shelves.some other exciting news: I got a cd-r in the mail from iggy labeled "secret plan" and it's got thi...
Iggy calls me, I was in the middle of a tour. I flew back from Memphis to do it and then I went back in five more weeks and we played with [guitarist] Ron [Asheton}. Like I said, I was helping J. Mascis out before, he asked me to be part of The Fog; I asked him to do some gigs of just Stooges songs, so when we came to Ann Arbor, he goes, "You know Ron, why don't you call him up?" So he ended up...