Mike Watt feat. Eddie Vedder/Dave Grohl "Big Train" 7" OOP Stooges Pearl Jam
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Mike Watt "Big Train" 7" Columbia Records (US)
Record is VG+, Jacket is VG+
Tough to Find!! Out of Print!!
Track Listing:
A Big Train Banjo – Cris KirkwoodDrums, Lap Steel Guitar – Dave GrohlGuitar, Backing Vocals – Edward Vedder*Lead Guitar – Curt Kirkwood, J MascisSlide Guitar – Nels ClineVocals [Singer], Bass – Watt*Written-By – Kinman*, Kinman* 3:19 B Amnesty Report Bass – Watt*Drums, Percussion – Stephen PerkinsGuitar – Peter DistefanoViola – SpotVocals [Singer] – Perry FarrellVoice [Spiel] – Matthew Ellard 2:51Michael David "Mike" Watt (born December 20, 1957) is an American bassist, vocalist and songwriter.
He is best known for co-founding and playing bass guitar for the rock bands Minutemen, Dos, and Firehose. He is also the frontman for the supergroup Big Walnuts Yonder, a member of the art rock group Banyan and involved with several other musical projects. From 2003 until 2016, he was the bass guitarist for The Stooges.
CMJ New Music called Watt a "seminal post-punk bass player." In November 2008, Watt received the Bass Player Magazine lifetime achievement award, presented by Flea.
Solo career
After working with Firehose, Watt began a solo career. His first album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat?, featured appearances from dozens of musicians (many were Watt's peers from the 1980s SST era), including Henry Rollins, Eddie Vedder, J Mascis, Carla Bozulich, Evan Dando, members of Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Black, Nirvana, Soul Asylum, Jane's Addiction, the Beastie Boys and the Screaming Trees. The album and its supporting tour were Watt's first taste of mainstream fame, when Vedder and Dave Grohl of Nirvana were part of his touring group. After Vedder returned to his Pearl Jam commitments and Grohl began working with his new band Foo Fighters, Watt formed his only four-piece touring group to date, The Crew Of The Flying Saucer, featuring guitarist Nels Cline and two drummers.
In 1996, Watt contributed bass lines to two songs on Porno for Pyros' second album, Good God's Urge. He subsequently ended up being the bassist for the tour that followed the release of the album.
He made an appearance in an episode of Cartoon Network's Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
In 1997, Watt released Contemplating the Engine Room, a punk rock song cycle using naval life as an extended metaphor for both Watt's family history (the album has a picture of his father in his Navy uniform on the cover) and the Minutemen. The album, which was critically well received, features a trio of musicians including Nels Cline on guitar, and Watt as the only singer.
Watt went on to play in such groups as Banyan (with Stephen Perkins and Nels Cline) and Hellride, a sometime live outfit that plays cover versions of Stooges songs. He also played in The Wylde Ratttz with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and The Stooges' Ron Asheton, recording a song for the film Velvet Goldmine. Watt also recorded a bass line to send to the Pennsylvania space-folk band The Clubber Lang Gang for their record Now Here This, on the track "For the Broken People". Starting in mid-2011, Watt began playing bass for a psychedelic/progressive rock band called Anywhere with the Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Christian Eric Beaulieu of Triclops! In 2015 Mike Watt joined the Waywords and Meansigns project, a collaborative project setting James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to music.
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