Goofle

We Jam Econo is a fantastic documentary. Kick started my interest in the American underground "punk" music scene of that time, which led me to discover the likes of Meat Puppets and Butthole Surfers.

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Sparky

What kinda stuff has he done? I only know he's been playing with the stooges for a while, which is pretty cool.

I'm actually surprised rabid anarchist punk kids were able to get behind minutemen as a "punk" band in the day, their songs aren't really that fast.

Forward To Death

They're more in with the hardcore era, and were on Gregg Ginn's label iirc. May have just been mixed in I guess, but it's not too far off. It's kind of similar to the sound The Replacements had.

I love this band, btw, one of my favorites of what is possibly my favorite era.

Sparky

I don't hear the similarity that much.

I never could get into the replacements all that much, too much classic rock in there, all though i still respect paul westerberg a lot and know he's a great songwriter and whatever.

Forward To Death

Its kind of like not quite punk or post punk is what i mean. I never knew quite how to classify either.

Sparky

yeah thats true. Both bands have aged better because of it

Howard the Duck

"Double Nickels on the Dime" is a classic

i prefer they make it big with their punk-funk than RHCP did

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Batman

I had a chance to see that lineup and missed it... I don't think he's actually recorded anything with them though. Friend went, said it was amazing and Iggy is bat **** crazy live despite being like 50 something.

Edit: He did record an album with the Stooges. A few actually, it looks like. At least one of which was produced by Steve Albini and thoroughly despised by lolpitchforklol.

Firehose was his second (out of a lot, according to wiki) project if I'm not mistaken, started as an accident when some kid from the middle of nowhere heard a rumor that they were gonna replace Boon after the car crash. I have the first three albums- they have more of a folk-ish vibe and the guitars aren't as dissonant compared to Boon's. I actually like Watt's voice more than Boon's voice , it's a lot more mellow. They pretty much just ditched hardcore completely.

First Album -Ragin' Full On- favorite bass song:


Second -If'n (there was some inside joke with the band on this title, i forget what it is). This was a neat video too, I just happened across it thanks tho this thread.



He's toured solo under a bunch of different names with a bunch of different people supporting him. Sort of as a supergroup except Watt was adamently the leader. I don't have anything from any of these bands so... no comment.

Edit: Found this one on youtube. I like the message. Bass playing isn't really as exciting as other stuff Watt has done.


He recorded an album or two with Banyan, another supergroup. I had the first album and haven't listened to it in ages. If I recall correctly it was REALLY proggy and thus not really my thing.

A video of them live. That guitar sounds like a wacked out horn of some kind. Kinda neat I guess. The bass playing is cool too. Just a little too out there for my tastes.



Then there's DOS, a two piece with his wife. T'was mentioned before that she also was one of many bassists for Black Flag. Henry Rollins apparently hated her, idk why but he said so in an interview I saw. In "Our Band Could Be your Life" (after the line in History Lesson pt.2) I think it was stated that she quit for personal differences and to study at UCLA. It's just the two basses. I had the album with the two blue P-basses and remember kinda liking it and kinda finding it boring. Still, chops-ridden bass playin fer sho I'm sure.

Edit: I kinda like this song. It's the first one I found. Given that it's just two basses and vocals it's kinda hard to tell who's playing what. At times it sounds like there's synthesizers but that might just be a pedal or something. My guess is Kira is the one playing the sludgey parts while Watt is playing the other stuff. Looks like it was a P-Bass and a Rick', oh well I was half right.


He also did some bass work with Off With Their Heads on a split they did with Discharge. I've never been a fan of Discharge and never got around to checking out OWTH so... I don't have it and haven't heard it or anything about it.

There's a collective ep Minutemen did with Black Flag called Minuteflag. It's pretty friggen weird. Boon's singing.




I wasn't there but supposedly and understandably many didn't. The movie mentioned, We Jam Econo, is available in full on youtube. They got heckled a LOT. At one point I think Watt says something to the extent of the band seeing punk rock as a way for weirdos to experiment and do their own thing with music instead of being rock stars.

Batman

**** it. This movie was really inspirational for me and I think everyone should see it. This post could always be deleted if need be.

Sparky

I like these songs a lot, i don't mind them ditching their punk ethos. It's not as funkadelic but im going to download some of this stuff


I also gotta check this out for sure, sounds like it be weird, i dont know how those two groups would synergize.

Yeah I had heard that from someone else before too-that they would be heckled. Ill for sure check this documentary out as well; there is actually relatively little media of the minutemen on the internet.