Ball-Hog Or Tugboat? was Mike Watt‘s first solo album, and when it came out in 1995, I had never heard of the Minutemen. But I bought it anyway because of “Against the ’70s,” which was about the ’70s being bad (of which I was aware) and was sung by Eddie Vedder (of whom I was very, very aware). When I bought the tape (!), the insert was laid out like a wrestling poster, listing the personnel who played on every song, and while I was only aware of a handful of them (Henry Rollins, Dave Grohl), the fact that people like Petra Hayden and Nels Cline were given equal billing made me think that they were important, too.
Yeah guys, I mean…not like I was expecting some kinda “L.A. Blues” blowout as a big raspberry in the face of the HOF and I love both Ig and “Ray Of Light” but… Maybe “Burnin’ Up” was better? Madonna’s blatant disinterest in whatever’s going around her is still kinda disarming? More »
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, perhaps looking to bolster the rocker cred of one its most undeniably pop inductees yet, is going a little left field with its choice of performers to pay tribute to Madonna at next week’s induction ceremony: Iggy & The Stooges. Then again, it’s not clear who would be a more obvious choice as a younger heir apparent to the singer’s legacy of blonde ambition, given the more wholesome new crop of Disneyfied starlets, and the fact that the pop tarts of yesteryear that Madonna previously passed the torch to with her tongue are currently popping out babies or otherwise, er, indisposed.
Here’s an entire Mike Watt show from ’95 with a pickup band made up of three members of the Foo Fighters (including one D. Grohl) and some guy named Vedder, running through a set of Watt originals, the expected Minutemen and fIREHOSE tunes, and a handful of covers. More »
Here’s an entire Mike Watt show from ’95 with a pickup band made up of three members of the Foo Fighters (including one D. Grohl) and some guy named Vedder, running through a set of Watt originals, the expected Minutemen and fIREHOSE tunes, and a handful of covers. More »
