Idolator: Mike Watt

Iggy And Crew Shine Some Kinda Light On Madonna At The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Jess Harvell — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:15:00 EDT

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? God bless Mike Watt for making the same infectiously goofy-ass faces after plunkin' away for 30 years? That's about all I got. [YouTube/HT: PTW]

Ciccone Youth Member To Honor His Idol At Hall Of Fame Induction

Al Shipley — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:45:37 EST

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.

Rolling Stone notes that both Iggy Pop and Madge hail from Detroit, but misses perhaps a more crucial link: the Stooges' bassist in its current incarnation is punk legend Mike Watt, whose obsession with Madonna once spurred friends Sonic Youth to record an entire album in tribute to her in 1988. No word on whether Watt will get to sing his rendition of "Burnin' Up" at the ceremony.

Iggy & The Stooges to Perform for Madonna at Rock Hall Ceremony [Rolling Stone]

Here's an entire Mike Watt show from '95 ...

jharv — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:17:48 EDT

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. And Mike Watt and Eddie Vedder sincerely jamming (econo) on Erotica-era Madonna is possibly the most "1995" thing I can think of right now. [Berkeley Place]