Comments on: Some Interesting Bass Quotes from Mike Watt

By: SteveSpeaksTheTruth

SteveSpeaksTheTruth — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:18:38 +0000

A few things:

a.) Mike Watt thinks more about music than anyone else on the planet.

b.) His notions of the politics of instruments go back to the Minutement days. If you’ve not seen “We Jam Econo,” it’s a must. Part history lesson, part philosophy lecture, part hetero life partner love story. There’s a lot of talk about the politics of the guitar and the thud in there.

c.) As always, there is no c.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:34:00 +0000

I’ll let the base/bass thing go. It’s not staring at the grout, really. It’s contemplating the overall nature of grout. 🙂

By: beetqueen

beetqueen — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:40:45 +0000

Although I know nothing about the base, I do feel the desire to stare at the grout in order to find some sort of meaning my life is currently missing.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:59:56 +0000

Smaller parts of the larger Watt zeitgeist, I promise.

By: JimPanzee

JimPanzee — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:01:04 +0000

Interesting that you’d be posting about Mike Watt mere days after I told you of my new band idea which is 50% Mike Watt and 50% Woody Guthrie.

Interesting indeed.