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    Mike Watt

    Aug 10, 2021 5 minutes

    Michael David Watt was born just before Christmas, 1957, and is widely regarded as one of the most important punk and post-punk bassists ever to have lived. His first band, Minutemen, blended punk with jazz and funk, but ended with the death of its frontman D. Boon in a car accident in 1985. Watt went on to play with Firehose, released several solo albums, and guested with Iggy Pop and the Stooges. In the 2000s, he continued his musical explorations with a series of collaborations, culminating in his new album,

    . Having started his bass career on a cheap Kay, he went on to use a 1956 Fender Precision, and then a Gibson Thunderbird which he hacked to install a Bartolini preamp. Watt underwent surgery in 2000 and, following his recovery, switched to lighter, short-scale basses including a Gibson EB-3.

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