Michael David «MIKE» WATT (born December 20, 1957) is an american bassist, singer and songwriter. He is best known for co-founding the rock bands MINUTEMEN, DOS and fIREHOSE ; as of 2003, he is also the bassist for the reunited IGGY AND THE STOOGES and a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group BANYAN as well as many other post-MINUTEMEN projects...
THE MISSINGMEN features guitarist & singer TOM WATSON (Slovenly, The Pair Of Pliers, The Jom And Terry Show, Red Krayola) and drummer RAUL MORALES (FYP, Killer Dreamer, The Secondmen).
The band's name is a humorous reference to the fact that during a 2005 European tour behind WATT's album «The Secondman's Middle Stand», neither of the original Secondmen (Pete Mazich and Jerry Trebotic) were able to participate.
THE MISSINGMEN began performing in the autumn of 2006, opening for M. WARD. WATT has stated his intention to record an album with THE MISSINGMEN since 2007, but no formal plans were made until 2009, when the group laid down the guitar and drum tracks for «Hyphenated-man» in New York during a planned break in an american tour by WATT. According to WATT's interviews, the album would feature short songs inspired by the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch. The album, first released in Japan in October 2010, is the first release on WATT's own new independent record label CLENCHEDWRENCH.
February 2014, just before the first reel whole south Europe tour with «MadameMacario» (from February 20 to April 5 sharring stages with GUESS WHAT and L'ŒILLÈRE), MIKE WATT proposed ! a N G R r ! to release exclusively worldwide the ONLY VINYL coloured 10" 45rpm «Missing The Minutemen» (featuring 6 selected interpretations of MINUTEMEN «Double Nickels on the Dime», yeah !).
And in spring 2015, MIKE WATT+THE MISSINGMEN were back to travel whole north Europe (starring UZ JSME DOMA) with a second ONLY VINYL coloured 10" 45rpm «Missing More Of The The Minutemen» (featuring 8 selected new interpretations of «What Makes Man Start Fires ?» hommage from the famous trio of MIKE WATT's both best sonic brothers, George Hurley and Dennes Boon...
More coming in... 2017 ?
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