Dos (band)

Dos is a two-bass indie/punk band featuring the former husband-and-wife team of Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges, Banyan) and Kira Roessler (Black Flag). Watt and Roessler (who does not use her surname professionally) met not long after Roessler replaced Chuck Dukowski as the bassist of Black Flag in 1984.

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The actual origin of Dos came about in the fall of 1985 when Watt and Kira, who were already dating, began improvising two-bass jams in their free time, sometimes recording these results into Watt's four-track recording machine.

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The sudden death of Minutemen guitarist and lead singer D. Boon in a van accident on December 22, 1985, led to the end of the Minutemen and left Watt devastated. Kira had parted company with Black Flag not long beforehand and moved to New Haven, Connneticut to attend Yale University; intending to keep Watt playing after Boon's death, her and Watt began sending four-track cassettes back and forth to each other. The activity led to Kira flying back to California for the formal forming of Dos in September 1986.

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