Mike Watt

Michael David Watt (b. December 20, 1957 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is a bass guitarist, singer and songwriter, probably best-known for co-founding punk rock bands The Minutemen and fIREHOSE; as of 2003, he is also the bassist for the reunited Iggy Pop & The Stooges. He is also a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan.

Discography

with The Minutemen

See the Wikipedia entry: The Minutemen

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with fIREHOSE

See the Wikipedia entry: fIREHOSE

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with Dos

• 1986 Dos (New Alliance)
• 1989 Numero Dos (12" EP) (New Alliance)
• 1989 Uno Con Dos (CD) (New Alliance)
• Compact disc compiling the first two Dos releases
• 1996 Justamente Tres (CD) (Kill Rock Stars)

Solo albums

All released on Columbia.

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• 1995 Ball-Hog or Tugboat?
• 1997 Contemplating the Engine Room
• 2004 The Secondman's Middle Stand

Non-solo recorded appearances

with The Stooges

• 2004 Live In Detroit (DVD) (Creem/MVD)
• 2005 "You Better Run" on The Songs Of Junior Kimbrough (Fat Possum)

with the Unknown Instructors

• 2005 The Way Things Work (Smog Veil)

with J Mascis and the Fog

• 2004 The John Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit), five tracks

with Gov't Mule

• 2001 The Deep End, Volume 1 (ATO) - plays on "Effigy"
• 2003 Rising Low (DVD) (ATO) - appears in interview and recording session footage.

with Petra Haden and Stephen Perkins

• 1998 "Sidemousin' The Bong" on Hempilation, Vol. 2 (Capricorn Records)

: -- George Hurley also performs on this recording, his and Watt's first collaboration since the breakup of fIREHOSE

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• 2005 "Work That We Do" on Look At All The Love We Found: A Tribute To Sublime (Cornerstone RAS Records)

with Sonic Youth

• 1986 EVOL (SST, reissued 1994 by DGC) - Watt plays bass on "In The Kingdom #19" and "Bubblegum".
• 1988 Daydream Nation (Blast First Records, reissued 1994 by DGC) - A phone machine message from Watt to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore is the defacto lead vocal on the song "Providence".
• 1988 The Whitey Album (Blast First, reissued 1994 by DGC), as Ciccone Youth - Watt's home demo recording of his version of Madonna's "Burning Up" appears on the record; he also contributes the liner notes.

with Porno for Pyros

• 1996 Good God's Urge (Warner Bros.) - Watt plays bass on two tracks.

with Saccharine Trust

• 1985 Worldbroken (SST) - Watt substitutes for Sachharine Trust's original bassist, who chickened out at the last minute, on this improvised live recording. An outtake from this session appears on the compilation The Blasting Concept, Vol. II (SST, 1986)

with The Black Gang

• 1998 This Is A Prayer (7" EP) (Kill Rock Stars)
• Colored vinyl EP. Recorded with Nels Cline on guitar and Bob Lee on drums.

with Lil' Pit

• 1997 Lil' Pit (7" EP) (Kill Rock Stars)

with Bootstrappers

• 1989 Bootstrappers (New Alliance)

with Stan Ridgway

• 1986 The Big Heat (IRS Records), one track