Talk:Mike Watt

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[edit] Squid

Mike Watt likes squid. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvAta5i4lFs ) Does any of this deserve a mention? Oystermind 21:51, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Genre finalized.

At the request of Mr. Watt himself, the genre on his Wiki bio has been changed to simply "Punk". Below is a copy of his e-mail regarding this:

ceej,

could you change the "genre(s) from "punk/alternative" to just "punk" cuz I just hate that marketing term "alternative" - yech.

oh, and that picture was taken outside my practice pad here in pedro.

thanks again, ceej.

w/paddle, watt

[edit] More influences

Per a Watt e-mail from earlier today, added some more influences (I'd initially written to confirm whether a Mog blog credited to him in an earlier edit really was his own doing):

ceej,

yes, michael over there at mog has been trying to get me to be more active after having me join but I've been :so busy lately (in chicago recording w/stooges now) but will when I can. I didn't post that there, maybe michael did.

by the way, there's some influences I've cited in my bass development missing - besides richard hell, geezer :butler, gene simmons and john entwistle there's some mega-giant teachers in my bass life since I started like james :jamerson, larry graham, bootsy collins and jack bruce. as far as the rock thing in regards to gene simmons, I have to :be fair and say dennis dunnaway (original alice cooper band) and joe bouchard (blue oyster cult) were way up there. :for some reason I always though of geezer butler, john entwistle and jack buce more in the school of james jamerson, :larry graham and bootsy collins - don't know exactly why except maybe cuz I could really hear them, like w/the r and b :players. I do have to and am not ashamed to admit all of us bass guitar players owe james jamerson the hugest debt - I :definitely know I do.

thanks ceej.

on bass, watt

--CJ Marsicano 13:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC)