O.k. I felt bad for yesterday's 11 plus minute U2 song. So here's 106 seconds of The Minutemen covering Van Halen.
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I really wanted a Van Halen version from 1978 but surprise! not a lot of video out there from that era.
I ... I ... I dont know what to think of this.
7 stars, I guess.
WATT!!!
I saw Watt on the "Contemplating the Engine Room" tour. It was an 18+ show, and I was 16, but had a friend who worked for the promoter. He snuck a friend and I into the venue before the show. They had no idea where Watt sauntered off to before sound check, and had to go search for him. Apparently he went for a walk in scenic downtown Fargo. After they played, he signed my CDs and was super kind to me, a starstruck 16 year old. He told me to head up to the green room to get a signature from the drummer, which I did*. Before he left for the night he made sure to say good bye to me: by holding a bottle of rum over his head and going "YARRRRRRR" as he walked out the door.
*The drummer guy wrote "160!" and circled it on the front of my CD booklet. When I was in the 6th grade, the gym teacher refused to kick people out when I had to get weighed. My weight, 160, was subsequently used to define me. (This was incredibly dehumanizing!) Anyway, it was a really strange coincidence, and even now, almost 18 years later, I still feel fucked up that that is what he wrote on the booklet.
Cool story bro!
My one good teenage rock n' roll story involves being around 14 and eating polish sausage with Supernova and The Muffs.
I saw WATT playing bass for Porno for Pyros back before Jane's Addiction un-broke-up, which broke up the (better IMO) PfP*.
WATT was definitely trying to be half-incognito. He wore a holocaust cloak with the hood up almost the entire time, obscuring his face.
It was not a well-kept secret who was playing bass for PfP even before they took the stage though.
I believe the guy standing behind me with his mouth very near my ear was among the state's biggest WATT fans, and he couldn't stop shouting to WATT the entire time.
"WATT!!" "WATT!!?" "WATT!" and variations thereof. It was annoying and cute and annoying again and cute again.
That is why I type WATT's name that way.
*Whom I also haven't listened to in years. Maybe time to rip another hundred more CDs.
I saw The Minutemen at 7th Street in October of 1985. Mike Watt slipped while dancing in the sweet he produced because he was jamming so much. One of my all time fave shows. Sadly he was killed in an accident less than 2 months later.
That would have been D. Boon who died.
WATT's still with us.
Which of them slipped?
Jeez I'm a dope. It was D. Boon.
I quite liked that.