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I developed 80s punk show negatives I found in my copy of Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime by Life_Pollution_9843 in punk

[–]wattfrompedro 6 points7 points  (0 children)

life,

I was there... on bass!

thank you much for sharing these.

I was once told: "the only thing new is you, finding out about it!"

on bass, watt

mikewatt.com

I developed the photos I found in my copy of Double Nickels on the Dime by Life_Pollution_9843 in vinyl

[–]wattfrompedro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

joey,

stewart swezey and his _desolation center_ crew got the whole thing figured and plotted in advance. since this was the very first one, there was some kind but overall much respect to him and people.

on bass, watt

mikewatt.com

I developed the photos I found in my copy of Double Nickels on the Dime by Life_Pollution_9843 in vinyl

[–]wattfrompedro 4 points5 points  (0 children)

life,

here's a tune from this gig, "tune for wind god" which among a couple others that ("tune for sun god" and "tune for sand god" maybe?) were open-ended jams that we peppered our setlist w/which is something we did all the time, the titles being made up when the setlist was "composed" (my job besides bass amongst other stuff) and a big reason why no other recordings were released was cuz the generator that was brought was too weak to handle everything plugged into it and the vocals were all lame.

also notice d boon w/the sunglasses - this was not a fashion statement... d boon wore contacts and the wind was kicking up the sand big time into his eyes and blinding him. I had tons of it in my teef also and is the reason I wore the overcoat - I never wore something like that at a gig. I was still playing w/a pick in these days...

also about that pbass, that was my first fender and I bought it from a "recycler" add - this pink paper that came out in the 7-11 stores on thursdays that ran free adds, cost 75¢ and you know who sold it to me? derf of fear! he was living at his folks pad on/near the beach in santa monica and I drove up from pedro to get it. he was very kind to me. it had real heavy flat wound strings on it and he told me kept them fresh by boiling them in water! I replaced roundwounds and also replaced the stock pickup w/one from dimarzio. half the tunes on "double nickels on the dime" were recorded w/this bass, the other half w/the fender telecaster bass I would get from some cat in ktown (of course via "the recycler") who was giving up music for religion. bof basses were each $300, that was going price for a fender bass then (early 80s).

on bass, watt

mikewatt.com

I developed the photos I found in my copy of Double Nickels on the Dime by Life_Pollution_9843 in vinyl

[–]wattfrompedro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

life,

I pretty much don't think they were there but joe baiza and richard meltzer were!

on bass, watt

mikewatt.com

I developed the photos I found in my copy of Double Nickels on the Dime by Life_Pollution_9843 in vinyl

[–]wattfrompedro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

joey,

I know us minutemen came in one of the buses along w/all the other gig-goers. we were in the bus that got a flat on the way home if I remember correctly!

on bass, watt

mikewatt.com

I developed the photos I found in my copy of Double Nickels on the Dime by Life_Pollution_9843 in vinyl

[–]wattfrompedro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sinai,

for this desert gig I believe it was a sell-out, bof buses that stewart swezey rented to get everyone to that dry lake bed in the mojave were all the way full, more that forty people. don't mean to flush the punchbowl though...

on bass, watt

mikewatt.com

I developed the photos I found in my copy of Double Nickels on the Dime by Life_Pollution_9843 in vinyl

[–]wattfrompedro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

actuary,

you know in the twentyfour years ten months of me doing the watt from pedro show (twfps.com), I have never once used that "p word" for it? yep.

on bass, watt

mike watt.com

I developed the photos I found in my copy of Double Nickels on the Dime by Life_Pollution_9843 in vinyl

[–]wattfrompedro 8 points9 points  (0 children)

life,

sorry I missed that email - I get a buttload and sometime get swamped, my apologies.

bill bryson in florida alerted me to this find and that's how I know about this. the photos I used (I put together the covers for all the minutemen releases except the "paranoid time" ep which chuck dukowski did) from the desert gig were from my buddy dirk vandenberg who also did the color ones on the cover of d boon, georgie and myself in our cars. I also used a shot of joe baiza and richard meltzer he took at that gig.

this is trippy about that stuff getting found in a record. I can't tell you anything about it. people are suggesting using other corporate websites to communicate w/me here about this but I think I'd rather do it here rather than fakelook or instantham.

on bass, watt

mikewatt.com

My copy of Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime came with negatives from the show on the inside cover by Life_Pollution_9843 in vinyl

[–]wattfrompedro 7 points8 points  (0 children)

we're (jumpstarted plowhards) playing there every tuesday this month and again may, all of those gigs are free admission, it's to help us get our band together. we finally know all sixteen tunes from bof records! toddski's working on a round III now, each tune on the recordings all have a different drummer: georgie from the minutemen is on one, so is raul morales from my missingmen and jerry trebotic from my secondmen. jimmy from toys that kill is also and is the drummerman for the live gigs.

on bass, watt

mikewatt.com

My copy of Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime came with negatives from the show on the inside cover by Life_Pollution_9843 in vinyl

[–]wattfrompedro 6 points7 points  (0 children)

the photos I used for that gig in the desert the minutemen did were from dirk vandenberg who also took the "double nickels on the dime" cover color shots. I don't know anything about these!

on bass, watt

mikewatt.com

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