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Friday June 26
2026
8:00PM doors -- music at 8:30PM ••• 21 AND OVER $25 $30.81 in advance [25 face value + 5.81 service fee] Mike Watt & the missingmen hootpage.com punk rock Sister Double Happiness a one-time tribute to Gary Floyd by his band, with vocals by Doug Hilsinger Double album release - expanded reissue edition (liner notes by Mike Watt!) punk, blues, and hard rock Mayya psych rock Mike Watt & the missingmen: -from San Pedro, CA -mike watt - bass + spiel raul morales - drums tom watson - guitar + some singing from mike watt about the missingmen: I put the missingmen together in the late summer of 2006 in order to help realize my third opera "hyphenated-man" and my choice of tom watson and raul morales was very deliberate: tom watson on guitar comes from my older days - he knew d boon and we put out the first records by slovenly which was a band he was in. since I was gonna use some parallels to my work from my minutemen days, I wanted someone aboard w/a link from those "older days," a cat who was there and was vital - someone who still is. I actually have toured w/tom in the late 90s/early 00s w/my bands mike watt + the pair of pliers and mike watt + the jom & terry show but those bands had no piece to focus on except for gigs and tours. raul morales is a pedro guy I met via vinny vegas at a gig at a pad on fourth street here in town near gaffey, a scene (I learned they called it "porch-core") that developed in my pedro town in the 90s I had no idea of cuz I was touring so much so I picked him for drums cuz he was a link to the "newer days" and dug how he played. like w/tom, I actually played w/raul before the missingmen - him helping me w/some mike watt + the secondmen (a band I put together in 2002 to help realize my second opera "the secondman's middle stand") tours where original drummerman jerry trebotic couldn't be a part. the first mike watt + the missingmen tour was the "parallel universes" a few months after getting together. I chose the name "missingmen" for tom and raul cuz a couple of years earlier I was helping keith schieron and tim irwin w/their "we jam econo" doc on the minutemen and to prepare myself for the interviews, I started listening to minutemen music again which after d boon passing away was very difficult for me. I really started missing this kind of music and wanted somehow to do it again but make it relevant for me in the present day. that's where I got the idea for the "hyphenated-man" libretto - I would write lyrics dealing w/myself as middle-aged punk rocker which is something the minutemen never dealt w/really: middle-age. I figured this would keep things from being just a stroll down memory lane or some regurgitation kind of lame thing. tom and raul would help me w/the music I felt I was missing and by that I mean the forms and stuff - not the content. I didn't see them as replacements for d boon or georgie who are both irreplaceable. instead I wrote "hyphenated-man" w/both tom and raul in mind even though musically in some ways I was looking back at my days as a minutemen. another big difference was writing the whole piece on one of d boon's telecasters cuz in minutemen days I wrote very few tunes on guitar, I mainly composed on bass - it's still like that w/me. writing for the missingmen using guitar makes this proj pretty unique for me and tom watson should get much respect for interpreting my stumblebum guitar playing, he's amazing, truly. we did five tours of "hyphenated-man" from 2010 to 2015 and even though tom and raul big time successfully realized the mission (record it and then play it for people), I didn't wanna stop playing w/them now that it was time to move on so I started writing new material for a brand new missingmen album of their own, stuff written for them to play and not focused on a piece like the original goal (to realize "hyphenated-man") of the band. in the meantime we've been doing revivals of tunes I wrote for the minutemen thirty-plus years ago... some we're never recorded or even played live by the minutemen but for it's interesting looking back on my journey through music how these early works of mine shaped my direction. it's also a good "palate cleanser" to get us ready for this next album I do w/the missingmen. I love playing w/tom and raul. Sister Double Happiness - - Mayya - - |
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