You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music.

In the double Nichols on the dime, the Minutemen throughout the rulebook. I'm Greg Kott.

And I'm Jim De Regattis. We revisit our conversation with Minutemen bassist Mike Watt.

And Greg and I will review new releases from the War on Drugs and Ferrell Williams.

That's all coming up on sound opinions. And I can't look over this beautiful land I can't even realize that I am alone.

Why am able to miss my energy?

You know this life being so beautiful. You're listening to sound opinions and that song is called Maybe Parting Will Help.

You're listening to sound opinions and that song is called Maybe Partying will Help from the classic 1984 album,

Double Nichols on the Dime by the Minutemen.

It was recorded 30 years ago next month at the Radio Tokyo Studios in Venice, California, a great excuse

Greg to revisit our conversation with the always entertaining motor mouth philosopher Mike

Watt.

Jim, the Minutemen were founded in San Pedro, California by Watt, drummer George Hurley, and the

larger-than-life lead singer and guitarist, De Boone.

When they came together in 1980, punk rock was all about fighting against the norm, and yet there was all these rules

about how a punk band was supposed to sound, and the Minutemen pushed all of that aside and incorporated

jazz, funk, all these other influences into hardcore punk and they helped build the

DIY spirit of the early 80s when they coined that term I cano.

Deepboon died in a car accident in 1985 cutting the band's career short but Mike Watt would go on to play

with rockers like Eddie Vetter, Henry Rollins, Dave Grohl and he's released three solo

albums and spent last year touring with Iggy Pop and Stooges.

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