Ep223: Mike Watt - The Saint of San Pedro
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Minutemen, New Alliance, fIREHOSE founder and LA Punk legend Mike Watt has lived a life of music and stayed true to his roots. Today he discusses the early days of the Minutemen, SST Records, New Alliance records, his decade of playing with Iggy & The Stooges, his recent project Fitted & more.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy-ho there, listeners? With the COVID lockdown starting to ease, you got to support |
| 0:05.3 | your local record shops. If they are opened, find out the best way you can help them out. But for |
| 0:11.6 | those of you who aren't able to shop in a physical record store, head over to audiophileUSA.com. |
| 0:18.8 | AudiofileUSA.com is a family-owned and operated online record shop that only sells excellent and near-mint vinyl records. |
| 0:28.0 | None of this VG, VG-plus, G-crap there. |
| 0:31.7 | AudioFileUSA.com only sells pristine vinyl at very reasonable prices. |
| 0:37.4 | And there's a ton of it. AudioFileUSA.com |
| 0:40.2 | has over 42,000 titles in stock, and they can ship directly to your front door, and they package |
| 0:47.0 | them beautifully. So head over there now, audiophileusa.com, browse their massive selection, |
| 0:53.1 | and get that final upgrade on the record of your dreams. That's Audophile USA.com, browse their massive selection, and get that final upgrade on the record of your dreams. |
| 0:57.0 | That's audiophile USA.com, worldwide shipping on the cleanest records right to your doorstep. |
| 1:03.8 | And with that, let's start this episode of The Vinyl Guide. |
| 1:08.3 | Do you listen to and collect vinyl records? Well, you're in luck. Welcome to the Vinyl Guide. Do you listen to and collect vinyl records? |
| 1:12.1 | Well, you're in luck. |
| 1:16.3 | Welcome to The Vinyl Guide, the podcast made for record nerds like yourself. |
| 1:20.3 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 1:22.8 | Well, hey, everyone, it's Nate here. |
| 1:24.4 | Thanks for tuning in. |
| 1:25.4 | Thanks for listening. |
| 1:47.5 | And let me just tell you, I appreciate all of you who are out there sharing this podcast on your social media and telling your friends about it. That's a huge help. Thank you very much. This week, I have an extremely special episode for you all, a conversation with one of my lifelong heroes, Mr. Mike Watt. Now, Mike, as you may know, is the founder and bass player of the Minutemen, one of the extremely innovative and pivotal bands in the early |
| 1:53.3 | L.A. punk scene. However, his resume does not end there. Watt has also served playing bass with |
| 1:59.5 | the likes of Firehose, porno for pyros, |
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