Mike Watt & James Willamson Talk Stooges

Watt (on Bass) and Williamson (on Axe) on all things not necessarily Iggy...

By Fred Mills

Followers of the mighty Mike Watt are familiar with the Minutemen/Stooges/Secondmen bassist's "The Watt From Pedro Show" which can be downloaded as a podcast from his TWFPS site. Last weekend Watt had a special guest - new/old Stooges guitarist James Williamson, and the pair weighed in on the band's estimable legacy, the upcoming reunion shows, and more.

And get a look at some of the tunes Watt spun during the course of the three-hour webcast (the Williamson interview is in two parts during the first two hours, then the third hour is given over to some intriguing indiedom):

"three little words" john coltrane

"dancing queen" petra haden

"shake appeal" iggy & the stooges

"death trip" iggy & the stooges

"kill yr idols" sonic youth

"raw power" (live) iggy & the stooges

"no more white horses" t2

"at beef's house" 7 foot buffer

untitled (recorded sep 21, 2009) shiner w/motoko honda

"crayons" disconsolate manufactory

"fear and science" lo-fi calvinists

"full bladder" qtera

"shadow and traveler" bad taste

"sprovod" pleme

"put some clothes on" the nice sharp pencils

"flanger in the night" the cosmic plot

"beat over brains" black mamba beat!

"truck" dmf

"step inside our lives" kings of lowertown

"tank" pull anchor

"quiet sound" jimmy ohio

Check it out now at the Watt site...