{"id":816,"date":"2004-08-26T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:22:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:22:44","slug":"mike-watt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Mike Watt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Secondman\u2019s Middle Stand<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/30934-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a member of Firehose, a trio that gave new meaning to improvisation and post-punk during the 1980s and early 1990s, bassist Mike Watt became the focal point. Although Watt has been known for enlisting guests\u2014Eddie Vedder, Flea and countless others have recorded and played on his solo projects\u2014his latest album should both ignite a new following and reunite him with his older fan base. Watt\u2019s guitar-less quartet recorded the new album in his San Pedro studio earlier this year, achieving a sound unlike his previous efforts. Fans of the Hammond B-3 organ and Watt\u2019s signature, off-kilter bass plucking should find reward in songs like \u201cTied a Reed \u2019Round My Waist\u201d and \u201cPuked to High Heaven.\u201d Anyone hoping for a carbon copy of Watt\u2019s last opus should know better. Watt likes to change it up.<br>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secondman\u2019s Middle Stand As a member of Firehose, a trio that gave new meaning to improvisation and post-punk during the 1980s and early 1990s, bassist Mike Watt became the focal point. Although Watt has been known for enlisting guests\u2014Eddie Vedder, Flea and countless others have recorded and played on his solo projects\u2014his latest album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}