Mike Watt
Birthday: 1957-12-20
Place of Birth: Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
Biography: Michael David "Mike" Watt is an American bassist, singer and songwriter. He is best known for co-founding the rock bands Minutemen, Dos, and Firehose; as of 2003, he is also the bassist for the reunited Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen projects.
Movies
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginni...
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I Need That Record!
Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF ...
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Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All
Long before Green Day and Blink 182 inflicted punk-rock's puncture wound on the map of mainstream mu...
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Sir Drone
Three teenagers from the industrial part of Los Angeles try to form a punk rock band in Hollywood, i...
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Weatherman '69
Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legenda...
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Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story
Gatling Pictures' "Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story" examines the life and work of Mark Sandman...
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Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
From the shifting fault lines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan'...
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Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
Filmed during their 2005 reunion tour, this release captures the sonic guitar assaults of Dinosaur J...
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High School Record
Four awkward 17-year-olds struggle through their senior year. Like most high school students, they r...
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Records Collecting Dust
Written and directed by San Diego based musician and filmmaker Jason Blackmore, Records Collecting D...
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Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Cassette inventor Lou Ottens digs through his past to figure out why the audiotape won't die. Rock v...
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Concrete Law
Channel Street Skatepark successfully existed for over a decade under the Interstate 110, despite it...
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The Life of Sean DeLear
The Life of Sean DeLear is a vibrantly multi-faceted, buoyantly propulsive documentary portrait of t...
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Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind
Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind visually documents the explosion of Grunge, the...
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Flipside Video Fanzine Number Two
White Flag : Flipside, Not Alright, Communication Breakdown G.B.H. : Gimme Fire, Wild Thing, I Am T...
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Gimme Danger
No other band in rock'n'roll history has rivaled The Stooges' combination of heavy primal throb, spi...
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Rising Low
Based on the life and death of Gov't Mule bassist Allen Woody, and the making of a double-disc tribu...
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The Dicks from Texas
A punk band from Texas whose music and persona was extreme and political and the supporters who've f...
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You Can Color Outside the Lines... The Big Boys
YOU CAN COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES, THE BIG BOYS tells the true story of the beloved funk/punk band fro...
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Desolation Center
The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southe...
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A Tribute To Ron Asheton
Live performance by Iggy and the Stooges in tribute to their former guitarist Ron Asheton. Recorded ...
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Iggy and The Stooges: Live in Sydney
Iggy and the Stooges, live at The Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on April 2, 2013. It was an old-school ...
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Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innume...
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D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John J...
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What Drives Us
The stories of some of the biggest artists in music, recalling the romance and adventure, as well as...
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Iggy & the Stooges: Live at the Lokerse Festival
This performance, shot live at the Lokerse Festival in August 2005 shows exactly why the Stooges wer...
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Hollywood Rex
Rex is the bassist of Moxie Pad, a band on the brink of success. Entangled in a toxic "situationship...
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40 Watts from Nowhere
Frustrated by commercial radio in the ’90s, a music-loving legal secretary builds one from scratch a...
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Coachella
Filmmaker Drew Thomas brings California's popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to the sc...
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The Tour
Five SST bands (SWA, Saccharine Trust, Meat Puppets, The Minutemen, & Hüsker Dü) taped live at "The ...
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Mike Watt and the Jom and Terry Show: Eyegifts from Minnesota
Mike Watt, the great bassist from Minutemen, fireHose, The Stooges, etc., is the focus of this docum...
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