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RE: (TV) Mike Watt & J. Mascis & the Fog Play the Stooges



I've been following that tour through Watt's diaries on his web-site.
-but, I cannot stand the way he refers to himself in the third-person.

Regards,

Micah 


-----Original Message-----
From: christopher hollow [mailto:doughboy@netspace.net.au]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 1:56 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: (TV) Mike Watt & J. Mascis & the Fog Play the Stooges



 did anyone else on this list just see Mike Watt, J. Masics and the Fog play
 the Stooges at the intimate Cherry Bar in Melbourne? .. did anyone get a
recording?
 it was totally, unbelievably awesome. A Ron Asheton altar worship. Every
 great song from the first two albums, totally nothing from Raw Power. The
 only nod to that later time was "I've Got a Right"... maybe, exactly how it
 should be ... the greatest crime of the Stooges was taking the guitar away
 from Ron Asheton ..

 J. Masics and the drummer George Berz did their best Asheton brother
impressions
 while Matt Watt played like ... Mike Watt ... absolutely destroying his
 Gibson SG bass in a way that Dave Alexander could only dream of through his
 glue sniffing haze ... the secret of the early Stooges tracks is they're
 slow and sparse. But Watt's Jack Bruce attack is totally acceptable in a
one
 chord attack. It was total commitment. The difference between an inspired
 homage and a tribute show.

 As Watt says, "you don't have to worry about chord changes that much, it's
all about feel and that helped so much. thank you ron, scott, dave and ig so
much for your timeless tunes."

 cheers
chris

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