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Mike Watt

With the seminal post-punk, alternative bands The Minutemen and fIREHOSE, Mike Watt's frantic, jerky, abrasive misfit music became a key part of the US underground rock scene in the 1980s and inspired the likes of Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Raised in the small suburb of San Pedro, California, USA, Watt and childhood friend D. Boon started thrashing and crashing about with instruments when they were 13, eventually getting their big break when they opened for Black Flag in 1980. The hardcore rockers were so impressed by The Minutemen that they released deb...