Re: OT(minutemen)

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

At 5:40 PM +0000 3/4/03, Steve Lawson wrote:

>The most punk thing about Mike Watt is that his DIY approach is 
>undiminished
>all these years on...

Watt was a featured speaker at the recent DIY Convention in Los 
Angeles. I missed out on the L.A. punk scene, being involved in 
doctoral studies elsewhere, but hearing Mike Watt talk made me regret 
missing the Minutemen.

>...the interesting thing for me as a listener is just how intellegent a 
>lot
>of the US punk was compared to most of the crap that was coming out of the
>UK, even though it was supposedly born here

Maybe not actually born there, but certainly reared

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