Member Since: 3/27/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/onagain
Band Members: I have had the pleasure of playing with and learning from some amazing people and musicians. Each has added to my playing in numerous ways, but I never thank them. Some of the great people I play/played with include: Brent Goddard, Stephen Egerton, Chris Gaylor, John Hernandez, Abe Brennen, Roy Anderson, Bill Stevenson, Andy Palmer, Mike Kennerty, Mike Alexander, Ryan Bellgardt, Jason Livermore, Jeff Beaty, Jared Edgin, John Fackler, Justin Betterton, and Matt Owsley. --Thanks, dudes. . . I have been in nearly 20 bands, put out some records, and jammed with a ton of cool cats. Some of the more memorable bands include: The Bi-Products, Wretch Like Me, Zildo, The Takers, Euclid Crash, Jettison, The Scourge of Kings, Oatmeal and On Again.
Influences: Mike Watt, Karl Alvarez, Bob Thompson, Andy Palmer, Ed Urlik, and Ed Miles.
This is why I play Bass:
"The bass has got some righteous karma and politics—you look good making other cats look good, and the more notes you play, the littler you get. It’s an eternal struggle for the right notes. Which I think should never be solved. I guess it’s the singers and guitar players who get to go after millions of notes. A lot of people ask me what to do—you have that now. In the old days, there was a huge hierarchy and bass is where you put your retarded friend, the right-field little leaguer—in punk, everybody was lame, so the bass equaled out. So I try to tell them . . . ‘A lot of times you ain’t gonna be the one writing the songs, but there are a lot of ways to do it.’ The instrument is still in a stage of mystery and self-realization. So it’s really to get into your own personal experience of the thing. You’re dealing with big-ass strings and a spectrum of frequency that’s felt more than it’s heard. It looks like a guitar but it’s much different in a lot of ways—it’s more like a kick drum. That’s the closest note. There’s a kind of a stereotype and cliché about the persona."
-Mike Watt
Sounds Like: My fingers moving steel above magnets through copper and out of paper
Record Label: sure
Type of Label: None