Mike Watt & The Missingmen

In the last five years, Mike Watt has contributed to more than fifty recording projects by dozens of bands and collectives. He's composed bass parts for an opera against nuclear war (Planet Chernobyl by Pelicanman on Org Music) and improvised behind poetry (Live in Fishtown by Mike Watt & Charles Plymell on Feeding Tube). He's helped build an ecologically conscious lo-fi pop record from scratch (Purple Pie Plow by SLW cc Watt on Kill Rock Stars) and performed parts written specifically for him in the post-genre power trio mssv (Main Steam Stop Valve and Human Reaction on BIG EGO Records).  He's recorded live in the studio with musicians in his hometown of San Pedro, CA (Lemonademakers by Lemonademakers) and crafted albums one player at a time via file sharing (Northwest of Hamuretto by Spirit of Hamlet on Broken Sound Tapes). He's had a proj made up solely of drums, bass,…