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Mike Watt

Mike Watt

Acting

Biography

Michael David "Mike" Watt is an American bassist, singer and songwriter. He is best known for co-founding the rock bands Minutemen, Dos, and Firehose; as of 2003, he is also the bassist for the reunited Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen projects.

Known For

The Colbert Report
6.9

The Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program. It stars political humorist Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that comments on politics and the media in a similar way. The show focuses on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character, described by Colbert as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot", is a caricature of televised political pundits.

The Colbert Report

2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.4

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
7.8

A cartoon superhero interacts with live guests via his television set in this parody talk show based on 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost.

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

1994
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A.
5.6

In six live installments, John Mulaney explores Los Angeles during a week when pretty much every funny person is in town.

John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A.

2024
Party Legends
7.5

Notable and notorious personalities share their most candid party stories with help from emerging artists and animators.

Party Legends

2016
Coachella
6.5

Filmmaker Drew Thomas brings California's popular Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to the screen with a different kind of musical documentary that not only showcases performances by some of the hottest acts to take the stage, but offers interviews with such musical icons as Beck, Joshua Homme, Mos Def, and Perry Farrell as well. From English icon Morrissey's performance at the inaugural Coachella Festival back in 1999 to Canadian indie rockers the Arcade Fire's electric 2005 set, the musical acts featured here run the gamut from hip-hop to alternative and virtually everything in between. Other artists featured include the Pixies, the Flaming Lips, Kool Keith, Radiohead, Saul Williams, and Squarepusher.

Coachella

2006
Gimme Danger
6.9

No other band in rock'n'roll history has rivaled The Stooges' combination of heavy primal throb, spiked psychedelia, blues-a-billy grind, complete with succinct angst-ridden lyrics, and a snarling, preening leopard of a frontman who somehow embodies Nijinsky, Bruce Lee, Harpo Marx, and Arthur Rimbaud all rolled into one. There is no precedent for The Stooges, while those inspired by them are now legion. The film will present the context of their emergence musically, culturally, politically, historically, and relate their adventures and misadventures while charting their inspirations and the reasons behind their initial commercial challenges, as well as their long-lasting legacy.

Gimme Danger

2016
Squirt TV
N/A

Squirt TV was originally a public-access cable show created and hosted by New York City teenager Jake Fogelnest, who was 14 when the show began. The show was later picked up by MTV. The show was filmed in Fogelnest's bedroom, and both the public access and MTV versions featured guests, including Kevin Smith, The Wesley Willis Fiasco, Cypress Hill, Liz Phair, Cibo Matto with Sean Lennon, and Noise Addict.

Squirt TV

1994
Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind
N/A

Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind visually documents the explosion of Grunge, the Seattle Sound, within the context of the underground punk subculture that was developing throughout the U.S. in the late 1970s and 1980s. This decade-and-a-half musical journey will be represented entirely through the lens of EMP’s oral history and permanent object collection, an invaluable and rich cultural archive of over 800 interviews and 140,000 objects - instruments, costumes, posters, records and other ephemera dedicated to the pursuit of rock n roll.

Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind

2011
A Tribute To Ron Asheton
N/A

Live performance by Iggy and the Stooges in tribute to their former guitarist Ron Asheton. Recorded at the Michigan Theater in 2011, the band plays a selection of songs from throughout their career including 'Search and Destroy', 'Gimme Danger', 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' and 'No Fun'.

A Tribute To Ron Asheton

2013
Hollywood Rex
N/A

Rex is the bassist of Moxie Pad, a band on the brink of success. Entangled in a toxic "situationship" with manager Cal, Rex embarks on a transformative walk from Hollywood to Los Feliz after the band accidentally leaves her behind.

Hollywood Rex

2024
The Dicks from Texas
N/A

A punk band from Texas whose music and persona was extreme and political and the supporters who've followed and loved them for over 35 years.

The Dicks from Texas

2014
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5.5

This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), Jim Thirwell (Foetus), Lydia Lunch, Mike Watt (Minutemen), Richard Kern (Filmmaker), Ron Ashet

D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

2002
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
6.7

A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginnings in San Pedro, California, to their demise after the death of singer D. Boon in 1985.

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

2005
Desolation Center
9.3

The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that are now recognized as the inspiration for Burning Man, Lollapalooza, and Coachella. Interviews and rare performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Redd Kross, Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, Savage Republic, Swans and more.

Desolation Center

2018
The Life of Sean DeLear
N/A

The Life of Sean DeLear is a vibrantly multi-faceted, buoyantly propulsive documentary portrait of this irresistibly charismatic one-off — sketched in celebratory but commendably clear-eyed style by writer-director Markus Zizenbacher. There can be very few people better qualified to do justice to this particular tale. Zizenbacher befriended DeLear — born Anthony Robertson in Simi Valley, an obscure California backwater — after the latter relocated to Vienna in the early 2010s.

The Life of Sean DeLear

2024
What Drives Us
6.8

The stories of some of the biggest artists in music, recalling the romance and adventure, as well as the idiocy and chaos, of their time on the road. While the world has changed, the custom has not changed. There is no other way to know whether you can make it in this business. You have to get in the van.

What Drives Us

2021
Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All
8.0

Long before Green Day and Blink 182 inflicted punk-rock's puncture wound on the map of mainstream music, the Descendents were at home concocting the perfect mix of pop, angst, love, and coffee. FILMAGE: The Story of DESCENDENTS/ALL follows drummer/square-peg Bill Stevenson and his 'caffeinated retardedness' as he pushes his rotating door of bandmates to 'achieve ALL,' his philosophy of going for greatness at all costs. Stevenson is a force to be reckoned with--not even grapefruit-sized brain tumors can keep him down.

Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All

2013
Rising Low
7.3

Based on the life and death of Gov't Mule bassist Allen Woody, and the making of a double-disc tribute album (Gov't Mule's The Deep End , Volumes 1 & 2) featuring a host of legendary bass players. Throughout the film, director Mike Gordon (of Phish, who also plays on the album) interviews Woody's family and bandmates and also discusses the philosophy and technique of bass playing with a number of the instrument's legends, including Chris Squire, Les Claypool, John Entwistle, Flea, Bootsy Collins, Mike Watt, Roger Glover and others.

Rising Low

2002
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
6.3

Cassette inventor Lou Ottens digs through his past to figure out why the audiotape won't die. Rock veterans join a legion of young bands releasing music on tape to push Lou along on his journey to remember.

Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

2016