Is Watt On Tour With The Stooges?

I have tickets to the Philly show and I was wondering if Watt's gonna be touring too. I know they just played SXSW together but they might just be a one-off thing.

Yeah, he is. He's played with them ever since 2003.

Apparently, if you check google news, some drunkyard critic says that Watt bass is "augmented with backing tape", as he did hear the bass still going while Watt had some amp trouble during the last gig as SXSW.

I say the critic was drunk, I saw the Stooges enough time close enough to see that they never use backing tapes unlike other acts. I even saw rehearsals. Could someone just fire this guy for spreading such blatant lies ?

That was the music guy from the Austin newspaper. I went to the show. That guy's screwed. I saw Watt having the problems with his amp and you could definitely tell there was no bass at all for a minute or so. The Stooges freakin' rocked!! Can't wait to see the CA shows.

Someone should fire the guy for spreading such blatant disinformation... he had obviously downed too much Lone Star

Such character requires old fashioned christian torture and cross hanging.
-Amen!

I just saw WAtt tues and he kicked serious ass!!!!

Yes he mimes well to the backing track. According to drunkyards hacks journalists in Austin that is.

Looks like the guy from the Austin paper is (sort of) retracting his Watt statement:

By Michael Corcoran | Sunday, March 25, 2007, 07:18 PM

Don’t call him Milli VanIggy.

During the Stooges SXSW set Saturday at Stubb’s, bassist Mike Watt’s amp blew up, and he appeared to stop playing as he talked to his tech. Meanwhile, the bass line to “Skull Rings” kept churning out of the speakers.

It sure seemed like the Stooges were using augmentation — maybe a tape loop — and my review said so.

But Stooges publicist Angelica Cob says that assessment was wrong.

“The Stooges have never used backing tracks and never will,” Cob says. “During ‘Skull Ring,’ the bass amp went out, but that didn’t affect the sound coming through the PA and the monitors.”

I saw what I saw — moments when both hands were off the bass — but who am I to dispute the greatest band to ever play SXSW?

Let me set the record straight: Stooges don’t fudge!

Mike's wearing a boiler suit...is Iggy into Clockwork Orange?

All he needs is the derby, and he's a Droog!

Michael Corcoron just ridiculed himself for life hahaha

IGGY WRITES LETTER TO AUSTIN NEWSPAPER REGARDING CORCORAN'S ARTICLE!!:


© 2007 Austin American Statesman. Provided by ProQuest
Information and Learning. All Rights Reserved.
Jay Janner AMERICAN-STATESMAN

Michael Corcoran's review of the Stooges' show at
Stubb's during South by Southwest suggested that the
band played to taped augmentation. Not so, says Iggy
Pop, above.

Loose with the facts, man

Re: March 19 concert review "Stooges let loose, put
raw power on display." This rebuttal of Michael
Corcoran's review is by a member of the Stooges:

Mike, dude, I would never, ever, ever play music to a
freakin' tape. For real. This just never happened and
never will happen.

What you probably heard is Ron Asheton's ability to
play that riff picking a mid-range motif while also
picking and sliding a bass line. This derives from
blues players like Fred McDowell, for example. You
definitely won't hear it on a Fall Out Boy record.

Have you ever heard a real guitar player? Playing
live? That's how they do. You also heard Steve Mackay
on sax backing Ron up. At the moment the bass went
out, I, too, was amazed at how good it sounded without
him.

I will happily slit my throat if you can find anyone
backstage at that gig who saw us (fooling) around with
a piece of (freakin') tape. We're the Stooges, and in
my world tape is not alright. It's fat, rich and
uncool.

Sorry about the guitar levels. This show was a
freebie, so we left our sound man at home.

IGGY POP

Hahaha fuck yeah, Iggy!

Michael Corcoran is now officially the greatest Austin Idiot of the century. hahaha

F him to Hell!