James Worthy Played Bass And The Minutemen’s Mike Watt Has The Story To Prove It
Political Song For Michael Cooper To SingIllustration: Sam Woolley “Have you always been a basketball fan?” This is me, asking Mike Watt, one of my heroes, a pretty basic question. It is, if we’re being honest, a feeble softball, lobbed with all the force of an Andy Borowitz gag. This happened around noon, an hour earlier than we were supposed to begin our two-man Skype conclave. The bass player of the fucking Minutemen seems a bit irritated, suddenly. “What do you mean?” he asks, combing accusation with what seems like earnest perplexity, “Since I was born?” Mike Watt just womp-womp’d me....
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