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THE RUSTY TOQUE
ISSUE 8


The Rusty Toque | Contents | Issue 8 | June 30, 2015
Masthead |Contributors

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Erica Eyres
Mr. S. Graphite on Paper, 11.5 x 17 inches.
2015

VISUAL ART

Lise Beaudry
Erica Eyres
Jean-Paul Kelly
Tricia Middleton
Jenna Faye Powell
Aaron Weldon

PROSE

NONFICTION

Special Feature - Memoir: Michael V. Smith
In the Public Domain: Paul Seesequasis

FICTION

Fiction: Jonathan Ball
Fiction: Alana I. Capria
Fiction: Matthew Heiti
Fiction: Stuart Ross

POETRY

Jordan Abel
Julie Bruck
Andrea Chan
Heather Derr-Smith
Lindsay Diane
Elyse Friedman
Kim Fu
E. Martin Nolan
Dave Margoshe
Lynn McClory
Kyeren Regehr
Nikki Reimer
Kate Sutherland
Sina Queyras
Phoebe Wang

REVIEWS

FICTION REVIEWS

NOVEL: A Review of Alisha Piercy's BUNNY AND SHARK By Samantha Nelson
GRAPHIC NOVEL: A Review of Jillian Tamaki's SUPERMUTANT MAGIC ACADEMY By Adèle Barclay

POETRY REVIEWS

POETRY: A Review of Amber McMillan's WE CAN'T EVER DO THIS AGAIN By Shazia Hafiz Ramji
POETRY: A Review of Marie Annharte Baker's INDIGENA AWRY By Nikki Reimer
POETRY: A Review of Sachiko Murakami's GET ME OUT OF HERE By Jacqueline Valencia
POETRY: A Review of Alex Leslie's THE THINGS I HEARD ABOUT YOU By Justin Lauzon

COMICS

Jesse Jacobs

RUSTY TALK

PictureMike Vass interviews Mike Watt
about his new book ON AND OFF BASS
History Lesson: An Interview with Mike Watt

Mike Watt played bass in Minutemen, and for that his place in musical history is assured. However, Watt is not a man to rest on his laurels. When he turned 57 in December of last year, he'd recently completed a 51-shows-in-51-days US tour with his band Il Sogno Del Marinaio (his two Italian bandmates are in their 30s). Earlier in 2014, he toured Europe with one of his other bands, Mike Watt + The Missingmen, and after a flurry of US shows at the beginning of this year he is now back in Europe with the Missingmen, this time touring his third “punk opera”, Hyphenated-Man. He’s released 5 albums in the last 4 years on his own clenchedwrench label. He hosts a radio show and podcast called “The Watt from Pedro Show”. He publishes extensive tour diaries on his website, a rich self-archive he calls hootpage. He also makes albums and tours the world with the Stooges, for whom he has played bass since Iggy Pop reformed the group in 2003. So if you wanted to call Mike Watt the hardest-working man in punk rock, there would much to back that up. It’s a title Watt himself, with his stubborn prole modesty, would probably take some pride in. However, to do the man justice you’d have to expand on the terms employed. 

Watt doesn’t just work the bass back and forth from stage to studio, he also works up and down, plumbing depths and scaling heights. While musicians reared on Minutemen are already embarking on reunion tours, Watt remains restless and forward-looking, constantly challenging himself with a range of new projects. All this to say that hard work, for Watt, doesn’t simply mean pounding the pavement and honing his craft—it also has something to do with artistic renewal and growth.

Then there’s the question of what is meant by punk rock. Minutemen were founded in 1980 by Watt and his childhood friend, guitarist D. Boon, in their hometown of San Pedro, California (drummer George Hurley completed the trio). While the band was among the pioneers of the West Coast punk scene, their distortion-free sound was never exactly what most people thought of as punk music. Minutemen’s brilliant run came to a sudden, tragic end in 1985 with D. Boon’s death in a car accident. Watt’s subsequent output in bands like fIREHOSE, Dos, and others has veered even farther from the strict genre of punk, but as Watt points out, for him and D. Boon punk was an idea more than a musical style; it was an ethos, a politic, a practical philosophy, a movement. Few bands put this idea to such inspired use as Minutemen, and fewer people have remained as fiercely, and productively, committed to it as Watt.  
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