Comments on: SACCHARINE TRUST!!!!1!!!1

SACCHARINE TRUST!!!!1!!!1

snsranch — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:28:38 -0800

Flashback to some '80s punk scene shit.In true punk demeanor this is just an excuse to post some (mike watt) U-Tube.

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:41:54 -0800

Real punk was over with the 1970's. Everything after 1980 was just hangers on. ;)

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:41:40 -0800

jeez, mefi really is dead, that didn't even generate a rise, yet the ~~FarkFest~~ dullard contest lives on.

By: whir

whir — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:06:04 -0800

Oh, man. Saccharine Trust had a song on an SST compilation that I listened to over and over again in my younger, angrier days. I went to see them on tour a year or two ago at a little bar show and there were literally seven people in the room. It was kind of a sad moment. Thanks for the links, though, it's nice to see them in a more energetic context, and those Wire covers are amazing.

By: Zack_Replica

Zack_Replica — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:02:29 -0800

fIREHOSE are really good, and The Minutemen's 'Double Nickels on the Dime' got me through big chunks of the 80's. Thanks for the reminders, snsranch. rock out!

By: toddbass10

toddbass10 — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:43:29 -0800

I let Mike Watt play my Rickenbacker when his Tele Fender Bass quit working at a fIREHOSE show. Got to hang out with him and the band. Very cool dudes.

By: milquetoast

milquetoast — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:10:55 -0800

Mike Watt is the way things ought to be. Thanks for this.

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:59:57 -0800

It was awesome to see Watt on the front of Bass Player magazine the other month. Finally people are waking up to the fact that he is, as milquetoast puts it, the way things ought to be.

By: Razzle Bathbone

Razzle Bathbone — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:25:27 -0800

I saw Jack Brewer do a spoken word poetry thing that included his dog singing along in '89 or '90. Was one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen.

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:48:00 -0800

Watt = God That he isn't appearing in publicity photos for The Stooges new record/tour is bewildering. Iggy needs all the punk cred he can get...

By: macdara

macdara — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:14:23 -0800

Thanks for this! Saccharine Trust fucking rule. (And Watt too, of course -- I'm watching him rock out with The Stooges at Glastonbury right now). Here's my ST story: I e-mailed Jack Brewer out of the blue last year on the off-chance that he might spare me a copy of their long out-of-print album Surviving You, Always. And you know what? He sent me one! I still don't quite know what to say about that.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:44:37 -0800

Yea, Mike Watt is still a huge influence for me. It was either him or a mutual friend that told me, regarding bass playing, "Just play like you have a big dick." That was great advice.

By: pax digita

pax digita — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:11:03 -0800

"Play like you have a big dick" is one of those notions that applies a lot more broadly than just bass playing in a punk band, I should think.