{"id":12161,"date":"2017-02-02T05:45:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T10:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12161"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:52:13","slug":"album-mini-review-mike-watt-ring-spiel-tour-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/02\/album-mini-review-mike-watt-ring-spiel-tour-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Mike Watt — “Ring Spiel” Tour ’95"},"content":{"rendered":"

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File next to: Meat Puppets<\/strong>, Mission of Burma<\/strong>, Sugar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gravelly-voiced bassist Watt first made his name as the bassist in The Minutemen<\/strong>, and after that group’s end in the wake of D. Boon<\/strong>‘s untimely death, with Firehose<\/strong>. Eventually he embarked on a solo career; his first solo tour \u2013 in support of 1995’s Ball-Hog or Tugboat?<\/i> \u2013 featured an unnamed all-star band backing him as he sang and played his thunderous bass lines. The archival release \u201cRing Spiel\u201d Tour ’95<\/em> documents a show from that tour. The band includes Eddie Vedder<\/strong> (Pearl Jam<\/strong>), Dave Grohl<\/strong> (Nirvana<\/strong>, Foo Fighters<\/strong>), Pat Smear<\/strong> (The Germs<\/strong>) and William Goldsmith<\/strong> (Sunny Day Real Estate<\/strong>). Despite that heavyweight backing, Ring Spiel<\/em> is completely Watt’s show. The set list \u2013 drawing mostly from Ball-Hog or Tugboat?<\/i> \u2013 feature Watt’s trebly-yet-roaring electric bass at the center of most of the songs. Left-field covers (Madonna<\/strong>, Blue \u00d6yster Cult<\/strong>) only add to the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File next to: Meat Puppets, Mission of Burma, Sugar Gravelly-voiced bassist Watt first made his name as the bassist in The Minutemen, and after that group’s end in the wake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,59,62,65,73],"tags":[2958],"class_list":["post-12161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-punk","category-rawk","category-review","category-vinyl","tag-mike-watt","cat-49-id","cat-59-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32112,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12161\/revisions\/32112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}