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The Missingmen

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Years active
  
2006–present

Associated acts
  
Mike Watt, Lou Barlow

Members
  
Mike Watt, Raul Morales

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Website
  
Missingmen page on Mike Watt's Hoot Page

Origin
  
San Pedro, California, United States (2006)

Record labels
  
Clenchedwrench, Merge Records, Columbia Records

Similar
  
Mike Watt and the S, Firehose, Minutemen, Lou Barlow, Banyan

Mike watt the missingmen live at schlachthof wels austria 2015 05 27


The Missingmen are a punk rock trio fronted by Minutemen/Firehose/Stooges bassist Mike Watt. The band features Watt, guitarist Tom Watson (Slovenly, The Pair Of Pliers, The Jom And Terry Show, Red Krayola), and drummer Raul Morales (FYP, Killer Dreamer, The Leeches, The Secondmen).

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The band's name is a humorous reference to the fact that during a 2005 European tour behind Watt's album The Secondman's Middle Stand, neither of the original Secondmen (Pete Mazich and Jerry Trebotic) were able to participate.

The Missingmen began performing in the autumn of 2006, opening for M. Ward. Watt has stated his intention to record an album with the Missingmen since 2007, but no formal plans were made until 2009, when the group laid down the guitar and drum tracks for Hyphenated-man in New York during a planned break in an American tour by Watt. According to Watt interviews with Guitar World[1] and Bass Guitar Magazine[2], the album would feature short songs inspired by the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch. The album, first released in Japan in October 2010, is the first release on Watt's new independent record label Clenchedwrench.

On a 2009 tour with Dinosaur Jr, Watson and Morales performed without Watt under the moniker lou barlow + the missingmen. This lineup, fronted by Dinosaur Jr bassist and Sebadoh frontman Lou Barlow, performed material from Barlow's solo recordings.

Songs

Losercoresentridoh · 2010
on the faceFree Sentridoh: Songs from Loobiecore · 2001
gravitate / one machinesentridoh · 2010

References

The Missingmen Wikipedia