{"id":3340,"date":"2011-07-19T22:04:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T02:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2011-07-18T09:49:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:49:45","slug":"portrait-night-719-the-minutemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 7\/19 (The Minutemen)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a “three-fer” for tonight’s #PortraitNight : D. Boone, George Hurley, and Mike Watt–better know as The Minutemen. You don’t see young wanna-be punks wandering around in Minutemen shirts, but as much as I love The Misfits, Black Flag, etc. I think The Minutemen were the best band of that era–and one of the best bands frankly of all time.<\/p>\n

I’ve been into The Minutemen for a long time, but until recently (I watched We Jam Econo<\/em> last year and I’m in the middle of Our Band Could be Your Life<\/em> right now) didn’t know a whole lot about them. I’m really struck by what a profound character Mike Watt is. He makes incredibly astute observations but expresses them in deceptively-simple folksy down-to-earth language. He reminds me a lot of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips in this respect.<\/p>\n

Anyway… The Minutemen:<\/p>\n

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It’s a “three-fer” for tonight’s #PortraitNight : D. Boone, George Hurley, and Mike Watt–better know as The Minutemen. You don’t see young wanna-be punks wandering around in Minutemen shirts, but as much as I love The Misfits, Black Flag, etc. I think The Minutemen were the best band of that era–and one of the best … <\/p>\n

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