D. Boon

We tried to get signed because again, The Minutemen that were touring with REM, they were going to get signed.

Actually, they were going to break up instead of getting signed if D. Boone hadn't died.

He had just died.

Husker Du is about ready to get signed.

So we...

I, I always felt like we had a, a hand in pulling Mike out of his, his doldrums of, of D- D. Boon's death.

You kinda kept a relationship with Pettibone.

Did you keep a relationship with, with Greg as well? And-

It's like, it was like a, it was like the, the punk club back then.

But yeah, like I never, I never saw Minutemen, you know, and, and D Boone, once D Boone died, that was, that was it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, in Minutemen and Firehose, it was what? Those other guys were great.

Dee Boon was

great, but...

I'm listening to what,

But that is a tremendous album as well.

And after the Minutemen broke up, sadly, after D. Boone's death, him and the drummer got together with another guitarist and formed Firehose.

And Firehose was around for quite some time, and they put out... excellent stuff too um but another one of these bass players that is just an absolute monster and just plays outside of the box and and and comes up with these bass lines that aren't just bass lines but compositions in in their in their own right um and and and that's that's usually what i uh what i like to base things off of if i if i see a player um If at any point in time they make me feel like I should just give up, then, you know, they're amazing.

Because right after that moment, they give me that inspiration to know this is why you need to get inspired to be better.

Yeah

... and, uh, D. Boon's voice.

And but then to take it and use it, it, it really became-

It's so-

Mike Watt's bass is the backbone of the whole project.

His melodic yet percussive lines turn the low end into a rhythm section that almost outplays the drums while still providing anchor for Boone's wild, often angular guitar phrases.

D. Boone was more than a guitarist.

He injected an off-color sensibility into every chord change, often employing two-note motifs that would feel like jazz or blues riffs if not twisted by punk energy.

And his vocal delivery is conversational, sometimes shouted, sometimes singing, adding layers of storytelling to each song.

He's a crazy-sounding guy.

His mind's all over the place.

But he's talking, obviously, about D. Boone and still affected at that point by sad death

in 1985.

He died in a van accident, didn't he, I think? Yeah, yeah.