A Brief Tribute To "Ball-Hog Or Tugboat?" [I Saw A Black Flag Sticker On A Cadillac]

Ball-Hog Or Tugboat? was Mike Watt's first solo album, and when it came out in 1995, I had never heard of the Minutemen. But I bought it anyway because of "Against the '70s," which was about the '70s being bad (of which I was aware) and was sung by Eddie Vedder (of whom I was very, very aware). When I bought the tape (!), the insert was laid out like a wrestling poster, listing the personnel who played on every song, and while I was only aware of a handful of them (Henry Rollins, Dave Grohl), t...

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