happy 50th b-day, mike watt

watt celebrates his 50th trip around the sun today. here he is playing funkadelic's "maggot brain" with banyan in 2005:



and here he is playing the stooges' "funhouse" with his missingmen this year:



couldn't find vid but there's an mp3 of him playing beefheart's "my head is my only house unless it rains" with his black gang in 1998 here.