"Corona" by the Minutemen

• Ambrosia: Well-known classic rock band with top 40 hits including "You're the Biggest Part of Me" and "(That’s) How Much I Feel".
• Juan Covarrubias, Created Purple Haze Productions has over 20 Bone Thugs, 2pac, and Eazy-E, (unofficial) Videos
• John Bettis: Lyricist for many big artists including: Michael Jackson, Madonna, The Carpenters, Whitney Houston and others. He has won an Emmy award and has been nominated for an Oscar for his work on the Godfather III theme song.
• Minutemen: the band members for the influential and eclectic punk rock band grew up in San Pedro and the band was formed there. Bassist/songwriter Mike Watt still lives in San Pedro and is an active participant in its music scene. Drummer GeorgeHurley still lives in San Pedro, as well.
• Jerry Trebotic is an American drummer, best known for his longtime association with veteran punk bassist/songwriter Mike Watt, with whom he has toured in the project bands The Jom and Terry Show and The Secondmen. As part of the Secondmen, he played on Watt's third solo album, 2004's The Secondman's Middle Stand.
• Krist Novoselic, the bassist of Nirvana, grew up in San Pedro before moving to Aberdeen, Washington.
• Jack Anthony, singer/songwriter and lead singer of the Jack Anthony band, was born and raised in San Pedro and has released several punk/rock/pop albums and one EP which contains a song entitled "Averill Park", named after a local San Pedro park. In 2006 MTV filmed a reality show called "Garage Band Makeover" with the band.
• Art Pepper, Jazz saxophonist, was born and raised there.
• Brenton Wood, singer and songwriter, his biggest hit "Gimme Little Sign" reached #9 on the pop charts in 1967.
• Eric Erlandson, co-founder of and lead guitarist for 90's rock/grunge band Hole. A 1981 graduate of San Pedro High School, he also attended Holy Trinity Catholic School, Dana Junior High School and Los Angeles Harbor College. From '83-'86 he was lead guitarist for 'Crystal Image' which became 'Cinema 6' (originally 'Cinema' but conflicted with a partially reformed YES that was to use the name 'Cinema'). The lineup included Paul Leveque on keyboards & synthesizers (San Pedro), Lance Ulrich on bass (San Pedro), Steve Jerand on drums (Torrance) and Michael Paul Morgan (Redondo Beach) on lead vocals, also writing all lyrics. It was a very innovative all original progressive rock band, all over Hollywood and LA, with prime-time radio airplay on KLOS after winning the 'Battle of the Bands' at Bill Gazzari's in Hollywood. The first club gig was Dancing Waters, the last gig was 'The Country Club' in Reseda (BIG!). The band rehearsed in Erlandson's garage just down the street from the cemetery on Western before moving into the upstairs of Ulrich's father's liquor store on Avalon in Carson.    

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• Matt Chamberlain, was with Edie Brickell & New Bohemians where he toured and recorded with them from 1988 until 1991. In 1991 he briefly joined the band Pearl Jam and toured with them before the release of their début album Ten. He can be seen in the band's first video, "Alive". Other notable work includes his contribution to the tours and albums of Tori Amos, Morrissey, Fiona Apple, Christina Aguilera, Critters Buggin, Dido, Sean Lennon, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Robert Fripp, Jon Brion, David Torn, Indigo Girls, Weapon of Choice, Stone Gossard, Tim and Neil Finn, David Bowie, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, The Wallflowers, Natalie Merchant, Bill Frisell, the Saturday Night Live Band, Robbie Williams, Kanye West, Garbage, Anika Moa, Shakira, John Mayer, Brad Mehldau, Liz Phair, Chris Isaak, Dave Navarro, Kevin Max, Sam Phillips and William Shatner.
•  B.Keith Logan aka "Mr. Kool Bizzo" at a very young age always knew that poetry and performing was something that he wanted to do. In his grade school years while attending schools like Barton Hill Elementary in the early 70's when he wrote his 1st poem, a poem to his Mom, to his 1st chance to sing and make background noises on a song called 'Thats the way the World should Be' recorded at Capitol Records, to performing in San Pedro Christmas Parades with Dana Jr. High in the mid-70's with his street dancing group "The Knicker-Bocker Lockers" to the late 70's and early 80's with the same group but called by the new name of "Dr. Jones and the Electric Clones" where his moniker was "Sir Boogaloo Slid" back when Electric Boogaloo was popular. Performing in a number of talent shows to playing an instrument in a live Church band ( The Bass ), with "Bethany Christian Fellowship".
  He took a few years off from performing to structure his life, but never stopped writing poetry.
  In the late 80's he started performing Rap to music, seeing that it was becoming so popular he began to pursue Hip Hop as a way of life. He met with his partner and very close friend Lance Carter in 88' to form the rap group "FULL SCOPE POSSE". "Bizzo" as he is known to his close friends remembers; 'When I 1st met Lance he had a very deep voice' and I just thought " Man, he ought to do something with that" I approached him about rap, which he never did before but was crazy about it'. So, he made a proposal that he would write if Lance would recite, the two agreed and made and signed a personal contract between each other which became the foundation for the Rap group. Soon afterward came the 1st of 3 annual performances in the Rancho San Pedro Housing projects 'A Gala Affair to Stop Drugs, Gangs and Violence' to launch and announce the crew to the community. "'In this show we had a local celebrity by the name of 'Chuckii Booker' come and support'' who was also someone he grew up with. Then It was off to doing shows in every possible crime riddled community like in Watts, Compton, Gardena, Torrance and even Venice, California as well as other functions being held in San Pedro like " Save Old San Pedro" and "San Pedro Street fairs" and "Concerts in the Park" at Point Ferman, onto cable public access channels like 'The Gig' and "Toys for Tots" performing songs like "Learn to Stay in School" "Get an Education" and "Just Wait", also performing for radio station KJLH 102.3 and Rory Kaufman for the Metro rail station openings at Compton and Willowbrook, Manchester, Florence and Gage. All of these songs were geared towards the children of elementary age, seeing that he and Lance both had daughters the same age (5). "We felt like we were on a mission to save the kids before gangs and drugs took hold of their lives" he says. In 1992, after a L.A. County tour, Bizzo' was approached by members of a musical band named "Alter Ego" to assist in some of their shows, because their lead vocalist and music producer had gotten injured in a freak accident. Magic was born in a form of music no one was using at the time. Live music with Rap. No samples, no D J's, just live instruments like guitars, Keyboards, Drums and Horns. After making a name for themselves locally, other rap groups showed interest and wanted to form something special in which " The D.C Clique " was born. A combination of 3 rap acts, a live band and a singing vocalist posing as 1 group, with the members being B. Keith Logan, Lance Carter, Monet Williams, Abe Ervin, Marvin Alexander III, Rod Williams, Kevin Marfizo, James O'Leary, Dario Ramirez,Tim Pace on Percussions & Tony Sam. The D.C Clique performed the last of the 3 shows for the gala affairs, an all day affair in Rancho park. Then it was off to other cities like Hanford, Visalia, Merced, Cohcoran, San Diego, San Francisco, Long Beach and Compton for the L.A. Watts Summer Games of 93' and 94'. Not long after the group disbanded and went they're on way.
  Bizzo' now resides in Hurst Texas with his wife of 15 years and 3 sons. Still playing his bass for a Church ( St. John Missionary Baptist Church ) as well as writing poetry which is featured on Poetry.com under Brian K. Logan, while acting as a booking agent and A&R for and Indie label called Knowledge Born Productions. You can find all of this and more @ www.myspace.com/fullscopeent or www.myspace.com/fullscopemng
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• Mike Watt:
• Michael David Watt (born December 20, 1957 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an     American bass guitarist, singer and songwriter.
• He is best-known for co-founding the rock bands The Minutemen and fIREHOSE; as of 2003, he is also the bassist for the reunited Iggy Pop & The Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen projects.
• Though Watt has not had much mainstream success or visibility, he is often cited as a key figure in the development of American alternative rock: the Red Hot Chili Peppers dedicated their hugely successful Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) to him.
• Biography
•  Early career
• When he was young, Watt's family moved to San Pedro, California, where he became good friends with D. Boon. Watt and Boon picked up bass and guitar, respectively. Watt was a fan of T. Rex and Blue Öyster Cult, while Boon's exposure to rock music was limited to Creedence Clearwater Revival, another Watt favorite.
• Watt and Boon were initially rather ignorant of music; they didn't know bass guitars were different from guitars, and Watt simply removed two strings from a guitar to emulate a bass. When he acquired a bass guitar, he lamented that the instrument was rarely prominent in rock music, but has cited John Entwistle, Jack Bruce, James Jamerson, Geezer Butler, Richard Hell, Larry Graham, Bootsy Collins, Joe Bouchard, Dennis Dunaway, and Gene Simmons as influences. When he first saw a real bass at 15, he commented that it looked liked a guitar with bridge cables.[1]
• Years later, Watt would say that the lack of role models left him free to develop his own approach to playing bass guitar.
• The Minutemen
• Main article: Minutemen (band)
• By the mid-1970s, Watt and Boon formed a band called The Reactionaries with drummer George Hurley and vocalist Martin Tamburovich. The band later became The Minutemen with another drummer named Frank Tonche, who only lasted two shows with the group; Hurley, who had been in a short-lived new wave group at the time the Minutemen first formed, rejoined Watt and Boon. After signing with SST Records in 1980, The Minutemen began touring constantly, releasing a number of albums along the way. Their music was based on the speed, brevity and intensity of punk, but included elements of jazz, folk, and funk.
• In 1984, Watt met Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler during a Black Flag/Minutemen tour. They soon became romantically involved, and subsequently began collaborating on songs, including material on the Minutemen's final album 3-Way Tie (For Last). They also formed a two-bass duo, Dos, and have since recorded and released three records.
• The Minutemen ended tragically on December 22, 1985, when Boon was killed in an automobile accident while driving to Arizona with a girlfriend. Their fifth full-length album, 3-Way Tie (For Last) had already been scheduled for release at the time of the accident. In the documentary film We Jam Econo, Watt mentioned that the last time he saw Boon, he had received lyrics for 10 songs from critic and songwriter Richard Meltzer for a planned collaboration with the Minutemen. The Minutemen were also planning to record a triple album with the working title 3 Dudes, 6 Sides, 3 Studio, 3 Live as way to counteract bootleggers. [2]
• ·    fIREHOSE
• Main article: fIREHOSE
• After Boon's death, Watt was profoundly depressed; he and Hurley initially intended to quit music altogether. Sonic Youth invited Watt to hang out with them in New York in 1986; they recorded a cover of Madonna's "Burnin' Up" (with additional guitars by Greg Ginn) on the first Ciccone Youth EP, and Watt played bass for two songs on the Sonic Youth album EVOL.
• Subsequently, one Ed Crawford, a Minutemen fan who drove to San Pedro from Ohio, persuaded the Watt/Hurley rhythm section to continue playing music. fIREHOSE was formed soon after. After three releases on SST, fIREHOSE signed with Columbia Records. Shortly after the release of 1993's Mr. Machinery Operator, the band decided to call it quits.
• Watt and Kira married in 1987, but their marriage fell apart not long after fIREHOSE's break-up. However, both their friendship and Dos have remained intact; they even recorded their third album, Justamente Tres, not long after their divorce.
• Solo career
• Main article: Ball-Hog or Tugboat?
• Main article: Contemplating The Engine Room
• After working with fIREHOSE, Watt began a solo career. His first album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat?, featured appearances from dozens of musicians (many were Watt's peers from the 1980s SST era), including Henry Rollins, Eddie Vedder, J Mascis, members of Sonic Youth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Frank Black, Nirvana, Soul Asylum, Jane's Addiction, the Beastie Boys, Evan Dando, and the Screaming Trees. The album and its supporting tour were Watt's first taste of mainstream fame, when Eddie Vedder and Dave Grohl of Nirvana were part of his touring group. After Vedder returned to his Pearl Jam commitments and Grohl began working with his new band Foo Fighters, Watt formed his only four-piece touring group to date, The Crew Of The Flying Saucer, featuring guitarist Nels Cline and two drummers.
• In 1996, Watt contributed bass lines to two songs on Porno for Pyros' second album, Good God's Urge. He subsequently ended up being the bassist for the tour that followed the release of the album, sparking a friendship with lead singer Perry Farrell in the process. (The band's drummer, Stephen Perkins, had already worked with and befriended Watt during the Ball-Hog Or Tugboat? sessions.) In November of that year, he created and established his own official homepage, Mike Watt's Hoot Page, initially using his personal Internet Service Provider's free web space until bandwidth demands spurred him to move the site to its own domain name and server.
• In 1997, Watt released Contemplating the Engine Room, a punk rock song cycle using naval life as an extended metaphor for both Watt's family history (the album has a picture of his father in his Navy uniform on the cover) and the Minutemen. The album, which was critically well received, features a trio of musicians including Nels Cline on guitar, and Watt as the only singer.
• Watt went on to play in such groups as Banyan (with Stephen Perkins and Nels Cline) and Hellride, a sometime live outfit that plays cover versions of Stooges songs. He also played in The Wylde Rattz with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and The Stooges' Ron Asheton, recording a song for the film Velvet Goldmine.
• Illness, recovery and The Stooges
• In January 2000, Watt fell ill with an infection of his perineum, forcing him into emergency surgery and nine weeks of bedrest in his San Pedro apartment. Initially unable to play his bass, he rebuilt his strength with intense woodshedding and practice as well as live club gigs where he performed sets of Stooges covers with Hellride in California and with J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr. drummer Murph in New York under the name Hellride East.
• In 2000, Mascis asked Watt to participate in a world tour behind Mascis' first post-Dinosaur Jr. release, J Mascis and the Fog's More Light. At several of the shows, Asheton joined Mascis and Watt onstage, wherein the group would play entire sets of Stooges songs. Watt and Mascis later joined Asheton and his brother, Stooges drummer Scott Asheton, for a one-time-only performance at a Belgian festival under the name Asheton, Asheton, Mascis & Watt. In 2001, Watt was one of several bassists invited to participate in the sessions for Gov't Mule's The Deep End, partly on the recommendation of Primus' Les Claypool. Watt and Gov't Mule recorded a cover version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Effigy" for the album. The sessions were immortalized in the documentary feature film Rising Low.
• In 2002 Watt, along with Pete Yorn and members of The Hives, backed Iggy Pop for a short set of Stooges songs at that year's Shortlist Music Prize ceremony. The performance, along with Watt's past performance history with the Asheton brothers and a successful recording session for Pop's Skull Ring album, led to Watt's being enlisted to fill the bass slot in the reunited Stooges lineup in 2003. The reunited Stooges played their first show in almost 20 years at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in May 2003. In 2002, Watt was invited by pop-punk band Good Charlotte to make a cameo appearance in their music video for "Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous". He portrays a jury foreman in the video and even has a short speaking part.
• In 2003 Watt's first book, Spiels Of A Minuteman, was released by the Quebec, Canada book publisher L'Oie De Cravan. The book, printed in both English and French, contains all of Watt's song lyrics from the Minutemen era as well as the tour journal he wrote during the Minutemen's only European tour with Black Flag, essays by former SST co-owner Joe Carducci, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, and Blue Öyster Cult lyricist and longtime Watt hero Richard Meltzer, and illustrations by Raymond Pettibon that had been used in all of the Minutemen's album artwork.
• Also in 2003, Watt made his second music video appearance in as many years, appearing in the video for Cobra Verde's song "Riot Industry" (along with Rudy Ray Moore and George Wendt). Watt himself would describe his part in the video as such:
• “    I play an "Idle American" and end up doing a "Fred Sanford" when I can't get what I want on the television - I collapse to the deck with a heart attack!    ”
•  The Secondman's Middle Stand
• Main article: The Secondman's Middle Stand
• Watt's third solo album The Secondman's Middle Stand, inspired by both his 2000 illness and one of his favorite books, Dante's The Divine Comedy, was released in 2004; one reviewer writes that the album is a "harrowing, funny, and genuinely moving stuff from a true American original." [3]. For the first time since the Minutemen, Watt recorded the album with an "all-Pedro band", Mike Watt & The Secondmen, consisting of organist Pete Mazich and drummer Jerry Trebotic, along with former That Dog vocalist Petra Haden.
• While promoting and touring behind The Secondman's Middle Stand, Watt announced plans for his next two solo albums, stating that he intended to record as frequently as he did in the Minutemen days for as long as he could. The first album, which will be recorded with his new project band The Missingmen — guitarist Tom Watson and drummer Raul Morales — will contain 39 short songs, said by Watt to be inspired by the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch[4]. The second album will be similar in execution to Ball-Hog or Tugboat?, only with Watt recording with unknown and lesser-known musicians in various locales.
• Watt would part amicably with Columbia/Sony-BMG in 2005, after 14 years as both a solo artist and as one-third of fIREHOSE.
• [edit] The Unknown Instructors
• Main article: Unknown Instructors
• In 2005, another side project featuring Watt came to light with the announced September 20 release of The Way Things Work, an album of improvised music under the group name, the Unknown Instructors with George Hurley, Saccharine Trust's Joe Baiza and Jack Brewer, and poet/saxophonist Dan McGuire. A month after the album's release, the Unknown Instructors recorded a second album, The Master's Voice, with Pere Ubu frontman David Thomas and artist Raymond Pettibon joining the core quartet of Watt, Hurley, McGuire and Baiza.
• Watt would further his interest in improvised music by forming a trio, Los Pumpkinheads, with former Beastie Boys keyboardist Money Mark.
• On December 14, 2005, the McNally-Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota announced the formation of the Mike Watt Bass Guitar Scholarship, which is to be awarded annually to a bass major starting in the Fall of 2006.[5]
• In March 2006, Watt took part in the performance at Disney Hall, Los Angeles, of Glenn Branca's "Hallucination City" Symphony #13.
• The Weirdness
• Main article: The Weirdness
• In October 2006, Watt joined the rest of The Stooges at producer Steve Albini's Electrical Audio Studio in Chicago, Illinois to record The Weirdness, the first Stooges studio album since 1973's Raw Power. The album was released on March 6, 2007, and much of Watt's 2007 was devoted to Stooges duties, including the band's first full-length U.S. tour since the band's reformation.[6]
• Also in October 2006, Watt contributed a 'spiel' for Irish band ESTEL's latest album The bones of something....
• In November 2006, Watt revealed to Pitchfork Media that he contributed his bass skills to six tracks on My December, the third album by American Idol singer Kelly Clarkson, a studio assignment that he took at the invitation of his "old friend", producer/engineer David Kahne.[7]
• Watt also worked on two other projects during this time period: Funanori, a musical collaboration with Kaori Tsuchida, guitarist of The Go! Team, on shamisen [8] and other instruments, and Pelicanman (named after the closing track on The Secondman's Middle Stand) with Petra Haden.[9] The first three songs recorded by Watt and Tsuchida as Funanori were released on a split EP with Tokyo band LITE in the summer of 2007 by Transduction Records. Watt also contributed a cover of Blue Oyster Cult's "Burning For You", recorded with Haden, Nels Cline, Money Mark Nishita, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, to the all-star compilation album Guilt by Association, released in August by the independent label Engine Room Recordings.
• On June 9, 2007, Watt was the live narrator for the silent movie Brand on the Brain at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California.
• Watt is currently working on his first post-Columbia solo recordings, furthering his oft-stated desire to return to a more prolific release schedule than his association with Columbia allowed him. A new album with the Nels Cline/Bob Lee lineup of The Black Gang will be recorded in the first week of February 2008[10], and a new album with The Secondmen[11] as well as the long-delayed Missingmen album are also planned.
• The Watt From Pedro Show
• Main article: The Watt From Pedro Show
• When he is not on tour, Watt hosts a regular internet radio show, The Watt From Pedro Show, a continuation of a program Watt had first done on a low-power FM station in the late 1990s. The program became so popular with Watt's fans that the website's host temporarily forced the show offline on weekdays until a sponsor or other solution could be found. On January 10, 2006, The Watt From Pedro Show became available as a podcast.