Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.

In 1984 Watt met Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler during a Black Flag/Minutemen tour. Machinery Operator the band decided to call it quits. The album was released in Japan by Parabolic Records on October 6 2010 and Watt undertook his first tour of the country as a solo artist in support of it (before his work with Brother's Sister's Daughter he previously toured there as a sideman with J Mascis and as one-fifth of The Stooges).

Michael David "Mike" Watt (born December 20 1957) is an American bassist singer and songwriter. He is best known for co-founding the rock bands Minutemen Dos and Firehose; as of 2003[update] he is also the bassist for the reunited Stooges and a member of the art rock/jazz/punk/improv group Banyan as well as many other post-Minutemen projects.