The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

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.