{"id":3616918,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3616918/?format=json","airdate":"2026-02-13T09:14:49-08:00","show":65920,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65920/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Against the '70s","track_id":"132917ec-be1d-3ffb-98c8-cbde7d81878a","recording_id":"62abcd14-ebb2-4585-b423-76213af60c35","artist":"Mike Watt","artist_ids":["568203ae-c27b-4990-8997-09c0d5c0de77"],"album":"Ball-Hog or Tugboat?","release_id":"e57843d4-9a32-42ba-a9b6-a9d1cf5eda0f","release_group_id":"e373cfba-e7f8-357f-a56d-ee03ce56c229","labels":["Columbia"],"label_ids":["011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e"],"release_date":"1995-02-28","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"This song featured the familiar voice of Eddie Vedder on vocals.  That's Dave Grohl on drums. \n--\nThe Minutemen, Mike Watt's  hugely influential first band, dissolved after a fatal car crash took singer/guitarist D. Boon, and fIREHOSE, which Watt formed with Minutemen drummer George Hurley and Ohio-based guitarist Ed Crawford, called it quits in 1994, leaving Watt without a band for the first time since he was thirteen. At the same time, his marriage to Kira Roessler (herself a onetime bassist for Black Flag) was dissolving.\nSo he rallied a gang. including Frank Black, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Henry Rollins, J Mascis, Cris and Curt Kirkwood, Flea, Mike D, Ad Rock, Kathleen Hanna, Bernie Worrell, Dave Pirner, Evan Dando, Petra Haden, Nels Cline, and Mark Lanegan.\n\n  Learn more: https://floodmagazine.com/40879/premiere-in-1995-mike-watt-eddie-vedder-and-dave-grohl-advised-chicago-alt-rockers-to-take-cover-against-the-70s/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}