How Sonic Youth Saved Mike Watt's Music Career

D Boon was thrown from the van and died instantly. In that December 1985 crash, Minutemen ceased to exist, it's remaining members giving up music entirely. Then came a call from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Mike Watt would join the band in the studio on bass, playing a cover of Madonna's "Burning Up" for their side project Ciccone Youth, "Bubblegum" (a b-side for the Star Power single), and EVOL track "In The Kingdom #19," a surreal ghostly track about a horrific car crash. It's the moment Mike Watt decided he could indeed play music without D Boon. #minutemen #sonicyouth #evol #starpower #mikewatt #thurstonmoore