mssv's Mike Watt & Mike Baggetta [2024]

Published: Jan. 3, 2024, 7:45 p.m.

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The trio mssv is an underground supergroup. They\\u2019re not playing the local enormodome, but each musician has a storied career and the ability to leap musical conventions in a single bound, even while rocking like hell \\u2026 or playing compositions with sections that ricochet from Coltrane to Martian terrain.


The group sprung from guitarist Mike Baggetta\\u2019s dream of an ideal, omnivorous band\\u2014one that could navigate any kind of musical or sonic path, much as Baggetta has done himself, whether playing with other artists or solo. His first choice of bassist was Mike Watt, a legendary indie music figure who has been releasing daring rock and improv albums for decades, starting with the highly influential \\u201980s and \\u201990s outfits the Minutemen and fIREHOSE. And while mssv\\u2019s debut album, 2019\\u2019s Wall of Flowers, was recorded with the foundational rock drummer Jim Keltner, Keltner\\u2019s disinterest in touring caused Baggetta to seek a replacement in Stephen Hodges, one of the few sticks players who can match Keltner\\u2019s intention and a brilliant artist in his own right, with decades supporting Tom Waits, Mavis Staple, and other legends.


On the road behind their latest recording, Human Reaction (one of my picks for best albums of 2023), mssv stopped at the Blue Room in Nashville\\u2019s Third Man Records complex in late October, where their wily creativity ignited the place. But at soundcheck, Baggetta and Watt explained to the PG team exactly why they dig their rigs.


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0:00 - D\\u2019Addario: WYKYK

0:15 - Mike Baggetta playing intro

1:50 - Mike Baggetta\\u2019s Custom Koll Tornado w/ Guyatone Curtis Novak Goldfoils

8:36 - Strings - D\\u2019Addario XT 10-46

9:33 - Mike Baggetta\\u2019s Pedals

9:49 - Hold Tight Fuzz by Creepy Fingers

10:44 - EHX \\u201cRing Thing\\u201d side band modulator

13:16 - Wilson Effects \\u201cFreaker Wah\\u201d V2

15:09 - Benson Amps \\u201cVincent\\u201d

18:45 - Red Panda \\u201cTensor\\u201d

21:41 - EHX \\u201cDeluxe Memory Man\\u201d

23:20 - D\\u2019Addario XPND

24:34 - Reverend Guitars \\u201cWatt Plower Mk. II\\u201d Mike Watt Signature bass

32:18 - Mike Watt Pedals

32:47 - Broughton Hi Pass filter

33:14 - Earthquaker Devices \\u201cThe Warden\\u201d optical compressor

33:36 - Sushi Box FX \\u201cFinally\\u201d tube direct box

34:52 - Bergantino Fort\\xe9 Bass Amp

36:46 - Bergantino 2x12 Bass Cab

43:13 - D\\u2019Addario Glaser Instruments Vignette end roll


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