mssv is Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges, Mike Watt. I honestly didn't know anything about the band other that Mike Watt was involved. My friend talked me into going to the show on a Sunday night and it was at the tiny Lion's Lair. Which I love and enjoy seeing shows at.
mssv is Mike Baggetta's band. He wrote all the music for this Main Steam Stop Valve project and enlisted Mike Watt and Stephen Hodges to play on it. Baggetta has a master of music degree from Rutgers in jazz studies. He's been active in that jazz, free jazz world since 2003.
Stephen Hodges is a very accomplished drummer. His resume includes being on 5 Tom Waits albums, David Lynch soundtracks, he as played with Wanda Jackson, Jonathan Richman, & John Hammond, among others.
And I would hope you know who Mike Watt is.
The set is mostly songs from the mssv album but they squeeze in a little Minutemen and Sun Ra in there too. The setlist showed "Poem Song" after "Wig Jig" but the crowd was a bit chatty and "Poem Song" is pretty quite. They played the louder song "Human Reaction" in it's place.
I ran the mics really high so the chatty crowd noise is pretty minimal. Enjoy.
Main Steam Stop Valve "mssv"
Lion's Lair
Denver CO (USA)
2022-04-17
Recorded and Presented: SxPxDxCx
Source: MBHO KA-200N > JK Labs DVC-V12 > M10
Transfer: M10 > USB > Audition > CDWave > FLAC
Time: (64:10.44)
01 The Mystery Of
02 Every Growing Thing
03 June 16th
04 Econo Waltz
05 Say What You Gotta Say
06 The Italian Seven Inch
07 Wig Jig
08 Human Reaction
09 If Anybody Else Could Help
10 Chartacourse
11 Old Crow
12 The Eureka Moment
13 Little Doll > Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt > Lonely Woman
