“If You Read, You’ll Judge” is the Talkhouse Music’s newest column in which musicians share pages from their journals. First up, Juliana Hatfield opens the vaults…
— Brenna Ehrlich, Talkhouse Music editor-in-chief
In late 1990, my band the Blake Babies set out on tour. We were young. I kept a diary. We were doing shows with Firehose, Mike Watt’s band at the time. These pages describe the scene one night, from my point of view, after we’d finished our opening set in Northampton, Massachusetts — plus what it was like to talk to Watt.
MEETING J MASCIS AFTER THE SHOW…
TALKING TO MIKE WATT…