# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-watt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:12:04.815Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-watt"
name: "Mike Watt"
slug: "mike-watt"
description: "Michael David Watt is an American bassist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded and played bass guitar for the rock bands Minutemen (1980–1985), Dos (1985–present), and Firehose (1986–1994). He began a solo career with the 1995 album Ball-Hog or Tugboat? and has since released three additional solo albums, most recently in 2010 with Hyphenated-man. He is also the frontman for the supergroup Big Walnuts Yonder (2008–present), a member of the art rock group Banyan (1997–present) and is involved with several other musical projects. From 2003 until 2013, he was the bass guitarist for The Stooges."
tagline: "American musician (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Watt_(8537963951).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1957-12-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 167
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump