Dos - Uno Con Dos

Sat back today and indulged my son with a game of What's Gnu. I needed something simple in the background to soak up the silence and still not wake the napping girls. Digging through my discs I hit upon this. I hadn't listened to it in a loooong time. It was like coming across an old friend - one with whom you had never been close, but whose company you always enjoyed.

Slip into Mike and Kira's experiment. Sometimes it works and sometimes not so much, but it's pretty special.

amg:

Since Dos (which consists of bassists Mike Watt and Kira Roessler) didn't release its first two records — 1986's Dos and 1989's Numero Dos — on CD, the albums were combined for the Uno Con Dos CD in 1991. There are no other instruments besides the pair's basses and vocals, which gives the music a haunting yet intriguing and original sound. A few of the songs on Uno Con Dos were later reworked as fIREHOSE (Watt's band from 1986-1994) songs, such as "Number Four," "Number Two," and "Number One," while "Forever" is a stark cover of the Minutemen classic "One Reporter's Opinion" (off 1984's Double Nickels on the Dime). Watt and Kira also take turns singing a cover song each: Kira tackles Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain," while Watt covers his friends Sonic Youth on "PCH." Other interesting tracks include "Heartbeat" (which was later reworked on Watt's all-star 1994 solo album, Ball Hog or Tugboat?), "I Worry My Son," "The Rabbit and the Porcupine," "Slow Little Turtle," and "Number Three." Fans of Mike Watt's bassy banterings will love Uno Con Dos.

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And for all you fans, they still play gigs, most prominently a benefit every December in San Pedro. Watt tours with the Stooges, and Kira is now an Emmy winning sound editor having worked numerous films and television series, sometimes credited only as "Kira".