BALL-HOG OR TUGBOAT? - the title makes reference to both basketball and the ocean breeze of the harbor at San Pedro, the place Mike Watt will always call home. Songwriter, wielder of the "Thunderbroom," vocalist, arranger, "spieler," dadaist, thrasher, Madonna-influenced-punk-rock-psycho-jazz-maker is Mike Watt. To many, Watt is the biggest wrench in the music industry today; he's the alternative to all alternatives, and he crept into the general public's awareness quietly, gradually, in an almost sinister way, to the point of unspoken, behind-the-scenes ambiguity.