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The Secondmen did three tours of the United States and Canada wherein they played early versions of some of the songs that were to be on the album, along with songs from Watt's back catalog and hand-picked cover versions rearranged for organ. Mazich's day job commitments forced him to tour as much
235:(who is also Watt's former brother-in-law) sub for Mazich during the last three weeks of the tour. By October 2003 Mazich decided to quit the day job in order to be able to concentrate on music while working as a freelance, "casual", longshoreman in between Watt tours. 276:; Paul Roessler played in his stead a second time. (Maintaining a sense of humor, Watt nicknamed the Roessler/Morales lineup "The Second-string Men".) The original lineup, however, did regroup to film a trilogy of three videos from 307:
on November 5, 2005. After the success of those gigs, the Secondmen were scheduled to play two more Los Angeles-area shows, including a December 3 opening slot with reunited punk legends and longtime heroes of Watt's, the
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as his earned vacation time (five weeks for the spring 2002 tour; seven weeks for the spring 2003 tour) would allow. For the remainder of the 2002 tour, guitarist
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festival, but the cancellation of the festival led to the band not touring behind the album until September of that year.
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in a San Pedro recording studio. The group initially intended to start promoting the album during the 2004
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In 2005, personal commitments similar to Trebotic's forced Mazich to sit out a European tour behind
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benefit album under the name Mike Watt & Masina in 1998, with Mazich's wife Ljil on vocals.
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At one point, neither Trebotic nor Mazich could join Watt so they were temporarily replaced by
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A regrouping of the original Secondmen lineup of Watt, Mazich and Trebotic played the
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took Mazich's place, and the Secondmen finished the tour as
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Index

The Secondmen
San Pedro, California
Punk rock
Columbia Records
Mike Watt
Pete Mazich
Jerry Trebotic
Raul Morales
Paul Roessler
Petra Haden
punk rock
Minutemen
Firehose
Mike Watt
The Secondman's Middle Stand
San Pedro
California
Pete Mazich
Jerry Trebotic
Madonna
Doctors Without Borders
Tom Watson
The Jom and Terry Show
Screamers
Twisted Roots
Paul Roessler
that dog.
Petra Haden
Lollapalooza
Raul Morales

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