Backstory of the Band
CAUTION: Essay Contains Self-Indulgent Digressions
Our band could be your life
Real names'd be proof
Me and Mike Watt, we played for years
Punk rock changed our lives.
—D. Boon, “History Lesson, Part II” by the Minutemen
HISTORY LESSON PART 1
Birmingham, Michigan, six miles north of Detroit, remains my ancestral hometown.
Founded in 1864, two months before a compara…