(bright electronic tones) (driving drumming music) - MSSV, we like to be known as a post-genre power trio and a lot of times we show up, it says avant-rock, improv, disco, whatever people put, right?

But I like thinking about this as a post-genre power trio because we're three people with three equal parts, three equal voices in the band, and one thing I get from both of these guys and I've gotten for years before I'd even gotten to know them was the fact that you don't have to have these divisions in music, the best thing about music is when you don't have these dividing lines and you can mix everything and make something new and original out of it, so that's what this band is about musically, too.

(driving drum music) (slinky powerful bass) (discordant electric guitar) - This band is called MSSV, and it's made up of me, Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges, on drums and vocals and effects, and then Mike Watt on bass and vocals and no effects.

Me and Watt made a record called Wall of Flowers a few years ago with a drummer named Jim Keltner, and when the record came out, I wanted to tour around that record, and Jim, being an older gentleman, doesn't wanna travel anymore, which makes a lot of sense, but we still wanted to try to do something so I called Stephen and asked if he could play drums for us and we're so lucky that he agreed and we started playing music and decided to keep it going as a separate band called MSSV, which stands for main steam stop valve.

(thrashing guitar and buzzy bass) (funky drum, bass, and guitar groove) ♪ Two times two ♪ ♪ Is four times one ♪ ♪ I feel like I'm staring straight into the sun ♪ ♪ I can't tell but I might be dead ♪ ♪ Well, pretty sure it's all in my head ♪ ♪ What am I if I don't ever sin ♪ ♪ Don't wanna fight, 'cause I don't wanna win ♪ ♪ Often I question, often I see ♪ ♪ Often I wonder, often I be ♪ ♪ It's a human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ A human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ It's a human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ A human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ My friend gave me rules so I know what to do ♪ ♪ I said hey man, do you think I'm a fool ♪ ♪ Turns out he was right ♪ ♪ He sure knows his stuff ♪ ♪ Will I ever learn that less is enough ♪ ♪ It's just a human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ A human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ This is a human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ A human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ Three plus one is one plus three ♪ ♪ But who would want to buy the best version of me ♪ ♪ Look at the sky, look at the time ♪ ♪ Look at the scene, look in your mind ♪ ♪ Yeah I might be a fraud, I might be a fake ♪ ♪ If I never give and I always take ♪ ♪ I think about I, I think about me ♪ ♪ I think about you so I think that I'm free ♪ ♪ It's just a human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ A human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ It's just a human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ A human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ It's just a human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ A human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ It's just a human reaction ♪ ♪ Human reaction ♪ ♪ A human reaction ♪ (driving syncopated rock) (crowd cheering) - You can do more with the internet than just spread lies and hate.

You can collaborate, especially during the situation and it's like, musical lifeline.

This is very different for me in some situations, usually if I help other people, I play the music from the dead guy.

125 months of Stooges, but still, it was the dead guy's part Mike wrote me basslines and they're really fun to play.

So, if you're asking how, Internet.

If you're saying why, it's cause I needed it, and it's fun.

(slick dark rock) (driving fast-paced rock) (crowd cheering) (intense chaotic groovy rock) (crowd cheering and applauding) (Mike shredding guitar) (crowd cheering and applauding) - One, two, three, four!

♪ Pull hand, search node ♪ ♪ Thanks whole man, just show ♪ ♪ This monkey see, monkey do gotta go ♪ ♪ Whole hand deserves to know ♪ ♪ Words get useless, so whole man had to think ♪ ♪ With his face in hands, he sizzled ♪ ♪ Steamed the outside dead, inside, steam alive ♪ ♪ Eureka ♪ ♪ Eureka ♪ ♪ Hammer ♪ ♪ Pressure ♪ ♪ Eureka ♪ ♪ Whole man knew what he did ♪ ♪ But he didn't know how he did it ♪ ♪ Who blew the glass ♪ ♪ Who blew the glass ♪ ♪ Never ♪ ♪ Pressure ♪ ♪ Try to learn it ♪ ♪ Eureka ♪ ♪ Eureka ♪ (crowd cheering and applauding)