The Missingmen are an American punk rock trio fronted by Minutemen/Firehose/Stooges bassist Mike Watt.
The band features Watt, guitarist Tom Watson (Slovenly, The Pair Of Pliers, The Jom And Terry Show, Red Krayola), and drummer Raul Morales (FYP, Killer Dreamer, The Leeches, Mike Watt and the Secondmen).
The band's name is a humorous reference to the fact that during a 2005 European tour behind Watt's album The Secondman's Middle Stand, neither of the original Secondmen (Pete Mazich and Jerry Trebotic) participated.
According to Watt's interviews with Guitar World[3] and Bass Player,[4] the album would feature short songs inspired by the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch.
On a 2009 tour with Dinosaur Jr, Watson and Morales performed without Watt under the moniker lou barlow + the missingmen.