Mike Martt

Career Martt joined the country-influenced punk band Tex & the Horseheads in 1983.

Martt joined The Gun Club as a guitarist in 1995. Because of the failing health and ultimate death of frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce, he only played in three shows. In the 1990s, Martt joined the Joe Wood-led T.S.O.L. Martt also formed The Low & Sweet Orchestra alongside Zander Schloss, James Fearnley of The Pogues, and actor Dermot Mulroney. Their 1996 album Goodbye to All That was considered by some critics to be the best album of the year. In 1998, the Los Angeles Times quoted Martt on his approach to songwriting. He stated that he was "always looking for a creative spark, whether it's going down to the docks at midnight or listening to a Van Morrison record."

Martt released his only solo album, Tomorrow Shines Bright, in 2003 through Superscope Records.

In 2009, Martt joined a reunited Thelonious Monster for dates on the Warped Tour. As late as 2019, Martt alongside bandmate Gregory Boaz performed Tex & the Horseheads material as "The Horseheads".

Martt died at the age of 67 in November 2023. He had been battling with undisclosed health problems. Martt has been named as a likely inductee to the hypothetical "Long Beach Rock and Roll Hall of Fame".

Discography Funeral - Funeral (1981, Azra Records) Funeral - Waiting For The Bomb Blast (1981, Peace Is Shit Records) Tex & the Horseheads – Tex & The Horseheads (1984, Enigma Records) Tex & the Horseheads – Life's So Cool (1985, Enigma Records) Thelonious Monster - Next Saturday Afternoon (1987, Relativity Records) Thelonious Monster - Stormy Weather (1989, Relativity Records) The Low & Sweet Orchestra - Goodbye To All That (1996, Interscope Records) Mike Martt – Tomorrow Shines Bright (2003, Superscope Records) Bob Forrest – Bob Forrest & Friends Live 2016 (2017, Greenway Records)