Raymond Pettibon designed the world’s greatest band logo, which also happens to be the world’s greatest tattoo, and he’s arguably the greatest designer of album covers who ever lived. He did a bunch of Black Flag’s albums, and Sonic Youth’s Goo, and the gatefold images for Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime and countless others. He has a mordant sense of humor that has never been matched in the field of visual arts and if he’s not a hero of yours you’re probably too young or too old for that.

Pettibon also dabbled in music back in the day, and that’s what concerns us here. In 1990 Furthur Records (nice Pranksters reference!) put out an album credited to “Raymond Pettibon with Super Session” called Torches and Standards that was tuneful and quasi-experimental in the Sonic Youth-y sense.

Super Session also put out an 7-inch in 1992 called “Rubbing Souls And Scratching Holes.” It should go without saying that the cover art for both of these releases is first-rate, because they’re Pettibon drawings.
 

This is (apparently) Super Session working on their first album in a generation
 
So why am I bringing this up to you now? On Wednesday bassist for the aforementioned Minutemen and widely acknowledged indie rock hero Mike Watt released this tweet:
 

sunday I got to witness https://t.co/WWU5zKHAR7 after twentyfive-something years - they're now making THE album! pic.twitter.com/UWCIcWqUkM

— mike watt (@wattfrompedro) August 17, 2016

 
As you can see, Watt included a picture of four older dudes in a practice space, taken recently—Pettibon is identifably on the left-hand side there. Watt also threw in a bit of Super Session promo art.

Watt also links to the intriguing video below, which features some footage of Super Session playing a live show in Long Beach in 1989 or 1990, as the band’s bassist Ray Ferrell confirms in a comment to the video. I believe the video was posted by Jack Brewer of Saccharine Trust, some of whose albums Watt produced. (It’s worth taking a look at the intro text for this video, take my word for it.) Anyway, the video is raw but undeniably compelling and Watt’s saying that “after twentyfive-something years—they’re now making THE album!” so something is going on.

Anyone with “furthur” info is encouraged to keep us up to date.
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
The Art of Punk: Watch great new doc on Black Flag and Raymond Pettibon’s iconic collaboration
Sonic Youth and Mike Watt vs Madonna