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Mike Watt & The Black Gang, left to right: Joe Baiza, Mike Watt, and Stephen Hodges, September 1997. (c)1997 Collection of Mike Watt. Image courtesy of Mike Watt's Hoot Page

[edit] Fair use rationale in The Black Gang

1. The image is of a band of notable individuals in punk and alternative rock music.
2. The image is of a band that is currently inactive. It is not likely that a free alternative can be taken, given the busy schedules in recent years of Mike Watt with The Stooges and of Joe Baiza with Saccharine Trust.
3. Mike Watt, as the owner and subject of the photograph, has supported the use of photographs of himself and his bands on Wikipedia without objection in the past, and is wholly unlikely to object to the use of this image on Wikipedia.

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