Meat Puppets has influenced a number of rock bands including Nirvana, Soundgarden, Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh and Pavement. The band broke up twice, in 19, but reunited again in 2006. The band's 1994 album Too High to Die subsequently became their most successful release. Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but like most of their labelmates on SST Records, they established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock, and featuring Curt's warbling vocals. The three then moved to Tempe, Arizona (a Phoenix suburb and home to Arizona State University) where the Kirkwood brothers purchased two adjacent homes, one of which had a shed in the back where they regularly practiced. The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood (guitar/vocals), his brother Cris Kirkwood (bass guitar), and Derrick Bostrom (drums). The Meats are name-checked in a Christian anti-rock music article that aims to help its readers 'understand the true nature of rock music and resist the allurement of the music of Babylon.' Priceless.Meat Puppets is an American rock band formed in January 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona. Bizarre.)ĭamned if I know what this says: It's in Greek. Live Shot: Curt Kirkwood, September 14, 2001Īdding meat (puppets) to Jacobsen's daily swing (This article has little to do with the band, but uses the Meat Puppets to judge the hipness factor of a golfer. The Meat Puppets Dodge Death: Now Toronto, February 9, 2001 The Straight Dope: Campus Circle Feb/March 2001 No Meat-Again! Toronto Sun, February 8, 2001 The Meat Puppets Rage On: Providence Phoenix, February 2001 Meet the New Meat Puppets: Washington Post, February 2, 2001 Meat Of the Matter: Spectator Online, January 24, 2001 Give us our Meat Puppets: Tallahassee Democrat, January 19, 2001 Meat Puppets: Guitar Player December 2000Ĭollege Music: Meat Puppets ( featuring an hour-long stream of the August 2000 Mercury Lounge, NY live show) Live Video Interview, October 16, 2000īrief interview (pre St. Rolling Stone's Random Notes: Curt's Art Show Spin October 2000: Behind the Meat PuppetsĬ: Choice Cuts With A Meat Puppet

Warner label bio for Golden Lies and the Meats 2.0 : Meat Puppets Defend Hootie Label Alliance For 'Golden Lies' Phoenix New Times 2000: Master of Puppets Phoenix New Times 1999: Lake of Fire by David Holthouse The Truth Will Set You Free: The Story Behind 'Shooting Star', 1999 Goldmine 1995 ( The longest article ever written, period, I would venture.)Ĭurt Kirkwood's Greatest Hits (quotes compiled by Bostrom) Phoenix New Times 1994: Curt Interviewed by David Gilstrap They're not doing any hits, and they're inviting guests who don't have any hits to come play. Guitar Player July 1987, ('Speaking Puppet' side article)īehind the scenes at Nirvana Unplugged: 'Oh, great. If the following articles are not enough, I did leave a few out of my transcription process that can be found by looking on other Puppets sites in the Links section. Why do this? Because websites go down every day, and I know that whatever I have on my site will stay there. You may notice that many of these articles were once exterior links, and now all but the most recent have been locally stored on this site. The following are articles I have culled from everywhere, from old stacks of articles in my room to up-to-date websites. And of course, this sensibility leaks itself into any interview they've dneo, many of which also shed light on the bands' interesting lives. The bands' 'satire of the cosmos' is both out-there enough to avoid becoming stale, and metaphoric and meaningful enough to remain worth prying into. The Meat Puppets not only are top-notch musicians, but have a smart sense of irony and enjoy language, going off on long tangents. While music is of course the top attraction to any band, I also am drawn to a band's stories and enjoy a peek into the members' minds. Paradise: Land of the Meat Puppets Articles

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