After the release of “Meat Puppets II” in 1984 and “Up On The Sun” in 1985, the Meat Puppets found themselves transformed. No longer mere “local boys made good,” we became players on the national stage. As more people began to take us seriously, we began to take stock of what what the band meant [...]
This just in from Dave Markey: “Shot prior to the release of their breakthrough “Too High To Die” LP at the Ventura Theater, in beautiful Ventura California in 1993. Contains the super-rare Cris Kirkwood original “David Beware (Film The Trolls)” overture. They also jam out “Attacked By Monsters” & “Sam”. Edited in camera, Mannequins and [...]
I got another great bite the other day while trolling the web with my ego feeds. Amidst the endless social networking pages (“Now Playing: Backwater”), reviewer hype (“original drummer Derrick Bostrom declined to participate”) and right wing rants against so-called lapdogs of the “liberal media,” I found another effort by a generous fan. Once again, [...]
I still like to keep abreast of what’s being said about my old group. And if it floats my boat sufficiently, I’ll poach it for inclusion here. Case in point: I’ve long toyed with the idea of putting together a “lost album” of sorts, all the various promotional tracks and b-sides released during our Polygram [...]
This post is for all of you who kept your copy of the first album. I know there are a few of you out there for whom the apparent disparities between Meat Puppets records is no mystery, who were able parse the whole tapestry without feeling betrayal every time we released a new album. There [...]
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