The Meat Puppets first discovered filmaker Dave Markey through his 1984 film “Desperate Teenage Lovedolls.”
It wasn’t until 1995 that we actually got to work with him. That’s when we pursuaded Polygram to hire Dave on to make the video for our “Scum” single. That was an ambitious little project: a decently-budgeted affair conceived by Curt and Dave during an inspired “breakout session.” It’s the only video in which we got to “act” as well as lip synch. It was also our last one, and probably the final project Cris, Curt and I all worked on together.
You can find the “Scum” video, as well as the one he did with Curt for Eyes Adrift’s “Alaska,” on Dave’s We Got Power site. You’ll also find the entire original soundtrack for “Lovedolls Superstar” up there, as well as a whole slew of content not even remotely connected to the Meat Puppets (what’s up with that??).
Here’s the “Lovedolls Superstar” soundtrack
Coincidentally, just as I was preparing this post I got email from Dave. It turns out his new edition of “Lovedoll Superstars” is being released March 2006. He’s given the film a proper digital transfer, as well as a cleaned-up soundtrack and some fresh edits. Like a lot of music-heavy film projects from the past, not all the licensees signed on. Our “No Values” track, baggaged with moribund ties to the SST empire, was one of those that did not make the cut. But Dave was gracious enough to substitute another nugget of ours, “Teenager(s),” which can also be found on the reissue of “Meat Puppets II.”
ha! the ‘Scum’ video is great, never knew it existed!
Left by S Harrington on March 7th, 2006
That video showed a much different Chris than I am used to seeing
Left by Todd Thurman on March 9th, 2006
this is great…hadn’t seen this….but i do have the love dolls soundtrack on vinyl which is spotty but worth owning
Left by Mike on March 13th, 2006
i cannot a get this a damn video to play. i kill! i kill! why for not this a play? why i get little blue shield with question a mark? crap! brown crap! i kill! i kill!
Left by pete sewchok on March 31st, 2006
I’m just linking to the file, friend. Take it up with Mr. Markey. And please moderate your tone. This ain’t MySpace. You know what? Maybe computers are just not for you.
Left by Derrick Bostrom on March 31st, 2006
“i cannot a get this a damn video to play. i kill! i kill! why for not this a play? why i get little blue shield with question a mark? crap! brown crap! i kill! i kill! ”
The video played wonderfully for me, unfortunately I can not seem to recover the lost brain cells sustained from reading the above comment.
Left by Dick Wolf on March 31st, 2006
Dick -
Don’t you be dissing my boy.
Left by Derrick Bostrom on March 31st, 2006
This video is amazing, but I woundn’t choose that track to make a video. No Joke is my favorite disc of Meat Puppets and it’s full of great songs. And catchy ones too.
Anyway, it’s a good song and a it’s a great video.
Left by Nenemalo on March 31st, 2006
The scum video is very cool.
Left by spevsy on March 31st, 2006
One funny thing I noticed about this video is how Curt is steering left-to-right like a maniac for the entire video, and the bulldozer continues to move in a forward direction.
Left by Ian Goodell on April 7th, 2006
Indeed, Scum video is a wonderful thing that I never new existed. Derrick is my hero for making all of this Meat Puppets history available.
Left by Daniel Alward on May 3rd, 2006
Hey im a great pup fan and i wonder why the scum TV appearance at the conan show cannot be found anywhere !!!! By the way i hope the band will tour again with the true line-up (come on Derrick!) with a special date in France (i hope in Paris). At last i saw many unknown clips, like “get on down”, “light” or “new gods”. Some of them can be found on the reissue CDs but get on down is really rare. I give you the following link i hope it works :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yCLbnFkiXA
Keep on using this website: it rocks, and thanks for all the bootlegs !!!
Left by Stephane Fontan on August 13th, 2006
hey – back when i was a 15 year old pup in 1995, i had a swanky t-shirt that had the future cover of “golden lies” on the front. it had a vast expanse of white cotton on the back. does anyone have any idea how i might purchase another copy of said shirt? mine was worn to rags that eventually were used in washing my tires. i believe “niceman” was the distributor??
thanks, pete
Left by pete sewchok on April 5th, 2007