DOWNLOAD : Meat Puppets - Live at City Gardens, Trenton, NJ 5/9/87 ( Part 1 and Part 2 ) In April of 1987, the Meat Puppets released their fifth disc, Mirage . This disc was the band's first that sounded intentionally geared toward commercial accessibility and Derrick Bostrom has referred to the disc as the Pups "psychedelic epic". This is a transitional disc for the Pups, which catches them between the blissed-out country-punk of Up on the Sun and the pre-grunge alt-rock of [...]
DOWNLOAD : Meat Puppets - Live at Georgia Theater, Athens. GA 11-08-89 The Meat Puppets kicked off the tour for Monsters tour in December of 1989 at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano and, in a review of the show, the L.A. Times said : " As individual and uncompromising as the band's approach is, it is still difficult to fathom why the Meat Puppets haven't found the larger success of the Replacements, Bob Mould and other contemporaries. There is a distinctive, imaginative song craft [...]
DOWNLOAD : Meat Puppets - Live @ McCabe's Guitar Show, Santa Monica, CA 5-3-85 ( Up on the Sun tour) In 1985, the Meat Puppets released their third full-length, Up On the Sun , and this disc was the turning point for the band's sound. There is no sign of the band's hardcore roots on any of the disc's twelve tracks as the music continues on the acid-drenched, country-punk path that the band started down on Meat Puppets II . The music on this disc [...]
DOWNLOAD : Meat Puppets - Live @ Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA 1-22-88 Always a prolific band, The Meat Puppets followed the April 1987 release of the very accessible Mirage with Huevos , which came out just six months later. This time out, the band are going for a bluesy, riff-rock power trio sound akin to the James Gang or ZZ Top. In the liner notes for the reissue, Derrick Bostrom said: " At this stage of our career, we weren't punk enough [...]
DOWNLOAD : Meat Puppets - Live @ KCRW Studios, 1-16-86 (contains live versions of many of the songs from On My Way ) The Meat Puppets' Up On the Sun (1985) was a staple of my college radio days and there was a rumor circulating at the time that the popularity of the disc was going to lead to the Pups signing to a major label. At this point in the band's career, Curt's songwriting had significantly matured, leaving no trace of the speedballing freaked-out [...]
DOWNLOAD : Meat Puppets - Instrumental Rough Mixes from the "Meat Puppets II" Sessions (Note: Download link posted to MeatPuppets.com by Meat Puppets drummer Derrick Bostrom) The Meat Puppets' second disc, Meat Puppets II (originally issued in 1984), has aged well. This disc was a major leap forward, both sonically and musically, from its predecessor and started the band down the acid-drenched, country-punk path that defined their later releases. The Meat Puppets played this disc in its entirety as part [...]
DOWNLOAD : Meat Puppets - First Album Session Outtakes (first session) (posted to MeatPuppets.com by Meat Puppets drummer Derrick Bostrom) I can't imagine how today's RIAA-fueled culture of paranoia would have reacted to the hardcore bands of the early 80's giving away songs to fanzines and one-off cassette compilations. MVD's reissue of the Meat Puppets self-titled full-length debut contains the original 14 track disc (from 1982), the band's first five-track recording ("In a Car" EP) from 1981, along with an additional thirteen tracks of previously unreleased [...]
The Kirkwood brothers give us a lighter shade of weird.
Nuevamente llegamos a la mitad de una semana más, y con ella también el miércoles de catálogo y clasicos de tres décadas en Galaxy 94.3 fm ® Los Mochis radio ... Meat puppets - Backwater.mp3 .
Power-pop icon Alex Chilton died suddenly of a heart attack on Wednesday at age 59, but his influential '70s band Big Star shone brightly nonetheless Saturday night at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin. A headlining concert originally scheduled as a reunion show instead became a star-studded tribute to the late songwriter/producer whose work with the Box Tops and Big Star inspired many indie artists, including R.E.M and the Replacements. Anchored by longtime Big Star drummer Jody Stephens [...]
Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets talks trash about punk rock, the Dead and making a record that stands on its own merits
DOWNLOAD: Meat Puppets - "Rotten Shame" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Meat Puppets - Daytrotter Session (Click through and download the tracks individually) The Meat Puppets are back with their twelfth studio disc Sewn Together which is the band's second post-reunion album. The new disc was written by Curt Kirkwood and recorded on vintage analog gear at the Saltmine studio in Mesa, Ariz. Curt also produced the disc with the help of his son Elmo. The LA Times describes the album as mixing [...]
Welcome back to another installment of "Under Cover: Showdown Edition". Last week's feature was so much fun, I've decided to keep going with a slew of cover songs that also seem to outshine the original and take it to new realms of musical genius. I know what you're thinking... how can great acts like Paul McCartney & Wings , Grateful Dead and the Meat Puppets ever be upstaged? Well, all it took was the innovation of latter-day rock legends Guns N' Roses , Sublime and Nirvana [...]
Here's your chance to shine on one or a number of seemingly dull questions! A couple of days ago Townsman Trolleyvox passed along an RTH-worthy question that he picked up from WFMU DJ Mike Lupica . Lupica asked, and we will too, What's the best band that you ever got turned onto by your sweetie? It doesn't have to be through marriage, it can just as easily be some ridiculously popular or obscure band that you first heard through an (ex/current) boy/girlfriend, or general [...]
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