[photo credit] The Meat Puppets were simply one of the most unlikely but ultimately rewarding redemption stories of the entire year of 2007 in music. When we saw them perform at Knitting Factory in August of 2007, the band was tight, focused and performed a powerful set. The challenge for this band in 2008 [...]
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One spring morning in 1973, when I was nine years old, I woke up and my mom was gone. This was one of those, she went out for a loaf of bread and never came back deals, but I didn’t know that then. What I did know, was that it wasn’t entirely out of the question for my parents to be apart. I think my dad played on that fact, and it pacified me at the time.During my first years my family moved
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I am in a black hole of creativity tonight. I have posts that I need to write, research and publish. But I don't see it happening. Not right now. When I first came to MOG, I saw it as an outlet for my thoughts and tastes in music. Eventually it grew into something more. Instead of launching into a long-winded story about something else entirely, I would like to ask these questions. Why do we MO...
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Finally...the Kirkwood brothers have gotten together to record some new music. 'Rise To Your Knees' reminds me of their glory days, circa 'Meat Puppets II'Its a really, REALLY good album...well worth picking up. Here is one of my favorite tracks off of the brand new one
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now people cry and people moanlook for a dry place to call their hometry to find some place to rest their boneswhile the angels and the devils fight make them their own
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Brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood have completed work on their first Meat Puppets album together since 1995's "No Joke!," Billboard.com has learned. "Rise to Your Knees" will be released June 26 via Kansas City, Mo.-based indie label Anodyne Records, and will be supported by the Puppets' most extensive tour in years.Before he could resume playing music with his brother, Cris Kirkwood had to overc...
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One cool evening in April of 1994, I got home from work. I was tired, worked all day, I really needed to veg out and think of nothing. Maybe listen to some music with the lights off, something saying what I was feeling, maybe some Nirvana.. I turned on the television for a minute to see what was up in the world. The tv was on MTV, and Kurt Cobain, the man said, was dead.As polarizing as Kurt...
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....and exposing the originals. I feel bad for the Kirkwood brothers, because, well, here's the thing. If *I* had a dime for every time I had to correct someone in college and inform them that "Plateau" or "Oh Me" or "Lake Of Fire" wasn't a Nirvana song, but a Meat Puppets song, I'd be less broke, let's say. Now, to be Curt and Chris Kirkwood, and have 30 year old fratboys yelling out "Nirva...
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1. Green Day, "Basket Case." Sometimes I give myself the creeps.2. Pavement, "Cut Your Hair." I often times forget to listen to lyrics, although it a song has a chorus with a hook, that'll get my attention. For some reason, the "modern rock" of the mid-90s featured lots of songs that sounded great to me, where I never paid any attention to the lyrics. I have no idea what this song is about, and...
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Jameson reminded me of the Meat Puppets with "his post yesterday":http://mog.com/jameson/blog_post/125315, and this song is perfectly summarizing my Monday mood. Climbing out of bed this morning was certainly an uphill battle, and the clutter on the table (or desk in my case) is getting out of hand for sure. I admit Curt Kirkwood's voice can be grating at first, but for me it is a good type o...
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Last month, I gave a friend of mine an extra ticket to come with me to see The Stooges. This month it came back around to me in the form of a free Meat Puppets ticket. I love how things like this work in our lives. I got right up front against the stage. Was crushed and hit in the head and stepped on such as all the things we endure to be up front. But alas I forgot my camera. All these pics...
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Work sucks, for sure. And life certainly has no stress at all, yeah. No time lately to listen to music, and that sucks most of all. I get cranky when I can't have music, forget how to balance. I need the music. Ihear it when I sleep. There's a song runnign through my head seconds after I wake up in the morning. Sometimes that sucks. I currently have that dumb ass "Bandit Queen" song b...
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Back in the mid-'80s, in pursuit of a story for Rolling Stone, I road in the van with Black Flag to Las Vegas, where they were playing a gig in a building that we were told was normally used to shoot porn films.Opening for Black Flag were the Meat Puppets. I'd never seen them before, and they blew me away.A lot has gone down since then -- with me, with the members of Black Flag and with the Mea...
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It's gray today...my birthday is tomorrow...so I am turning to humor to beat the blues.So here is Pete the Meat Puppet and his story of sudden fame, excess, and a fall from grace. The tag kinda matched...no it's not a Meat Puppets song.
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