![]() Chorus' crawl out of the songs with an intensity only those two brothers can create. Primarily, their harmonies is a trademark Puppet sound. All of that really is irrelevant to a review of this album but the point is, Cris and Curt sound the best when together both as a guitar and bass unit. Bass player and brother Cris Kirkwood departed the band in 94 returned and left again in 2002 and after battles with drugs a lost wife to an OD, a stint in the clink for attacking a police officer, etc, etc. Curt Kirwood doesn't have a voice that strikes you as being that good but like many great bands, it's their uniqueness that makes up the sum of the parts. Perhaps part of the reason The Meat Puppets never achieved much commercial success on their own is in fact because they have done things on their own terms. Common song structures take on new meanings when taken into the hands of the Pups. If you don't dig far out and sonically interesting guitar leads the Meat Puppets aren't for you. Kirkwood's leads are expressions and extensions of many of their songs. Many Meat Puppeteers are guitar heads and Mr. Often overshadowed by J Mascis and even the across the pond version - The Bevis Frond, his playing is right up there, if not more diverse and better. ![]() Curt Kirwood is a guitar player in a league of his own. But isn't there something to be said for the integrity of a band that creates new art and then tours to support it? Is it not sad to see Steppenwolf at the casino? Is it not fucking great to digest a new Neil Young album and go see him play classics alongside new ones (aside from paying a 100 bucks to see it)? I'll step off the soap box with my opinions and get on with this review.įast forward dozens of studio albums and trials (literally, just Google Cris Kirkwood) and tribulations, The Meat Puppets have returned with Sewn Together, one of the best albums of 2009 and no doubt of their career. ![]() So what if some of the known and not so known names need a little scratch? Who doesn't these days? After all, that's what these guys did for a "living" - make music and tour. Dinosaur JR and The Meat Puppets come to mind. While the Pixies go on their cash milking tours playing the same old tunes from their heyday, there are other bands from the same era that have resurfaced on the tour circuit with one very important distinction - they are putting out new albums. The Meat Puppets have influenced various rock bands such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh and Pavement.To yours truly, there are respectable reunions of 90's bands and there are not so good reunions, depending how you look at it. 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. The Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. One of the more notable groups on the roster of SST Records (who released most of their albums), the Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but like most of their SST peers, the Meat Puppets 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 Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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