That's Dishonest:  A Repository of Interviews with and Articles about Meat Puppets
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  • 2019
    • The Meat Puppets Unveil Their ‘Dusty Notes’ (2019)
    • Meat Puppets: Dusty Notes – album review (2019)
    • Some Reunions Are Worth the Fuss. Take Meat Puppets. (2019)
    • Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood: “Lead is just like playing air guitar on the real guitar for me” (2019)
    • Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood on New Album, George Jones, Nirvana ‘Unplugged’ (2019)
    • A CONVERSATION WITH MEAT PUPPETS (2019)
    • Review: Meat Puppets Remain Easygoing Psychedelic Country-Punk Gods on ‘Dusty Notes’ (2019)
    • Dusty Notes (2019)
    • IT’S HARD NOT TO FEEL LIKE AN ANACHRONISM THESE DAYS (2019)
    • Meat Puppets – Dusty Notes (2019)
    • MEAT PUPPETS Drummer Derrick Bostom Discusses the New Album ‘Dusty Notes’, Nirvana, John Frusciante, and Their Unmistakable Musical Legacy (2019)
    • Dusty notes, de Meat Puppets (2019)
    • But Then I Saw Meat Puppets (2019)
    • Meat Puppets: Creating Art, Then and Now (2019)
    • an interview w/ Meat Puppets on original lineup reunion, new album & more (2019)
    • Meat Puppets to perform May 17 at 3S Artspace (2019)
    • THE TOUR (2019)
    • Live Report: Meat Puppets - Rebellion, Manchester (2019)
    • Meat Puppets: Our 1986 Interview (2019)
    • Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in NY Is 25: The Meat Puppets & Bobcat Goldthwait Take Us Back (2019)
    • Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets says they've recaptured the chaos as reunion tour comes home (2019)
  • 2018
    • Catching Up With Derrick Bostrom: The Meat Puppets' Original Drummer Dishes on His Return (2018)
    • Meat Puppets Reunite With Original Drummer (2018)
    • In A Car by Jeff Schroeck (2018)
    • Meat Puppets Come Galloping Out Of The Stable With 'Warranty' (2018)
  • 2017
    • MEAT PUPPETS MAKE NOSTALGIC RETURN TO THE ECHO FOR SOLD OUT LA GIG (2017)
    • REVIEW: The Meat Puppets' sold-out show Monday was a mighty, messy joy (2017)
    • My Meat Puppets Misconception at The Echo (2017)
    • Meat Puppets’ Cris Kirkwood Was Shot in the Back and Imprisoned: Life's Magical (2017)
    • Concert review: Meat Puppets show why they’re alt-rockers for the ages (2017)
    • Meat Puppets Together for First Time in more than 20 Years (2017)
  • 2016
    • Meat Puppet Cris Kirkwood talks pre-Germs Phoenix cult band Exterminators’ 1st-ever LP (interview + song premiere) (2016)
    • The drugs that fueled the Meat Puppets’ first five LPs (2016)
    • Meat Puppets Bassist On What He Would Like For Christmas (2016)
  • 2015
    • Interview: Elmo Kirkwood Talks Meat Puppets, STP 1994 Tour & New Dance Project Supr3yes (2015)
    • Interview: Meat Puppets’ Shandon Sahm Talks Upcoming Tour With Soul Asylum (2015)
    • Gene Simmons ‘Hugely Influenced’ Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, According To Meat Puppets Drummer (2015)
    • Meat Puppets Drummer Was Told He ‘Most Likely Won’t See Scott Weiland, But The Other Guys Hang Out’ When Touring With STP (2015)
    • EASY ANSWERS: CRIS KIRKWOOD OF THE MEAT PUPPETS TALKS GRATEFUL DEAD (2015)
  • 2014
    • 2 Minutes with Meat Puppets (2014)
    • The AU Interview: Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets (Arizona) (2014)
    • Meat Puppets Bassist Cris Kirkwood Takes Us Through the Evolution of ‘Lake of Fire’ (2014)
    • Interview: Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood Talks Nirvana MTV Unplugged & Band With Krist Novoselic (2014)
    • Meat Puppets Making Most of a Second Chance (2014)
    • Fresh Meat With No Strings Attached: Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets (2014)
    • Cris Kirkwood Remembers Comforting Frances Bean Cobain At Nirvana MTV Unplugged, Talks Art (2014)
    • Nirvana's 'MTV Unplugged' 20 Years Later: Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood Looks Back (2014)
    • The Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood Talks About His Love for Disney and Old Musicals (2014)
    • Elmo Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets Has Pop Ambitions (2014)
    • The Most Influential Arizona Punk Records: #5 - Meat Puppets, Untitled Seven-Inch EP (2014)
    • Graded on a Curve: Meat Puppets, Lollipop (2014)
  • 2013
    • Meat Puppets Announce New Album Rat Farm SEt for April 2013 Release (2013)
    • Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets (2013)
    • Meat Puppets Announce UK Tour In June 2013 With Mudhoney (2013)
    • Meat Puppets Expand with Rat Farm (2013)
    • Too High To Die: Meet The Meat Puppets by Greg Prato (2013)
    • The Meat Puppets are Still Rockin' (2013)
    • More Meaty Music from the Puppets (2013)
    • Meat Puppets Let Instinct Pull the Strings (2013)
    • Interview: Meat Puppets (2013)
    • 20 Questions: Meat Puppets (2013)
    • Interview: Meat Puppets - The Flesh of It (2013)
    • Meat Puppets (2013)
    • Meat Puppets : Interview (2013)
    • Exclusive Interview: Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood on His Relationship with His Brother, Nirvana, and Touring 30 Years Later (2013)
    • Meat Puppets I: “A Lawn Mower in the Process of Unclogging Itself” (2013)
    • Meat Puppets Now 31 Years Since First Album (2013)
    • Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood: I'm probably not cut out for a regular job (2013)
    • Esquire Live Sessions: The Meat Puppets on Their Nirvana Unplugged Performance (2013)
    • Long-Haul Grunge Gods (2013)
    • The Mystery of Meat (2013)
    • Phoenix Artist Derrick Bostrom Opens Photography Exhibit at Green New American Vegetarian (2013)
    • The Meat Puppets on Unplugged In New York: The Extended Interviews The full Q&As with the Brothers Kirkwood and producer Alex Coletti. (2013)
    • Interview with Curt and Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets: Influences, Live, Playing with Nirvana, 20th Anniversary of In Utero (2013)
    • Meat Puppets Interview: Louder Than War Talk To Curt Kirkwood (2013)
    • Talk: Curt Kirkwood, Meat Puppets | Interview (2013)
    • Meat Puppets [Interview] (2013)
    • My People Call It Weed: Meat Puppets Get Happily Twisted (2013)
    • 2 Minutes with Meat Puppets (2013)
    • Meat Puppets – At The Rat Farm With Curt Kirkwood (2013)
    • Meat Puppets: Just a Band (2013)
  • 2012
    • Peer Inside the Colorful World of the Meat Puppets' Cris Kirkwood at Carly's Bistro (2012)
    • Finding Out What Makes the Meat Puppets Tick with a New Oral History (2012)
    • Curled Up with a Good Book (2012)
    • Los Históricos Meat Puppets Avanzarán en Diciembre Nuevos Temas de su Próximo Disco en su Primera Gira Española (2012)
    • Meat Puppets Announce Release of 14th Studio LP (2012)
    • Curt Kirkwood nos habla de Meat Puppets (2012)
    • La Semilla del "Grunge" (2012)
    • Meat Puppets, Las Raices y el Punk que Marcaron a Kurt Cobain (2012)
    • Mas Raros que un Perro Verde (2012)
    • Meat Puppets (2012)
    • Meat Puppets, Valencia, 18/12/2012 (2012)
    • Meat Puppets, Influx Emocional (2012)
    • Valley’s Elmo Kirkwood and His Dad, Meat Puppet’s Curt Kirkwood, to Team Up For Father’s Day Show (2012)
    • Too High to Die: an Interview With Curt Kirkwood (2012)
  • 2011
    • Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood on Making New Album 'Lollipop' and Their Summer Plans Plus: Band 'completely inebriated' while recording 'Meat Puppets II' (2011)
    • Meat Puppets with Roky Erickson (2011)
    • One Tough Question: Meat Puppets' Cris Kirkwood (2011)
    • Shandon Sahm Meets Meat Puppets (2011)
    • Meat Puppets Relive Gonzo Past, Open Up about Cris Kirkwood's Addiction (2011)
    • eMusic Q&A: The Meat Puppets (2011)
    • Meat Puppets: "We Built 'Lollipop' Like a Lego Toy" (2011)
    • Tonight: The Meat Puppets on the River (2011)
    • Curt Kirkwood's Tinker Toy Still Life with the Meat Puppets (2011)
    • Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets on the Band's Legacy and His Vivid Lyrical Imagery (2011)
    • Fans Hope for a Well-Done Meat Puppets Performance (2011)
    • Headed Back to the Slaughterhouse (2011)
    • The Meat Puppets Kill Chelsea's (2011)
    • Meat Puppets Survivor's Tale (2011)
    • The Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood (2011)
    • Q&A: Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood On Arizona Punk, SST Records, His Brother Cris Being Clean, and Not making it into "Our Band Could Be Your Life" (2011)
    • Meat Puppets Interviewed by Most Beautiful Losers (2011)
    • [LP Review] Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets (1982) (2011)
  • 2010
    • Interview: Cris Kirkwood from the Meat Puppets (2010)
    • TS5Q: Derrick Bostrom (2010)
    • Meat Puppets 1982-88: Acid Rock Baked by Desert Grunge (2010)
    • MEAT PUPPETS 1982-88: Acid rock baked by desert grunge (2010)
  • 2009
    • Q&A with the Meat Puppets' Cris Kirkwood (2009)
    • Meat Puppets Sewing it Together (2009)
    • Reunited Meat Puppets Evolved, But Still Intense (2009)
    • Meat Puppets Interview (2009)
    • The Meat Puppets' Name is Cool, and That's the Entire Story Behind It (2009)
    • Meat Puppets on Display (2009)
    • Lost in the Zone [Meat Puppets] (2009)
    • Interview with Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets (2009)
    • The Meat Puppets are still half-assin' it After All These Years (2009)
    • Meat Puppets Still "Sewn Together" After Nearly Three Decades (2009)
    • Rock City: Tourist Stop Helped Get Meat Puppets Frontman's Artistic Juices Flowing (2009)
    • Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets Speaks (2009)
    • Q&A with Shandon Sahm of Meat Puppets (2009)
    • Meat Puppets: "We Got to Do What We Wanted to Do" (2009)
    • The Meat Puppets (2009)
    • From the Chip Midnight Archive: Meat Puppets 1994 Audio Interview (2009)
    • A Testament to the Strength of the Human Gullet (2009)
    • Meat Puppets: Out Of The Weeds (2009)
    • No robots, no Celine Dion for Meat Puppets (2009)
  • 2008
    • Very Human (2008)
  • 2007
    • Meat Puppets Get a Major-Label Education (2007)
    • Meat Puppets Return to Their Trippy Psych-Rock Roots (2007)
    • Meat Puppets: On Your Feet (2007)
    • Lake of Fire: Meat Puppets Rise to Their Knees (2007)
    • Meat Puppets Reviewed (2007)
    • Reunited in Rock (2007)
    • New Day Rising (2007)
    • Reunited Kirkwood Brothers Help Meat Puppets Rise to the Occasion (2007)
    • Meat Puppets (2007)
    • Meat Puppets: O Brother, Where Art Thou (2007)
    • Who's Got My Extra: Curt Kirkwood (2007)
    • Stereogum Q&A: Meat Puppets (2007)
    • Back on the Sun (2007)
    • Interview: Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets (2007)
    • A Lean Night for the Meat Puppets (2007)
  • 2006
    • Meat Puppets Spring 1984 (2006)
  • 2005
    • Curt Kirkwood, "Snow" (2005)
  • 2002
    • Derrick Bostrom - 2002 (2002)
  • 2001
    • Puppet Show (2001)
  • 2000
    • Meat Puppets: Back From the Lake of Fire, the "New" Meat Puppets Feel the Love (2000)
    • Golden Lies (2000)
    • Meat Puppets Desert Desperados (2000)
  • 1999
    • What is This? (1999)
    • Fresh Meat for Rotting Puppets (1999)
    • Meat Puppets’ Cris Kirkwood Jailed On Drug Charges (1999)
  • 1998
    • Shooting Star (1998)
  • 1995
    • Meat Puppets: Swimming in a Lake of Fire (1995)
    • Meat Puppets: The Morning After (There's No Business Like Show Business) (1995)
    • The Meat Puppets (1995)
  • 1994
    • Rockers for Pot '94 (1994)
    • Meat Puppets' Drummer Derrick Bostrom Interview from 1994 (1994)
    • A Vignette from the Early Years by Derrick Bostrom of the Meat Puppets (1994)
  • 1992
    • Meat Puppets: Cris Kirkwood Interview (1992)
  • 1991
    • Music Meat Puppets (1991)
  • 1989
    • Meat Puppets Interviewed (1989): Disney Avant-Metal Rock (1989)
  • 1987
    • Meat Puppets--Mirage (1987)
  • 1984
    • The Meat Puppets (1984)
    • Meat Puppets: The Ultimate Fusion Band (1984)
  • 1983
    • Meat Puppets (1983)
  • 1982
    • I Met the Meat Puppets and Lived to Tell About It (1982)
  • Audio-Video Articles and Interviews
    • 2019 >
      • MEAT PUPPETS Derrick Bostrom talks new material (2019)
      • The Making of "Dusty Notes" (2019)
      • Kyle Meredith with... Meat Puppets (2019)
      • Pianist Ron Stabinsky Interview with Rusty Hassan WPFW (2019)
      • Meat Puppets Dusty Notes CD unpackaging (2019)
      • Radio Phoenix Broadcast of It’s Not Our Fault: Derrick Bostrom Part One (2019)
      • 100 Meat Puppets "Mirage"w/ Derrick Bostrom (2019)
    • 2018 >
      • 013: Meat Puppets - Forbidden Places (1991) (2018)
    • 2017 >
      • RSR077 – DERRICK BOSTROM – THE MEAT PUPPETS & NIRVANA (2017)
      • Meat Puppets albums worst to best (2017)
      • Meat Puppets - Induction Video Az.Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame (2017)
      • Acoustic Storm on KSLX Radio Promo for the Meat Puppets (2017)
    • 2016 >
      • Episode 12: Meat Puppets and Peter Kuper By Westerino Show (2016)
      • Interview Sneak Peak with Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets (2016)
    • 2015 >
      • Cris Kirkwood Interview (2015)
      • Dad Rock: Cris Kirkwood on life in Meat Puppets (2015)
    • 2014 >
      • Meat Puppets - Cherry Rock 2014 - Part 1 (2014)
      • Meat Puppets - Cherry Rock 2014 - Part 2 (2014)
      • Meat Puppets - Cherry Rock 2014 - Part 3 (2014)
      • The Meat Puppets Q & A @ Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne (27th May 2014) (2014)
      • Meat Puppets Documentary -- Rough Pass (2014)
    • 2013 >
      • Curt Kirkwood Interview w/ Larry Flick (2013)
      • Meat Puppets Concert Review/Album Showing (2013)
      • Meat Puppets - Interview (Bing Lounge) (2013)
      • WTF with Marc Maron, Episode 428 - Curt Kirkwood (2013)
    • 2012 >
      • The Andy Derer Show Ep #51 with Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets (2012)
    • 2011 >
      • Q&A with the Meat Puppets (2011)
      • Meat Puppets Interview Live in the Bing Lounge (2011)
      • Interview with Cris from Meat Puppets (2011)
      • The Meat Puppets interview w/ Across The Board radio show.wmv (2011)
    • 2010 >
      • Meat Puppets - What's In My Bag? (2010)
      • Meat Puppets: Bumbershoot 2010 Interview (2010)
    • 2009 >
      • Serene Dominic Show Episode 11 with Meat Puppets Curt Kirkwood (2009)
      • Amplified from ABC News Now : Meat Puppets (2009)
      • Amplified from ABC News Now : Meat Puppets, Part 2 (2009)
      • MEAT PUPPETS Interview and Soundcheck "Legendary Status.. Should Inspire Massive Guilt" (2009)
      • Meat Puppets Interview (2009)
    • 2008 >
      • Tempe Music Festival TV - Meat Puppets (2008)
    • 2007 >
      • How the Meat Puppets got their Name (2007)
    • 2005 >
      • Curt Kirkwood Interview (2005)
    • 1995 >
      • Meat Puppets Interview (1995)
      • Meat Puppets on Howard Stern, 9/11/95 (1995)
    • 1994 >
      • Meat Puppets - Conan 1994 (1994)
      • Cris Kirtwood Interview of The Meat Puppets May 26th, 1994 (1994)
      • Meat puppets interview 1994 (1994)
    • 1988 >
      • Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) Interview Segment (1988)
      • 1988 Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) Full Interview (1988)
    • 1984 >
      • Meat Puppets, 1984, Music View w/ Todd Miller (1984)
Fresh Meat With No Strings Attached: Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets

Written by Robert Brokenmouth on 28 March 2014.

First, these 20-minute interviews seem to be the bane of journos everywhere. It seems the time-limit prevents the journos getting chummy with the artist. No wonder Prince doesn't give interviews anymore, who'd want a bunch of music journos crawling at ya, total strangers wanting to be your pal. Twenty minutes is fine. The artist is there to promote the album, use the journo as a conduit.

At the time I first heard the Meat Puppets' first LP (shortly after it managed to get to Australia) it seemed like the entirety of the USA were forming strange, fabulous punker-type bands. Some were hideous, some were 'you hadda be there' type affairs (The Dicks I never got, for example, or DOA) and some were astounding, like Really Red or the Big Boys, Husker Du or the Minutemen; I recall much whinging among the 'party faithful' about the Swans.

So, that first MP LP [chuckles at the irony] was s'posed to be played at 45rpm, but of course because it's 12" and an LP, I played it at 33rpm. It was remarkable, and I loved it. The chum who'd loaned it to me came in and said, 'Wow, what's that, it's incredible!'. I was puzzled, because he'd been playing it for the last three weeks and I had to beg to borrow it, so I figured he'd recognise it... I held up the sleeve... and we'll draw a veil over the next few moments...

Two years later the (now) more famous Meat Puppets II was released. An utter revelation. Such joy, such space, such an open, natural, country kind of sound. Curt's vocals were sweet, soaring and bitter. And whistling! Something I never got the hang of and always wanted to! By the time the third came along, Up on the Sun, I was overhearing conversations like, 'Have you heard the new Meat Puppets lp?' 'There's a third album? I'm still listening to the second!'. This was a band intent on doing what they wanted. They were out of step. They weren't noisy and aggressive. There was a better way.

It appears that the Meat Puppets wanted to get away from the dead end of punk. Every musician with any creativity is going to want to expand. In the USA there was apparently some punker squabble about the Meat Puppets 'not being punk', but quite frankly the majority of punk was and is the most boring, self-aggrandising sack of whinging shit you will ever endure. 001: Licence to Yell. Great if you're 14, not so interesting if you've heard a smidgeon of the possibilities of music. Punk stopped making a difference to anything except its small niche market of fellow-squabblers sometime in 1978 (maybe 1982 in the USA). As for 1991 being the year punk broke... no.

The best music in that film ain't punk, it's pop, or rock. Good stuff, but spare me the fucking niche-huggers: Kurt Cobain's inclusion of the Meat Puppets on MTV Unplugged, and on their In Utero tour emphasises that - and I might add that was a gutsy, FTW kinda thing to do. The Meat Puppets are a troubadour rock band with the sort of constant creative wheels in motion which does what any decent band should - take you away with a glorious flash of wings.

How can this be? I look down and realise they love Neil Young.

Curt: And old timey music, you know, like Marty Robbins and Burl Ives. They used to do some of that whistling. We weren't really trying to piss off the punks, although that happened to a certain extent, we were just being ourselves. We were just ... counter to what's going on. I mean... hmm. We did a tour with Primus in the '90s, and that was the last time we really pissed off an audience. I don't know what they expected. They were throwing coins at us, and the audience, you know, it's young men and they're aiming and throwing hard, so these coins were hitting us in the face.

The MP have had what might called a 'busy' time of things over the years; the inevitable temptations of r'n'r coupled with bass player and artist Cris being shot and jailed ten years ago was, one imagines, bloody horrible. You can read about it in Greg Prato's book, Too High To Die: Meet The Meat Puppets (Lulu.com) which 'Pups also sell on their website. It might not be the last word on the band, either.

Curt: Well, he [Prato] had an interesting angle, I think. I don't mind the book. He wasn't trying to tear me apart, there have been people ... you don't want things to be really Vietnam, but a little context... I mean, I've read articles where it's pretty dirty, and I look at it and think, 'oh, so that's what it's like to look at from the outside. Interesting.'

That's kind of because it's not necessarily about you, but about what other people think about you.

Curt: Yeah, maybe. I'm a pretty private person. It's not a facade, it's just how I am. I like my house. I like the quiet.

Which conjures up some sort of shack on the edge of nowhere, listening to the wind and the birds and the sands whishing by... According to the Intrepidwebs, Cris and Curt used to live in Tempe. Now Cris lives in Arizona, while Curt lives in Austin, Texas.

Hmmm. So what's living in Arizona like?

Curt: Well, Phoenix is a good place to have a sense of humour.

That kind of makes it seem like you hate the place but you're kinda embarrassed to say so.

Curt: Well, it's a big city in the middle of nowhere. There's not much culture. It's really beautiful. I mean, there are rough parts... there's not a lot of natives [he means people born and bred there, I think] and a lot of people move there to get away, and they bring their troubles with them. It's hot, there's sunshine 365 days a year... it can get very hot.

Manfully I refrain from digging out tomes such as A History of Criminal Drifters in Darwin (Volume CLXII, 1982-1983, 759 pages not including photographs, diagrams, index and appendices). I believe Alice Springs and Coober Pedy have similar journals. I advise that I'm very glad they're not touring Australia's equivalent of Phoenix and pretend I don't know they're playing Cronulla.

It must be difficult for someone who is basically ... a loner to some extent ... to get up onstage and blast it out, meet people afterwards, get on the bus and travel, do it all over again... It must feel weird. Is it difficult finding that part of you that's natural, that's not contrived, when you come to write a song?

Curt: If I try to be disciplined, and sit down to write, it ends up being pretty contrived. I have to wait for stuff to happen. Sometimes I edit a lot, I mean, that's kind of contrived. I mean, I can always tell when it's contrived. When it doesn't work.

The Meat Puppets have been recording and touring over the last few years, their current LP is Rat Farm, but if you have half a brain you'll grab all the others you missed. The thing to remember is, they haven't been here in Australia for nearly a quarter century and that in itself is reason enough to trundle along, unload the wallet ... if you haven't already done so here's the link. 

Curt: We're just normal kinda guys, you know.

Hang on, this is horseshit. Let me just make this completely clear: if you don't have any 'Pups LPs, get everything that's available on the site. Yes, every single LP.

You'll thank me.

Rat Farm is another slab of beauty, consideration, romance and joy you can't do without, and which you will find yourself singing along to after the first listen. As with every 'Pups lp, if you can whistle, you'll be whistling the occasional melody...there ain't a dud track on it, and as ever, you don't want the lp to end, but just take you on and on. Great driving music as well as great chill-out music. And damn fine lyrics. Everyone will make a fuss of Leave Your Head Alone, but that's like picking out one from 12 ...

Amusingly, photos on the web indicate they've outwardly not changed that much, still hairy and scruffy, they just put out stuff that makes you smile, whistle and sing and dance. Sod punk with its 'everyone must look alike and think alike' cul-de-sac attitude, it's gone on for far too long and it's far too dated. There's only a few bands out there now who can still feel that same emotive rage after all these years. Instead, try a band doing what punk should have done - gone out there.

Curt is the main lyric writer and vocalist. He's also the guitarist. He has a hell of a style, too.

Curt: People seem to like it. I never practise very much. I like to get a good tone... I like to think of myself as primarily a rhythm guitar player... part of the fun is the geometry of it... like I'm draughting something, like sculpture. I like to make something anomalous, that's fun to play as well...

Cris is the artist and the bassist, and the co-songwriter. He's bringing his artwork over. It's worth investigating. It's damn good.

Shandon Sahm is their drummer and, like all musicians, is in another band, what the intravenouswebs describe as a Texas roots glam band. Which probably makes more sense to hear than it does to type.

Elmo, Curt's son, is one striking character. Three weeks ago he posted this: "Your mouth is like sugar: I want to fill it with ants."

Clearly Elmo Kirkwood is destined for great things.

So how's Elmo fitting in with the band?

Curt: Yeah, real good. He's very natural... it's genetic. Runs in the family... he fits in real well.

He's got a hell of a sense of humour - creative and a live-wire. He also has his own band, I think Flamingo is the third.

I'm beginning to think a more appropriate name for the band would be The Kirkwoods, or The Kirkwood Gang.

So, see Cris' artwork (he's bringing 30 pieces, a substantial exhibition), meet the artist, and see the gig ... limited tix at $70 each at, Adelaide (Friday 29th May), Brisbane (Saturday 30th), Sydney (31st) and Perth (Monday June 2nd). Astonishingly, it seems that tickets for the gig at the Cherry Bar in Melbourne - the 25th May - have not sold out. Melbourne should hang its head.

Go here to take a squint at Cris' art.

Lastly, Curt, what does mean rock'n'roll to you?

Curt: Music to drool into a bucket to. You know, we're hip, groovy, and we capture the spirit of youth.

By the time I finish pissing myself with laughter it's time to hang up.


MEAT PUPPETS AUSTRALIAN TOUR

Saturday 24th May 2014 - HOBART, The Void - MONA - TAS.  $49.50 + BF. Doors 8:30PM. Tickets: http://www.mona.net.au 

Sunday 25th May 2014 -  MELBOURNE, CherryRock014 - VIC. 12 Noon-9:30PM. Tickets: http://www.cherrybar.com.au

Tuesday 27th May 2014 - MELBOURNE, Ding Dong - VIC. MEAT PUPPETS ACOUSTIC SET + CRIS KIRKWOOD ART SHOW + MEAT PUPPETS MEET & GREET. Doors 7:30PM. Tickets $20: Door Only

Wednesday 28th May 2014 - MELBOURNE, Ding Dong - VIC. Doors 7:30PM - Full band show. Tickets: http://www.oztix.com.au

Thursday 29th May 2014 - ADELAIDE, Fowlers Live - SA Doors 7:30PM. Tickets at http://www.nightmaremusic.com.au

Friday 30th May 2014 - BRISBANE, The Zoo - QLD Doors 7:30PM. Tickets at http://www.nightmaremusic.com.au

Saturday 31st May 2014 - SYDNEY, CherryRock014 from 2PM. Tickets http://factorytheatre.com.au 

Monday 2nd June 2014. PERTH, The Astor Theatre - WA. w/ Meat Puppets, Brant Bjork, Hard-Ons, The Love Junkies, Axe Girl and more. Doors 5-11PM. Tickets at http://www.showticketing.com.au or http://www.liveattheastor.com.au

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