Paradise: Land of the Meat PuppetsArticles
While music is of course the top attraction to any band, I also am drawn to a band's stories and enjoy a peek into the members' minds. The Meat Puppets not only are top-notch musicians, but have a smart sense of irony and enjoy language, going off on long tangents. The bands' "satire of the cosmos" is both out-there enough to avoid becoming stale, and metaphoric and meaningful enough to remain worth prying into. And of course, this sensibility leaks itself into any interview they've dneo, many of which also shed light on the bands' interesting lives.
The following are articles I have culled from everywhere, from old stacks of articles in my room to up-to-date websites. You may notice that many of these articles were once exterior links, and now all but the most recent have been locally stored on this site. Why do this? Because websites go down every day, and I know that whatever I have on my site will stay there. If the following articles are not enough, I did leave a few out of my transcription process that can be found by looking on other Puppets sites in the Links section.
No Mag 1982
Flipside 1982
Notes From the Underground 1983
Brave Ear Magazine 1986
Spin 1986
Guitar Player July 1987 (main article)
Guitar Player July 1987, ("Speaking Puppet" side article)
Breakfast Without Meat 1988
Option 1988
East Coast Rocker, August 10, 1988
Tape Hiss 1988
PSU Vanguard 1991 by Erik Lyons
Behind the scenes at Nirvana Unplugged: "Oh, great. They're not doing any hits, and they're inviting guests who don't have any hits to come play. Perfect.'"
Phoenix New Times 1994: Curt Interviewed by David Gilstrap
High Times 1994
Rutgers Inside Beat 1994
Rip 1994
Guitar Player 1994
Goldmine 1995 (The longest article ever written, period, I would venture.)
Option 1995
Guitar World 1995
Unknown Source, 1995: No Joke!
Bone Free Music Magazine 1996
Curt Kirkwood's Greatest Hits (quotes compiled by Bostrom)
Dolomite 1998
Shooting Star by David Holthouse, 1998
Letters In Response to "Shooting Star"
The Truth Will Set You Free: The Story Behind 'Shooting Star', 1999
Sonicnet 1998: Cris's Addiction
Sonicnet 1999: New Pups Lineup
Salon 1999: Reissues
Phoenix Tribune 1999: Forward and Back
Phoenix New Times 1999: Reissues
Sonicnet 1999: Cris Kirkwood Arrested
Phoenix New Times 1999: Lake of Fire by David Holthouse
Letters In Response to "Lake of Fire"
Austin Chronicle 1999
Minneapolis City Pages 1999
Intermusic 2000
Sonicnet 2000
Phoenix New Times 2000: Master of Puppets
Launch.com: Meat Puppets Defend Hootie Label Alliance For 'Golden Lies'
Warner label bio for Golden Lies and the Meats 2.0
Spin October 2000: Behind the Meat Puppets
Woodstock.com: Meat Puppets
Checkout.com: Choice Cuts With A Meat Puppet
CDNow: Meat Puppets Version 2.0
CDNow: Curt Kirkwood's Movie Picks
Musicblitz.com: Rebirth of the Meat
Rolling Stone's Random Notes: Curt's Art Show
Soundbreak.com Live Video Interview, October 16, 2000
Meat Puppets Spreading Lies on U.S. Tour
Brief interview (pre St. Louis show publicity)
Meat Puppets: Guitar Player December 2000
College Music: Meat Puppets (featuring an hour-long stream of the August 2000 Mercury Lounge, NY live show)
Give us our Meat Puppets: Tallahassee Democrat, January 19, 2001
Meat Of the Matter: Spectator Online, January 24, 2001
Meet the New Meat Puppets: Washington Post, February 2, 2001
The Meat Puppets Rage On: Providence Phoenix, February 2001
Meat Puppets: Eatmag, February 4, 2001
No Meat--Again! Toronto Sun, February 8, 2001
Cleveland Scene, February 8, 2001
The Straight Dope: Campus Circle Feb/March 2001
The Meat Puppets Dodge Death: Now Toronto, February 9, 2001
Live Shot: Curt Kirkwood, September 14, 2001
Random Weirdness:
Adding meat (puppets) to Jacobsen's daily swing (This article has little to do with the band, but uses the Meat Puppets to judge the hipness factor of a golfer. Bizarre.)
Damned if I know what this says: It's in Greek. Hmm...
The Meats are name-checked in a Christian anti-rock music article that aims to help its readers "understand the true nature of rock music and resist the allurement of the music of Babylon." Priceless.
More to come!
