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Puppets, pit bulls
make wild concert
AUSTIN — In an era of labels
and categories, Phoenix’s Meat Pup
pets have successfully confounded,
amazed and perturbed critics and
fans alike with their unprecedented
fusion of hardcore thrash, progres
sive rock, cow-chipping country,
acid psychedelia, grunge metal, jazz
exploration, deep-seated blues and
modern pop into one indetermina
ble, unpredictable but refreshingly
original genre of Puppet sound.
Lead singer and guitarist Curt
Kirkwood explained in an interview
before the Puppet’s show at Austin’s
Liberty Lunch Saturday night, “We
always get people who go out of
their way to describe us, to compare
us to different bands. It took me a
long time to figure out why we didn’t
sound like anyone else, why I
couldn’t describe our sound . . . but
it’s because we’re us. We sound like
me, and as a band, three individuals,
we’re different than anyone else.”
The band’s sound is not the only
thing that sets them apart. The Pup
pets approach the cynical, business-
oriented music industry differently
than most bands. Kirkwood justifies
the band’s radical stylistic changes
such as the leap from the thrash-ex-
cess madness of Meat Puppets to the
desert-punk meets honkey blues of-
Meat Puppets II, as a growth from a
threesome of agressive teenagers to
a tight, mature outfit.
“My will to piss people off dimin
ished from record to record,” he
said. “I used to love to piss people
off... to put out an album that peo
ple were going to buy and wonder
‘Well what the hell is this.’ ”
The Puppets formed in 1980,
Kirkwood joined by brother Cris on
bass and vocals and Derrick Bostrom
on drums. That year the band
opened for Black Flag in Phoenix,
and later signed a record deal with
Flag’s SST label. After a healthy
relationship, which includes eight al
bums, the Puppets have reached a
legal tussle with their label, spurred
by SST’s refusal to allow Atlantic Re
cords to promote and distribute
their new album, Monsters.
Explains Kirkwood, “The distri
bution is not happening. I feel like
SST is purposely trying to screw us
’cause they’re afraid we’re going to
jump, and we are now ... if not
enough people show up, then you
know what is happening. It’s the re
cord company.”
“Hell, (Monsters) entered at 10 on
Rock Pool and number 11 on CMK
(college airplay charts), which is phe
nomenal for an indie. It entered
there, and they’re (SST) not going to
follow it up with sales. Yeah, I’m
bummed. There’s a lot of money
going down the tubes.”
Hoping to put the legal issues be
hind, the band embarked on tour,
where the Meat Puppets are at their
best. Trying to clarify the Puppets
on record is hard enough, but a Pup
pet performance is totally undefina-
ble, warping and twisting recorded
material into high-fueled, sponta
neous mutations.
Kirkwood said of the Puppets live
image, “We were radical; we were al-
Photo by John Righter
ways crazed live. That’s why we
didn’t get famous and all those other
bands did. Because we’re crazed live.
We put out good records, but then
when the fans come out to see us we
f—k ’em up. We blow their minds,
and the ones that want their minds
blown go with it.”
“Thai’s why we won’t open for
anyone. All these bands that opened
for us are playing in arenas, but
we’re not going to be opening for
anyone. Camper (Van Beethoven)
opened for 10,000 Maniacs. I don’t
see the Meat Puppets opening for
some 10,000 Maniacs, nor opening
for any Cure and Love and Rockets
(like the Pixies). I don’t like to open
for people. I like to have midgets
come out and do back flips before
we go on.”
Unfortunately, Saturday’s perfor
mance didn’t feature any acrobatic
midgets, but it did, between encores,
have a stupid-pet-trick segment with
a pit bull that could swung around
on a two by four by holding it with its
teeth, and then danced with the
band for the audience’s amusement.
Of course, before this the Meat
Puppets had only succeeded in wag
ing a paralyzing assault on the audi
ence’s senses. Interweaving hard
core stomping, two-step kicking,
blues-based metal bashing and jazz
tripping into a two and a half-hour
set (which occurred between 12:30
and 3 a.m., no less), leaves one pon
dering the more bizarre points of
life.
Not to mention, the style defines
the crowd, attracting a sociologist’s
dream for group studies. Forget
Halloween, there’s more creativity
and ghoulish figures within a Pup
pets show than any congested ma
cabre at Austin’s 6th Street.
Not that it has any bearing on the
Pup’s frenzied manifold of mullife-
rious madness, which alternates
from pleasant and soothing, to
trippy and disturbing, before finally
evolving into a culmination of com
plete chaos.
Curt is a sinister twist of himself
on stage, dropping a serene, laid
back attitude for complete pain and
annihilation. Even the rhythmic
“Enchanted Porkfist” appears to
send Kirkwood into a realm some
where between ecstasy and destruc
tion. A revolutionary player on gui
tar, no greater success story abounds
than Kirkwood’s progression from a
meager three-chord basher to an im
promptu wizard.
Unfortunately, for all their effort
and madness, the Meat Puppets
can’t help but feel the weight of be
ing squashed by the industry they so
openly defy. At no greater time does
the symbolism of Meat Puppets ring
clearer than with the closing phrase
of “Like Being Alive.”
Kirkwood explains, “The words
‘Imagine being eaten by a giant doo-
doo log with teeth’ say that you think
you can walk in shit and wipe it off,
but you can’t, ’cause the shit you step
in nowadays will bite your foot off.
It’s a different world we live in today
. . . I’m just really confused by it.”
Fortunately for Kirkwood, he’s
not the only one. The world can be a
confusing and disturbing place, es
pecially when you’re pulling strings
with a Meat Puppet at three in the
morning.
The following information was
gathered from past issues of The
Battalion and reflects activities
that occurred during this week in
A&M’s history.
10 years ago — University offi
cials decided to allow women to
participate in bonfire construc
tion activities.
25 years ago — The Battalion
sports department ran the head
line “Porkers invade Aggieland”
above a story about the Arkansas
football team s visit to campus.
50 years ago — The last order
of Aggie senior rings for the Fall
of 1939 arrived. This brought the
total number of rings ordered for
that year to 421.
75 years ago — A&M had an
Anti-Swearing Club which
boasted a membership of 100
people. The goal of the club was
to keep profane language from
being used on campus and to pre
serve the “clean spirit” of the
school.
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