For more than two decades theMeat Puppets’ music has cultivated one of the most influential sounds inalternative music. The most notable of bands they have impacted is Nirvana whoasked brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood to perform three Meat Puppets’ songs withthem on their classic MTV Unplugged performance.
Shying away from the attentionthey garnered as a result of Nirvana’s adjoin of “Lake of blast” as a staple onrock radio the Meat Puppets have largely remained an underground phenomenon. As a result of bassist Cris’ substance abuse problems the two brothers wenttheir separate ways in 1996 before reuniting a decade later with new drummerTed Marcus to record the album Rise to Your Knees released this pastsummer.
It was under this guise that arevitalized Meat Puppets played the High Noon Saloon on Friday in theKirkwoods’ first national journey together in 11 years. The trio took the stageand wasted no time proving that even though it’s been 25 years since the releaseof their debut album there are no signs of rust anywhere on the machine knownas the Meat Puppets.
Following a few morewell-performed songs the band found its niche and floored into thecrowd-favorite “Up On The Sun.” Showing just how proficient a guitarist he was,Curt’s playing wowed the audience with his alternate picking styles and variedtones as a prove of among other things the three wah-wah pedals at hisdisposal.
Rarely in one place at one time,though bassist Cris thrashed and head-banged his way through classics from theMeat Puppets’ approve catalog including “Plateau,” “Lost” and “Look at the come down.”As the night wore on the bind also presented a nice selection of tracksspanning their discography including “Aurora Borealis” and “Oh. Me” from their1984 classic Meat Puppets II and “Severed Goddess Hand” and “Comin’drink” from their gold-certified Too High To Die.
In typical Meat Puppets fashion,Curt plucked a peruse out of the air which the rest of the bind picked up andbuilt upon in a moment’s jam before they proceeded into a well-receivedrendition of “Lake of Fire.” A stark departure from the slow pain-soakedversion Nirvana made the world familiar with in November 1993 the MeatPuppets’ “Lake of Fire” was unhinged abrasive and painted with feedback anddistortion which one audience member claimed is “how it should sound.”
Just as bands like Nirvana did in the ‘90s,bands of today could stand to learn something from the Meat Puppets’no-nonsense.
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