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Meat Puppets Concert
Oddly exactly one year after my last article on the Meat Puppets, I write about them again. I saw them on Monday at Scala.
They played quite a lot of new songs, with great energy. I haven't yet listened to Rise to Your Knees from last year, but based on the strength of their show I definitely wouldn't mind getting a copy. Of their old stuff they played 'Up on the Sun', 'Oh Me', 'Lost', 'Climbing', 'Lake of Fire', 'Plateau', and maybe even a few others ('Magic Toy Missing'? 'Aurora Borealis'?)
I hadn't previously realised that two of the band members are brothers. Cris Kirkwood (bass) was really dynamic and played a hell of a show. Curt Kirkwood's vocals sounded about the same, though he was sometimes drowned out by a harsher style than the studio takes of either Meat Puppets II and Up on the Sun (though I understand they did record harder stuff than either of those).
Overall it was their usual mix of punk, hard rock, and psychadelia; if Curt's vocals didn't have quite the same otherworldly warble that they had in 1982, the band more than made up for it in sheer intensity. Cris' exclamation that 'It's been way too long since we've done this!' was pure sincerity. The gig really felt like a long overdue reunion for a great outfit, even though it wasn't exactly their first show since the 80s. Worth seeing them if you get a chance.