I saw the Meat Puppets this week when their reunion tour made a swing through Chicago. Seeing the Meat Puppets at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus in August 1987 was one of the transformative events in my life. It was as close to a religious experience as one can have at an event that ends in the crowd being pelted with cold cuts from the band’s deli tray.

Our live shows are external combustion and a lot of drool. Curt Kirkwood .

You can download a 1987 Meat Puppets show via the Meat Puppets website, which will give you a pretty good idea of what it all sounded like. You’ll miss the visual component, though, things like the Kirkwood Brothers looping their belts together and somersaulting across the stage, or giving each other piggy back rides while playing, all while playing like demons and singing like Grover being strangled.
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