In a message dated 4/26/99 8:11:06 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< You have reason to be skeptical, judging from the new lineup's performance
at Liberty Lunch during SXSW. They were disappointing at best, mediocre at
worst, and not very much like the Meat Puppets, really. It was an
unfortunate way for us to close out what had been a pretty solid, if not
breathtaking, string of shows at SXSW, and an unfortunate reminder that the
Meat Pups now belong to the past. >>
Do you include the Bottle Rockets, who played right before the Pups at that
same venue, in your string of breathtaking shows? I'm curious because I
thought the were pretty awful, as well as arrogant as hell, refusing to play
*any* old material at all and practically taunting they they were twangless.
What was left was southern and crotch rock not unlike Radar Gun, which is the
band at its worst. imho. And then there was that one song that was so
rudimentary in its rhymes that you had to wonder if it was real. Me and
Copetas sure had fun playing "guess the next line" during that one, which I
don't think was the reaction the band had intended.
Suddenly venomous,
Neal Weiss
