Re: Meat Puppets (was Re: Speaking of Noise)

1999-04-26 Thread Amy Haugesag

I'm in "Day Late and Dollar Short" mode, I'm afraid. Steve Kirsch said:

Yup, and I'd suggest further that from the second album (MP2) onwards
they never really released a clunker until that horrible No Joke record.
They were a hell of a band. I'm skeptical about the new lineup without
Cris and Derrick, but we'll see.

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.

--Amy




Re: Meat Puppets (was Re: Speaking of Noise)

1999-04-26 Thread Ndubb

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



Re: Meat Puppets (was Re: Speaking of Noise)

1999-04-26 Thread Amy Haugesag

Neal:

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.

I was afraid that sentence would be read wrong; I should have said "a
pretty solid, *though* not breathtaking, string of shows"  What I
meant, in fact, was that very little that I saw at SXSW knocked my socks
off. I thought Hayseed was wonderful, even though I left in the middle to
go see the Damnations), and Hillbilly IDOL, who I saw only at an in-store,
were a highlight, as were Slobberbone, Amy Rigby, the Meat Pervs, and a few
other acts. But I saw a lot of fine-but-ordinary shows too. And though I
didn't feel as venomous about them as Neal did, I thought the Bottle
Rockets were definitely "off" at Liberty Lunch that night. Robbie Fulks,
who preceded them, was a pleasure, as always, and Reckless Kelly, who
preceded him, were much better than I'd expected. But the BRox were a big
letdown, as were the Meat Puppets.

--Amy