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Meat Puppets
Phoenix, United States • b. 1980-01-01
Meat Puppets is credited on 160 releases across 38 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1981–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
160
Pressings credited
38
Albums
5
Decades active
904
In collections
Biography
Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood (guitar/vocals), his brother Cris Kirkwood (bass guitar/vocals), and Derrick Bostrom (drums). The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix. The three then moved to Tempe, Arizona, where the Kirkwood brothers purchased two adjacent houses, one of which had a shed in the back where they regularly practiced. Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but like most of their labelmates on SST Records, they established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock, and featuring Curt's warbling vocals. Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. The band's eighth studio album Too High to Die (1994) was their most successful release and featured their best-known hit "Backwater". The band broke up twice, in 1996 and 2002, but reunited again in 2006.
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Credited work
160 releases · 38 albums · active 1981–2024
- Performance · 148
- Production · 92
- Other credits · 10
- Engineering · 6
Studios: Chaton Studios · Pantheon Studios, Arizona · Studio 7, Oklahoma City, OK · The Warehouse, Memphis
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