Meat Puppets

The Meat Puppets were a three-piece punk rock cover band in Scottsdale, Arizona, formed in January 1980, originally calling themselves the Bastions of Immaturity. The Kirkwood brothers, Curt and Cris, played guitar and bass, respectively, a

The Meat Puppets were a three-piece punk rock cover band in Scottsdale, Arizona, formed in January 1980, originally calling themselves the Bastions of Immaturity. The Kirkwood brothers, Curt and Cris, played guitar and bass, respectively, and Derrick Bostrom played drums. They started calling themselves the Meat Puppets in June, 1980, after a song by Curt of the same name.

Their early works (the In a Car EP and Meat Puppets I LP) were wholeheartedly punk, with vocals so feral in their delivery they were often indecipherable, but ultimately humorous and ingenious once discovered. The musicianship was mostly breakneck thrash, but yet, the songs were tinged with a subtle, haunting element like that of a long abandoned ghost town. Their brand of cathartic, explosive hardcore attracted the attention of legendary punk label SST, who released their first record in 1982.