Meat Puppets

Formed in 1980

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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, established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock, and featuring Curt's warbling vocals. The band later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993 for three Meat Puppets songs sung by fan Kurt Cobain. 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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Meat Puppets est un groupe de rock américain, originaire de Paradise Valley, en Arizona. Formé en janvier 1980, il est composé de Curt Kirkwood (guitare-chant), son frère Cris Kirkwood (basse) et Derrick Bostrom (batterie). Le groupe, aux sonorités folk, country et punk rock, est considéré comme un des groupes précurseurs du grunge et dont Nirvana s'inspira.

Prolifiques en disques mais peu reconnus en dehors des États-Unis, les Meat Puppets verront trois de leurs chansons devenir mondialement connues grâce à l'album live de Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (1994), au cours duquel le célèbre trio de Seattle reprend avec les frères Kirkwood Oh Me, Plateau et surtout Lake of Fire, chanson qu'adorait Kurt Cobain.

L'album Too High to Die reste le plus gros succès de Meat Puppets. Sorti le 25 janvier 1994, cet opus a grandement bénéficié de l'intérêt du public après la sortie de l'album live de Nirvana et se place à la 62e place du classement du Billboard américain.

Meat Puppets a aussi influencé d'autres groupes de rock comme Soundgarden, Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh et Pavement.

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