I’m pretty sure these are the last of the old photos sitting on my hard drive. Assorted live shots and some odds and ends.
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… i tripped and fell into this awesome-sauce
Greetings from La Posada - Winslow, Arizona.
Happy National Train Day.
Auld Reekie (by National Library of Ireland on The Commons)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Monitor’s 1981 LP finally available on CD (w bonus tracks).
Orson Welles removes his makeup on the set of Citizen Kane.
Cinephilia & Beyond has an amazing find: the complete collection of Orson Welles’ Sketch Book: “a series of six short television commentaries by Orson Welles for the BBC in 1955. Written and directed by Welles, the 15-minute episodes present the filmmaker’s commentaries on a range of subjects. Welles frequently draws from his own experiences and often illustrates the episodes with his own sketches.”
All the essential documentaries on Orson Welles, including Orson Welles: The Paris Interview (1960), Filming ‘The Trial’ (1981), The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996), Shadowing the Third Man (2004), Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995), With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film (1990), Filming ‘Othello’ (1978), F for Fake (1973), Orson Welles with French film school students, Orson Welles “Its All True” Citizen Kane and RKO, and seven-minute video of a very young-looking Welles (he was 23 at the time) addressing an onslaught of press members on October 31, 1938, the day after The War of the Worlds broadcast.
A futuristic cityscape that Jack Kirby penciled as a gift for Don Heck in exchange for Heck inking some work for him.
Amazing Adventures #39, November 1976, cover by P. Craig Russell
Derrick- Who is the picture of featuring the lawnmower. Pretty sure that is you with the mower, and it looks like an older version of Curt, but who is the other person? Is this some final version of the pups before it all went south? What year is this from? Thanks
The other guy is the photographer’s assistant. Curt refused to pose for the lighting tests.
Thanks Derrick. So that is Cris, huh? Man, I swear if I didn’t know any better I would think those guys were brothers. Have to admit that does look like Curt on the Snow cover.
Ian, just a heads up on that article. I remember that quote exactly. It was from an 86 issue of Spin, and when they are referring to not having to take drugs etc, and don’t have to act like fuck ups- mentioning they just naturally are- this is all in reference to bagging on the Replacements. Then again, Curt tells the interviewer he has a monorail in his backyard, and that children are fruits, grown on trees and meant to be peeled and eaten. Funny stuff. So I am assuming they were still quite on drugs. It was by this lady who wrote at the magazine. I want to say it was Sue Cummings, but I am sure I am wrong. Great writer back when Spin was actually somewhat cool. Maybe Derrick will be nice enough to post this interview sometime.
Last week I was surfing around a bit, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the old Meatpuppets.com webpage is archived here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010623193739/www.meatpuppets.com/archive.htm
The archive.org site is also known as the “The Way Back Machine”, and it is chock-full of internet nostalgia.
Evidently, the “Archive” link from the old site has been archived, if you will forgive the apparent double-speak. Those pics Ian remembers are on there, under the “Tour Diary Bonus: Extra Photos” link.
That first photo of Cris is Meat Puppets…sweaty, possessed…like some alien gopher poking up from the terrain of a barren planet ready for war…like a living embodiment of one of his drawings.
You all must definitely be straight edge – forty somethings who remember shit from 20 years ago…
derrick do you have any more photos of the band onstage with cool art visuals like the forbidden places live shot (above). or how the stage was setup during ‘backwater’ and ‘never to be found’ on the live dvd??
ps- is there a way we can contact the people who shot the movies used in the DVD and get the other rare songs that must have been on the same original reels??? youre the man keep up the good work.
yo.. ya whos this dude that reambers stuff from 20 years ago really what the hell! anyway i don’t no why i’m writing this so…. um meatpuppets kick ass
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hey derrick, i was just wondering if its possible to reissue forbidden places. i don’t know to much about recording records or anything, so im just wondering if thats possible.
love your druming by the way
We don’t own the rights to any of our Polygram albums, and aren’t likely to acquire them any time soon. As evinced by our inability to get them to let us license any Polygram tracks for the “Classic Puppets” compilation, I’m guessing that relationship will languish until someone over there gets the urge. I’m sure it will happen one day, but not in the immediate future.
buena mierda, nunca muere
Hey Bostrom- You remember where this shot was taken? http://meatpuppets.com/puppets/wp-content/photos08/live1.jpg ’cause i’d swear that’s a picture of me second from the left at the bottom!
Peter -
I have no idea where this was taken. It looks like it’s from 1988-ish, judging from the outfits.
I was gonna say the Kennel Club in SF….
my god that food looks awful. burnt toast and I hazard a guess raw meat. yuck!
When did the Meat Puppets play at the Kennal club?
I don’t think that’s the Kennel club, btw. Never had exposed wall studs, as I recall.
Looking at some of the photos of Meat Puppets’(I’m unsure of whether my apostrophe should indicate that each of you is a “meat puppet” or that “The Meat Puppets” is considered an integral body) gigs makes me sad. It sucks being born a decade and a half too late.
-Jimmy (17 year old, Irish Meat Puppets fan – coincidentially born in Phoenix)
You guys rock ive only been listening to you for a few months but i cant stop listening to you. You rock Derrick Bostrom!
Derrick- I grew up here in the valley and in a drunken stouper after a Meat Puppets release got the dang bands name tattoo’d on my back! Now at on the cusp of 40 I have a hard time explaining it to people. I showed you guys it after a show in SLC backstage. We ate chicken wings together and goofed around.
The New Years even shows at the Sun Club in Tempe are memories to last a lifetime. 2 inches of liquor on the ground and music blaring until the wee hours of the morning.
Jeff – Pup’s played the Kennel Club I’d say in 1988…it was before the earthquake because I was still living in an apartment that was subsequently rendered uninhabitable. But I was at that show, and I most definitely see myself in the photo
I was a big fan through the puppets first 3 albums. Fell away until Forbidden Places. To me a classic rock Album. Saw you guys in Portland the same night the Blazers beat the Suns in one of the best of 7 in the playoffs in pheonix. What a show! you guys took it out on us. I can’t recall but it was back when Portland had Clyde the Glyde
puppets are the best, from chile. I like a lot the band its one of my favorites bands Come to chile it will be a honor for us
MEAT PUPPETS II RULZ (GREAT PICS)
Happy Thanxgiving Hey lets do a remix compilation. Different compression / gate stuff with the latest processors on the ol’ control grid Remicing technics would sound great with drums, could have guest mixes, sounds like a party. with crazy automation. Hey Check it Out myspace.com/mikemerriam and my dogs myspace.com/baebaeandroxy Big heart for the Meat Puppets OK Mike
I just found this site through a link posted on metafilter yesterday. We were pen pals WAY back in 1983 or 84. Here is one more photo from the East side Club in Philly… http://www.flickr.com/photos/tlong/76162857/in/set-1409253/
Hey Derrick, just found your blog here… great stuff. I was a fan of you guys since way back in the Keats Rides A Harley days.. I was in two bands on that too, S-Squad and Earwigs. I’m the drummer. We came to see you at Cathay de Grande right about then cause we were so blown away by your track on Keats. Good times!
i knew meat puppets when they played with nirvana, i really like their songs!! I’m from argentina and it’s a pleasure to post in your page! ale
Okay, so this response to a comment above is three years later. But since I work at World Cafe Live and since you guys are coming through again soon, I thought I should check out your site. The toast isn’t burnt and it’s not meat. Kurt is showing off his scrambled eggs to the camera. My camera. Sorry the hand tinting hasn’t held up through the years.
Never mind that commenter, Lisa. It’s an awesome photograph. I love the details in the background!
My husband’s band Carnival Season opened for the Meat Puppets in Birmingham, 1986. Here’s a link to the flyer. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=388368955872&set=a.388001690872.202350.387975375872&type=1&theater
Many years ago you returned a book (The Hollow Doll) I loaned to you. I was always impressed by the fact that you mailed it back as you were in Arizona and I was in Alabama. My friends and I were on a road trip and you showed us around town, mainly on the hunt for Nutella.
Thanks again and take care!
Hey! I remember that book! So that’s where it went! Thanks again for the loan!