Meat Puppets
Salty Dog,
Phoenix, AZ
3/16/82

***Volume 3***

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Set:
1) Unpleasant
2) Our Friends
3) When You Dance I Can Really Love (Neil Young)
4) I Know You Rider (Grateful Dead)
5) Good Buddies
6) Electromud
7) Big House
8) Green River (CCR) (cut)
9) Good Lovin’(the Olympics\The Rascals) (cut)
10) Litterbox
11) Moby Dick (Led Zeppelin)
12) Just Like Your Mom (Vox Pop)
13) Bionic Girl (Feederz)
14) Hissing, Pissing, Pussies
15) Destruction Unit (Feederz)
16) Lodi (CCR)
17) Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)
18) Just Got Paid (ZZ Top)
19) Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
20) Let It Shine (Neil Young)
21) Hearts


A real barn burner here. An odd set that breaks down into some hardcore madness, before getting back into the staple classic covers. Couldn’t find any info on “Hissing Pissing Pussies” as it labeled on the tape…

It opens with Curt saying, “Hello, we’re the meat puppets and we suck”…which made me chuckle as Primus would later use that to open all of their shows…and the Meat Puppets toured with Primus in 94…coincidence…probably, but still made me chuckle. Their cover of Green River is a couple of years pre-Minutemen too…quite the trend-setters they were (are)…

Maybe not quite as “on” here as the first 2 volumes, but still quite an enjoyable on fer me…hopefully fer you too…

Do Not Sell!!
Please Do Not Disseminate in MP3 Format   

-x-

From the incredible collection of Dave Homes. 

Dave was kind enough to send off these extremely rare and important documents fer me to transfer and I am all the better fer it. And now you can be too ;). These shows represent some of the earliest material to surface from the Meat Puppets, and they are quite spectacular. 

The story goes that a friend of Mr. Homes worked at a local record store in Phoenix and got to know Derrick Bostrom pretty well; well enough fer Derrick to give him live tapes of the band. Since Dave then was able to transfer them straight from the tapes Derrick gave out, and not from his pal’s copies, these are the lowest generation around.

Now, figuring that Derrick was (and still really IS) the archivist of the original band, these are almost certainly from 1st generation tapes. Since there are usually a couple of shows (or excerpts of shows) on each tape, we can kinda deduce that Derrick made copies from his masters, making these most certainly 2nd gen copies…in other words, pristine.

The tapes were labeled, which really helps when yer dealing with early Meat Puppets shows, but, but some tapes contain a couple of excerpts of shows that were only labeled by date. Until further info can be brought to light on the filler material, which I’ll seed separately, all known info will be given in the info files of each seed

There are a bunch of these, so I decided to seed them in Volume sequence for you to keep track of what ya have and what ya may want, especially those who want to get them all. They are, fer Meat Puppets fans, true holy grail material…

Please note, no enhancement has been done to these recordings. I may have been able to tweak some minor dropouts and eliminate hiss and some other minor stuff, but I left them as is. As always, azimuth correction was applied ensuring the best transfer possible, but that is it…

To me, these recordings capture not only the early days of the band, but the early days of the Phoenix punk scene, just as Tony Victor, who later founded Placebo Records, was beginning to book local bands, and eventually, out of town punk bands passing through to get to L.A. 

The gorgeous melodies and intricate song structures are still here, ya just may need to listen little harder to decipher them fer the folks who only know the later stuff…or not at all (is that possible?)

I certainly don’t look at the early band as one still trying to find their niche, as some folks may. The ‘break through’ Meat Puppets II, while still containing some of the reckless abandonment of the earlier stuff, refined the sound a lot. Yet these recordings prove, without a doubt, that they were always a great band. 

Thanks to Dave fer liberating them…

A notsaved transfer
