Dateline: Wednesday, January 7, 2009
I think about what it feels like to play music, something you wrote and to have to live with. This usually occurs to me after I've seen some band that's had to carry on for years, and must have found some sense of regeneration to keep at the same choruses over and over. Sometimes, I get it. I get why Keith Richards can still look like he's having fun after so many years, because he gets to play the opening chords of "Tumbling Dice" every night.
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Q&A BY DANNY R. PHILLIPS
Since the early 1980s, the Meat Puppets have been confusing critics and influencing followers with their acid-fueled, psychedelic, country-punk freakouts. Few bands in the history of rock have so openly challenged existing boundaries like the Pups. Any given album (or song, even) features elements of punk, bluegrass, straight -ahead rock and beat poetry style lyrics.
Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, and now based in Austin, the band was formed by twin brothers