Tue 27 May 2008
Meat Puppets – S/T 7″
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Well Mustard Relics has been running super slow lately and I apologize for that. Please don’t let that stop you from occassionally stopping by for a visit to my “cafe” (as my friend Fernando would say). Apparently the server I am on with my host is not working properly and they are in the process of transferring data to another server. I also found out that there is nothing I can do about my 7mb limit on individual file uploads, so I will unfortunately have to use external storage sites sometimes. Anyway I could continue on with this boring topic but I’d rather get to the music.
I was fortunate enough to see these guys in the late 80′s at the Kate Bucannon at Humboldt State University. Incredible in the same way No Means No and Jesus Lizard were. Do any of you old Humboldt guys remember that show? I wish you guys would help me out with some stories here because it helps me to remember too. The only stuff I had of these guys was this first 7″, so I was screaming out names to these tunes. They didn’t play any. Incredible musicians to say the least. I had a tough time putting these guys in a category because they are really all over the place in their sound. For lack of a better place I went ahead and put them in jazz punk category, although hardcore came to mind too. Let me know what you think, because I actually don’t care, I really just use them for your benefit and to give my disorganization the appearance of being organized. You really either like a song or you don’t. It either means something or it doesn’t. As you can tell, there is a lot of variety around here as far as what means something to me and what I like. Listening to this again was cool in more ways than one way. My copy, since I got it in the early 80′s from Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood, has always had a couple of spots of what I thought was wax on them. I didn’t know how to remove that without ruining the rest of the record so I never could really listen to two of the songs on here because of that. It must have been jelly donut or something though because before I ripped it I hit it with some rubbing alcohol and a q-tip and it came right off. So you are getting to hear this the way I did for the first time, complete. When I went to KFTH to get some backround they didn’t have much more than a discography, but they did have this awesome link to an awesome collection of live recordings, http://www.wohlers.org/puppets/ . Flex had this to say, “Extreme and hectic hardcore, totally frantic and raging beat, then again weird guitar noise. Highly original… a classic”. I could regurgitate some other info on these guys, but you can look that stuff up if you’re really that interested. Suffice it to say that this 1981 release still sounds good today. You tell me.
Yeah, I was a the MP show at the Kate Buchannon Romm in January 88. Mr. Bungle opened the show. I even have a picture of Gage with his long Ramones hair, sitting in the crowd before the show. I’ll try to dig the photo up if possible. This band was one of my first fave underground bands, probably because they were so weird – not at all as uniform as all the HC bands that were popular with the skater crowd in my town at the time. I could go on… good times
Love this EP. And their 1st LP (well, 12″ EP) too. Amazing stoned musicians yeah. Their later stuff is more boring to my ears but not bad either. I missed them in the days, which is a shame, but it’s never too late. You should repost those cover images when you have a decent camera!
A nice find was to meet the blog that drummer Mr. Bostrom runs. He has fabulous and interesting alternate takes there, tons of free rare downloads. Check:
http://derrickbostrom.com/puppets/
You sipping your café, Fernando (can you hear the drums, Fernando?)? I’m sipping mine and playing the Peat Muppets 7″. Love it. Love you all, in an obscene way.
Ed, dude that would be really cool if you could come up with a batch of picture from those days. I had totally forgotten Mr. Bungle played that show, was it just the two bands? Were you a DJ then, I just can’t remember a damn thing?
Come on now Fernando that same camera takes those killer landscape shots I have around here, it just isn’t so good with the close ups. Bear with me because those photos look like my memories if you could see them. I can’t stop posting just because I don’t have a scanner can I? I go to Rate Your Music just for you to get some decent looking scans! I don’t have soy milk here, but I do have horchata:-D
Expect nothing but obscenity from Erich.
Justin,
sometimes the long view is the best perspective. back then i was moving equipment for mr. bungle, 90% sure I went to that show, but cant swear to it. Didnt know any of you at that point either. oh, and Horchata tastes like poo. sorry Justin, and Fernando, cant drink it.
Justin, I forgot to tell how much I enjoyed the writing here (but not precisely because I’m mentioned! haha), I felt a bit psychedelic like travelling thru a landscape in a journey to centre of the mind. (Amboy Dukes wink). That link of MP live shows is scary. Oh about the camera, now that you cleared that, all’s fine by me; I mean, the blurred memories, the blurred photos – full magit coherence!
@Brian – dont know what kind of horchata did you taste, but Justin has the best horchata valenciana, no poo flavour man.
@Erich, tried to find a translation of the MF’s Dits & écrits but no luck, so I’ll have to go to the original French sources. 2 fat vols as far as I can see, ugh. No time now, but I’ll remember your tip come the time, thanks. About your obscene love, well, I’m blush. I’m glad it’s a kind of universal love, more dilluted. And about the question in the brackets, the only possible answer is: There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright… and if I ever had to do the same again, I would, my friend. Fernando
I vaguely remember anything except Doug going agro, or was that the Lawndale show?
I think there were several shows where mr. Grime lost it wasn’t there. What did I used to say, he would loose it if he broke the tip on his pencil. Hadn’t heard from you in a while bro, you should give your old friend a call.
Yeah, you used to do a great impression of Grime… hahaha I’ll call you today bro, it’s been too long. It’s been hectic here.
EXTREME and highly original . Simply out of this world . One of the best noisecore records ever , in my book .
More Meat, More Meat! These guys and Bungle must have been a great show.
Yeah I wish I remembered the show a little better.