SOUNDCHECK: Meat Puppets
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One Friday per month from 7–8 pm, Phoenix Art Museum turns into a live-music venue for one hour: local and regional acts, and art all around you. Season one brought you 76th Street, fearofmakingout, and The Phoenix Symphony. Season two goes bigger with Arizona Hall of Fame recipients, Meat Puppets.
Formed in Phoenix in the early 1980s, the Meat Puppets turned punk's creative freedom loose on country, psychedelia, and Southwestern desert weirdness, making landmark albums like Meat Puppets II and Up on the Sun before Kurt Cobain brought brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood onstage for Nirvana's MTV Unplugged and introduced them to a generation. More than 40 years in, the founding trio is back together, joined by keyboardist Ron Stabinsky and guitarist Elmo Kirkwood. As drummer Derrick Bostrom puts it, "This doesn't feel like an oldies act. It feels like the culmination."
Formed in Phoenix in the early 1980s, the Meat Puppets turned punk's creative freedom loose on country, psychedelia, and Southwestern desert weirdness, making landmark albums like Meat Puppets II and Up on the Sun before Kurt Cobain brought brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood onstage for Nirvana's MTV Unplugged and introduced them to a generation. More than 40 years in, the founding trio is back together, joined by keyboardist Ron Stabinsky and guitarist Elmo Kirkwood. As drummer Derrick Bostrom puts it, "This doesn't feel like an oldies act. It feels like the culmination."
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Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85004-1640, United States
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