By Samantha Parvin
Meat
Puppets, a band that has been around for nearly three decades and has
experimented with most all musical genres under the sun, has just released yet
another album, Sewn Together.
Brothers Cris (bass) and Curt (vocals, lead guitar) Kirkwood, along with
drummer Ted Marcus, began a tour to support the album on May 12 in Los Angeles
and will end in Austin on July 9. Cris
caught up with AMG to talk about the album and the show on June 16 at East
Atlanta’s The EARL.
Tell
us about the new record, Sewn Together. Artistically, what did you want to accomplish on this album that is
different from your previous albums?
On
previous we were trying to keep from giving each other crabs. Now we’re trying to give each other crabs. We’ve kind of laid off getting offensive and
have grown close to our own.
You
and your brother, Curt, are back together again for the first time in several
years. What do you think your reunion
and the addition of drummer Ted Marcus will create on this tour? Do you see a vibe or tone forming yet for the
tour?
Curt
and I met Ted during last record in 2006. We noticed something right away. Whatever the fuck it is, we noticed it right away. The faint stink of doo-doo that Curt and I
do, just the two of us together again – we’re family, and we’ve been so
astranged – and that was because of me. One thing I feel is that we’ve done it so long, we’re almost able to
“ape” my heroes and I can almost tolerate what I do - almost.
What have the shows been like
thus far on the tour, and what can we expect from the June 16 show
at The EARL?
Disappointment, alienation,
you know, the stench of desperation.
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