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What happened to the Meat Puppets?

Meat Puppets Return From A Decade Of Turmoil The Meat Puppets, a punk rock band led by brothers Cris and Curt Kirkwood, played with Nirvana on MTV Unplugged in 1994, and released the hit single "Backwater" the next year. Two years later, Cris plunged into a decade of heroin addiction, and the band fell apart.

Then, how many albums do the meat puppets have?

Meat Puppets/Albums

Did the Meat Puppets play with Nirvana?

Three of those covers came from their 1984 LP Meat Puppets II, as members Curt and Cris Kirkwood joined Nirvana onstage to provide backing instrumentals on "Plateau," "Oh, Me," and "Lake of Fire." To mark the anniversary, Billboard spoke with vocalist-guitarist Curt, the eldest of the Kirkwood brothers, as he kicked

Why did Nirvana cover the Meat Puppets?

This was done for a number of reasons, not least of all practical concerns, as Cobain would not be forced to learn the arrangements of the songs. It also created great exposure for the Meat Puppets, indie-rock heroes for Nirvana and other bands of their generation.

Consequently, who are the members of the meat puppets?

Meat Puppets/Members

Are Meat Puppets grunge?

Over the course of grunge's tenure, the Meat Puppets always got the reputation as a bit of a name-drop band.

Consequently, how many meat puppets songs did nirvana cover?

three songs

As Kurt Cobain and the band shunned the usual expectation of playing their best-known songs and took the opportunity to acknowledge the influence of Meat Puppets, the brothers stepped out of the audience to accompany them on the three songs they covered from the 'Meat Puppets II' album of 1984, 'Plateau', 'Oh, Me' and

Regarding this, what songs did nirvana cover on mtv unplugged?

Track listing

No.	Title	Original release
1.	"About a Girl"	Bleach
2.	"Come as You Are"	Nevermind
3.	"Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam" (The Vaselines)	Dying for It
4.	"The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie)	The Man Who Sold the World

How many covers did Nirvana do?

Artists covered by Nirvana

Shocking Blue	189
Wipers	25
Lead Belly	17
Led Zeppelin	15
The Velvet Underground	11

In respect to this, what is cowpunk music?

What Is Cowpunk? Cowpunk, or country punk, is an umbrella term for an array of music artists and rock bands who fold elements of the American roots sound into their chosen genres, ranging from rock and roll and pop-rock to garage rock and hardcore punk rock.

By Mani Huckell