Meat Puppets Defend Hootie Label Alliance For 'Golden Lies'

09/14/2000 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(9/14/00, 12 p.m. ET) - Meat Puppets release Golden Lies through Atlantic Records and the Hootie & the Blowfish-run subsidiary label, Breaking Records, on September 26. LAUNCH asked Meat Puppets singer/songwriter Curt Kirkwood if it was strange being signed to Hootie's label considering the musical differences between the two groups.

"That's what it really is all about," he replied. "They think they're a great band, we think we're a great band, I have played with them in the past and Mark [Bryan], their guitar player, really liked the Meat Puppets, which is why we're on Atlantic. That has nothing to do with the types of music that the different bands play. I would say that maybe they have a disparate crowd that people would notice. I mean, all the demographic stuff, that falls on the audiences and they just take it. 'We are that. Yes.' Some of them rejoice."

Kirkwood added, "I don't pay any attention to it. When we were touring with Black Flag, we were certainly different from them and nobody made a big deal about it."

The first single from the Meat Puppets' album is "Armed & Stupid," which Kirkwood says has to do with living in Venice, California, and his propensity for hunting as a youngster.

Meat Puppets kicked off their brief tour last night (September 13) in New York City. The band is perhaps best known for being covered by and guesting with Nirvana on MTV Unplugged In New York and for the hit song "Backwater."

-- Darren Davis, New York

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