Meat Puppets,
Merlin’s,
Tempe, AZ
February 2, 1982

VOLUME 2

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Set:
1) Lavender Blue (Burl Ives)
2) Animal Kingdom
3) When You Dance I Can Really Love (Neil Young)
4) Milo, Sorghum & Maize
5) Una Paloma Blanca (Slim Whitman)
6) Astronomy Domine (the Pink Floyd)
7) Magic Toy Missing
8) Green River (CCR)
9) Teenagers
10) Hearts
11) Everybody’s Talking (Harry Nilsson)
12) Saturday Morning
13) Our Friends
14) Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf)
15) Tumbling Tumbleweeds (Bob Nolan)
16) Hair
17) I Had A Dream Last Night
18) I Know You Rider (Grateful Dead)
19) Scarlett Begonias (Grateful Dead)


So far, my favorite show in the batch …look at this setlist!!...the performance is killer too, with a super early version of “Animal Kingdom”. Who else could pull off Una Paloma Blanca into Astronomy Domine??!!! Brilliant!!!



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From the incredible collection of Dave Homes. 

Dave was kind enough to send off these extremely rare and important documents fer me to transfer and I am all the better fer it. And now you can be too ;). These shows represent some of the earliest material to surface from the Meat Puppets, and they are quite spectacular. 

The story goes that a friend of Mr. Homes worked at a local record store in Phoenix and got to know Derrick Bostrom pretty well; well enough fer Derrick to give him live tapes of the band. Since Dave then was able to transfer them straight from the tapes Derrick gave out, and not from his pal’s copies, these are the lowest generation around.

Now, figuring that Derrick was (and still really IS) the archivist of the original band, these are almost certainly from 1st generation tapes. Since there are usually a couple of shows (or excerpts of shows) on each tape, we can kinda deduce that Derrick made copies from his masters, making these most certainly 2nd gen copies…in other words, pristine.

The tapes were labeled, which really helps when yer dealing with early Meat Puppets shows, but, but some tapes contain a couple of excerpts of shows that were only labeled by date. Until further info can be brought to light on the filler material, which I’ll seed separately, all known info will be given in the info files of each seed

There are a bunch of these, so I decided to seed them in Volume sequence for you to keep track of what ya have and what ya may want, especially those who want to get them all. They are, fer Meat Puppets fans, true holy grail material…

Please note, no enhancement has been done to these recordings. I may have been able to tweak some minor dropouts and eliminate hiss and some other minor stuff, but I left them as is. As always, azimuth correction was applied ensuring the best transfer possible, but that is it…

To me, these recordings capture not only the early days of the band, but the early days of the Phoenix punk scene, just as Tony Victor, who later founded Placebo Records, was beginning to book local bands, and eventually, out of town punk bands passing through to get to L.A. 

Now ya ca hear the band way back when Black Flag was only on its third singer…in all it’s chaotic glory. The gorgeous melodies and intricate song structures are still here, ya just may need to listen little harder to decipher them fer the folks who only know the later stuff…or not at all (is that possible?)

I certainly don’t look at the early band as one still trying to find their niche, as some folks may. The ‘break through” Meat Puppets II, while still containing some of the reckless abandonment of the earlier stuff, refined the sound a lot. Yet these recordings prove, without a doubt, that they were always a great band. 

Thanks to Dave fer liberating them…

A notsaved transfer.

-DO NOT SELL!!!
-PLEASE DO NOT DISSEMINATE IN MP3 FORMAT. 


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