Sunday, May 30, 2010

Arizona Audioblogging: Meat Puppets Live At The Mason Jar, Phoenix, August 18, 1984


This Meat Puppets show was recorded at the Mason Jar the night after this one. It has better sound quality and is a fantastic performance. There are some technical issues: some "time to turn the tape over" confusion and restarting at the end of part one and the beginning of part two. The second part of the show is tragically marred by a drunk and noisy young lady sitting very near the tape recorder, and at one point she decides to sing a loud, tuneless rendition of "Shine on Harvest Moon" while the Meat Puppets are playing the best version of "Oh Me" I ever heard. Tsk. These things happen. Besides the usual suspects, songs from Meat Puppets II and Up On The Sun, there's an aborted attempt to do the ridiculously intricate "Out in the Gardener" from their first single, and two Elvis covers: "Trouble" and "Suspicious Minds."

I went to this show with my friends Jeff and Sam, on a weekend in Phoenix when the MPs were playing two nights in a row. I specifically remember this night being one of the times they let us pretend to be "roadies" so that we could get in the bar without all of us being old enough*. At the beginning, Chris says, "Check this out: it's a balloon with another balloon blown up inside it," something we had given him before the show. A fun night was had by all!

The two mp3 files are 105mb, and zipped up for download here.

*Looking back on it, were the Meat Puppets contributing to the delinquency of minors? I guess so, but they were a rock band! That was one of their jobs!

UPDATE – Hello and welcome all MP fans. Please to enjoy my humble offerings and amusing anecdote!

7 comments:

Ann G said...

Thank you, oh favorite blogger!

Karen Zipdrive said...

I wish I'd known you back in those days. I believe you would have turned me into a devoted faghag.

Peteykins said...

Perhaps not, Karen; I had hardly any gay friends at that point. Couldn't find any I liked!

notsaved said...

hey!

if you would be interested, i'd love to digitize your recordings in LOSSLESS flac!...so much better than MP3!...

please drop a line here if possible...i have done this in the past for others who and can give references to my thoughful transfers, speed and reliability that you'll get yer tapes back with CDs AND flacs...


interested, please drop a line!

burnsj@newpaltz.edu

thanks for the lossy versions though...appreciate the effort!!

james

Peteykins said...

Yeah, I was waiting for the "FLAC" requests to begin.

No offense, but if I pass these along to anybody, it'll be Derrick.

G said...

Peteykins,

These are all great.

Do you still have the link to the download of the Clancy's show (9/9/84). I was hoping to share it with a few friends. LOVE the psychedelic "Hot Pink" ending on that one especially.

Thanks

Anonymous said...

Here's an imperfect list...

The Meat Puppets
at The Mason Jar
Phoenix, AZ
August 18, 1984

I: (46:39)

1. Creator
2. Climbing
3. The Whistling Song
4. Animal Kingdom [instr.]
5. Too Real
6. We’re Here
7. Enchanted Pork Fist [instr.- mainly]
8. I’m A Mindless Idiot [instr.]
9. Plateau [at 21:40]
10. ?
11. Buckethead
12. Aurora Borealis [instr.]
13. Polk Salad Annie [at 32:59]
14. Seal Whales [with lyrics]
15. Lake Of Fire
16. Out In The Gardener [stopped] (?)
17. ? [fast and punky]
-there is some weirdness with the flip


II: (28:49)

17. ? (cont.)
18. Trouble
19. Suspicious Minds
20. ? [at 9:32]- cut or stopped (?)
21. Oh, Me [with a drunk girl singing ‘Shine On Harvest Moon’ in the background]
22. Walking Boss
23. ? [improv.]