Meat Puppets: Phoenix 1980 (Soundboard) FLAC

Private Party, Phoenix area, AZ
6/20/80
Source Lineage: SBD(2)>Onkyo TA-RW344 w\ azimuth correction>Cooledit Pro 2.0>.wav>CD>EAC>flac (level 8)

Set:
1) Cranked Up Really High (slaughter & the dogs)
2) See Her Tonight (the Damned)
3) Shot by Both Sides (Magazine)
4) Fetus in Pus Sauce
5) Class War (dils)
6)
7) Chinese Rocks (dee dee\johnny thunders)
8) Outdoor Miner (wire)
9) I Got A Right (cut)
10) I Got A Right (full) (stooges)
11) Neutral
12) Adolescent (the plugz)
13) New Rose (the damned)
14) Jesus Was A Leprechaun (feederz)
15) Get On Our Own (buzzcocks)
16) Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment (ramones)
17) Rodea
18) In Love with Today
19) Punk Mobile (johnny moped)
20) Let’s Get Rid of New York (the randoms)
21) Wild Lead
22) Incendiary Device (johnny moped)
23) Improvisation

Here is the earliest known LIVE recording. Again, it’s all covers, though some stumped my, as far as the original artists are concerned….
The quality on this is a tad rougher than the others, but still, very enjoyable. I still give it a B+. despite some over modulation and distortion in spots…you may give it a B.
This one was a little trickier to label, since not all the songs were listed on the J-card. I was able to get every song but track 6…you’ll know it…it’s somewhere back in the recesses…rather than trying to pull it out and dust it off, I’ll get this seeded now ;)
This show also was labeled with 2 different dates, one saying 6/2/80…that was a Monday…the 20th was a Friday…more than likely, the 20th is correct…
Again, thanks to Dave Homes!!
ENJOY!!
A notsaved transfer.
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
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 in general, 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 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…

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