Here's an amazing recording from the dawn of the Meat Puppets, when the sound was raw and Kirkwood hair was shorter than Bostrom hair. This was a freak find while trolling usenet :)

I'm still trying to figure out where the Mardi Gras Club is or what the actual date was. I don't remember it from Phoenix, but my memory ain't what it used to be.

--later that day....

Derrick Bostrom wrote:
> 
> By the way, the Mardi Gras show was from June 30, 1981. We played
> there only once. It was on Central, somewhere around MacDowell (that
> area is all freeway now). It was available as a venue for less than a
> month; it caught on fire shortly after it started letting punk bands
> play. The Feederz, Killer Pussy and Victory Acres also played there.
> Reach Out (I'll Be There), The Losing End, Bad Moon Rising and
> Submarine Races are the standouts in my opinion.

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