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Curt Kirkwood: The 1987 Meat Puppets Interview, Continued
Here’s the second part of my April 14, 1987, interview with Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets. [Here’s the link to Part 1: Curt Kirkwood: The 1987 Meat Puppets Interview.]
Do you sing most of the songs?
Yeah.
Is it natural for you...
Curt Kirkwood: The 1987 Meat Puppets Interview
To say that the Meat Puppets’ original sound was “raw” is akin to observing that summer in the Sonoran desert from which they emerged is “sort of warm.” Originally classified as punk, the Phoenix-based trio soon began revealing influences a...
Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter Talk Slide Guitar
Muddy Waters performing at the Paul Masson Winery, September 12, 1981. Photo by Jon Sievert, used by permission.
Thanks in part to Johnny Winter and bandmates such as Bob Margolin, James Cotton, and Pinetop Perkins, Muddy Waters created so...
Tim Pierce: “My Essential Sessions and Tools of the Trade”
Tim Pierce in his home studio, 2013. Photos courtesy Tim Pierce.
Part one has already been published as Tim Pierce: Confessions of a Studio Guitarist. Here’s the second half of our 2013 interview, in which Tim delves into his favorite app...
Tim Pierce: Confessions of a Studio Guitarist
Tim Pierce at work in his home studio, 2013. Photo courtesy Tim Pierce.
In Los Angeles, with its fierce competition for play-for-pay sessions, Tim Pierce has been the man with the golden touch. Since the early 1990s, he’s been a go-to stu...
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