Meat Puppets' bassist Cris Kirkwood shot, the insanity continues

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Last I heard Cris went missing after his wife died of a drug overdose in a motel room and he fled the scene. The Meat Puppets have always been a pot and 'shrooms kind of band, but I think Cris became addicted to heroin on the Too High to Die tour. If there’s a sunny side to the whole sordid mess, maybe this incident will force him to detox and the Meat Puppets will stage a comeback.

I spent a crazy night with those guys in the mid-80’s. I was a DJ at a college radio station and I had to ride with them from their hotel to the station for an interview and then over to the venue (The Spirit Club in San Diego). We got dinner at a taco stand along the way. They were fucking hilarious; joking around, getting in fights, talking serious shit. I can’t believe they’re still around.

Haj