# Meat Puppets' bassist Cris Kirkwood shot, the insanity continues **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-bassist-cris-kirkwood-shot-the-insanity-continues/222832 "2004-01-05T16:39:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Live_Better_Electrically)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-bassist-cris-kirkwood-shot-the-insanity-continues/222832/1 "2004-01-05T16:39:48Z")
Article [here](http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/04-01/05.shtml#story3). 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. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meat-puppets-bassist-cris-kirkwood-shot-the-insanity-continues/222832/2 "2004-01-05T17:13:35Z")
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