{"id":1636,"date":"2015-08-06T03:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:34:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T03:34:07","slug":"musics-color-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"Music&#8217;s color wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Meaty set, not-so-meaty crowd<\/strong>: Weekday shows tend to suffer, and unfortunately, the July 28&nbsp;<strong>Meat Puppets<\/strong>&nbsp;stop at Harlow\u2019s Restaurant &amp; Nightclub followed the trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with a billing that would most likely fill up a venue of the same size in any other market\u2014&nbsp;<strong>Soul Asylum<\/strong>&nbsp;was also on the bill\u2014Sacramento numbers were just enough to keep manager Jim Cornett happy. In other words, Harlow\u2019s just broke even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meat Puppets founding members Curt and Cris Kirkwood along with drummer Shandon Sahm and touring guitarist Elmo Sherwood (who is Curt\u2019s son) opened with a wonderful instrumental called \u201cSeal Whales\u201d and slowly coerced everyone from the back and front patios to venture inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singer-guitarist Curt led the band through spirited renditions of the Meat Puppets catalog (with songs dating back to the band\u2019s inception in 1980), including a lengthy version of \u201cUp on the Sun\u201d that showcased the group\u2019s dynamics and ability to&nbsp;<strong>stretch out a traditionally five-minute song<\/strong>. Also worthy of note was the inclusion of \u201cComin\u2019 Down\u201d from Meat Puppets\u2019 iconic 1994 release&nbsp;<em>Too High To Die<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And although Curt hinted that he had some tempo issues with Sahm on a couple of numbers, the band settled in and ultimately delivered an awesome set replete with fan favorites including \u201cThe Monkey And The Snake,\u201d and a cover of \u201c<strong>Cathy\u2019s Clown<\/strong>\u201d&nbsp;<strong>by the Everly Brothers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, no Meat Puppets show these days is complete without the band\u2019s hit song, \u201cBackwater,\u201d or the wonderful \u201cLake of Fire\u201d and \u201cPlateau.\u201d For the uninitiated, Curt and Cris were invited by Nirvana to play the latter two songs for the band\u2019s breakthrough\u00a0<strong><em>MTV Unplugged<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0sessions. During the night\u2019s performance of both, countless people within earshot whispered \u201c<strong>Hey, here\u2019s that Nirvana song<\/strong>,\u201d while serious Meat Puppets fans just smiled. If they only knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meaty set, not-so-meaty crowd: Weekday shows tend to suffer, and unfortunately, the July 28&nbsp;Meat Puppets&nbsp;stop at Harlow\u2019s Restaurant &amp; Nightclub followed the trend. Even with a billing that would most likely fill up a venue of the same size in any other market\u2014&nbsp;Soul Asylum&nbsp;was also on the bill\u2014Sacramento numbers were just enough to keep manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}