Too High to Die, released the following January, earned the band its biggest crossover hit, “Backwater,” and a Gold record. The guest spot did more than expose a larger audience to the Meat Puppets’ psych-folk country-rock - it made their record label take them more seriously. If I could get George Jones to do some, that would be cool, too.” Really the coolest part was, if anybody from the rock scene is gonna sing that stuff, that would have been one of my choices. “The bands are similar that way - just learn the songs enough to not fuck ’em up. Cobain, who relaxed the crew and audience with wry cracks between songs, can barely contain his smile when the crowd applauds the beginning of II highlight “Plateau.” The bonhomie between one of indie rock’s freest spirits and the supposedly tortured voice of a generation carried onto the set at Sony Sound Studios in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, where Kirkwood and his brother Cris performed three songs from their twangy 1984 release Meat Puppets II with Nirvana. “I don’t know why we were talking about that, but it was one of my favorite things when I was a kid - get gum off the bottoms of tables in a restaurant and eat it.
“We were walking down towards the playing area, and telling Kurt that I liked to eat the gum off the bottoms of tables when I was a little kid,” Kirkwood laughs, recalling the absurdity.
One of his fondest memories, in fact, is of joking with Kurt Cobain just before the now-legendary performance. Preparations for Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged appearance in November 1993 were reportedly tense, but that’s not how easygoing Meat Puppets songwriter and frontman Curt Kirkwood remembers it.
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