The Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood recalled telling Kurt Cobain hilarious jokes and stories before Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance in a new Rolling Stone article, and one of the stories was quite disgusting.
“We were walking down towards the playing area, and [I was] 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.
“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. I was cracking him up.”
“There was an ideology that came along with punk rock,” Krist Novoselic said in the article, “and [Nirvana] did feel like outsiders or part of a subculture. But at the same time, the only rule was to really express yourself and to make music that you thought was good and compelling.
“[The Meat Puppets] cemented for me that punk rock music doesn’t have to be about loud guitars and, you know, aggressive vocals,” he adds. “There’s a lot of diversity within that music. I thought the Meat Puppets record [II] was as good as any Neil Young record or anything in the big rock cannon. It was just like, ‘Hey, this is just really good music.’”
