Eleven years ago, when I saw the Meat Puppets at the Astroarena opening for Stone Temple Pilots, they were pedigreed by Kurt Cobain via Nirvana's MTV Unplugged appearance, they had a gold record in Too High to Die, a hit song, and a new record that was supposed to solidify them as post-grunge cow-punk superstars. But they broke up, moved back to Phoenix, started a few different supergroup bands, got back together, broke up again, and even went to prison... [more] || [Tom Koenig] || [12/20/07]