Derrick Bostrom Quotes

Here, everything was chaos. People I didn’t know kept grabbing me right before I was supposed to go on, putting things in my hand and instructing me to hold still while they took pictures.

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• I relaxed, joined the audience and just enjoyed the show, letting the music do most of the work.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Enjoy
  • Audience
  • Relax

• There was a time when going out every other weekend to see your friends play cool gigs was a regular part of life.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Time
  • Friends
  • See

• When I think of my own struggles as a musician, I'm most proud of the chances I took. My style not only allowed for the possibility of failure, it practically ensured it. But this approach gave me confidence.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Style
  • Musician
  • Chances

• I like to think the Meat Puppets pay tribute to our chaos master, Gary Russell, every night. After all, as another famous puppet once said, "there is no try..."

  

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  • Pay
  • Tribute
  • Meat Puppets

• Thinking about Gary makes me feel good about our shambolic tribute the other night (which was actually fantastic, tapers be damned).

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Feel Good
  • Tribute
  • Think About

• Cris and I made a good team, me with my reverence for the classics and him taking the piss.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Team
  • Reverence
  • Piss

• What better way to honor to such agents of chaos as Keith Partridge and Charles Manson?

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Way
  • Honor
  • Agents

• We did a week with Nirvana in the fall of 1993. About halfway through our Halloween show, an overexcited fan bopped Kurt on the noggin with a tennis shoe. Kurt grabbed the offending article and looked into the audience for the culprit. Unable to find him, Kurt dropped the shoe onto the stage, unzipped his fly, and mid-song, filled the shoe with piss.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Show
  • Fan
  • Nirvana

• I hadn’t touched the drums in over fifteen years, and hadn’t been on stage in twenty. During our brief rehearsals, I’d been trying much too hard; trying to be too clever. But in the actual moment, the magic asserted itself with an authority that took my breath away.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Stage
  • Try
  • Touch

• After last Friday's Meat Puppets show, their annual fall visit to Phoenix's Crescent Ballroom, I went up and introduced myself to the two tapers in the process of packing their gear.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Introduce
  • Gear
  • Go Up

• Only super fans and close personal friends ever heard this stuff, but it's long past time that I share them with a wider audience. I still think "Beer Barrel Polka" would make a great Meat Puppets cover.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Audience
  • Hear
  • Cover

• Now that the fair is moving on and the Puppets are off to the next gig, I wanted to thank everyone for the nice wishes, both from the social media and from those of you I saw in person Thursday night.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Thank
  • Gig
  • Meat Puppets

• Sometimes it's as much about the willingness to take the journey as it is about the journey itself. You've got to take the risk. Sometimes you even have fight for your right to fail.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Journey
  • Fail
  • Willingness

• They make an interesting footnote in Meat Puppets history, as well as a preview of my Today's Sounds project.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • History
  • Make
  • Project

• In my world, you really gotta keep on people if you want to be sure that things won’t get fucked up.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Get
  • Keep On
  • Fucked-up

• Now that everybody shows up these days their own little metal tubes covered with buttons and lights, and filled whatever special blend they’ve cooked up, pot is more like a designer drug than the sacrament it was in my day.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Drug
  • Pot
  • Sacrament

• The Puppets continue to improvise during their shows, but it's a very different sort from back in the old days.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Shows
  • Improvise
  • Old Days

• Now -- fuck -- we've all gotta go back and get busy with our lives. But it was nice that we all came together to experience the INDESTRUCTIBLE POWER OF ROCK AND ROLL once again!

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Experience
  • Lives
  • Busy

• Here, everything was chaos. People I didn’t know kept grabbing me right before I was supposed to go on, putting things in my hand and instructing me to hold still while they took pictures.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • People
  • Chaos
  • Grabbing