Former Nirvana, Meat Puppets, Sublime members join forces
BySep 8, 2002 10:00 PM
The Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood, Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic and Sublime’s Bud Gaugh are hitting the road to support the self-titled debut from their new band Eyes Adrift, which hits stores on Sept. 24.
The Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood, Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic and Sublime’s Bud Gaugh are hitting the road to support the self-titled debut from their new band Eyes Adrift, which hits stores on Sept. 24.
On Aug. 19, the trio played a warm-up gig in New York to prepare for the upcoming tour. Kirkwood handles guitar and vocals, Novoselic is on bass and Gaugh plays drums.
The band was formed last year when Novoselic called Kirkwood to suggest that the two begin performing and writing. Around the same time, Gaugh read in a local paper that Kirkwood was playing solo. Like Novoselic, he called Kirkwood and suggested that they get together. Novoselic and Gaugh then traveled to Austin, Texas, to join Kirkwood and begin writing.
“The second day it was just like ‘oh, we’ve been doing this for a long time,’” Gaugh says in a statement that is posted on the band’s official website. “We just started burning tape, and it was like, yep, this is definitely golden here. And it just kept getting better and better. And by the end when we had [the song] ‘Pasted,’ it was like, we could be really dangerous here.”
The group completed a brief tour early this year.