Recorded and mixed over three days, 1985’s Up on the Sun is the high-desert psychedelic followup to Meat Puppets II. Curt remembers, “I was trying to get outside of style, if anything. I always thought it was a pretty different album for us, one that stands out. I love the sound of it.”
“It was just like magic,” says Curt, of the SST years. “You could make a record, with no thought to how much it will cost. There were no time worries, no money—but it wasn’t required. There wasn’t any production. You just go in and play. It was like you were doing a gig. Then we kind of figured out how to mess around with production, when we produced Up on the Sun. But even that was done in three days. No one was trying to figure out how to make things sell, they were just letting you do it.”
Recorded and mixed over three days, 1985’s Up on the Sun is the high-desert psychedelic followup to Meat Puppets II. Curt remembers, “I was trying to get outside of style, if anything. I always thought it was a pretty different album for us, one that stands out. I love the sound of it.”
“It was just like magic,” says Curt, of the SST years. “You could make a record, with no thought to how much it will cost. There were no time worries, no money—but it wasn’t required. There wasn’t any production. You just go in and play. It was like you were doing a gig. Then we kind of figured out how to mess around with production, when we produced Up on the Sun. But even that was done in three days. No one was trying to figure out how to make things sell, they were just letting you do it.”