Meat Puppets + Nirvana: the Core Relation

Two endpoints. 3 steps. Where would you dig next?

Lake of Fire connects Meat Puppets II to Nirvana’s Unplugged performance, with Curt and Cris Kirkwood joining them.

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Meat Puppets → Meat Puppets II → Lake of Fire → Nirvana

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Three more rabbit holes

That Nirvana Unplugged song has a 1970 Bowie trail.

Continue through Nirvana.

Nirvana performed the title song from David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World.

David Bowie → The Man Who Sold the World → The Man Who Sold the World → Nirvana

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Nirvana’s debut single leads to a Dutch band from 1969.

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Love Buzz appeared on Shocking Blue’s At Home before Nirvana released its cover as their debut single.

Shocking Blue → At Home → Love Buzz → Nirvana

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A short Scottish EP opens another Nirvana tunnel.

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The Vaselines released Molly’s Lips on Dying for It; Nirvana later recorded the song.

The Vaselines → Dying for It → Molly’s Lips → Nirvana

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Open Find, choose Meat Puppets and Nirvana and explore the graph. This is one documented route; the finder may offer a shorter one. Follow a person, a record or a place that catches your ear.

Spot a missing credit or a better source? Open the relevant entry and contribute what you can document. A cover, sample, shared city and shared stage mean different things; the source should support the exact relationship.

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