facility. Kirkwood's time in prison, which he said "was actually pretty tolerable", helped him kick his drug addiction cold turkey. However, no recordings of Kirkwood's jail band performances are known to exist. He served out his time and was released on July 7, 2005. Return to the Meat Puppets In April 2006, Billboard announced that Cris and Curt Kirkwood would be recording again as the Meat Puppets. Curt said the brothers planned to release an epic album of "big Meat Puppets stuff", followed by a tour. The original drummer, Derrick Bostrom, was replaced by drummer Ted Marcus. "I haven't seen my brother since like 1998, but I'm talking to him a lot," Curt was quoted as saying. "He's [been] clean for more than two years and he's all raring to go. Cris' resurrection is no less than miraculous – it's like a Lazarus-type thing. I was just like, 'If Cris is back, I know his frame of mind.' If he's upright and walking, it's hard to knock him down." Cris appeared on the Meat Puppets' first post-reunion album Rise to Your Knees (2007) and its three follow-up records Sewn Together (2009), Lollipop (2011) and Rat Farm (2013). In 2015, he launched his own self-titled podcast, The Cris Kirkwood Podcast. On July 10, 2015, Kirkwood appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor Podcast. In 2016, Cris either produced and/or played with the following artists for Slope Records – The Exterminators, the Linecutters, and Sad Kid. Personal life Kirkwood is a grandson of Carl W. Renstrom, who was owner of Tip-Top Products and a multi-millionaire from Omaha, Nebraska. Discography References 1960 births 20th-century American guitarists Living people American people convicted of assault American punk rock musicians American rock bass guitarists American male bass guitarists Meat Puppets members People from Paradise Valley, Arizona People from Tempe, Arizona Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government Musicians from Phoenix, Arizona Guitarists from Arizona American male guitarists American shooting survivors