Curt Kirkwood

Besides Black Flag's Greg Ginn, the Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood was one of the top guitarists to emerge from the '80s U.S. punk rock movement. But in truth, Kirkwood's playing and writing have little to do with punk (besides being full of punk's energy and unpredictability) -- he's always listed such classic rockers as ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia as his biggest guitar influences, while his singing and songwriting contains elements of such country legends as George Jones. Born January 10, 1959 and raised in Phoenix, AZ, Kirkwood formed the Meat P...