Meat Puppets drummer Derrick Bostrom left the band in 1996. The band then broke up in 2002. In 2003, bassist Cris Kirkwood (brother of the band's guitar player Curt Kirkwood) pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon in 2004and was sentenced to 21 months in prison. He kicked his drug addiction while locked up. The brothers Kirkwood reformed the band in 2006.