Artist description What is meeting pig? Good question. He is a little pig that appears during meetings at work. About 6 month ago he started showing up all over my notebook I take to Meetings. I don't know why. One day he was just there. Since then he has evolved somewhat. He has lost his legs, developed a more circular form, and now his eyes stare out in disbelief. The meeting pigs posted on this site represent some of the "quintessential pig work" I have done in meetings over the past 6 months or so. When I started recording this new material 2 months ago (3/2002) I didn't have a name for the collection. So I used a theme from my life that seemed to be cropping up automatically. Said pig.

Music Style indie, thats a ball park

Musical Influences beck, radiohead, qbert, helmet, jane's addiction, and a bunch of other stuff i sound nothing like.

Similar Artists Beck, Elliot Smith, Pete York, Rufus Wainwright, Radiohead, Michael Penn, Ben Folds, David Bowie, Cat Stevens, Beatles, John Lennon, Folk Implosion, Sebadoh, Lou Barlow, Harry Nilsson

Artist History official bio Chris Porro is Meeting Pig. Meeting Pig is a tired and frustrated pig that moved to san Francisco a year and a half ago. He was hoping to find a fresh place where new music was being hatched and great venues would support it. Instead, he found a music scene at the mercy of a wild influx of yuppies, crazed rental prices, and a bunch of "happy to rock the bars" bands. So, after several semi-successful months playing out with various hacks, a transformation occurred; During meetings at work crude pig drawings began appearing in his notebooks. At night he used the low-fi set-up in his tenderloin apartment to write all new material without the aid of a live band. two months latter the first Meeting Pig recordings were done. The demo, entitled "Meeting Pig", is based partially on dream logs, frustrations of semi-corporate life, a good spirited loathing of programming his DR-660 drum machine, and fun-loving demons from an interesting childhood. I dub thee corporate-parasite rock! Before San Francisco Chris was involved in several successful rock projects in Tucson AZ. Most notably the Annie Hawkings band (1998 Tucson Area Music Awards winner for pop) where he was brought on as a guitarist to faithfully reproduce the studio sound of her 3rd full length CD release (sex master). Several live dates were played with the new lineup including the annual Tucson Club Crawl Festival and various dates in Phoenix and Flagstaff. After plans for a southwest US tour in the summer of 1999 were canceled Chris opted to move to San Francisco in search of greener pastures. Prior to that he was the primary writer for Tucson's up and coming post modern rock band Plus (runner up "best up and coming band" 1997 Tucson Area Music Awards). Whose brief career included the recording of 3 EPs, local openings for major label acts Citizen King and Fat, and general ghetto-macgyver tomfoolery. Currently Chris likes to hole himself up in his apartment, pretend he is a cute little pig, drink Stoli's, listen to the drug dealers outside, and write music. Ultimately this pig is very serious about music and a life as a recording/performing artist. Oink. INTRODUCTION TO THE UNRIVALED MASTER OF THE AMERICAN MYSTERY MEETING PIG, BY H. M. TRAN Chris Porro wrote very good songs for a very long time without anybody noticing. In 1974, one of his songs was made into the film ROCKETS, starring Buddy Bolden, and nobody noticed. In that film, Porro hisself played the professional trainer of the fighting cocks, and was just as laconic and offbeat an actor as he was a songwriter, and still nobody noticed. And then came along MEETING PIG. From whise? After all Porro's years in the wilderness, writing good songs nobody noticed, why did MEETING PIG come along to change it all, to force Porro to come back for song after song, to make listeners suddenly notice this quirky, oddball, invigorating voice that had been in their midst unheard for so long? I think I know whise MEETING PIG came from. I knew Porro some in the last years of his life, and found him gentle and knowledgable and absolutley secure in his own persona, which makes him on the surface much different from that final creation of hiss. MEETING PIG is anything but secure, has come nowhise near fighting his way to the calm plateau Porro had reached. So whise did he come from? Out of the wildernees. I think MEETING PIG came out of that same wilderness in which Porro had labored for so long. Chris Porro was never a failure, in the sense that his songs are very good songs, carefully wrought. his career might stutter along in obscurity, but the songs were solid. And I think the only way he could go on doing that year after year, without eithis giving up or turning bitter, was that he'd trained himself to know that the work was very important but at the same time it didn't matter at all. And the extension from that was that all of life was very important but at the same time it didn't matter at all. I believe that particular self-induced schizophrenia got Porro through the lean years and let his keep on singing, and I believe it ultimately produced MEETING PIG, which doesn't so much share that worldview as live it. MEETING PIG is a good cop, or at least he tries to be a good cop, but in his Miami, one good cop is about as useful as one good paper towel in a hurricane. MEETING PIG is constantly bested by people tougher and meaner than he is, he's contantly lied to and betrayed, he's constantly faced with the futility of what he's doing, and yet he keeps moving doggedly forward, and among the greater hopelessness he does bring off some modest- and very satisfying- successes. I don't mean that MEETING PIG was Chris Porro's alter ego. I mean that Porro's experience of his life led his to a certain attitude toward the world and his place in it, and this attitude, ironic without meaness, comic but deeply caring, informed every song he ever wrote, from his three records of autobiography through all the unoticed singles, and that finally MEETING PIG embodied this attitude more completely than anything else he's ever done.

Group Members chris porro

Instruments sounds sampled from san francisco, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, baritone voice, drum samples, electric bass, other stuff

Albums EP, meeting pig

Additional Info spooner@spoonerdesign.com

Location san francisco, ca - USA

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