Around 1999 Meat Puppets frontman Curt Kirkwood formed a new band. It was initially called the Royal Neanderthal Orchestra, but they changed their name to Meat Puppets, and release "Golden Lies" in 2000 and "Live" in 2002. This line-up included Shandon Sahm on drums, replacing initial drummer Derrick Bostrom. Sahm's father was the legendary fiddler-singer-songwriter Doug Sahm of The Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados.