One reason may have been loyalty to MTV producer Amy Finnerty.
Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) reached seven in the UK charts and gave Macca his biggest hit in America in over a decade.Ĭobain never publicly explaining why he had agreed to do Unplugged. In the car back from his 1991 Unplugged taping he had his producer play the recording and decided there and then to release it as an album. Paul McCartney was one of the first to see the slot’s potential. By season two stars were clamouring to appear. The first broadcast featuring Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook and Cars guitarist Elliot Easton. Jim Burns and Robert Small, the Unplugged producers, wanted to transpose to MTV the earthy energy Bon Jovi had brought when he adjusted his mullet and whipped out his acoustic guitar. First broadcast in November 1989, the show had been loosely inspired by an acoustic set Bon Jovi had tacked on at the end of the 1988 world tour. The Unplugged format itself was an unlikely phenomenon. MTV must have wondered if they wanted to bring it on themselves all over again. Later, perhaps as retaliation, Guns ‘n’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan tried to beat up his Nirvana opposite number, Novoselic. Relive Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance with select songs available on the band’s YouTube page below.In revenge, as the spotlight dimmed and the stricken Novoselic staggered away, Cobain descended into the stage pit where Rose’s piano was prepped and waiting. The latter of which performed three of their own tracks, including “Plateau”, “Oh, Me”, and “Lake Of Fire”. The group opened up with “About A Girl” (the only number performed from the band’s 1989 debut album Bleach) and continued with a setlist that strayed from their more commercial hits, outside of “Come As You Are” from 1991’s Nevermind.Ĭobain, Grohl, and bassist Krist Novoselic were joined by guests including future guitarist (and future Foo Fighter) Pat Smear, Lori Goldston (cello), and both Chris and Kirk Curtwood of The Meat Puppets on acoustic bass and guitar, respectively. The band’s Unplugged performance has become so well-known within rock history, in fact, that the 1959 Martin D-18E acoustic guitar played by Cobain was recently sold at auction for a world-record-setting $6,010,000. The participation of Nirvana drummer and future Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl was also in doubt, as his notoriously intense drumming style wasn’t translating well to the more relaxed, unplugged vibe of the show.ĭespite the issues, and Cobain’s clearly fragile state of mind during that time period (roughly six months before his untimely death), the one-take, no-frills performance has since become one of the most popular acoustic performances of the 1990s. The band also went back-and-forth between MTV’s producers as to the overall direction of the performance and the band’s choice on having members of the Meat Puppets join them on stage.
The days leading up to the taped performance-which took place on November 18th-didn’t go without their fair share of issues, with Kurt Cobain being beyond tense and nervous to perform a completely acoustic show (he demanded the use of effects pedals).
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Over the course of its run on MTV, incredible performances from a myriad of musical acts including 10,000 Maniacs, Aerosmith, Robert Plant & Jimmy Page, Stone Temple Pilots, Eric Clapton, aired on the television program, in addition to one of Alice In Chains‘ final performances as a band. Arguably one of the most popular episodes from MTV’s Unplugged series belongs to Nirvana when they put on an acoustic performance that aired on December 16th, 1993. MTV Unplugged will go down in pop culture history as one of the most beloved live performance shows of its generation.
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