For their debut performance on MTV Unplugged, Holes set list.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. Seattle sensation Nirvana taped a performance for MTV Unplugged in New York City. Nirvana (90s US grunge band) Nirvana (60s band from the UK) Nirvana (’70s French band from Martigues) Nirvana (Early 1980s Finnish punk band) Nirvana 2002 (Swedish death metal band) Nirvana (Croatian prog-rock band active in first half of 70s in former Yugoslavia.) Nirvana (founded in 1987 by a Michael Jackson double/imitator) Nirvana Vs.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.The best television episode of the 1990s starred a short, blond man and his band. 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 highly-anticipated performance came only two months after the release of the bands final studio album 'In Utero' and immediately became a defining moment in Nirvanas career.The Unplugged format itself was an unlikely phenomenon. MTV must have wondered if they wanted to bring it on themselves all over again.On November 18, 1993, Nirvana performed at MTV studios in New York for a legendary acoustic performance that would air as part of the MTV Unplugged series. All told, it was a lively evening. Later, perhaps as retaliation, Guns ‘n’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan tried to beat up his Nirvana opposite number, Novoselic.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 format soon caught on, though. The first broadcast featuring Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook and Cars guitarist Elliot Easton.
Eddie Vedder and Tori Amos were MTV’s preferences. MTV producers were thrilled when the band revealed their plans to feature guest performers. Why wasn’t anyone writing that about him?Still, Nirvana were only ever going to play by their own rules. He put the publication down and squinted into the middle distance. Aged just 20 she had championed Nirvana when they were an unheralded indie band, pushing her reluctant bosses to play the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video.The sense that he had somehow been slighted by the world was catalysed when, on the road touring Nevermind, he read a magazine article lauding his Seattle rival Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam as an outstanding lyricist and arranger. One reason may have been loyalty to MTV producer Amy Finnerty. He was anxious and wanted to gaze out at some supportive faces. In rehearsals, he shouted out to Amy Finnerty, asking that she and her friends sit up front during the performance proper. Later, it would be noted that of the six covers performed, five mentioned death.Cobain was a bundle of jitters before the taping. Good bedrock serversUp in the sound booth, producer Scott Litt was taken aside by panicked MTV executives and asked if he could “get more hit songs” out of the band.So there was real nervousness, on stage and off, as New York members of the Nirvana fan club filed in and took their front-row seats (so much for Kurt’s hopes of seeing Finnerty and her friends). But that was it as far as smashes went. They were amenable to dusting down “Come As You Are”. As at the VMAs, Nirvana had ruled out reprising “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. And then there were the technical complications with “Pennyroyal Tea” and “About a Girl”, which Cobain tried twice before abandoning.The major worry for MTV producers meanwhile was that Cobain was skimping on the hits. They’re making it up as they go. “Do it yourself,” Dave Grohl responds. “Am I doing this by myself or what?” Cobain asks. Disorganisation similar raises its head going into “Pennyroyal Tea”. “The Man Who Sold the World”, for instance, would have not been half as moving had he not preceded it by stating “I guarantee you I will screw this song up”.He meant it too, having done just that in rehearsal.
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