They were one of the only bands I’d seen since the Butthole Surfers that I really felt was in the same ballpark as us nihilistically and aesthetically and spiritually.” I think they immediately warmed my heart because I immediately felt some sort of spiritual kinship. Musically - by the time we heard them - we were too far gone into our own thing. He stated, “We’ll never know how much influence we had on Kurt because we can’t ask him that. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Curt Kirkwood was asked about the band’s influence on Nirvana. Producer Alex Coletti told Guitar World, “ wanted to hear the ‘right’ names - Eddie Vedder or Tori Amos or God knows who.” Cris and Curt Kirwook joined the band for performances of “ Plateau,” “ Oh, Me,” and “ Lake of Fire,” the latter of which would receive plenty of play in the aftermath of the airing. Speaking of covers, three of those belonged to the Meat Puppets, whom Nirvana had been touring with just prior to the taping. Among the set list, only “ Come As You Are” could be considered a major hit for the band. Unlike a lot of their peers, Nirvana didn’t view this as a “greatest hits” show, instead opting to go deeper in choosing cuts and including a number of cover songs, something that didn’t exactly sit well with the network. The disc featured a more stripped back sound and it should be noted that both Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic made guest appearances on the Lanegan disc.
As Dave Grohl stated, “We’d seen the other Unpluggeds and didn’t like many of them, because most bands would treat them like rock shows - play their hits like it was Madison Square Garden, except with acoustic guitars.” Instead the band looked at Mark Lanegan‘s 1990 album The Winding Sheet as a source of inspiration.
But the band wasn’t exactly keen on replicating what had been done by others before. Nirvana, who had released their In Utero album just two months prior to the taping, had been pursued by the network for what would definitely be considered a coup for the show. 1, 1994, in the aftermath of Cobain’s death.Īt the time, Nirvana had seen their popularity reach new heights and the band had become one of the most familiar faces on the music video network thanks to videos like “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Come as You Are,” “In Bloom” and “Heart-Shaped Box.” At the same time, MTV had spawned one of the most popular music showcases of the day with their MTV Unplugged series, showcasing some of the biggest acts performing their songs in an acoustic setting. That would be the band’s MTV Unplugged performance, recorded in November 1993, that would eventually be released on Nov. The final months of Kurt Cobain‘s life were chaotic to say the least, but in the midst of it all, the singer and his band Nirvana delivered a poignant and beloved live performance that proved to be one of their most popular releases.
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