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. 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.
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