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This is a television show.” And sure enough, the songs were re-arranged in the edited version of the performance that was shown on MTV - and the joke about it just being a TV show was omitted.
After chatting with band member Krist Novoselic about apparently having a couple of songs in the wrong order, Cobain smiles and tells Novoselic, “Let’s just play them back-to-back.
Similarly, he takes delight at one point in the “Unplugged” taping in putting MTV in its place during the December 1993 taping. In a famous Rolling Stone cover photo, his T-shirt carried a wisecrack about Rolling Stone’s ties to the corporate rock culture. But he looked for ways to mock the institutions along the way. The back story: Though Cobain was contemptuous of corporate rock vehicles such as Rolling Stone magazine and MTV, he was practical enough to go along with them because he knew it would help his band sell millions of albums. While Nirvana’s studio albums, “Nevermind” and “In Utero,” remain the essential samples of Cobain’s energy and art, there is an intimacy and gentleness about his performance in “Unplugged” that may be the best glimpse of Cobain the man. I’ll never forget the words of one man in his 40s when I asked him if Cobain meant anything to him: “They ought to pass out shotguns to all the rest of. The rest of the city, however, seemed indifferent, even hostile to Cobain and the young corps of musicians.
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