But this was just like a real show… almost a coffee house-sorta thing from front to back, with no retakes or anything. I’ve never been at another one of those Unplugged tapings, but I’ve definitely heard they can be a little more trying for some people. Oh yeah, there was very little production to it. It sounds like it went really smoothly, all things considered. It was easy stuff, we played those songs a lot and acoustic stuff is just a lot easier for me because there’s a lot less mystery to it. It was just going great so it was pretty normal. By the time we got on it was a really good show. Everybody there knew why they were there - it wasn’t like anybody had to be sold. It wasn’t a real big place it’s pretty intimate. We had done a live rehearsal there at the stage before. Then I knew when I was supposed to go on. I was just part of the audience up until our part. What was the vibe like when you first took the stage? When Kurt Cobain Died: Former Billboard Editor Recalls Being On the Scene When It All Happened It was just like summer camp - “Oh, the craft session is going to be held in New York this weekend crafts has been moved up to a different part of the camp. We knew where they were coming from and we got along real well. I think they probably could have done whatever they wanted and I think they knew that… it was totally natural. I knew the scope of it to a degree, but it wasn’t until that tour when I realized how cool it really wasĭo you think they had any inhibitions about doing such a big thing for MTV? We were going through that, so I was pretty occupied. We had just gotten signed to the majors a few years before. That was the first time I’d met them - I’d been really busy, and I was aware of them, and had heard some of it, but it kind of went over my head. But they were pretty easy to get to know. He was just saying what they were going to go do that and they wanted to do three of our songs and just asked us real simply if Cris and I would like to come up and do the guitar stuff on them. I was talking to Kurt backstage at one of the shows I forget where. How did they ask you to be part of the Unplugged session? Did you spend a good amount of time hanging out?Ĭris Kirkwood and Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets during Meat Puppets in Concert at The Knitting Factory - 1992 at Knitting Factory in New York, New York, United States. The Unplugged session happened while you were on tour with them in 1993. Which is part of the similarity between them and us - the eyes roll back in the head and it’s on. You could get involved to the point where you just weren’t thinking about it. They had a set to a degree, and they had some props and stuff, but it was real. Dave (Grohl) is an insane drummer and he was a lot of fun to watch. What was it about Nirvana’s live show that you really drew you in? 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. Twenty years later, Curt Kirkwood is remarkably well-adjusted about his time in the shadow of a superstar who was actually one of his biggest fans. But this brush with stardom did vault them to their commercial peak over a decade into their career - 1994’s “Backwater” hit No. Meat Puppets were one of Nirvana’s core influences, and despite never reaching anywhere close their level of fame, they’ve endured to this day, releasing new music as recently as 2013.
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