I was 15 years old at the time of the concert, and had first heard Nirvana when I was a boy in the 5th and last grade of elementary school. This was one of the first concerts I went to. By the way, when he introduces "Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam", he says, "This is a song by The Vaselines". But meeting Kurt, having him sign my record and just being there was incredible. More so now because I didn't realize it was one of the last shows Nirvana would ever play. What was your favorite part of the night? - The entire experience was amazing. I had the first pressing clear vinyl version of In Utero which he signed for me "Kurdt" and he gave me a hug. He didn't seem interested in talking to or mingling with any of the MTV people there. And after they were done, Kurt came back over to the fans. I recall a lot of people unable to identify a handful of songs (the Bowie cover and the Meat Puppets songs in particular)ĭid you get to mingle with the band? - Before they started their set as I described above. Once they started playing, we weren't sure what to expect, so it was quiet in between songs I think out of respect. Kurt was incredibly sweet, gave the kid next to me a cigarette and gave a few of us hugs. The band came out one by one and came over specifically to talk to us. What was the atmosphere like at the venue? - It was mostly MTV exec and workers, minus the small group of fans that all sat stationed directly behind Dave Grohl's kit. Still own just about every official CD single release, as well as most of the vinyl releases of all their early stuff. Were they a big Nirvana fan before going to Unplugged? - Yep. I just needed to bring a canned good for a Thanksgiving food drive and that was my admission. It opened with "Time to change your name to lucky!" It said Nirvana were doing an Unplugged for MTV and several fans (out of a million) from their fanclub there and I was one of them. I wrote into a tiny "Nirvana Fanclub" ad in the back of SPIN magazine thinking it was another fan I could potentially trade bootlegs with or something, never heard anything for 7 or so months and then randomly got a letter in the mail from their "official fanclub". Nirvana was my favorite band of all time and on top of seeing them unplugged that week, I also went to both electric shows. I was 16 years old at the time and sitting right behind Dave Grohl for the unplugged show, so I'll gladly answer these questions as I seldom get the chance to talk about it.ĭo they realize how lucky they were? - Absolutely.
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