Date: November 17, 1993City: New York, NYVenue: Sony Music StudiosAdditional Info: MTV Unplugged SET LIST: * Crackerman * Creep * Andy Warhol * Plush * Big Empty * No Memory / Sin * Wicked Garden * Sex Type Thing
Q: I heard several people talking about this recording of 'Sin' from MTV Unplugged. Where can I find it?Sin from MTV Unplugged must be one of the most sought-after Stone Temple Pilots recordings ever. Over the years many people claimed to have it, but upon further inspection I always found that they actually have the recording of No Memory and Sin from a performance at the Reading Festival (August 29, 1993) in the U.K. That performance is not even close to 'unplugged'. It's the fourth track on the european 'Sex Type Thing - Part 1' single.Now what's up with the 'real' Sin from MTV Unplugged? Well, I can only tell you this: Back in the winter of '98/'99, Eric Walker and I were planning on making a special 'theme' page for Below Empty about the MTV Unplugged performance, after we got in contact with a reliable source who worked for MTV and had access to the archives. But guess what? Sin wasn't on the tapes there. Big Empty was there, so was Andy Warhol, the other song edited from the original broadcast.After some more research we were told that there were DAT errors with the audio recording of Sin. This was only discovered after the show, and so the band didn't do a second take or something like that.
Alice in Chains Unplugged was unbelievably good.
Except for when Layne removed his shades - that was one of the most depressing sights I've ever seen.
Alice in Chains Unplugged was unbelievably good. Also, I love Nirvana's covers of the Meat Puppets' songs on their Unplugged album.
I agree. One of the best thing about that early nineties era was that so many of those bands gave us acoustic versions of so many awesome songs.