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...show is about to start, but the bickering seems unstoppable. Courtney Love and her punk-rock group, Hole, are on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in mid-February, preparing to tape a performance for MTV Unplugged--the hugely influential show in which rock bands cast aside their electric guitars and amplifiers in an attempt to demonstrate their musical talents on old-fashioned acoustic instruments...
...does--and with impressive results. "Welcome to MTV Unglued," Love says jokingly at the start of the show. Her voice is raw, but the band's ragged sound is perversely charming in this folksy format. They rip through a few songs from their current CD, Live Through This, as well as an unreleased Cobain tune, You Got No Right. The performance is unexpectedly loud, and not completely unplugged--Love and Erlandson gamely pluck away at acoustic guitars and are backed by a harpist, but their instruments are wired to not strictly kosher onstage electric amplifiers. Still, the show has grit...
...MTV Unplugged has become the place where boys strive to be men, women to be divas, and rockers of any gender or persuasion can become megastars. Unplugged albums are showing up ever more frequently at the top of the charts, and the unplugged ethos has influenced much of pop music. The very term unplugged has entered the language, connoting that something or someone has stripped off the gaudy trappings of the disinformation age and gone back to basics. MTV this month is launching a new series of Unplugged concerts, featuring some of the hottest acts in pop music. Among them...
Gustave Hauser, Chairman and CEO of Hauser Communications, pioneered the modern cable television industry. He was crucial in the conception of the MTV and Nickelodoeon channels...
...veterans and a talented young Californian took top honors at the 37th annual Grammy Awards. Tony Bennett, who won his first Grammy 33 years ago for I Left My Heart in San Francisco, won Best Album with MTV Unplugged. Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Philadelphia was named Best Song. And Sheryl Crow is the year's Best New Artist...