The Meat Puppets were another of Kurt’s obsessions ... The Man Who Sold the World [the David Bowie song covered by Nirvana on Unplugged]. “It’s an acoustic guitar, but obviously he ...

Members of Meat Puppets even joined Nirvana on stage ... The album version of Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged set was released several months after Cobain took his own life in 1994.

The trio known as Meat Puppets weren’t exactly a household name before 1993. After performing on Nirvana’s episode of MTV Unplugged, Meat Puppets gained both notoriety and their biggest album ...

On December 16, 1993, Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged made its television debut ... including a traditional folk song and cuts from David Bowie and Meat Puppets, the latter of whom Nirvana was touring ...

“They were really nervous about doing Unplugged, because they were really leaving themselves ... Focusing on covers ranging from Bowie to The Vaselines and the Meat Puppets, Nirvana experimented with ...

Kirkwood recruited Krist Novoselic for the power trio, as the pair had history — you’ll surely recall that Nirvana covered two Meat Puppets songs for MTV Unplugged, even bringing the Kirkwood ...

“We’d seen the other Unpluggeds and didn’t like many of them,” Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl ... from psychedelic country-punk band the Meat Puppets – the day before they were scheduled ...

Between 1989 and 1994, they put out three studio records, recorded the greatest MTV Unplugged set ... really stoked on the Meat Puppets because of their proxy with Nirvana. Few rock bands in ...

Few bands have embraced their rough edges as completely and as compellingly as Meat Puppets ... Me" (famously played by Nirvana on their 1994 MTV Unplugged album) hits every raggedy note with ...

Their sound grew more expansive with each release, and 1984’s Meat Puppets II and 1985’s Up on the Sun attracted a critical following, influencing a generation of bands including Nirvana ...

His persona was curated as much as any other rockstar; Nirvana had a brand image, after all. They were angsty, they pushed limits, they played loud. So when MTV Unplugged invited them to play a ...