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UR025: 12 Solo Acts Unplug Their Former Bands [MTV Unplugged]
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Season Two Finale! Spanning 1990 to 2019, we dig into a cool dozen solo acts who spiced up their Unplugged setlists by reworking a song or two (or six) from their former bands (some of which who have since gotten back together).
The solo acts who unplugged their former bands include:
- Joe Walsh (formerly of The Eagles)
- Don Henley (formerly of The Eagles)
- Paul McCartney (formerly of The Beatles)
- Sting (formerly of The Police)
- Eric Clapton (formerly of Cream and Derek & the Dominos)
- Paul Simon (formerly of Simon & Garfunkel)
- Annie Lennox (formerly of Eurythmics)
- Bruce Springsteen (formerly of The E Street Band)
- Neil Young (formerly of Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Crazy Horse, and The Stills-Young Band)
- Rod Stewart (formerly of The Faces)
- George Michael (formerly of Wham)
- Liam Gallagher (formerly of Oasis)
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Transcript
Introduction to 'Unplugged Revisited'
00:00:00
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Welcome to Unplugged. Unplugged. Unplugged. Revisited.
00:00:14
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Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Unplugged Revisited, the podcast that celebrates, critiques, and dives deep into the last three and a half decades of MTV Unplugged. I'm your host, music journalist, pop culture anthropologist, and Unplugged obsessive, Will Hodge.
Solo Artists and Former Band Songs
00:00:30
Speaker
Friends, I think I've got a really fun show for you today, based around an idea I've had rolling around since last season. Of the countless memorable moments MTV Unplugged gave us over the years, I always enjoyed it when a musician who had once been in a notable band but had now gone the solo route used their Unplugged moment to pull out a song or two from their former band.
00:00:50
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In fact, whenever you'd see a new episode commercial or TV guide listing for an upcoming episode that fit that bill, at least for me, I would sort of not just anticipate it, but expect it and really start looking forward to the possibilities.
00:01:04
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Because it wasn't an automatic thing. There were multiple solo acts that played unplugged and never once dipped into their former band's back catalog. Bjork sadly didn't play any Sugarcube songs. Elvis Costello didn't play any Attraction songs. Lauryn Hill didn't play any Fuji songs.
00:01:21
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Tori Amos, Phil Collins, Ricky Martin. The list goes on. But for those brave solo souls who did revisit and revive the former band chapters of their musical journey during their unplugged episodes, how exactly they decided to do it was always such a fun and surprising thing to experience.
00:01:39
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Some artists judiciously kept it to a single song drop-in, while others came close to practically dividing their unplugged setlist in half. Some went with fairly faithful renditions, while others completely deconstructed and rebuilt their old songs anew.
00:01:54
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Sometimes they leaned on the familiar hits, sometimes it was a deep track rarity, and sometimes it was the very first time they had ever played a decades old song in front of a live audience.
00:02:05
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The possibilities were endless, and just how much creativity and effort the artists put into it was both a representation of how popular and respected Unplugged had become as a show, and also just a total gift for us as music fans.
00:02:19
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I also really enjoyed the different ways the artists chose to introduce these former band songs during their Unplugged tapings. Sometimes they'd just intro it outright. This next track is ah the one wham track of the evening.
00:02:31
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Other times they'd get a little cheeky with it. See if you can spot this one. And sometimes they'd just start playing the song and see how long it would take the audience to pick up on a notable riff or lyric.
00:02:50
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And in some cases, these former band numbers also ended up becoming quite significant mile markers to Unplug's own development and entrenchment in the pop cultural collective consciousness.
00:03:01
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Eric Clapton's acoustic reinvention of Layla, Rod Stewart kicking off the Unplugged reunion trend by inviting Ron Wood to be his surprise special guest, even Joe Walsh and Don Henley's season one squabble over who should be able to unplug Desperado.
00:03:15
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There were some really important evolutionary moments for the show that all had this solo act former band through line running within them.
Episode Focus: 12 Solo Artists
00:03:24
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So that's what today's show is all about. 12 solo artists who spiced up their unplugged set list by reworking a song or two or six from their former bands.
00:03:34
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Sting, Annie Lennox, Paul McCartney, George Michael, Liam Gallagher, the gang's all here. We've got a ton of great music and cool stories to get into this episode, so let us Terry know further.
00:03:45
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But first, let's take care of a few announcements and more on the other side of this vintage Unplugged
Sheryl Crow's Unique Cover
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commercial break. Now, while the gold plating on her Grammys is still wet, MTV brings you Sheryl Crow, Unplugged.
00:04:05
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Grammy winner, Sheryl Crow, unplugged. Tuesday night at 10. Man, are we fast or what? Man, I seriously love that episode from the 95 season so much.
00:04:17
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Sheryl Crow covering Led Zeppelin on an accordion? Do not sleep on that one if you've never checked it out. Okay, on to this week's
Corrections and Announcements
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announcements. Announcement one.
00:04:28
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Two quick corrections from my last episode with Joe Public talking about the R&B Unplugged episode they did with Boyz II Men and Sean East. My apologies for swapping the last names of two of Joe Public's members. It's J.R. Sales and Jake Carter.
00:04:43
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That's 100% my bad, and again, my apologies to JR and Jake for the mistake. Also, I mentioned that Teddy Riley produced Keith Sweat's Keep It Coming album, but I should have clarified that the chart-topping title track hit single that Joe Public wrote and sang on was actually produced by Joe Public and their manager, Lionel Jobe.
00:05:03
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My immense thanks again to Joe Public for coming on the show. And if anybody hears any mistakes or flubs during this episode, please get at me and let me know. UnpluggedRevisited at gmail.com.
00:05:14
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Announcement 2. This one's a bit of a behind-the-scenes inside baseball programming update. Y'all know I don't usually get too in the weeds of my personal shenanigans, but as many of you are already aware, I'm getting a PhD in history and I'm closing in on finishing up the final chapter of my dissertation.
00:05:31
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And there was much rejoicing. Which means I will then have to submit it to my committee members, work on revisions, and get everything finalized for the big defense and graduation, blah, blah. blah All that to say, just like last year, I'll be taking another between seasons break for a bit to hyper focus on finishing up my dissertation.
00:05:50
Speaker
So today's episode will be the last one of this season. While I don't have an exact season three return date to share just yet, there are a few big things in motion that will dictate when that will be.
00:06:01
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Just know that I have every intention of not only coming back for a third season, but that I also have a really cool plan of some overarching designs of what season three will look like. and I'm really excited to share those with you.
00:06:13
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During the between-season pause, I might drop in with a bonus episode here and there, whether it's to catch up on some of the artist interviews that needed to be rescheduled, or perhaps share some fun news about a potential new project I'll hopefully be greenlit for.
00:06:27
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But either way, once I've got a specific Season 3 launch date, I'll for sure pop back in your feed and let you know. So if you're not already, make sure to subscribe to stay plugged in. As always, genuinely, thank you so much for listening and sticking with the show.
00:06:42
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More to come on all this.
Special Segments: 'Uncovered' and Tributes
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Okay, let's keep things rolling with this episode's Uncovered. This is the segment where I quickly highlight a couple cool unplugged cover songs all tied around a singular theme.
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My pick for this episode's theme is the massively influential legendary soul singer Sam Cooke. It's been a long
00:07:06
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Long time coming, but I know a change gonna come The first Unplugged Sam Cooke tribute showed up all the way back in the official first episode, you know, after the pilot was squeezed in Sid's straw. Unplugged episode one was a split show between the Smithereens and Graham Parker, and they closed things out by joining together with original Unplugged host Jules Shear to do an acoustic mashup of Sam Cooke's 1961 20 single Cupid and his top five pop hit Chain
00:07:42
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Cupid, I'll help me. I need you. Oh, yeah. Well, don't you know that's the sound of the men working on the chain.
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The next one showed up just a couple of years later when Rod Stewart did his big Unplugged in 93. He ended up putting an amazing bow on his entire show by covering Sam's 1962 Pop Top 20 R&B Top 5 smash, Having a Party, a song he had only played live one other time in the early 80s.
00:08:16
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Rod ended up liking his Unplugged version so much that he released it to radio where it became a Top 40 pop hit and an adult contemporary Top 10.
00:08:34
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All right, what do you say we get into today's show?
Revisiting Former Band Songs on MTV Unplugged
00:08:37
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Here's 12 solo acts who had some fun unplugging their former bands.
00:08:44
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Before fully jumping in, let me just acknowledge up top here. I know some of these solo acts have since reformed with their old bands. Springsteen moved back to E Street like 30 years ago.
00:08:55
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Liam and Noel patched things up after a decade and a half apart. And I believe some Frankenstein version of the Eagles is still touring around somewhere. However, at the time of their respective MTV Unplugged episodes, they were all in some state of being firmly broken up with their old bands. Hence, the formerly qualifier.
00:09:14
Speaker
Alright, MTV Unplugged wasted zero time in becoming one of the go-to venues where solo acts could creatively dabble with their previous band's back catalog. So let's kick things off all the way back to the earliest days of MTV Unplugged, late 1989, early 1990, the single digits of Season
Joe Walsh and Eagles Tensions
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1. Joe Walsh, formerly of the Eagles.
00:09:36
Speaker
So, Joe Walsh's MTV Unplugged episode came extremely early in the show's run. As in, only the pilot episode had aired when he and six other acts were invited down to New York City's tiny National Video Center production studio to record the first four official episodes of the show over a two-day filming session on December 13th and 14th of 1989. Hi, this is MTV Unplugged.
00:10:00
Speaker
I'm Jules Shearer. This is Joe. Can you meet Joe? As most folks know, the original vision for Unplugged was for each episode to be a relaxed, two-artist, informal, old-school hootenanny kind of thing.
00:10:15
Speaker
Well, instead of following the two artists premise that they were trying to establish with the other episodes filming that day, the Unplugged crew were already wanting to experiment with the format a bit by doing a Joe Walsh and Friends sort of vibe. And they were hoping Joe would bring along some of his big name rock star friends from his 70s, 80s classic rock heyday.
00:10:36
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Somewhere along the way though, wires got crossed or something because the only friend Joe showed up to National Video Center with was his touring bass player.
00:10:50
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As the Unplugged crew scrambled for a backup plan, Serendipity showed up in the form of famed blues, jazz, funk rock shaman, Dr. John, who just so happened to be working on something else at National Video Center that day. And he saved the episode by agreeing to step in and play a couple songs with Joe.
00:11:07
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Anyway, so crisis averted. And even though Joe hadn't brought along any notable friends or former bandmates from his time playing lead guitar in 70s rock legends The Eagles, he still used his early unplugged moment to give a nod to his old band by playing the fan-favorite piano ballad Desperado from the band's second album.
00:11:28
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Of all the Eagles songs Joe could have picked to play on Unplugged, Desperado was a curious one, as he actually wasn't yet in the band when they originally released it. Desperado was the title track to their sophomore album that came out in 1973, and Joe didn't join the band until 1975. The first Eagles album he appeared on was their fifth one, 1976's Hotel California, and then he remained with them until their infamously acrimonious breakup in 1980.
00:11:56
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And speaking of that bad blood band implosion, multiple Eagles members, including Joe, had pretty successful solo moments throughout the ensuing decade. But, uh, quote-unquote tensions, shall we say, remained. So, when the Joe Walsh-Dr. John MTV Unplugged episode was broadcast in mid-February 1990, Joe's performance of Desperado ended up not actually making it to air.
00:12:21
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And that was solely thanks to this next artist. Don Henley, formerly of the Eagles. That's right. Joe's old 70s Eagles bandmate turned eighty solo artist competition, Don Henley.
00:12:34
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Also, notably, co-writer of and lead vocalist on Desperado. Somehow he got wind that Joe had performed the song during his unplugged taping, and he responded by sending MTV a sternly worded three-page fax, about why he didn't want Joe playing Desperado and essentially demanding that they not air it.
00:12:54
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At least, that's the story according to unplugged executive producer Joel Gallen, as told in the incredible I Want My MTV oral history book from 2011. Now, remember how I said that multiple Eagles had high-profile solo moments throughout the 1980s? Like, Joe scored a Billboard Rock No. 1 with A Life of Illusion, and Glenn Frey landed a pair of Billboard Hot 100 pop hits with The Heat Is On from the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack and You Belong to the City from the Miami Vice soundtrack?
00:13:24
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Well, none of their solo successes held a candle to the hit-churning run Don Henley was crafting throughout the 80s, especially on his six-times platinum, half-dozen top-ten hits-generating, Grammy-winning third album, 1989's The End the Innocence. This the end of the innocence.
00:13:47
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As one of the late 80s pop rock power players, Henley's facts may have been meant to be nothing more than a strong-handed power play. But the Unplugged team saw it as a truly unbelievable opportunity for their new little show, so they invited him to come play Desperado on his own episode.
00:14:04
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This week, a very special Unplugged. Don Henley. playing hits from his solo career, his years with the Eagles, and one or two surprises, all acoustic. And who's to know exactly how it all came to be? But in mid-February 1990, Joe's Unplugged aired without his version of Desperado, and in late March, Don's Unplugged episode was filmed with his true-to-form version of Desperado making the set list and the broadcast.
00:14:41
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And also applicable to today's theme, Don played one other Eagles song during his Unplugged episode, the band's first ever Billboard Hot 100 number one hit, Best of My Love.
00:15:00
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Okay, two quick buttons on this Double Eagles entry. First, while Bon Jovi will always be the patron saints of the uh-uh plugged penalty box for stolen unplugged valor, the Eagles are definitely a close second, as no matter how many times they or others have tried to spin it over the years, that that big Hell Freezes Over Eagles reunion concert in 94 was absolutely, in no way, shape, or form, an MTV Unplugged show.
00:15:29
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And second, while Joe's unplugged, Desperado has not, to my knowledge, ever seen the light of day, if you wanted to hear what a Joe Walsh circa 1990 solo performance of Desperado would sound like, well, have I got a fever dream, cursed media clip for you.
00:15:46
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In April of 1990, just a month or so after his Unplugged episode aired, Joe appeared as a guest on the all-new Howard Stern television show, and apparently the Desperado story was already making the rounds. so if you did desperado for us now would it make don henley mad yeah what he reasses again would you do it for us now sure you was you don't care So here's Joe Walsh playing Desperado on a tiny little Casio keyboard being accompanied by, and I kid you not, comedian Sam Kennison noodling away on electric guitar.
00:16:27
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Joe Walsh, Sam Kennison, and
Paul McCartney and Beatles on Unplugged
00:16:29
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Howard Stern? Oh man. As the great Rob Harvilla would say, leave me out of
00:16:41
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Okay, let's quickly move on to 1991, Unplugged's second season, where we got to see a pair of marquee solo artists heavily sprinkle their Unplugged set list with songs from their pretty stinking huge former bands.
00:16:55
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Paul McCartney, formerly of the Beatles. I recently spent quite a bit of time on Paul's Unplugged during my MTV Unplugged Beatles covers episode back in December. So here's just a brief recap.
00:17:07
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Paul's Unplugged was filmed in January 91 over in the UK in a back-to-back session that also captured The Cure's absolutely phenomenal, can we please get this as an album someday soon, super awesome episode. In fact, let's have a little more of that, can we? During Paul's massive 22-song set, he pulled out over a half-dozen songs from his former band, including two Beatles songs that he was playing live for the very first time ever, which was a pretty cool feather-in-the-cap moment for the barely-just-a-year-old Unplugged.
00:17:39
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Those two live debuts were Here, There, and Everywhere from 1966's Revolver and I've Just Seen a Face from nineteen sixty five s Help. I've just seen her face, I can't forget the time or place we first met, she's just the girl for me.
00:17:54
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want all the world see we've met.
00:17:59
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He also performed And I Love Her and Things We Said Today, both from 1964's A Hard Day's Night, She's a Woman, which was the B-side to their I Feel Fine single in late 64, a stunning twin guitar take on Blackbird from 1968's The White Album, and We Can Work It Out, which was released as a single in late 65 on the exact same day as Rubber Soul.
00:18:29
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I only got the words wrong, didn't i Been a long time. Most of these songs were included on his April 91 episode and his unplugged The Official Bootleg album release, except one, Things We Said Today.
00:18:44
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So just in case you've never heard it before, here's Paul's older and wiser, 27 years later, MTV Unplugged take on it.
00:18:59
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Sting, formerly of The Police.
Sting's Jazz-Influenced Performance
00:19:02
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Also airing in April 91, the very next week after McCartney's episode, was Sting's vastly, woefully, criminally underrated MTV Unplugged.
00:19:12
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Easily one of my top tier, under-the-radar favorites from those two early pre-glow-up seasons. Although Sting was in the middle of promoting his platinum-selling, Grammy-winning third solo album, The Soul Cages, he decided to split his 10-song unplugged set almost in half, performing five songs from his solo albums, one Bill Withers cover, and four songs from his Police back catalog.
00:19:37
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Within Unplugged's laid-back acoustic setting, with him playing a stand-up bass and being accompanied by just an acoustic guitar, piano, djembe, and drums, the Police songs he did were naturally reframed and instrumentally smoothed out from their frenetic, three-piece jazz, reggae, and punk-informed origins.
00:19:56
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For example, take the Polyrhythmic Message in a Bottle, their first UK number one hit back in 1979, which Sting transformed from this...
00:20:12
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into a slightly more rhythmically relaxed groove by relocating the song's signature guitar hook over to the piano.
00:20:26
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Just a cast away For Every Breath You Take, the lead single from their final album and the band's first and only Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, the original version from 1983's Synchronicity has one of the most hypnotically sing-alongable guitar riffs of all time.
00:20:50
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which Sing completely excised for his unplugged version in favor of bass-forward breathiness that really highlights the song's deceptively complex melodic changes.
00:21:08
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For the other two Police songs he did on Unplugged, he cleverly slinked them both out with a smoky jazz club vibe and then essentially blended them together into a quasi-medley.
00:21:18
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First, subtly pulling back the tempo and intensity of the non-single synchronicity album cut, Tea in the Sahara, from this... to this...
00:21:45
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And then highlighting that song's four note bass riff so that he could use it as a seamless transition into the three note bass riff anchoring the halftime unplugged version of the Police's second UK number one hit, Walking on the Moon.
00:22:06
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I mean, just listen to those slick transitional chops, if you can hear it over the ice clinking in your Prohibition-era bathtub gin lowball. Just if so what you take.
00:22:25
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Even though a Sting MTV Unplugged album has still sadly never materialized, all four of those amazing tracks can be obtained via a couple different mediums. In 1992, he released almost his entire Unplugged performance on VHS and Laserdisc.
00:22:41
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And then in 93, when he released If I Ever Lose My Faith In You as the lead single to his 10 Summoners Tales album, he released two different versions of the CD single in the UK, each with a different trio of B-sides from his Unplugged episode.
00:22:56
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Every Breath You Take is on the first version of the single, and the other three Unplugged Police covers are on the second version. Thank very much great tonight. Thanks for your time.
00:23:10
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Let's move on to 1992, Unplugged's monster third season, where we've actually got five solo artists that fit today's bill, including one that everyone is extremely familiar with and one that very few people have ever even seen or heard a single snippet from.
00:23:27
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Let's start with the de facto global ambassador of the entire MTV Unplugged franchise.
Clapton's Impactful 'Layla'
00:23:32
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Eric Clapton, formerly of Cream and Derek and the Dominoes. Yes indeed, Mr. MTV Unplugged himself, Eric Clapton.
00:23:40
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His episode was the season 3 opener, filmed in January 92 and aired in March 92. And at the risk of being slightly too reductive, but not by much, it is genuinely thanks to his complete dismantling and creative genius reassembling of Layla that MTV Unplugged caught global fire and became such an immediately identifiable fixture in the pop cultural zeitgeist.
00:24:08
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Now, I won't spend too much time contextualizing this one because you probably already know the success metric highlights. Eric's Unplugged album has sold over 26 million copies worldwide, 10 million in the US alone, and that last certification was in like 1996, so who knows where it's at now.
00:24:27
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His Unplugged album topped the Billboard 200 album charts for three weeks in March 93, which was no small feat during Whitney Houston's non-consecutive 20-week run at the top with the Bodyguard soundtrack.
00:24:41
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Between his Unplugged album and his Tears in Heaven single from the Rush soundtrack, he was nominated for nine Grammys and took home six of them, including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year at the 93 ceremony.
00:24:56
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And his unplugged version of Layla became a huge radio hit, a triple top 10 across the Billboard Pop, Rock and AC charts here in the States, while also becoming a global top 10 smash, including hitting number one in Canada and Japan.
00:25:13
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Eric originally co-wrote Layla for inclusion on the debut album of his blues rock quasi-supergroup, Derek and the Dominoes, which came out in late 1970. And from the time it was first released as a shortened, radio-friendly single in 1971, and then re-released as the full 7-minute-plus album version in 1972, which is actually when it became a US and UK top 10 radio hit, the song Sonic Calling Card was Eric's blistering electric guitar riff.
00:25:47
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And for 20 years of classic rock radio dominance, that's what cemented the song's legacy. You know, that and the transcendent Dwayne Allman slide work over the piano code.
00:25:58
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But Eric's wildly reworked acoustic version of Layla for his 92 Unplugged episode completely changed all that. as the song now has two wholly independent paths of popularity and fandom.
00:26:10
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In fact, it's not uncommon for radio DJs to sometimes play the two versions back to back, as both incite such different listening experiences. I think it's also important to note that while Eric's unplugged Layla still remains popular as just a beloved song on its own musical merits,
00:26:27
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Upon its initial release back in 92, it also quickly became the official shorthand for anyone looking to invoke or parody the unplugged boom. Like in the MTV special for the second Wayne's World movie.
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Wayne's World.
00:26:44
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Party all the time, Wayne's World. And a few years later with Weird Al. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Eat it. Get yourself an egg.
00:26:58
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Although Layla gets the lion's share of praise for impressively setting the bar on how unique and magical an artist could tweak their back catalog for their unplugged performance, Eric's episode and album actually contained two more former band cuts.
00:27:13
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There's his cover of the Jimmy Cox Bessie Smith blues standard, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, which Eric recorded as more of a juke joint slow jam on the Derek and the Dominoes album,
00:27:36
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Before giving it a revamped bounce and swagger on Unplugged. Spent all my money, didn't have any care. And The Muddy Waters popularized Rollin' and Tumblin', which Eric first recorded in 1966 for the debut album of his groundbreaking 60s blues rock trio, Cream.
00:28:03
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and which just barely made it onto his unplugged album as it was an impromptu jam that Eric just casually started playing around with between takes when the unplugged cameras weren't running.
00:28:14
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Hence the unconventional fade in on the album
00:28:27
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and his cheeky closing inquiry.
00:28:33
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Paul Simon, formerly of Simon & Garfunkel.
Paul Simon's Mixed Set
00:28:36
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Next up is one of those under-the-radar slash possibly-forgotten Unplugged episodes, but I mean that as more of a comment on timing more so than quality.
00:28:46
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Paul Simon's Unplugged, while pretty spectacular and enjoyable in its own right, kinda got double-dinged in the misplaced memory department because of two key components. First, it was recorded a week before the Clapton episode was broadcast and two weeks before the single-day session where the Mariah Carey, Pearl Jam, and Boyz II Men Joe Public's Sean East episodes were filmed.
00:29:09
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Plus, it wasn't broadcast until after those three youth-market-friendly episodes aired. And second, it never got an unplugged album and it had to fight for repeat airings against the super popular culture cred building Carrie, Clapton and Pearl Jam episodes that were eating up all the rerun real estate.
00:29:29
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So unfortunately, it was kind of one of those catch it the first time or miss it forever kind of things. All that being said, it's actually a pretty incredible performance, as Paul Simon is a master craft songwriter, and his top tier backing band was playfully fun to watch and sonically spot on all night.
00:29:57
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Paul naturally built most of his Unplugged setlist around his solo material, especially a pair of big Graceland hits that MTV viewers would have been super familiar with. But he also smartly peppered in a half-dozen classics from his Simon & Garfunkel days as well, including mid-60s acoustic folk classics like Homeward Bound and Scarborough Fair, their Grammy-winning Billboard No. 1 Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate,
00:30:22
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What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson? Well, Joe, Joe, it's left and gone.
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and a trio of songs from the duo's final album, 1970's Bridge Over Troubled Water. Those were the Boxer, Cecilia, and the US-UK double chart-topping title track, which, for his unplugged version, became a stunning one-voice, one-piano, gospelized, and meter-fluid dance between Paul and the legendary jazz musician Richard T.
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When you're weary
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This version rolls along as essentially just a solo piano tour de force for the first three minutes. But once the rest of his unplugged band finally drops in, the funky little bass groove really gives the song an additional layer of tasteful reinvention for the last minute and a half or so.
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Annie Lennox, formerly of
Annie Lennox Reimagines Eurythmics
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Eurythmics. Much like Paul Simon's episode, Annie Lennox's MTV Unplugged, also from the 92 season, oftentimes gets relegated to the, I didn't know they did an unplugged, wasteland of public memory.
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Which is genuinely such a shame for this absolute standout. And I think it's for similar, but slightly different reasons. One, her unplugged performance, which was primarily shot for MTV Europe, had an unconventional filming location, vibe, and aesthetic.
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While most unplugged episodes were still being filmed in New York City and Los Angeles, plus the small handful in the UK, Annie's episode was actually filmed in Switzerland, in the ballroom of the Montreux Casino during the 92 Montreux Jazz Festival.
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Instead of the small, cozy soundstage, impeccably lit for television, and intimate audience in the round kind of vibe, this was essentially a dimly lit, tall stage, big crowd, typical concert-style setting.
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Second, even if you happened to catch it on stateside television, which was more rare for this trio of episodes filmed during the 92 Montreux Jazz Festival, Annie Lennox, Joe Cocker, and Was Not Was, unless you caught it from the beginning and saw the MTV Unplugged logo, there wasn't anything going on throughout the episode that would have really signaled to you that this was MTV Unplugged.
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Plus, just like Paul Simon and many, many others, it's no surprise that most of the episodes that didn't get album releases or radio singles tend to be remembered less favorably because they didn't get the opportunity to really sink into the larger pop cultural consciousness through repeat consumption.
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However, on that last part, Annie did capture her mesmerizing Unplugged set for posterity in a pretty cool but slightly unorthodox manner. Just like Sting, though she got there first by about three or four months, Annie used the b-sides of CD singles to release nine tracks from her 11-song Unplugged set.
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They can all be found across the three versions of her hit single, Cold, from D.Va, her double platinum Grammy-winning solo debut album. The first version, Cold, contains three unplugged songs originally from D.Va.
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The second version, Colder, contains three unplugged songs from her Days in Your Rhythmics. And the third version, Coldest, contains three unplugged cover songs. For the three Eurythmics songs she played during her Unplugged set, Annie reworked the duo's synth and horn-kissed UK Top 20 hit, It's Alright, Baby's Coming Back, which sounded like this on their 1985 Be Yourself Tonight album,
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before getting reframed into a charming little acoustic guitar and melodica shuffle on Unplugged.
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She took their drum machine driven UK top 20 hit, You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart from 1987's Savage.
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And transformed it into like a minimalist coffeehouse folk song.
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And finally, she pulled out one of Eurythmics' biggest hits, Here Comes the Rain Again, from their 1983 synth-pop masterpiece, Touch, and wrapped up all of those signature synthesizers, sequencers, and string lines.
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So baby, talk to me
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Like lovers do and cleverly paired them down to just a piano, melodica, acoustic guitar, and groove anchoring stand-up bass.
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After seven studio albums and a full decade in Eurythmics, Annie's exceptional Unplugged episode was one of those beautifully timed reminders that her brand new solo career pivot was going to be quite a spectacular and memorable journey for all of us to get to join her on.
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Bruce Springsteen, formerly of the E Street Band.
Springsteen's Electric 'Plugged' Set
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Okay, this one comes with a few asterisks. First of which, I know, I know, some Springsteen fans get real salty when you talk about Bruce being quote-unquote in the E Street band instead of, you know, leading the E Street band.
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So whether you view him strictly as a band leader or as a band member or some amalgamation in between, just go with me here. Because at the time he did MTV Unplugged, which he filmed on September 22, 1992, the day after Annie Lennox's episode first aired, he was unequivocally neither leading nor being a part of the Eastry band.
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This was in that late 80s, early 90s window of time where Bruce had broken up the E Street Band, recorded two solo albums, Human Touch and Lucky Town, mostly with studio musicians, retaining only keyboardist Roy Bitten from the E Street Band, then famously released both of those albums on the same day,
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built up a decidedly non-E Street touring band that most fans and journalists derisively referred to as just, quote, the other band, and then took them out on a huge year-long world tour, also rudely referred to, unofficially, as just the other band tour.
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By 95, Springsteen would reassemble the E Street Band to record some songs for his forthcoming Greatest Hits record, and by 99 they'd be back out on a massive reunion tour.
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So Springsteen's Unplugged episode from 92 is a really interesting document of this really interesting mini-chapter of his career. And oh yeah, second asterisk, Bruce didn't seem to understand the Unplugged concept at all.
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That's right, Bruce played electric guitar on almost every song during his unplugged set and his backing band appropriately followed suit, leading to the most Cranked to 11 episode in the show's whole run and causing the Companion album to be released with the U and the N completely crossed out, notably making it the first, and so far only, MTV Plugged album.
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All that being said, this is an absolute barn burner Springsteen show, and between the alternate backing band, a set list heavy on the human touch Lucky Town songs, and the contrasting blistering arena rock show vibe played out in front of an intimate unplugged audience, it all joins together to make this an especially fun and unique Springsteen performance.
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As far as which E Street songs he played as a solo artist, backed by, quote-unquote, the other band on his Unplugged episode, he played a pretty faithful but thoroughly rocking version of his 1978 fan favorite, Darkness on the Edge of Town.
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Whether she wants to see me You can tell her that I'm easily found And for one of his surprisingly few actual acoustic numbers, he masterfully broke down his bombastic mini-rock opera, Thunder Road, into a gorgeous singer-songwriter-esque acoustic ballad, seasoned ever so slightly with just a little harmonica and some ghostly boardwalk organ, courtesy of fellow former E Streeter Roy Bitten.
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We got one last chance to make it real We're trading these wings on some wheels
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He also performed one more Street era song that showed up on the VHS and DVD releases, but didn't make it onto the MTV Plugged album. Though, to be fair, it was like song number 26 of the night popped up during his encore and ended with about half of the audience up on stage with him.
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So he might have forgotten all about the show and was just having fun at this point. Here's a little snippet of his quote-unquote unplugged, full-band, twin-electric guitar romp through the born-in-the-USA barroom rocker Glory Days.
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Before moving on from Springsteen, I should also make quick mention that just three years later, while still a solo act, he played another E Street song on someone else's Unplugged, when he showed up as the surprise special guest on Melissa Etheridge's episode to join her for a chilled out double acoustic duet of Thunder Road, which I think is one of the best one night only Unplugged moments of the entire series.
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Neil Young.
Neil Young's Diverse Performances
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formerly of Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crazy Horse, and the Stills Young Band. Okay, there is nowhere near enough time to talk about each individual star in the galaxy of bands that Neil Young has either been in the Squires, the Minobirds, the Ducks, etc., or that he's assembled to back him up, the Stray Gators, the Santa Monica Flyers, the Shocking Pinks, the Blue Notes, Promise of the Real, Chrome Hearts, etc., etc.,
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And as far as Neil's super interesting three-episode situationship with MTV Unplugged, well, it took me two full episodes to unravel all of that back in Season 1, so go check those out if you want all the proper context and applicable story threads.
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For the purposes of today's show, and in the interest of expediency, let me just dive right into the former band songs that Neil played during his two official MTV Unplugged episodes.
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Again, technically, he has three of them, but I'm not going to get into all that right now, okay? For the MTV Unplugged episode he filmed at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City back in mid-December 92, during the same session as KD Lang in Arrested Development,
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Well, as most folks know, Neil was super unhappy with his band's performance, and despite multiple retakes of multiple songs, he ended up paying for the production costs himself, buying the tapes from MTV, and refusing to let it be broadcast.
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During that unaired taping, he did play one song from one of his former bands, Down by the River, from his legendary 1969 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere album with Crazy Horse.
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But even that somewhat widely circulated lo-fi audience recording bootleg of Neil's 92 Unplugged, the one that sounds like someone recorded it by holding a cup up to the wall of the room next door, that only covers like the first hour and a half or so of the show.
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So sadly, I don't even have a garbage sounding snippet of that one to share with you. Once again, I'll light up my Natalie Merchant prayer candle in hopes of one day seeing the full Neil 92 Unplugged get some kind of proper release.
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Famously though, Neil was good for a quick reschedule, and by February 93, he and his band, now with Neil's Lofgren in tow, showed up to LA's Universal Studios for his Unplugged Take-Two.
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And of course, this is the one that not only made broadcast, but also got a celebrated Unplugged album and VHS release. In summer concert news, Neil Young will be hitting the road next month, ostensibly in support of his new all-acoustic Unplugged album, During this 93 redo, Neil's 18-song setlist was split almost evenly between completely solo numbers and full band performances, and he actually whipped out a whopping 5 former band songs.
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First up, possibly my favorite performance of the whole night, Neil completely reimagined the ferocious Guitar God Squall of Like a Hurricane from the Crazy Horse albums American Stars and Bars and Live Rust,
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and turned it into a deeply haunting solo pump organ hymn.
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There was also a second Crazy Horse number, kind of sorta. Pocahontas originally appeared on his 1979 Russ Never Sleeps album with Crazy Horse, and while that version has some slight ornamental overdubs, it's mostly just Neil and an acoustic guitar.
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For his pretty true-to-form unplugged version, it's completely just Neil by himself, playing a mesmerizing 12-string and some breezy harmonica.
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The icy sky at night. Neil also briefly nodded to his time in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young by playing a beautifully reconfigured version of Helpless from the 1970 CSNY album Deja Vu, this time turning it into a meandering little street-side cafe iteration with him on piano and harmonica and Neil's on accordion.
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Helpless, helpless, helpless.
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Speaking of fellow CSNY bandmate Stephen Stills, Neil also tipped his hat to the one-off 1976 collaborative album credited to the Stills Young Band by playing a relaxed but faithful full band run-through of Long May You Run.
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And finally, speaking again of Stephen Stills, possibly Neil's most imaginatively revamped song of the night was when he leaned on just his acoustic guitar and harmonica to continue the sonic evolution of his song, Mr. Soul, which originally appeared as Buffalo Springfield's second album opener in 1967, which sounded like this.
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hello, Mr. Soul, I drop fire.
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Through the early 80s synthetic pulse of the trans version, which sounded like this,
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and into the windswept ghostly shimmer of this gorgeous solo unplugged version.
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Hold alone, Mr. Soul, I drop by to pick up the reason. Okay, my Natalie Merchant prayer candle continues to burn strong for a Neil 92 Unplugged release.
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So let's move on to our next solo artist in the list.
Rod Stewart's Reunion
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Rod Stewart, formerly of the Thaces. These two entries being back-to-back is quite apropos, as Rod Stewart's episode and Neil's Take Two were recorded in the same three-day filming session at LA's Universal Studios that also captured two other Unplugged experiments.
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The left-of-center but totally a product of its era, Dennis Leary Unplugged. Let's bring up our special guest right now for this last song, Mr. Eric Schrode House of Pain, ladies and gentlemen. Eric Schrode!
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And the incredibly awesome How Come They Didn't Do More record label showcases Uptown Unplugged episode featuring Mary J. Blige, Jodeci, Father MC, Christopher Williams, and Heavy D in the voice.
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Everybody get on your feet! Come on! Give it away! Give it away! Give it away now! Give it away! it Now, I am admittedly not the target demographic for Rod Stewart, but there's no denying that his incredibly well-received episode and its triple platinum companion album played a significant role, along with unplugged radio hits from 10,000 Maniacs and Jodeci, in helping to really establish the show's legs and expand its genre reach beyond just the big Carrie Clapton double pop from the year prior.
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First off, commercially, Rod's Unplugged was a big seller, going double platinum within four months of release, on its way to triple platinum, and hitting number two on both the US and UK album charts.
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Second, a half dozen of his Unplugged singles ended up being sent to radio, with Cut Across Shorty landing in the Billboard Rock Top 20, his cover of Sam Cooke's Having a Party hitting the Adult Contemporary Top 10,
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His cover of Tim Harden's Reason to Believe, reaching number two on the Billboard AC chart, and his massively popular cover of Van Morrison's Have I Told You Lately That I Love You, becoming a double top five pop hit in the US and the UK, while also going all the way to number one on the Billboard AC chart for five consecutive weeks. Our next guest, ladies and gentlemen, truly a rock and roll legend in every sense of the word. His mtv special and an album entitled Rod Stewart Unplugged and Seated are both going to be out next month. Here now, this is very exciting, with his old friend Ron Wood. Please welcome Rod Stewart. Rod!
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Third, Rod inviting his old bandmate Ronnie Wood, formerly of the Faces and currently a member of the Rolling Stones, to be his surprise special guest for about half of the episode, ended up kicking off the brief but important unplugged reunion trend.
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which was followed by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin in 94 and Kiss in 95, which were both incredibly huge moments, evidencing just how much respect and popularity Unplugged had managed to cultivate in a relatively short period of time.
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So, super quick broad strokes context, Rod and Ronnie first started playing together in 1967 when they were both recruited to join the Jeff Beck Group. They were a part of Beck's first two albums, but both jumped ship in mid-1969 to join a new group called The Faces.
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Simultaneously, Rod also started his own solo career. His debut solo record was released in November 1969, and the debut Faces record was released in March 1970.
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On both records, Rod was the lead singer and Ronnie played lead guitar, and they both contributed to the songwriting. Rod and Ronnie played together on four Faces albums and five Rod solo records.
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However, by the end of 1975, Rod had left the Faces to focus exclusively on his solo career, and Ronnie had started recording and touring with the Rolling Stones, who he'd officially become a member of the next year.
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Fast forward almost 20 years to 1993, and as MTV Unplugged started really gaining some top-tier mainstream exposure, some artists started inviting along some surprise special guests to their episodes, but usually just for one or two songs.
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Rod not only made it a really meaningful reunion-style guest spot by inviting Ronnie... What a great pleasure this is to be on the same stage as you again. Once again, Ronnie. Put it down.
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But he also asked him to sit in on over half the set as he ended up playing on a dozen of the night's 21 songs. We haven't done this together since we recorded it. 22 years ago, most of the band weren't born.
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My wife was only one. While the majority of the Rod and Ronnie songs were either from Rod's solo catalog or were previously unreleased numbers, they did play at least one Faces song together, an energetic acoustic interpretation of their only U.S. Top 20 hit, Stay With Me.
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Stay with me, stay with me, cause tonight you're gonna
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George Michael, formerly
George Michael's Wham! and Newer Work
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Wham! When George Michael filmed his absolutely stellar but far too short unplugged episode during the 96th season, most fans didn't wonder if he would play a Wham! song, but just how many of them.
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Well, as it turns out, George was mostly excited about playing songs from his recently released older album and wasn't feeling particularly nostalgic when crafting his, again, far too short unplugged set list.
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Of the night's 10 tracks, he only played three of his big MTV Hay Day hits, Father Figure, Freedom 90, and Praying for Time, and just one Wham! song.
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Everything She Wants was originally released as a massive double A-side single during the height of Wham's popularity in early December 84. It became yet another huge global hit for the duo that was not only George penned and George produced, but also George completely constructed.
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Somebody told me, or everything she wanted.
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It was written towards the end of the Make It Big album recording sessions when all the musicians had already flown back home and the multi-talented, multi-hyphenate George wrote, played, recorded, and produced everything on it himself, which made it both a significant musical statement for him personally and also one that took on an even more rewarding shine when it hit number two in the UK and number one on the US pop charts.
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which heavily contributed to the Make It Big album's overall number one ranking in over a dozen countries and its worldwide tally of over 10 million copies sold around the globe.
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I think most people would guess which wham track I would play. So here it comes.
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For his unplugged take on everything she wants, I love the way George completely recontextualized all the bubbly 80s synthesizers and electropop drum machines of the original for the warmth and vitality of his live band, bringing the infectious acoustic bass line right to the fore, highlighting all of his background singers, and letting the drums and percussion really pop the groove.
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I also love keying into all the nuanced differences in his vocal tone and inflections between how he sang it as a 21-year-old on the mid-80s synth-pop original versus how he adapted and elevated this 12 years later older, wiser acoustic version.
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The 96 Unplugged season also contained another episode relevant to today's theme, but that story loop wouldn't come full circle for another 23 years. So as ninety s heavy as this episode has been, let's close things out with a more recent MTV Unplugged episode from 2019. Liam Gallagher, formerly of Oasis.
Liam Gallagher's Orchestral Oasis
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That's right, certifiable Britpop giants slash mythological UK rock gods Oasis also played their own utterly magical Unplugged in 96, but it wasn't exactly the whole band. Liam ain't going to be with stuck with Ugly Four, as they say.
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While losing a lead singer would completely scuttle such a high-profile show for almost every other band on the planet, Liam Gallagher's infamous decision to sit out the band's highly anticipated Unplugged performance in late summer 1996 resulted in one of the most exhilarating one-off shows in the band's history.
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When lead guitarist, principal songwriter, and brother-slash-sparring partner Noel stepped in to masterfully handle lead vocals for the entire show, an unsurprisingly sheer one-night-only musical enchantment ensued.
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But never gonna be the same Cause the years are far
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Fast forward almost two and a half decades, and after the long-time-coming, yet still somehow heartbreaking Oasis split in 2009, the Gallagher brothers had gone on to start other bands, BDI and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, and Liam had even embarked on a solo career.
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As part of the album cycle for his UK chart-topping second solo record, 2019's Why Me Why Not, Liam finally got the opportunity to play his very own Unplugged episode, albeit as a solo artist.
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However, if he was looking to make good on his dramatic bowing out of the Oasis 96 Unplugged, he managed to really come through in spades the second time around. His episode was filmed inside the stunningly cinematic Hull City Hall, and he was exquisitely backed by the 24-piece Urban Soul Orchestra for a pitch-perfect mixture of solo material and former band favorites.
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including closing out the show with a spectacular and somewhat wistful, strings-rich champagne supernova. Someday you will find me up beneath the landslide.
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For the other four Oasis tunes he played that night, he doubled down on the former band Nostalgia by bringing out Oasis rhythm guitarist Bonehead as his unplugged surprise special guest, even leaning on him a bit to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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Would he make any explicit references to his previous band's previous unplugged? Of course he did. This one's called Runts.
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I want to dedicate it to Bonehead who gets to do MTV Unplugged twice. So if you're keeping track at home, alongside Champagne's Supernova, the remaining quartet of former band songs that a solo Liam played on Unplugged were as follows.
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Cast No Shadow and a cool piano-fronted version of Some Might Say, both from their massive, globe-dominating second album smash, What's the Story Morning Glory? Some might say, the sun shall follow sun
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An almost cathedral-like congregation and church choir rendering of Stand By Me, a song he hadn't played in almost 20 years, from their unfairly maligned third album, Be Here Now.
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And possibly the coolest Oasis rarity of Liam's solo Unplugged, his first time ever performing the track Sad Song live in concert, as the studio version, which had originally been sung by Noel, was already an Oasis rarity in its own right since it was only available as a bonus track on the UK vinyl and Japanese CD versions of Definitely Maybe.
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Sing a sad song in a lonely place. I'll try to put a wedding for me. It's been so long. Here's hoping that since Oasis is back together and seemingly on good terms with each other, maybe we'll get either a proper release of their Liamless 96 Unplugged, or they might whip up a brand new Unplugged episode altogether.
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Or why not both? I'm sure I've got a couple more Natalie Merchant prayer candles around here I can get going in hopeful, if not absolutely greedy, anticipation. Alrighty, there's a cool dozen solo acts who replayed, reinterpreted, or completely reassembled songs from their former bands on their MTV Unplugged episodes and albums.
Season Wrap-Up and Listener Engagement
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So that'll do it for today's show, which, just as a reminder, will be the final episode of Season 2. After this, we'll settle into our between-season break, and I'll drop back in to let y'all know all the details about Season 3 once everything clicks into place.
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