Nirvana Unplugged in New York DVD????

[Johnny Canuck]

Has anyone heard if this is going to be released on DVD? As we all know, the MTV series "Unplugged" has to be some of the highest quality recordings ever heard. Now that Courtney Love and Nirvana have settled their dispute, will this masterpiece be released? I can not believe it hasn't been yet.

This has to be the concert I would love to see on DVD more than any other, even Pink Floyd Pulse which I can't wait for.

JC

 

[Johnny Canuck]

Really blows my mind that nobody else seems to be interested in this.

 

[zildjian]

I tried finding it last summer and obvously couldn't find it, but more importantly, I couldn't find anything official about a DVD release being in the works from MTV or Geffen Records (DGC). Surely it will come out someday. Pearl Jam's MTV unplugged appearance wasn't released on DVD either. Alice in Chains's MTV unplugged appearance was released on DVD several years ago though; hopefully someday the other MTV shows of the Seattle bands will follow.
Brad

 

[3x10^8]

yeah, it's never been released. i also looked for it quite sometime back, but to no avail and for reasons beyond my understanding... there are, however, many a bootleg versions floating around all over the place, but i doubt that they've been mastered to their full audio potential.

 

[Johnny Canuck]

You would think the down and out junkie widow would put this thing out for a cash grab..
we'll have to wait and see. It would be great though as it was the highlite of this very influencial band's career.

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

I'd buy a copy.

 

[Johnny Canuck]

Ohhh would you buy a copy??? Only the most important work of our time, the most important work of the past 20 years. Would you really?? Really?? People on this site amaze me. They like **** like Steely Dan but when something comes along and actually makes a difference, it gets no attention.

 

[dobyblue]

Yeah, Nirvana's Unplugged NY is the most important work of the last 20 years.

Give me an advanced resolution copy of Incesticide or In Utero anyday over Unplugged.

 

[tylerdurden]

Most important work of the last 20 years?

Look I loved Cobain as much as the next guy who needed a shower in the early 90's but most important? I think you are overlooking some very big names out there. 20 years puts us right back in to 1986.....lets see....

1st album that comes to mind would be uh

Reign in Blood - 1986

Master of Puppets - 1986

Vulgar Display of Power - 1992 (R.I.P Dimebag)

& the truely ground breaking

La Sexorcisto - Devil Music Vol. 1 - 1992

Rage Against the Machine = 1992

Let's not forget the rappers - not my cup of tea but they easily had as much impact on the world of music as anything Nirvana ever did

Raising Hell - 1986

Yo' Bum Rush the Show - 1987

Straight out of Compton - I think it was 1988

Ice T - O.G. - 1990

Body Count - 1992 (Remember "Cop Killer"?)

The Chronic - 1992

And without a doubt in my mind you left out the single most important album of the last 20 years

Licensed to Ill - 1986

And I'll totally skip of the genre I couldn't stand in high school that included U2 - Joshua Tree - 1987, The Cure - Anything they every did, The Smiths, Depeche Mode et al. But I think you'll find quite a few people would argue some of their albums as well. I'm sure that I've left a bunch of them out, but I don't have the time or desire to comb my brain for more instances.

I don't think you can just throw out a generalization like the most important without considering that maybe your feelings for a certain album or group or dead singer are driving that statement. Maybe you've never heard the albums I've listed but each spoke to their target audiences in the same way that Bleach, Nevermind, In Utero and Incesticide did and all of them changed the genre of music they appeared in for good. That said I would buy a copy of Unplugged in a heart beat.

R.I.P Kurt 4-8-94

I still remember where I was when I 1st heard the news.

 

[Johnny Canuck]

I never said "Unplugged" was the most important work. In fact I agree, "Nevermind" was but "In Utero" was their best work.

Nirvana, say what you want, is in the class of Elvis and The Beatles. They changed music. They single handedly killed hair metal and made bands like Poison, Kiss, Warrent, Guns n Roses, Motley Crue (do I need to go on) obsolete. Grunge killed metal. Music today, "modern rock" or "alternative" rock is an offspring of grunge. For that, they are pioneers, and will go down as the pinnacle rock act of the 90's. In 100 years from now, grunge will be known as THE rock music of the 90's. Good or bad. It was.

And I know Nirvana didn't invent grunge so don't flame me for that. I would credit Mudhoney for that. They just revolutionized it and made it popular. Kurt Cobain was a genius. A very screwed up genius, but one nevertheless.

Nevermind is on every critic that matter's top 10 list of albums of all time. Not for it's quality, but because of it's importance.

I would like to see Nirvana on DVD. "Unplugged" is the only performance I recall seeing that would be of quality for DVD.


Run DMC "Raising Hell" was a very important album and is comparable in the hip hop world, but I'm sorry, I meant rock n roll. I loved Raising Hell. I still know every word to it. It changed my life. I was 17. However, I outgrew hip hop a few years ago. Rock n roll never dies.

 

[dobyblue]

I have to disagree with the following statement.

I never said "Unplugged" was the most important work. In fact I agree, "Nevermind" was but "In Utero" was their best work.
Nirvana, say what you want, is in the class of Elvis and The Beatles. They changed music. They single handedly killed hair metal and made bands like Poison, Kiss, Warrent, Guns n Roses, Motley Crue (do I need to go on) obsolete.

These albums all had similar impact as Nevermind in shaping the face of music in the early nineties and MTv probably had the biggest impact of all.

11.09.89 - Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
08.28.90 - Alice In Chains - Facelift
08.27.91 - Pearl Jam - Ten
09.24.91 - Nirvana - Nevermind
09.24.91 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
10.08.91 - Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

All those bands helped stomp out Hair Metal.
They all had hits revolving on the buzz bin at the same time.

Smells Like Teen Spirit, Alive, Head Like A Hole, Outshined, Man In The Box and Give It Away.

No one band can be held accountable by themselves.

 

[Johnny Canuck]

All important recordings. Agreed. IMO, none had the impact of Nirvana's music however. I recall Pearl Jam's 10 being out before Nevermind but it never got popular until after Nevermind came out and the masses discovered grunge because of it.

Pretty Hate Machine is one of my all time favorites too and I love Alice In Chains. Have everything they ever did.

Again, not saying one is better, just stating the importance of Nirvana. Rolling Stone Magazine, the gospel IMO, ranks Nirvana Nevermind in the top 3 recordings of all time.

 

[dobyblue]

Rolling Stone Magazine, the gospel IMO, ranks Nirvana Nevermind in the top 3 recordings of all time.

I don't credit Rolling Stone with much at all, they have this uncanny ability to list the Rolling Stones in some form or another in any category they do in the top ten spots. Hmmm, the same name, coincidence? I think not.
I'm sorry but Keith Richards is not in the top ten guitar legends of all time and that's just one example, even if Satisfaction is a sweet riff.
Here's the top 500 albums of all time according to Rolling Stone, Nevermind is 17th.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time/
I'm just listing the top 100.

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles 
2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys
3. Revolver, The Beatles
4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan
5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye
7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones
8. London Calling, The Clash
9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
10. The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles
11. The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley
12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
13. Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground
14. Abbey Road, The Beatles
15. Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
16. Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
17. Nevermind, Nirvana
18. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
19. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison
20. Thriller, Michael Jackson
21. The Great Twenty-Eight, Chuck Berry
22. Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon
23. Innervisions, Stevie Wonder
24. Live at the Apollo (1963), James Brown
25. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
26. The Joshua Tree, U2
27. King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1, Robert Johnson
28. Who's Next, The Who
29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
30. Blue, Joni Mitchell
31. Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan
32. Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
33. Ramones, Ramones
34. Music From Big Pink, The Band
35. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David owie
36. Tapestry, Carole King
37. Hotel California, The Eagles
38. The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters
39. Please Please Me, The Beatles
40. Forever Changes, Love
41. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols
42. The Doors, The Doors
43. The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
44. Horses, Patti Smith
45. The Band, The Band
46. Legend, Bob Marley and the Wailers
47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy
49. At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band
50. Here's Little Richard, Little Richard
51. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
52. Greatest Hits, Al Green
53. The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings, 1952 - 1959, Ray Charles
54. Electric Ladyland, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
55. Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley
56. Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder
57. Beggars Banquet, The Rolling Stones
58. Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
59. Meet the Beatles, The Beatles
60. Greatest Hits, Sly and the Family Stone
61. Appetite for Destruction, Guns n' Roses
62. Achtung Baby, U2
63. Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones
64. Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958 - 1969), Various Artists
65. Moondance, Van Morrison
66. Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin
67. The Stranger, Billy Joel
68. Off the Wall, Michael Jackson
69. Superfly, Curtis Mayfield
70. Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin
71. After the Gold Rush, Neil Young
72. Purple Rain, Prince
73. Back in Black, AC/DC
74. Otis Blue, Otis Redding
75. Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin
76. Imagine, John Lennon
77. The Clash, The Clash
78. Harvest, Neil Young
79. Star Time, James Brown
80. Odessey and Oracle, The Zombies
81. Graceland, Paul Simon
82. Axis: Bold as Love, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
83. I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Aretha Franklin
84. Lady Soul, Aretha Franklin
85. Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen
86. Let It Be, The Beatles
87. The Wall, Pink Floyd
88. At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash
89. Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield
90. Talking Book, Stevie Wonder
91. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
92. 20 Golden Greats, Buddy Holly
93. Sign 'o' the Times, Prince
94. *****es Brew, Miles Davis
95. Green River, Creedence Clearwater Revival
96. Tommy, The Who
97. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan
98. This Year's Model, Elvis Costello
99. There's a Riot Goin' On, Sly and the Family Stone
100. In the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra

That's a long list, but I disagree with SOOO much of it.
Jane's Addiction's "Ritual de lo Habitual" is down in 453rd place?
Excuse me but this is the band that brought Lollapalooza to your towns in the summer of 1991 and this was the album they were touring on it at a time when over 95% of the planet hadn't even heard of any of the Seattle bands.
Here's DDD's list of the top 100 most influentail rock and roll artists.

Criteria: - Factored by the following: Cultural Influence, Musical Influence and Performing Influence.

1. Elvis Presley
2. The Beatles
3. Chuck Berry
4. James Brown
5. Bob Dylan
6. Buddy Holly
7. Jimi Hendrix
8. Ray Charles 
9. The Beach Boys
10. Little Richard
11. Aretha Franklin
12. Led Zeppelin
13. Sam Cooke 
14. Stevie Wonder
15. Pink Floyd
16. Clyde McPhatter
17. Bill Haley & The Comets 
18. Fats Domino
19. The Velvet Underground 
20. Bo Diddley
21. The Rolling Stones 
22. The Who
23. Johnny Otis
24. Black Sabbath 
25. The Byrds
26. The Kinks
27. Prince
28. Neil Young
29. The Everly Brothers
30. Sonny Til & The Orioles
31. Eddie Cochran
32. Sly and The Family Stone
33. The Supremes
34. The Ramones
35. Cream
36. Big Joe Turner
37. David Bowie
38. Link Wray
39. The Clash
40. Janis Joplin 
41. The Shirelles
42. Marvin Gaye
43. George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic
44. The "5" Royales
45. The Sex Pistols
46. Nirvana 
47. Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions
48. Otis Redding
49. R.E.M.
50. Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
51. Roy Orbison
52. Joni Mitchell
53. The Stooges
54. Carl Perkins
55. Van Halen
56. Patti Smith
57. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
58. The Yardbirds
59. Queen
60. Van Morrison
61. The Temptations
62. The Doors
63. Iron Maiden
64. U2
65. Professor Longhair
66. Deep Purple 
67. The Flying Burrito Brothers 
68. Bob Marley
69. The Ventures
70. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
71. MC5
72. The Grateful Dead
73. The Red Hot Chili Peppers
74. Jefferson Airplane
75. Metallica
76. Little Willie John
77. The Pixies
78. King Crimson
79. The Allman Brothers Band
80. Elvis Costello
81. The Ravens
82. AC/DC
83. Roy Brown
84. Kraftwerk
85. The Isley Brothers 
86. The Clovers
87. The Band
88. Alice Cooper
89. Crosby, Stills & Nash
90. Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
91. Bruce Springsteen
92. Booker T. & The MG's
93. Pearl Jam
94. Lynyrd Skynyrd
95. Dion
96. Guns 'n' Roses
97. Jerry Lee Lewis
98. Rush
99. Todd Rundgren
100. Alice In Chains

Anyway I think Nirvana were awesome, I just don't hold them as highly as you do.
This is a list of the recordings I have, there's one or two Nirvana shows in there I think. If you don't have the show from Italy a month or so before Cobain's death I can highly recommend it, the quality of the recording is Digital Soundboard or a very good analogue patch.
http://db.etree.org/dobyblue
I'd be more than happy to set you up with a copy through a b&p.
Maybe you have way more than you can handle already, but I'm always happy to share the music.

 

[Johnny Canuck]

Wow. How do I get ahold of the Nirvana stuff and possibly the Alice In Chains? Is the stuff from this site good quality?? How do you pay?

 

[dobyblue]

Wow. How do I get ahold of the Nirvana stuff and possibly the Alice In Chains? Is the stuff from this site good quality?? How do you pay?

For the most part you'll only pay if you get an Italian bootleg or something like that.
Nirvana may not allow audio tapings of their shows, but many others do like Phish, Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, Bruce Hornsby, etc.
The site I have listed merely is a site where you can document all the recordings you've picked up over the years.
The Nirvana in Italy recording is bloody amazing quality and the DVD is not too bad as it's sourced from cable.
I generally note in my lists which shows are good and which ones are crap.
You can get them through b&ps, trading or torrenting when a show is available.
b&ps stand for Blanks and Postage. We're both in Canada so there's no money exchanged, you can simply send me the # of blanks that are required inside a mailer with YOUR address on it that's NOT sealed, you affix the return postage to this mailer and a note saying which shows you want, then put all that in another mailer which you send to me.
I burn them and then put them in the return mailer you've provided and drop it in a PO Box.
I've been doing it for years - if you check www.antsmarching.org and look for my username you'll see I have over 10,000 posts, so it's a kosher thing. I've gotten many shows this way.
Anyway if you want something you can email me at sjburke73@hotmail.com

 

[SilverMK3]

The Unplugged in New York DVD was released today. In Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1. With two previously unreleased tracks!

http://www.amazon.com/Nirvana-Unplugged-New-York/dp/B000WQW988

 

[cbraver]

Whoa, thanks! Ordered! I've looked for this many times... I wonder why it took them so long to release it.

Regarding the comments earlier in this thread, I can't believe Sublime isn't on their lists. Certainly the most influencial band of my life (that's a scary thought)... "40oz to Freedom" is a must have album in anyones collection. Bradley Nowell had so much soul...guy was unbelievable.

 

[yettitheman]

Whoa, thanks! Ordered! I've looked for this many times... I wonder why it took them so long to release it.

Regarding the comments earlier in this thread, I can't believe Sublime isn't on their lists. Certainly the most influencial band of my life (that's a scary thought)... "40oz to Freedom" is a must have album in anyones collection. Bradley Nowell had so much soul...guy was unbelievable.

^X2.
What about Primus? Eh, if we keep adding, it'll keep growing.
I'll be getting the Nirvana DVD soon...

 

[j_garcia]

They had it playing in the demo room at Frys last night. I held out and didn't pick it up, but I will soon....

 

[cbraver]

I received it today, I love it!