A DVD of the Unplugged performance was included on a
now OOP reissue of Ten, but this is the first time it has been officially released on CD.
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"MTV Unplugged" has never been out before. Had you seen this in years?
No. I don't think I'd seen it since it came out. It was a little bit before things got nuts. When we heard about it, we were actually in Europe for the second time. It was the day after we played this show in Zurich. We showed up at this club and the stage was about as big as our normal drum riser. We looked at it and wondered how we could play a show in there and fit all our gear in. Somebody said, we don't we play an acoustic show? There were some people from the label there, and they got us some acoustic guitars. We'd probably played 70 or 80 shows as a band on that record at that point, so it was a really refreshing take on things. The audience sang the songs back to us, because we had a little teeny PA. The next day, [manager] Kelly [Curtis] called and said we had an offer to do "MTV Unplugged." And we were like, we just did it! Had they called a week ago we wouldn't have known if we could have pulled it off. But in Zurich, it seemed like it was all right musically. I think this was one of the first "MTV Unplugged." We had very little experience as an acoustic band at that point, so part of us wished we could do it over. Nirvana did theirs a couple of years later and obviously spent some time on it. We literally got off the plane from Europe, spent all day in a cavernous sound studio in New York and did the show that night. It was just kind of what it was. That's part of the reason we didn't want it released on a big level. If we did one now, we could actually do it properly. But it's appropriate for it to come out with this stuff. It's pretty powerful, and Ed's singing great. Yet, it's kind of naïve, which is kind of awesome.
