The whole performance was just stunning.
They surprised a lot of people when this was aired. I must have listened to this a thousand times, and watched it nearly as many.
It's far from perfect, but it's perfect nirvana, and it's how I like to remember Kurt.
He doubted himself as a musician (as do a lot of his ilk) hence the buzz effect on his guitar, but we end up with the best mtv unplugged ever recorded.
We have a string section, pat smear grinning, krists snake like almost groovy bass lines, and Kurt's teach yourself guitar, guitar.
And that voice. Normal, almost insignificant, until provoked by the tune he's just remembered he wrote, or was a fan of, then it all comes out, like he's trying to exorcise demons from his larynx.
That last note from where did you sleep last night still, after all these years, affects me somehow. And that last audible inhalation before he closes out, to me, feels like his, well, you know, his last.
Not sure what happened to the long haired scruffy looking drummer though...
Great post.
