Unplugged

The MTV Unplugged series are small concerts organized by the company MTV. The series had its height in the 90's, as a vehicle for artists to devote time to revitalize the careers of great performers. This type of format, created by MTV, has caused much attraction to the public, because in each concert will show different types of new instruments that help to get a very good resonance and musical arrangements.

The term Unplugged has become a term used to describe music usually heard on amplified instruments such as electric guitar and synthesizer that is rendered instead on instruments that are not electronically amplified, for example acoustic guitar or traditional piano, although a microphone is still used.

The word became incorporated into the title of a popular MTV series that began in the 1989/1990 US TV season, MTV Unplugged, on which musicians performed acoustic or "unplugged" versions of their familiar electric repertoire. Many of these performances were subsequently released as albums, often featuring the title Unplugged.

Alice In Chains (1996)

Nirvana (1993)

Pearl Jam (1992)

Temple Of The Dog

Temple of the Dog was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. It was conceived by vocalist Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone. The line-up included Stone Gossard on rhythm guitar, Jeff Ament on bass guitar (both ex-members of Mother Love Bone), Mike McCready on lead guitar, Matt Cameron on drums and Eddie Vedder providing lead and backing vocals.

The band released its only album, the self-titled Temple of the Dog, in April 1991 through A&M Records. Although earning praise from music critics at the time of its release, the album was not widely recognized until 1992, when Vedder, Ament, Gossard and McCready had their breakthrough with Pearl Jam.

Mother Love Bone

Mother Love Bone was a grunge band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988. The band was active from 1988 to 1990. Mother Love Bone was founded by ex-Green River Jeff Ament, Bruce Fairweather and Stone Gossard and former vocalist Andrew Wood Malfunkshun drummer and former Ten Minute Warning and Skin Yard Greg Gilmore. Initially, the group was formed in 1987 from the cover band Lords of the Wasteland which featured Wood, Gossard, Ament and drummer Regan Hagar Malfunkshun. In early 1988, the band had added Fairweather, replaced Hagar with drummer Greg Gilmore and the group changed its name to Mother Love Bone.

The band leader was Andrew Wood and his compositions helped to catapult the group to the top of the burgeoning music scene in late 1980 and early 90's in Seattle. Wood died a few days before the release of the band's debut album, Apple, thus ending the hopes of success of the group. The album was finally released a few months later. 

Stone Temple Pilots (STP)

Stone Temple Pilots (STP) is an American rock band from San Diego, California that consists of Scott Weiland (lead vocals), brothers Robert DeLeo (bass guitar, vocals) and Dean DeLeo (guitar), and Eric Kretz (drums, percussion)

This group was formed in the early 90's, and became one of the most notable of this period through rock anthems like "Plush," "Sex Type Thing" and "Interstate Love Song". Framed in the grunge trend, They were contemporaries of Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden, among others. Despite suffering egregious accusations of copying the style of other groups, Stone Temple Pilots survived the ferocious criticism and wrote his particular page in the history of music with five LP's independent and progressive uprooting with the trends and musical fashions of the moment.

R.I.P Kurt Cobain

Today, we remember the death of Kurt, a musician who marked the history of music and rock. A man who played guitar with his whole being and screamed his lyrics with his heart. Kurt was a musician who inspired many . . . and me.

Kurt wasn't virtuous. He didn't play the guitar like Hendrix, his voice did not reach the lyrical tone of Freddy Mercury, and Nirvana records did not show the careful work of producing the albums of Pink Floyd. But that was not their intention. He saw the world and reflected in his music. Only among the people and face to face with the world, a world for which he never was done. Kurt was immersed in music with stomach pain, his numb mind and disappointed heart. It was not what he expected. On April 5, 1994 after injecting himself his last heroin overdose, he was shot himself with a shotgun. Going to Nirvana, and leaving behind this world that was never enough . . .

Today marks 18 years of his death. the grunge went with him, but his music remains,only in people who are disposed to listen.

"I'ts better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you're not"

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are" 

Kurt Cobain.

R.I.P Layne Staley

We chase misprinted lies          
We face the path of time
And yet i fight
And yet i fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home


My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet i find                                                              
And yet i find


Repeating in my head                              
If i can't be my own
I'd feel better dead

He was Alice. RIP Layne Staley, It's been 10 years of your death, and although I didn't live to hear from you when you were alive, I miss you, we miss you, who appreciate all your music...

I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.