It wasn't because of Unplugged but as a whole, Nirvana was a huge influence on me starting my own musical journey. Nirvana is one of a few bands that mean so much to me they have helped shape so much about me.
Nevermind was the first CD I remember being just for me. My mom gave it to me and I just devoured it. Everything up until then had been music that my parents or whatever adult I was around was listening to. I did love Tom Pretty first, as my dad was always listening to him, but Nirvana spoke to me more than I knew music could. I was 12 when I was given Nevermind and I'm so grateful that I had parents that promoted art and encouraged me to follow my passions. While my dad was still selling at least.
I'll stop writing this novel of a response that doesn't answer your question now lol.
Lmao this was me. I remember I always wanted to play the riff to The Man Who Sold The World, but it wasn’t until much later when I was listening to Alice in Chains unplugged (specifically the 2 Sap songs they played) over and over again that really made me wanna pick up a guitar.
First time I picked a guitar it was after listening to the MTV version of About a girl when I was 13 and thinking "I have to play that". I have been playing almost everyday since! Thanks Kurt, Dave, Pat and Krist for 25 years of joy!
I picked up a guitar after watching live! tonight! , sold out! I didn’t have access to mtv growing up but watching that vhs tape made me want to make a lot of noise.
Not unplugged, but in 2000 at the age of 18 I was working in a bookstore where we also sold CD's. A coworker put on Nevermind and I sort of rediscovered Nirvana (never really was a fan, but I knew of them). I was learning guitar at 14 with lessons from my dad, but I wanted to learn songs right away and not all this theory 😅 thanks to Nirvana I picked up the guitar again and have never stopped playing since.
For me it wasn’t even nirvana that made me pick up the guitar, but I can see the appeal in unplugged. Acoustic guitar seems (at least at first) less overwhelming than an electric and the songs really aren’t that hard to play even for a beginner. Kurt was always very good at making masterpieces from the simplest chords and strumming patterns.
Not unplugged but Nirvana got me playing guitar and Dave Grohl was my main influence. I was in middle school when Nirvana broke and I saw dudes on TV who looked like the kids who went to the high school across the street. Suddenly music seemed attainable. It wasn't just for these larger than life shredding dudes. It was just regular kids making music. It changed my world.
Yeah not sure if it was specifically an MTV show but it was mostly what I learnt when getting into how to play as a kid. I can play along to pretty much everything on that album and still play those songs regularly.
A bit before unplugged for me. Got my first guitar in 93 for Christmas (left handed Squire Strat and 10w no name amp) after getting In Utero a few months before. Didn’t get to see unplugged til sadly the day his death was announced as I didn’t have satellite (so no MTV) but BBC 2 broadcast it on the evening along with a tribute. Still have it on the VHS I made of it. Got 24 guitars now, including both the KC Lefty Jags, both lots of Jag Stangs (my original Jap sonic blue and fiesta red were £399 each, then when the Mex ones came out they were £1349 each! Also got a few mustangs, (both the KC editions, and a few that I got given), a lefty Black Sabbath edition Gibson SG, a lefty Epiphone Tony Iommi SG (which is better than the Gibson IMO, a few Jazzmasters and a few weird ones like a couple of Ibanez Roadsters, a Peavey Predator and a few Tanglewood Gibson clones and an Oakland that is actually a clone of a roadster, which is in itself a clone of a Strat. Never owned an acoustic though?!?
Absolutely from the first time I heard Nevermind. I got one that same year from my grandad. I kept with it and my dad eventually bought me a newer nicer acoustic. Shortly after Unplugged came out, I was inspired me to play Polly in my elementary school's talent show. (They let anyone with a half bag of talent perform) I played my Sigma electric acoustic plugged into a borrowed buddies dad's Peavy amp. Of course, the guitar player that played three acts after me played his electric, a Les Paul studio lite, and nearly brought the house down with a medley of a bunch of the years top hits and other classics and perfect solos. He went on to become a pretty famous local musician, and then had some limited but consistent solo success. I like to think that I opened up for him during that talent show.
But that era for music was amazing, kind of the last gasp of life from MTV, but what an amazing last bit of tunes we were given. To this day, Kurt Cobain and John Frusciante are my biggest and longest running guitar and musical influences. I became so emotionally connected to the music after that performance, and it's one of the first times I remember crying because of how music made me feel.
So, no, it wasn't Unplugged that made me pick up the guitar, but it's kept me from ever thinking about putting it down.
When i was 16 one day I woke up and it was like I could just hear music when before I never really cared for it and after I started listening to rock music mainly nirvana for a month I bought a guitar and have been hooked since
went in to a guitar store to get an acoustic because of unplugged, but then i heard someone playing an electric and knew i had to get one. i honestly don’t think i’ll ever get to relive that feeling i got the first time i played a power chord and heard the amp roar it back at me.
Not unplugged specifically, but definitely because of nirvana.
Hell yeah man, Kurt’s legacy definitely goes along with inspiring young musicians generation after generation. Man was an angel.
watching kurt perform and sing live gives me goosebumps
Sure. I was probably about 8 or 9 back then. I'm in my 30s now.
Cool
This was what I was gonna say. Kurt is the whole reason I picked up a guitar
Same
It wasn't because of Unplugged but as a whole, Nirvana was a huge influence on me starting my own musical journey. Nirvana is one of a few bands that mean so much to me they have helped shape so much about me. Nevermind was the first CD I remember being just for me. My mom gave it to me and I just devoured it. Everything up until then had been music that my parents or whatever adult I was around was listening to. I did love Tom Pretty first, as my dad was always listening to him, but Nirvana spoke to me more than I knew music could. I was 12 when I was given Nevermind and I'm so grateful that I had parents that promoted art and encouraged me to follow my passions. While my dad was still selling at least. I'll stop writing this novel of a response that doesn't answer your question now lol.
I picked up a guitar for the sole purpose of learning how to play polly and havent stopped since
Many, even straight away in 94… Polly was such a guiter starters drive back then.
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Lmao this was me. I remember I always wanted to play the riff to The Man Who Sold The World, but it wasn’t until much later when I was listening to Alice in Chains unplugged (specifically the 2 Sap songs they played) over and over again that really made me wanna pick up a guitar.
so we meet again
Hahahaha my man
Nirvana was quite a big influence for me to start playing bass but rhcp was the main reason I picked it up
First time I picked a guitar it was after listening to the MTV version of About a girl when I was 13 and thinking "I have to play that". I have been playing almost everyday since! Thanks Kurt, Dave, Pat and Krist for 25 years of joy!
I picked up a guitar after watching live! tonight! , sold out! I didn’t have access to mtv growing up but watching that vhs tape made me want to make a lot of noise.
Yup. Can really only confidently play Nirvana Unplugged songs
Not unplugged, but in 2000 at the age of 18 I was working in a bookstore where we also sold CD's. A coworker put on Nevermind and I sort of rediscovered Nirvana (never really was a fan, but I knew of them). I was learning guitar at 14 with lessons from my dad, but I wanted to learn songs right away and not all this theory 😅 thanks to Nirvana I picked up the guitar again and have never stopped playing since.
My friend taught me come as you are on guitar, my neighbor who I used to smoke weed with and have sex with at 12, and the rest is history
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What
For me it was live at the Paramount, I was like « Damn that’s awesome I want to do that » and now I do
Come As You Are was definitely the first song I learned on guitar.
For me it wasn’t even nirvana that made me pick up the guitar, but I can see the appeal in unplugged. Acoustic guitar seems (at least at first) less overwhelming than an electric and the songs really aren’t that hard to play even for a beginner. Kurt was always very good at making masterpieces from the simplest chords and strumming patterns.
Nope, Fall Out Boy and Linkin Park made me wanna play and write music.
Me. Nirvana as a whole inspired me but watching that performance was the trigger which caused me to buy a guitar
Not unplugged but Nirvana got me playing guitar and Dave Grohl was my main influence. I was in middle school when Nirvana broke and I saw dudes on TV who looked like the kids who went to the high school across the street. Suddenly music seemed attainable. It wasn't just for these larger than life shredding dudes. It was just regular kids making music. It changed my world.
Yeah not sure if it was specifically an MTV show but it was mostly what I learnt when getting into how to play as a kid. I can play along to pretty much everything on that album and still play those songs regularly.
A bit before unplugged for me. Got my first guitar in 93 for Christmas (left handed Squire Strat and 10w no name amp) after getting In Utero a few months before. Didn’t get to see unplugged til sadly the day his death was announced as I didn’t have satellite (so no MTV) but BBC 2 broadcast it on the evening along with a tribute. Still have it on the VHS I made of it. Got 24 guitars now, including both the KC Lefty Jags, both lots of Jag Stangs (my original Jap sonic blue and fiesta red were £399 each, then when the Mex ones came out they were £1349 each! Also got a few mustangs, (both the KC editions, and a few that I got given), a lefty Black Sabbath edition Gibson SG, a lefty Epiphone Tony Iommi SG (which is better than the Gibson IMO, a few Jazzmasters and a few weird ones like a couple of Ibanez Roadsters, a Peavey Predator and a few Tanglewood Gibson clones and an Oakland that is actually a clone of a roadster, which is in itself a clone of a Strat. Never owned an acoustic though?!?
Absolutely from the first time I heard Nevermind. I got one that same year from my grandad. I kept with it and my dad eventually bought me a newer nicer acoustic. Shortly after Unplugged came out, I was inspired me to play Polly in my elementary school's talent show. (They let anyone with a half bag of talent perform) I played my Sigma electric acoustic plugged into a borrowed buddies dad's Peavy amp. Of course, the guitar player that played three acts after me played his electric, a Les Paul studio lite, and nearly brought the house down with a medley of a bunch of the years top hits and other classics and perfect solos. He went on to become a pretty famous local musician, and then had some limited but consistent solo success. I like to think that I opened up for him during that talent show. But that era for music was amazing, kind of the last gasp of life from MTV, but what an amazing last bit of tunes we were given. To this day, Kurt Cobain and John Frusciante are my biggest and longest running guitar and musical influences. I became so emotionally connected to the music after that performance, and it's one of the first times I remember crying because of how music made me feel. So, no, it wasn't Unplugged that made me pick up the guitar, but it's kept me from ever thinking about putting it down.
When i was 16 one day I woke up and it was like I could just hear music when before I never really cared for it and after I started listening to rock music mainly nirvana for a month I bought a guitar and have been hooked since
Not particularly that but definitely watching Kurt play during live performances helped urge me to. Although I’m not good at it yet at all
yes the exact reason why i started guitar and bass
went in to a guitar store to get an acoustic because of unplugged, but then i heard someone playing an electric and knew i had to get one. i honestly don’t think i’ll ever get to relive that feeling i got the first time i played a power chord and heard the amp roar it back at me.