{"id":1938,"date":"2020-04-08T20:52:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T04:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2022-02-12T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T20:26:23","slug":"why-i-still-love-watching-nirvana-unplugged-every-april-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/why-i-still-love-watching-nirvana-unplugged-every-april-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I still love watching Nirvana Unplugged every April 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pat Smear&#8217;s striped guitar<\/li>\n<li>Baby faced Dave Grohl<\/li>\n<li>All the cover songs<\/li>\n<li>The secret electric guitar on Man Who Sold the World<\/li>\n<li>Pennyroyal Tea (&#8220;Am I gonna do this&#8230;by myself?&#8221; and the disastrous duet with Pat during rehearsal in the extras that explains the exchange)<\/li>\n<li>The guy who looks like a burly Cliff Clavin in the audience<\/li>\n<li>Screwing up the setlist to play Dumb \/ Polly back to back but requesting a sequencing edit for broadcast<\/li>\n<li>Playful, sarcastic, super smart Kurt<\/li>\n<li>On a Plain!<\/li>\n<li>Sweet Home Alabama!!!<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What are they tuning, a harp?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Dave Grohl red-handedly caught smoking a joint on camera in close up<\/li>\n<li>Kurt in his swivel chair<\/li>\n<li>The vocals on Lake of Fire<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Fuckin&#8217; Nirvana!&#8221;\u009d<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;How are we supposed to play In Bloom acoustically?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>When Kurt slowly does the opening riff to Negative Creep while deciding if they can do it acoustically<\/li>\n<li>Kurt&#8217;s eyes \/ gasp near the very end of Where Did You Sleep Last Night?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Smear&#8217;s striped guitar Baby faced Dave Grohl All the cover songs The secret electric guitar on Man Who Sold the World Pennyroyal Tea (&#8220;Am I gonna do this&#8230;by myself?&#8221; and the disastrous duet with Pat during rehearsal in the extras that explains the exchange) The guy who looks like a burly Cliff Clavin in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-vg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/pretending-im-like-kurt-cobain\/","url_meta":{"origin":1938,"position":0},"title":"Pretending I&#8217;m Like Kurt Cobain","author":"LBDG","date":"April 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't believe Kurt Cobain has been dead for 14 years. Both he specifically and Nirvana in general were big influences on me growing up, and that influence clearly bled into the narrator and the book. And how about this for an illustration of time travel cause and effect in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":596,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/15-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":1938,"position":1},"title":"15 Years","author":"LBDG","date":"April 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Couldn't let today pass by without at least some sort of acknowledgment.\u00c2\u00a0 15 years.\u00c2\u00a0 Wow. 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