![]() I think that it does lend itself to you start to realize Josh will be playing the drums slightly different in certain songs. And just because you as the artist or the performer are sick of it, someone in that audience may not be as sick of it as you. You want to consider that a fan coming to a show wants to hear the version that they fell in love with. But we think this is actually such a cool technology and such a great way to connect with an audience maybe we will try to bring this in on our arena runs.īaltin: Are there songs that you're particularly excited to think about reinterpreting? And so that's something that we tackled specifically for the MTV Unplugged set. I can't think of a cooler way to involve an audience than to ask them to sing something or be the kick drum or give us a clap or a woo and building out a drum kit that he will be playing of the audience noises. And then being able to import that sound that you're capturing into an instrument and triggering that in different ways. So we took a deep dive into the technology of being able to sample something real time. And then by the end of each song, you'll have really a different version of the song than, than anyone's heard before.īaltin: Do you guys see this as a little bit of a litmus test for possibly doing something like this going forward? Where in the past we would be playing to prerecorded ones, we're actually gonna be building them out. What we're doing for MTV Unplugged though is we're actually gonna be building out those tracks and looping and playing every sound that you hear and watching what chemistry is required in order to make those backing tracks. And we're proud of our tracks we made them ourselves, but still prerecorded nonetheless. Usually Josh and I performed at prerecorded tracks so that we can focus on our performance and all that. But it is very different than anything we've ever done before. So I kind of took that and came up with a concept where we're actually not very unplugged at all. When we were tapped to do this I did my deep dive into MTV Unplugged's of the past and realized that, "Yes, the concept is that it's stripped down, you grab an acoustic guitar and you sing your song." But I think more than more than that it turned into an opportunity to see an artist or a band in a different way than they traditionally present themselves. My favorite song live is "Car Radio" but how do you do that one acoustic. Again, it's a case of an Unplugged album that is designed to attract the band's core audience, which makes it a fairly entertaining effort that is essentially just an official bootleg.Baltin: Were there songs that you guys were particularly interested or excited to strip down. ![]() ![]() The acoustic arrangements of the harder songs sound like novelties, and the rest sound like rehashes of their previous work, only without much energy. During the concert, Alice in Chains drew from their three albums and two EPs, offering new, more reflective arrangements for harder songs like "Would?" and virtually re-creating the original versions of "Got Me Wrong" and "No Excuses." Throughout the album, the group sounds tight and professional - on the basis of this performance, it's hard to believe that they hadn't played together for nearly three years - but it doesn't offer anything that the albums don't already. There's a variety of reasons for their inactivity - primarily it's due to the health of certain members - but the lack of concerts made the Unplugged performance seem special. Between the end of 1993 and a performance for MTV Unplugged in the spring of 1996, Alice in Chains performed no concerts - they didn't even support the release of their eponymous third album with a minor tour.
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