REM's Michael Stipe Regrets Missing Kurt Cobain's MTV Unplugged Performance
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- REM's Michael Stipe expresses his regrets not attending Kurt Cobain's MTV Unplugged Performance, as well as his tribute song Let Me In.
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If Kurt didn’t die as he got older I believe he would have went into a more acoustic singer songwriter type direction and absolutely would have written a bunch of amazing material. Every song on the unplugged album is a hit. Pretty much every single song he wrote on his real albums were all hits as well.
Yes. Man See my nirvana covers and subscribe
Or maybe he wouldnt
perhaps would have done some visual art as well
Too bad he was murdered.
Most of the songs performed on unplugged were covers, though I don’t doubt he would of gone deeper into acoustic and wrote some bangers
Kurt Cobain was a huge fan of Michael Stipe and REM...he really dug their music..its well documented
RIP Cobain. REM and Nirvana have been the rocks upon which I lean during many difficult times.
See my Nirvana covers and subscribe yhanks
@@max23945 Stop trying so hard to promote your mediocre Nirvana covers and have some respect.
@@TT-lu5gt well first im not mediocre. .second : i have the right to promove my covers. .i did not desrespect you ..you desrespect me ..
@@max23945 You're right, you are a total amateur
@@max23945 I checked. Definitely mediocre.
Interviewer: Nirvana's MTV Unplugged
Michael Stipe: says he missed the show, with visible regret and pain
Interviewer: talks about himself and how great it was to be there
That's basically the ultimate middle finger for the less fortunate Nirvana fans who didn't get to experience that performance, including Michael.
Yeah he's seems like a jerk.
He mentioned himself several times...kinda odd
Well, he can brag, being the 6th Beatle and all.
two years after your comment......your comment read my mind
I swear that rolling stone guy (the interviewer) is only ever talking about Kurt Cobain and Nirvana when I see him on TH-cam 😄
I swear to god everytime I seen him my whole childhood to now it was always Nirvana and Kurt Cobain related documentary or topics he's always included lol
Itsacly right ^^^ what a guy tho must be a another massive fan❤️
You're an interesting guy. That actually reminds me of something Kurt used to say.
No one knows his name I call him Rolling Stones guy too.
i can't even see him, he's got nirvana all over his face
I think Michael Stipe has one of the greatest voices ever.
agree....
Absolutely
He really does his everybody hurts spot at Glastonbury festival has an Art Garfunkel feel to it Freddy Mercury art and stipe are high up the greatest singing voices on my list!
There’s a soothing quality to it. Like meeting up with an old friend after years apart.
Nobody else sounds like him
Damn Fricke way to bury it into Michael's heart there.
Yes thank u! Michael is Kurt’s daughter’s godfather for crying out loud! I’m certain that there was a nobody like me watching them play acoustically but they, the nobodies, wouldn’t be tootin their horns. Definitely not to Stipe!! C’mon man, have a pissing contest elsewhere dude, not here and not to this man. PS: I wasn’t there for this incredible show. I’m less than the nobodies that were there 😉😅😀
Seeing it on video is incredible. So sad I’m not as fortunate as this dude that got to see them in person in an elevated seat 🙄🥱🤮
mike stipe is an undeniably articulate, thoughtful and humane individual. the world could use more like him.
The way Stipe closes his eyes when he mentions Let Me In.......
There’s great music, then there’s Nirvana’s mtv unplugged performance
@Another stimulating comment No, Nirvana unplugged is the no 1 and Alice In Chains in no 2
joneseyosj _ and Alice In Chains
@Another stimulating comment Another vote for Alice In Chains Unplugged. Nirvana's was great but AIC's was mindblowingly good.
I agree Alice in chain's unplugged was the best of the unplugged series, Layne Staley's voice is unmatched you got so many bands who came after Layne went on his hiatus who literally owe their whole careers to him and Alice in chains, look at God Smack and Sully there a damn glamorized cover band they took their name from a A.I.C song for Pete's sake. Rotten Apple is so underrated its so amazingly deep. I love Nirvana but A.I.C with Layne Staley or Madseason are my fav bands those songs speak to me.I can relate to Layne on alot of levels granted I never touched heroin but ive seen the damage the needle can do first hand my 5 year old son lost his mom last Xmas, honestly if it wasnt for my current girlfriend I'd probably still be in a dark place and the most beautiful part is we dated 15 years ago and we drifted apart i reached out to see how she was and everything just fell into place it's crazy how life is its beautiful and painful but noone knows what tomorrow will bring.
‘Edgy’ millennial spotted. Go on little child. Keep telling us about the plethora of great music you have listened to and declare Nirvana as the greatest of them all... amusing, to say the least.
Over the years, REM has even more separated from other groups even more singularly as i realize how unique their songs and sound were. Without question, a very important group in our history.
When asked the question ‘If you could have a coffee with any one person, who would it be?’, Michael Stipe is definitely high on the list. He seems so human, intelligent, down-to-earth, sympathetic and humble.
David Fricke (the interviewer): "It wouldn't be fair to REM if I talk about Nirvana the most. And it wouldn't be fair to Nirvana if I talk about REM the most. I think I'll talk about David Fricke the most."
i swear david is like a nirvana historian. he only ever talks about nirvana.
He’s high on his own supply and it’s intensely aggravating
He would like you to know that he knew Kurt.
@@HallyPorter Courtney Love would like me to know that about her too
Stipe looks like he's 80.
I came home after drinking a bit and Nirvana Unplugged was on.....I was 23ish and didn't care for Nirvana before that point. It changed my view 100%.
Corrected title: "REM Denies Any Nirvana Influence on Their Music."
Actually it's the other way around.. Kurt openly said he liked REM's music and he was a little influenced by them..
Shane Peterson - yeah, but I don’t think Michael quite agrees with him
I'm not sure where I read this but I believe I remember reading that the last album kurt had listened to was an REM record
so many big bands cashed in on that eras zeitgeist of 'grunge' popularity - not least of all Sonic Youth [regrettably]
Terry LeBoeuf I believe it was Automatic for the People playing in the room at the time of his death.
I miss Michael Stipe, hands down one of the best writers in rock n roll
He wouldn't be there without his bandmates.
Bill Slutzky hmmm, a bit exaggerated but sure lad. :-)
what does hands down mean?
I think it means, one of the best
@@wondermuffin9129Yet his voice is just phenomenal
“My old friend, the minor chord” - he’s my friend too! 😂
Thing is, 'grunge' wasn't a genuine revolution. It was just a thing from one city, that the record companies cottoned on to, gave a name to, and blew out of all proportion, destroying it.
I dunno. In Jen Trynin's memoirs - she says the Seattle sound instantly struck her generation as universal. Everyone everywhere was vaguely dealing with that kind of feeling - but the Seattle bands showed everyone how to put it all together. Suddenly everyone knew how and what to write. It was a genuine grass-roots revolution - a generation finding its voice nationwide - thanks to a few groundbreakers in Seattle.
If you look at songs Kurt did like old age and do re mi you get a snippet of where he was going, that's the greatest travesty because it would've been amazing
And burn the rain
But then there was You know you're right which was also a different direction and very much a hard rock sound.
Where he was going? He wrote it in 1990 for hole!
And the demo "Opinions" which is so simple yet so brilliant.
Great interview with Moby and James Hetfield, hosted by David "Ramone" Fricke.
To have been at that show... that's a badge you wear for life
I'm with Michael about missing their performance on MTV Unplugged, but I regret it for a completely different reason: I didn't exist at the time of it.
I wish I didn’t have to hear Courtney’s name every time I hear Kurts. She doesn’t deserve that or any of the everything she took from him. Literally. She makes me sick. All she is to me is Kurts biggest mistake in life.
Kurt and Courtney loved each other, no wait they adored each other so much so they got married and had a baby. Kurt was already on drugs before he met Courtney, she did not ruin that mans life he did that all on his own. In many ways he was self destructive, all we saw was what he was outwardly putting out into the world. No one knows what was going on in that mans head, Courtney has every right to be mentioned when Kurt is mentioned because she is such a huge part of his life. It irritates me when people hate on that woman whose only crime is loving Kurt. It’s like when Yoko was blamed for splitting up the Beatles by taking John Lennon away, no they just loved each other.
@@teacupalice
Sorry but you are almost completely wrong. After a couple years of researching his case and his life including all the people in it from his family, to the band, friends, other bands, Courtney, the detectives, lawyers, and other people who research the case as well I am firmly confident that she was a poison from the first day she targeted him. Yes Kurt had issues with drugs but he had cleaned up his life for the most part and she was not only a major enabler but in his last months she was actively working against him. Kurt was also going to divorce her which set into motion a horrible and unfortunate series of events that led to his death. Not suicide. But death. Giving details is impossible in a text like this but if you honestly and seriously look deeply into this I’m truly believe you will see things, and in particular, Courtney. 🤙🏻
@@teacupalice I think the comparison between Yoko and Courtney does not fit. The evidence that this was murder for hire is too much to ignore. But I'm a 46 year old man who lived through all of that and have a different perspective than you.
She made a mockery of him, and made him look like a fool.
@@teacupalice American Spy Fox has great videos on this, it is all the in-depth research RFeeOC is mentioning
This interviewer shows a disgraceful lack of compassion and empathy when Stipe mentioned that he missed Kurbain's unplugged. To throw out that he watched in the best seat in the house back at Stipe without missing a beat was quite jarring.
No he doesn’t. He lavishing praise on the performance with a fellow fan.
The interviewer just loves to talk about himself. The number of times he says ‘I’ or ‘me’, it’s just crazy, it ruins the conversation.
#HowcanImakethisAboutMyelf
Michael Stipe is a rock star! When he speaks, everyone stops and listens.
He is an awesome artist.
He could read the phone book and I'd be interested
I saw him walking his dog in NYC once and before I even recognized who he was I sensed a really powerful presence coming from him.
The interviewer broke the worlds record of using the word "I" the most times in under seven minutes. Congratulations.
david fricke. rock n roll blowhard
It’s really, really annoying! How can I make this about me?
It was rude of REM not to even ask him a question.
Kurt Cobain and Michael Stipe are Best Friends.
Love REM, I struggle to put them into a single genre of music. I don’t think “rock” really does it, elements of pop but I can’t really describe them well. I can’t even describe what murmur is.
They’re unique in that way. Interesting to see what people think.
@richardhead-sw2qc Couldnt agree more, my two favourites also.
All the people gather
Fly to carry each his burden, we are young despite the years
We are concerned, we are hope despite the times
All of a sudden, these days, happy throngs, take this joy
Wherever, wherever
I wish to eat each one of you, and you, me, you
If I can, and I can
We have many things in common, name three (three, three, three)
I had a hat and it sunk, reached down
Yanked it up, slapped it on my head
All the people gather
Fly to carry each his burden, we are young despite the years
We are concerned, we are hope despite the times
All of a sudden, these days, happy throngs, take this joy
Wherever, wherever you go!,,,,,, LIFE'S RICH PAGEANT MOTHER FUCKERS!
Great conversation. I think all the time what kind of music Kurt would have ventured into. The Unplugged show was a beautiful glimpse of what was possible for his voice. And everyone a part of that live recording did an incredible job being in the moment.
For those wondering, that's Rolling Stone Magazine writer David Fricke conducting this interview and, yup, he's talking too much.
Can barely tell there’s an old man under that hair. I though it was some dude in his 20s
yeah he's a pretentious Rolling Stone magazine glad hander.
He's a tendency to talk too much about his own experiences and forgetting he's the interviewer here hahaha
Just think, Kurt Cobain and Michael Stipe were slated to record an album together... Michael even went so far as to send Kurt plane tickets, but Kurt sadly didn't go... File that under "What Might Have Been".
I know! Maybe in some alternate universe they are currently touring together.
I respect Fricke but he fails when he imposes his own narrative.
So where is ur respect for him? He didn’t respect his guest’s honest answer so why do u respect of Fricke’s me me me response/interruption of Stipe’s reply? I get what ur saying and I RESPECT ur words, but u see what he did here. Not cool
@@mhpoe1970 I mean him interviewing Kurt and being at concert they were talking about had nothing to do with anything? Seems like he’s just relating and making conversation lmao
Let me in is the best song on Monster IMHO. Had no idea it was about Kurt. Even more moving now.
i was in the middle of the jungles in Central America when I heard the bad news. Ill never forget that day
I was in the World Trade Centre
I was in my house.
I was at Costco
Rob H. Que Dios te bendiga.🇸🇻
Peter Buck owns a few of Kurt’s electric guitars..
You can see how much Michael cared for Kurt he looks up straight away at the interviewer when Kurts been mentioned at 2:27
We all get old, i get it.. but damn Mike Mills looks super old here. I guess i always picture him with that boyish face thru the years.
Jeez... you got REM in the room and the only thing he wants to discuss is cobain?? Such disrespect.
תודה לכם על המקום הבטוח שנתתם לי בתור נערה.
Stipe's speaking voice kind of sounds like John Cusack's.
The interviewer needed to stop talking
I thought he did well. I like how he cut off Michael Stripe too, because that guy can be such a dick sometimes.
Agreed. He's had a long enough career to figure out how to step out of the way of a good interview, I would hope.
And start dancing
4:00 what you look for, thank me later.
Kurt said that he wanted to do other genres of music like the beatles other than alternative
@B Dub that's my favorite track on the unplugged album 😁
The problem is that he was destined to die. He could not shed his demons especially his mainlining of heroin.. It's a death sentence. Remarkable he made it as long as he did. He OD'ed multiple times before picking up the shotgun. People often talk about what direction he would have taken, but he was on the road to nowhere when he died.
Seems like Kurt wanted to do so much more in music meaning he didn’t wanna die. Makes one think 🤔
It really REALLY Does make one think.......
Especially when forensic science proved he was met with foul play yet SPD intentionally sweep their short coming under the rug for the sake of reputation, fear of controversy and finally to cover up their lack of credibility at the time of 1994, the amount of blood coming from cobains ear indicates with out a shadow of a doubt that his heart was barely if even at all pumping blood which means he was already incapacitated and or dead when the round when off into his jaw and upper skull so weather we ever have damning physical evidence that someone was with kurt at the time of his death is completely immaterial now as we have literally proven this as a complete certainty, it's literally as simple as giving a herion addict herion and but giving them a very unrealistically large "hot shot" ehich means a lethal dose of drugs, however people will choose to not adknowledge this fact, if he had taken one lethal overdose he would have more than likely died with the needle in his arm and definitely wouldn't have even had time to put his drug tools away, indefinitely with two times the lethal dose of herion and that's just hypothetical, he actually had three times the lethal dose of herion in his blood, which means that would have kulled him three times over, this man was 5"7 139 pounds at the time of his death point blank end of story he was done in.
This isn't even covering other obvious red flags at the crime scene the obvious journal entry that had been ripped out and partially forged as a suicide note.
@@kristybush6949 and if I was going to.put a shotgun to my head and pull the trigger I would definitely be standing right by the door when I did it, right?
@@kristybush6949 He didn't take 3x his lethal dose. He took less than usual. Plus he used a gun designed for shooting birds, the amount of blood coming out of his ear wasn't too little.
@@kristybush6949 Plus all of the forensic evidence proves that he DID kill himself.
@@rivers_5520 yes he did have 3× the lethal dose in his system and the bird shot would only keep his his head from being outwardly damaged but it would still infact produce a way way bigger amount of blood if he was infact awake and alive when shot but that just wasn't present at the scene. You're wrong. Please just stop. Oral Methadone doesn't work the same way as intravenous herion way less potent and nowhere near amediate, and that experiment they concluded kurt and courtney with is bullshit I'm really not trying to even make waves at this point I'm not here to be a dick but he was murdered. Facts. Sorry.
My youth summarized right here. REM, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, with The Offspring and Green Day to follow. 1987-1995. Ah, to be young again!
Green Day sucks. Offspring are OK.
1:25
What he meant to say was: "Kurt bought a house".
Honestly I never liked that interviewer, he always make spotlight from talking about Kurt Cobain and several times Ive found him talking shit about it. I bet he has made lots of cash from it.
If I remember correctly I believe Kurt wanted to work with REM really bad.
Man, I'm not an interviewer, but I'm pretty sure that almost disappearing (asking specific questions) in order to make the person who is being interviewed shines is kind of interview 101. The guy should have explored more the reason why Michael wasn't on that show.
I was thinking the same thing. What a missed opportunity. I also thought it was kind of harsh of him to then go into detail about how he in fact was there, saw Kurt perform and made it all about himself.
can someone tell the reporter that no one gives a damn about his experience? please?
Nirvana’s performance, not just Cobain!
Funny how I hated Nirvana and the whole genre back in the day. I was a frustrated kid and the 80's thrash was the answer for that and I blamed grunge for, well, whatever I blamed it for (honestly, I can't remember at this moment). As I grew up (now 37) I have learned to appreciate it and perceive it from a whole different perspective. The grunge movement has been so vital to the musical market. Not just as a genre but also the philosophy behind it. I regret not paying more positive attention to it back then, but I guess I had to grow older to be able to understand it and appreciate it.
You are not alone friend. It wasnt Nirvana for me, it was the Dead. But case in point, having a closed mind to different kinds of music from different genre's or scenes. I was an idiot head banger kid that didnt have time for anything that wasnt coming from a place of amplification and aggression. Oh well. I still love heavy metal but I find great music from all sorts of different places. Dont be so hard on yourself, lol.
This guy thinks that interview he did with Cobain in '93 has given him this total understanding of the man no one else has.
It's like some sort of weird obsession. He dresses like its 1993 to remind you of his connection to Nirvana because he thinks it somehow makes him important. Sad.
@@bearbonezmusic I may be wrong about this put I think that guy was an editor at The Rolling Stone Magazine at the time of Kurt's death.
@@jcnimmer You're right he was, I just think he's super full of himself.
@@bearbonezmusic I am sure your right man. Its kinda of a strange job I suppose.
Do you even know who the fuck the interviewer is?
I sense Fricke misses Kurt as much as we do.
Indeed. He is / was one of Rolling Stone's best on-the-ground reporters.
Interesting... never thought I"d hear of a connection between REM and the whole "grunge" Seattle movement. I lived in Seattle during that time but was into reggae shows. Thanks for saying the scenes were completely different because they were...
Yeah Kurt and Michael were good friends
If you listen to Do Re Mi on the box set you can clearly hear the REM-ish direction Kurt was leaning toward. I have a feeling he would have made it a duet with Stipe because his voice would have worked great in that key.
Absolutely.
Exactly
Never thought about that til you said it, it does have a very rem vibe
That would have been amazing if they had done a duet together.
What was your " Stupid reason" for missing "Nirvana Unplugged" Mike?
I just could never picture what Kurt would look like at 50 years old. Can you imagine him losing his hair as he aged or what if he got fat? His "look" has become so iconic that it is so strange to think of him looking any diffferent. It's much like James Dean. or Jeff Buckley, or River _Phoenix
1994 was an incredible year for albums and the 90s were the last GREAT decade for music.
True artists, pioneers, legends.
25 years ago today
I miss R.E.M. . Period.
Brought Monster back in1995 still have it to this very day.
I had a chance to see Nirvana at the National Guard armory in Philly. Show conflicted with something else I wanted to do so I told my buddies who wete going that I'll catch them next time they tour. There was no next time.
Mike Mills is the most cutest rock member in the whole wide world,I mean seriously 😂😂😂😂😍💞💞💞💞💞💞🤦💞💞🤦💞
I bumped into Michael in the stair well of a YMCA after seeing a Fugazi show there. I swore to my friends I spotted Mills and Buck before the show and saw them standing on he elevated track above the gym during. Even when I bumped into him in the crowded stairwell as we were all pushing out I was crazy cus no one was noticing. I wouldn't have been at that show if it wasn't for R.E.M.'s contribution to my musical experience.
"It came as it was." I know he didn't do it on purpose, but that struck a chord... Minor, probably.
Let me in is such a beautiful song ❤️
I think this guy is obsessed with Kurt, Nirvana and the grunge movement (whatever that means).
@Ernest T David Fricke*
I’m not a huge REM fan, but their song “supernatural super serious” is incredible
If you walk around Athens, you get a real sense of the REM sound. Little things like the front porches with lots of plants, neglected record stores, something lonely about the streets and the air. Oddly isolated. A very different feeling than the almost communal feeling of the Northwest portrayed in Portlandia.
I do love nirvana! But this rolling stone guy is getting on my nerves!
I absolutely love Monster, but King of Comedy is truly dreadful
Why wouldn't you have gone? @ Michael Stipe
I remember hearing about Kurt's death while my brother was in a trench in Bosnia. Man, they somehow tried to make it sound important.
He didn't kill himslef. He was in a bad place because he was going to split from Courtney. He was on his way out of his old life not life itself
He was loaded with psychiatric medication & it makes a person very unstable & suicidal, unfortunately.
@@sirmount2636 she did the same with Kristen Pfaff, who Kurt wanted to get away with
Stipe is one of those guys who ages in such an interesting way. The shape of his face hasn’t changed an ounce. It’s all in the wrinkles.
Great interview, well done guys
R.E.M. came out way before Seattle. Their sound only changed so much, and I argue that they and them alone sowed the seeds of "Alternative" that broke Hair Metals back. GnR was a response to those even.
gkarjala you forgot about The Replacements and Hüsker Du!
@@ixxgxx You are corrext. But, R.E.M. became mainstream first, thus opening for the Alternitive/Grunge movement.Aside that hairmetal mostly sucked. my humble opinion
No. Not alone at all. There was a shitload of good music happening in the UK and other English language countries (including the USA) in the 80s. A lot of it wasn't mainstream in North America, but was there bubbling under the surface. We just didn't have a name for it until it started becoming more available to everyone. Then by the early 90s we were calling it "alternative". REM was just one piece of the puzzle.
@@chocomanger6873 Point taken. Thx.
Choco Manger before the word alternative, it was called College Radio. I remember REM on College Radio back in 83. Same as Replacements, Bad Brains, DK. Etc.
💙
I miss r.e.m they were huge in the 90's when i was growing up always liked them
Joker walking by the door outside at 20ish seconds?
One of the most famous rockstar poets talks about life....
Host: "I'm cool too 'n' stuff."
Polly to fiish with well was it all a dream.thankyou Krishnamurti too for giving me a short cut to enlightenment. Yes qe did take a wrong turn. God bless you all . See you on the road less travelled. If Bill Gatesallows me xxxxx❤
This interviewer keeps steering this conversation from REM back to Nirvana. It feels really forced and just weird
These guys are in denial. No doubt about it REM released new music in 1994 in reaction to what was happening. They can deny the industry influences to create magic... but it was there. I wish these pretentious clowns could just say HELLS YES it had an influence... because it obviously was.
They're saying about him going acoustic, YOU MEAN LIKE CHRIS CORNELL!!!!!!!
WHO IS NOT YET IN THE RRHOF,
AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY!!!!!
What a street, with links to REM, Nirvana and Pearl Jam !
Im from Athens... glad to see this video.
I was just there this past week and saw Peter Buck in a restaurant.
I first thought it was Ian Paice on the right.
Why do Peter and Bill never do interviews?
That’s some interview. Only a small part and yet so meaningful. I love and appreciate the honesty from both on Kurt and the Seattle movement.
Ridiculous year 1994 for music.
So many good records were released that year.
The Beatles, Rolling Stones AND Pink Floyd has new music out that year. Also all the great rock and hip hop. We had it good.
Is it just me or does Michael Stipe always speak in a tone like he’s telling adults that some other kids have been really really naughty?
“And then he pulled her hair, and tipped his bag of crisps on the floor and then he took my bag of crisps.” He always comes across as believing that everything is so serious and he’s upset about it. He’s always upset.
Why does Peter Buck not to these interviews ?
The interviewer? Wow I'm old as fuck now
Actually released in September, 1994.