#Neil young unplugged tv#

Critics hailed the 'new' arrangements for the slower Mr. The tension reflected on the show, which was bad and there was a foul mood.

To add to that Tim Drummond asked Neil's manager (who talked Neil into doing this, to increase his popularity with the mainstream public.) for more money. The only one that was good was Nils Lofgren, then again he also played with Neil on Tonight's the Night for which they didn't rehearse AT ALL. The band had no idea what they were playing even though they rehearsed the day before. At that time he said that 'that band wasn't right in the first place' so he should've known it was going to be a disaster. He did the show with the Stray Gators, the band he did Harvest and the Time Fades Away tour with. as a matter of fact he did it twice! But Neil was so unpleased with the recording of the first show (from which he almost backed out of, because he really didn't want to do it) that he made a second attempt. This didn't stop him from going on MTV's Unplugged show though. When Neil gave his acceptance speech however there were problems with his microphone.

#Neil young unplugged tv#

Amazingly MTV named the video 'best video of the year' after it became very popular on other TV channels. Neil was quoted as saying 'does the M in MTV stand for music or for money?' and 'MTV should be called television Music rather than Music Television'.

The truth is those were MTV's big stars and the companies were there sponsors and Neil got to their wallet and MTV didn't like that. The video was subsequently banned from MTV because of the so called reference that were made to certain brand names. Neil criticized artists like Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton and Whitney Houston for selling out and appearing in commercials, something Neil never did. It all began with the video for 'This Note's For You'. Neil has always had a weird relationship with MTV. Neil should've never allowed MTV to release this.