Before The Stream

Dean Wareham (Luna, Galaxie 500, Dean & Britta, etc) is on the show!

Before the Stream is currently talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York one song at a time.

Dean's band Luna was making major label rock albums at the same time Nirvana was, so he has an interesting perspective on the time period.

Dean and Jason talk about the aesthetics of "Unplugged", vocals, covers, and more.

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We're talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York song by song. John Whitaker joins Jason to talk about Nirvana's cover of The Vaselines' Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam.

The two old friends and bandmates discuss John's teenage perspective on Nirvana in the 90s, everything that Dave Grohl adds to this performance, what it's like to have lived a song, the gift that Nirvana gave so many people by covering relatively unknown songs, and more.

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We're talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York song by song. Our guest for Come As You Are, the 2nd song of the show, was born the same year Nirvana Unplugged was performed.

Guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Louis Cohen joins Jason to discuss his connection to Nirvana, musical plagarism, 90s guitar sounds and fashion, Judee Sill, and a lot more.

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We're talking about Nirvana's MTV Unplugged In New York song by song and we start at the beginning with David Nagler

Jason and David discuss the song About a Girl along with David's first impressions of MTV's Unplugged series, the time David saw Nirvana in concert, guitar playing, and much more.

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We're back!

We're going to go through Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York song by song with different guests over the next couple months.

Jason introduces the 1993/94 TV performance and album, and talks a bit about what's been going on the last few months.

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Jason is joined for the 2nd time by one of his oldest and dearest friends Travis Smith, this time to discuss Nirvana's 1989 full length debut Bleach.

Jason and Travis try to remember if the performance of "About a Girl" on MTV Unplugged really was their introduction to this album, they discuss what aspects of the songwriter Kurt Cobain would become were already present on this album, the progression from Bleach (which was produced for around $600) to Nevermind, and much more.

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Guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist Michael Quoma joins Jason to talk about Primus' 1990 debut studio album Frizzle Fry.

What is up with this band? How unique are they? Are they a jam band? How much depth is behind their quirky surface?

Jason and Mike discuss all these questions, plus their memories of the album and Primus, thoughts on composition and band dynamics, and much more.

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Jason asked drummer/songwriter/bandleader Alex Kirkpatrick to introduce him to music that has been important to Alex.

Alex chose Chris Weisman and pointed Jason to 6 songs to listen to and discuss.

Those songs are:

"Double Bill"

"The Fingers of Mars"

"Fa Mi May (Dream Away)"

"Living With Poison "

"The Winning Blues"

and "Changes in the Fourth Dimension"

The two friends talked about how Alex learned about Weisman and what Weisman's music has meant to him, what can be learned from Weisman's approach, how their listening and writing habits have changed over time, and much more.

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Alex chose singer/songwriter Chris Weisman.

In this preview/primer for the full-length episode, Jason lays out the 6 songs that Alex chose for them to dig into, where to find the songs if you want to hear them in advance, and more.

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Mike O joins Jason to talk about U2's 1997 album Pop.

Did the tepid response to this somewhat experimental album lead U2 to make safe music for the rest of their career?

Is this album sequenced for the CD era, and does it trail off at the end because they didn't quite finish it?

The two friends discuss their memories of U2, the album, how they're connecting with music these days, and much more.

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