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Carmine Rojas

One of the multiple albums recorded during that time includes the MTV multi-platinum live CD and DVD, Unplugged...and Seated.


5 Years in a Livetime

Footage from the "Touring into Infinity" tour, including the Paris concert featured on the accompanying Once in a LIVEtime CD and the "unplugged" fan club show in Rotterdam.

Backsliders

These guys are renowned for captivating live shows – an eclectic mix of blues styles moving from driving delta blues riffs and jungle-like rhythms to ‘Piedmont’ blues influenced ‘all-acoustic’ unplugged treatments of 1920’s songs by blues heroes such as Mississippi Fred McDowell and Robert Johnson.

Balibo

Kylie Minogue performed an unplugged concert in Balibo to entertain United Nations troops in 1999, as part of the Tour of Duty series of concerts.

Click of death

If the drive had its power removed inadvertently by being unplugged or power outage, the read/write heads were pulled off the disk by a power-loss circuit.

Farouk El Safi

Amongst western audiences, Farouk is best known as the bendir/daf player, on No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded album and, live for their legendary MTV Unplugged performance.

Franja de Gaza

The band immediately achieved mild success giving several interviews and unplugged shows in different radios, most importantly Mario Pergolini's Rock & Pop.

Glint

Following the release of Sound in Silence, Kostabi invited Glint to play unplugged on two episodes for his NYC television show, Title This.

Jimmy Cox

It was reintroduced to a fresh generation of music fans when Clapton performed the song in his 1992 MTV Unplugged appearance, which was also released on the album Unplugged.

Kutluğ Ataman

Ataman entered the art world first in 1997 when he took part in the 5th International Istanbul Biennial where he presented "kutluğ ataman's semiha b. unplugged" a long-form documentary of the opera diva Semiha Berksoy.

Los Tres

The popularity achieved by La Espada y La Pared, was an important motivation for the MTV network, who invited Los Tres to perform an Unplugged session in Miami.

Unplugged, released in 1996, was such a success in Chile and Latin America.

Mia Aegerter

After many unplugged gigs in 2004-2005, she and her rock band, were a supporting-act of Ronan Keating’s German Tour, which allowed them to perform on the biggest stages in the country.

MileHighMusic

The label was founded in 1995 by Christy Fry but officially became a company in 2007 after the release of the successful compilation album New Cross - Raw & Unplugged.

Mis Canciones Favoritas

Mis Canciones Favoritas (En Concierto Acústico) is a 2003 unplugged acoustic performance by Spanish musician Chenoa released as an album and DVD.

MTV Unplugged 2.0

MTV Unplugged 2.0 is a live album released by Dashboard Confessional in 2002.

Nightmare: The Acoustic M.S.G.

The recording of the unplugged version of these songs and their success in Germany and Japan inspired Schenker and McAuley to tour with only an acoustic set, which was later released in the live album "Unplugged" Live.

OMG HGB DVD ROTFL

Following the House of Blues performance is a 30-minute unplugged benefit concert for the Deborah Heart and Lung Center, recorded at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, California on January 7, 2005.

Over Now

The performance from MTV Unplugged can also be found on the box set Music Bank, the home video release Music Bank: The Videos, and the compilation album The Essential Alice in Chains.

The Great Radio Controversy

Many tracks on this album later received acoustic versions on their follow-up album, Five Man Acoustical Jam, a precursor of the Unplugged trend.

The Red Moon EP

The title track was previously released on Jackinabox, but is featured here in an unplugged version.

The Square, Harlow

Comedians Phil Jupitus, Eddie Izzard, Jo Brand, Terry Alderton and Omid Djalili amongst others, have appeared on the comedy nights and the monthly Acoustic Club provides a stage for the best of the unplugged.

Tour of the Universe: Barcelona 20/21.11.09

The last one to do so was Söhne Mannheims' Wettsingen in Schwetzingen – MTV Unplugged in October 2008.

Tracie Morris

Soon after, she began touring with other "slam poets" around the country and abroad, including Maggie Estep, Dael Orlandersmith, Mike Tyler and Paul Beatty and performed her work on MTV's Spoken Word: Unplugged.

Unplugged

MTV Unplugged, a TV and album series showcasing popular musical artists playing acoustic instruments

Unplugged at the Lowlands Festival '97

Unplugged at the Lowlands Festival '97 is a live album released by Life of Agony in 2000 through Roadrunner Records (see 2000 in music).

Ziana Zain Unplugged

Ziana Zain Unplugged features thirteen live tracks from Ziana Zain's successful first unplugged concert show at Life Centre, Kuala Lumpur and one previously unreleased studio track: "Dekat Tapi Jauh" featuring Broery Marantika, which was fully composed by Johari Teh.


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