The Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993.

In late 1993, Meat Puppets achieved mainstream popularity when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who became a fan after seeing them open for Black Flag, invited Cris and Curt to join him on MTV Unplugged for acoustic performances of " Plateau ", " Oh Me " and " Lake of Fire " ( all originally from Meat Puppets II ).

The resulting album, MTV Unplugged in New York, served as a swan song for Nirvana, as Cobain died 138 days after the concert.

On March 4, 1992 he appeared on his own MTV Unplugged, offering renditions of many of his most famous compositions.

* While performed for her stint on MTV Unplugged, " Me and a Gun " was cut from the final airing of the show.

In 1993, the band filmed an episode of MTV Unplugged, where they debuted the song " Big Empty.

Byrne appeared as a guest vocalist / guitarist for 10, 000 Maniacs during their MTV Unplugged concert, though the songs in which he is featured were cut from their following album.

On August 17, 2006, Ricky Martin taped his MTV Unplugged concert in Miami.

At the Latin Grammy Awards of 2008, MTV Unplugged received Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album and for Best Long Form Music Video.

Having long resisted offers from MTV to reform to do an Unplugged show, they finally accepted as part of a deal that also allowed them to visit Morocco to record new material.

Appearances included the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Saturday Night Live, the Big Day Out festival, MTV Unplugged, the Reading Festival, and Lollapalooza 1995.

The album also featured a demo version of " Miss World ", as well as recordings from a 1995 MTV Unplugged performance.

Lyte has been featured on television as herself on such shows as MTV Unplugged, In Living Color, Moesha, New York Undercover, My Wife and Kids, and Sisters in the Name of Rap.

On April 21, 1993, 10, 000 Maniacs appeared on MTV Unplugged and Merchant announced her leaving the band on MTV on August 5, 1993 saying she " didn't want art by committee anymore.

" The MTV Unplugged album was released in October 1993.

The tour also included an MTV Unplugged appearance at Warner Hollywood Studios in Los Angeles on April 27, 1992.

The Cure used a toy piano during their MTV Unplugged set.

In addition to the outtakes, live recordings from the 1990 installment of the MTV Unplugged series were included.

On January 30, Vaughan made a guest appearance on MTV Unplugged in New York City, performing " Rude Mood ", " Pride and Joy ", and " Testify ".

Vaughan used a Gibson Johnny Smith to record " Stang's Swang ", and a Guild 12-string acoustic for his performance on MTV Unplugged in January 1990.

In February 2011, it was confirmed the participation of Paulina in MTV Unplugged: Los Tigres del Norte and Friends, a live album by Los Tigres del Norte.

La Ley also performed on MTV Unplugged in 2001, and released an album of the performance, which went on to win a Grammy award.

He left the group to pursue music ministry, but he has made scattered guest appearances with the band ( he played cello on their MTV Unplugged performance in 1996, and played drums at Gruene Hall in Gruene, Texas, on June 27, 2008 ).

He would perform for troops in January 2002 on an MTV USO Special at Germany's Ramstein Air Base along with Ja Rule and Jennifer Lopez.

* Starr, Larry & Waterman, Christopher, ( 2002 ) American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MTV, Oxford University Press.

Rickman was one of the many artists who recited Shakespearian sonnets on the 2002 album When Love Speaks, and is also featured prominently in a music video by the band Texas entitled " In Demand ", which premiered on Europe MTV in August 2000.

The MTV Asia Awards is an annual Asian awards ceremony established in 2002 by the MTV television network.

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MTV planned a six-episode sixth season, but at Eichler's request this project was cut down to a second movie, Is It College Yet ?, which served as the series finale in January 2002.

* MTV New Year's Eve 2002 event featured a short appearance by Daria ( December 31, 2001 ). Transcript

At the 2002 MTV Movie Awards, Pearl Harbor won for Best Action Sequence.

Undressed is an American anthology series that aired on MTV from July 26, 1999 to September 5, 2002.

In a 2002 episode of MTV Diary she returns to the area, and the owners of her former home on Bradford Road allow her to tour her old house.

Norwood's foray in reality television started in 2002 with the MTV series Diary Presents Brandy: Special Delivery ; the show documented the final months of Norwood's pregnancy with her daughter Sy ' rai.

However, a year after the birth of their daughter Sy ' rai Iman Smith on June 16, 2002 — an event tracked by the four-part MTV reality series Brandy: Special Delivery — Norwood and Smith officially announced their separation.

During this period, Sisqó branched out into hosting the dance competition program Sisqó's Shakedown on MTV, and into film, taking on supporting roles in the films Get Over It ( 2001 ) with Kirsten Dunst and Snow Dogs ( 2002 ) with Cuba Gooding, Jr ..

This United States-based television channel aimed at preschool-aged children, originally launched as a joint venture between MTV Networks and Children's Television Workshop ( a. k. a. Sesame Workshop ) before Sesame Workshop opted out of the venture in 2002, has only programming promotions in lieu of commercials and is usually carried on a digital cable tier and the basic tiers of satellite providers.

From October 2001 to January 2002, several guest celebrities played the Narrator role normally performed by Dick Cavett ( Kate Clinton took over for a week while Cavett was on vacation ), including Gilbert Gottfried, Sally Jesse Raphael, Robin Leach, magicians Penn & Teller, New York Post columnist Cindy Adams, MTV personality Dave Holmes, and talk show host Jerry Springer.

Bow Wow dropped the " Lil " from his stage name in April 2002 ; he told MTV News: " I changed my name because I'm getting older now and it's too many Lil's.

At the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, The Hives performed " Main Offender " in a " Battle of the Bands " type of set up, with The Vines playing their hit " Get Free " right after The Hives.

The series premiered on MTV on March 5, 2002, and in its first season, was cited as the most-viewed series ever on MTV.

Along with the highest ratings in MTV history, The Osbournes won a 2002 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program.

Denzel Washington won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2001, notably beating out Russell Crowe's performance as John Nash for A Beautiful Mind, and the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain in 2002 for his performance in Training Day, and Ethan Hawke was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2001 for the film.

* Lauryn Hill unveiled her much-anticipated new material on a 2002 MTV Unplugged special, and later released it on the album MTV Unplugged No. 2. 0.