Yeah, right, Neil Young was also great. He looked pretty scary, bent over this organ like a wolf.
That's what I always found amusing about "unplugged" gigs: You have to plug in much more stuff than with regular gigs. And I guess that's why I don't see the "unplugged" gigs I played as "unplugged" but rather as trying to be more limited, more stripped, and to rearrange full band songs to something closer to the bone of the song. The more limitations you have, the more you have to be creative to make a song as cool, as hard, as big, as good as in the full electric band version. I guess that's what I like about the idea: Just the song, not the sound. Just the guitar, and no tricks with effects. And that, again, has absolutely nothing to to with that MTV stuff...
It's about the limitation that forces the musician to be more creative with less stuff, to get raw and draw blood, as Darnielle says.
In our case, I guess, it's mostly about the fun fucking with the punkrock audience and making fun of ourselves. I'm definitely looking forward to playing the worst version of "Reggae" or "Bluesrock" ever!
