Posts tagged "1992 VMAs"

Award Show Sundays: A Red Hot Free-for-All

So I’m reading Anthony Kiedis’ autobiography, Scar Tissue, and I have to admit, I’m having kind of a tough time getting through it. I just passed the part where they hired Rick Rubin to produce Blood Sugar Sex Majik, and up until now, the book’s pretty much been “I did lots of drugs”/”I boned this chick”/”we did some crazy shit on stage”. Granted, that seems to be the typical rock and roll story, but..I don’t know. I was somehow expecting […]

Award Show Sundays: The Nirvana Concussion Episode

I didn’t have MTV until 1994, by which time I was 18 years old. Well, slight correction-there was MTV available in my various residences from 1984-1994, but I wasn’t allowed to watch it on the rare occasions when I was even allowed to control the TV that had cable (long story). I was lucky, however, because for a few years in the late Eighties and early Nineties, the MTV VMAs would run on network TV (usually Fox, but I could […]