Where can I find a recording of Sin from MTV Unplugged?
Sin from MTV Unplugged must be one of the most sought-after Stone Temple Pilots recordings ever. Over the years many people claimed to have it, but upon further inspection I always found that they actually have the recording of No Memory and Sin from a performance at the Reading Festival (August 29, 1993) in the U.K. That performance is not even close to ‘unplugged’. It’s the fourth track on the european ‘Sex Type Thing – Part 1’ single. Now what’s up with the ‘real’ Sin from MTV Unplugged? Well, I can only tell you this: back in the winter of ’98/’99, former co-webmaster Eric Walker and I were planning on making a special ‘theme’ page for Below Empty about the MTV Unplugged performance.We got in contact with a reliable source who worked for MTV and had access to the network’s archives. But guess what? Sin wasn’t on the tapes there. Big Empty was there, so was Andy Warhol, the other song edited from the original broadcast. After some more research we were told that there were tape erro
