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Originally Posted by Macfan4life
I think I remember hearing that. Although during the interview they don't mention doing only an acoustic set (and they were not asked about it either).
But that makes sense how quickly they decided to do a recorded show, tour and live album.
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What I remember is that a lot of us casually referred to any sort of concert in that MTV or VH1 setting as an "unplugged." We started using it like a brand name, like Kleenex. "Oh, Fleetwood Mac is doing an unplugged, now."
The original idea of the unplugged was, of course, an acoustic rendering of a band's traditional set. But then Springsteen came along, somewhere in the early 1990s, and mixed acoustic with electric (like Dylan?).
I think that "Say You Love Me" and "Big Love" and "Go Insane" were Fleetwood Mac's way of honoring the tradition of "unplugged" in the nineties - except that John wasn't playing an acoustic, upright bass on SYLM. (He should have tried that!)