How Pearl Jam's "Unplugged" Performance Captured The Grunge Gods' Pop Cultural Rise

It’s funny how PJ was known as an “unknown band” at the time.  I seem to recall that when Alive was released it climbed to Number 6 on some video chart here in Canada on MuchMusic.  Now we were all about 16-18 years old, but I recall everybody knowing who PJ was. It just shows how out of touch corporate executives are with what is really going on, that taping PJ unplugged was a “risk”.  

Even one buddy who was mostly a country fan liked the song. Another friend had satellite and taped Unplugged off MTV.  I don’t know how many times we watched it...  was just so awesome.