Just saw a great documentary last month called "Spring Broke" that talked a lot about MTV's impact on the spring break industry in Florida. http://www.sho.com/titles/3429923/spring-broke
Well, I was born in 89, so I probably didn't know what MTV was until I was 8. I might have known MTV by another name, Beavis and Butthead.
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My favorite MTV show was Remote Control with Ken Ober (and a number of people including Kari Wuhrer, Adam Sandler, and Colin Quin). But I appeared on a spinoff show called Amuck in America with Ober and Kevin Seal. it was a really dopey show where the pair would travel all across the country and film goofy stuff. I was working for California State Fair at the California Prune booth and they "interviewed" me with a few lame potty jokes. My 15 seconds of fame (on MTV).
Pretty sure I was into Headbanger's Ball initially, but then graduated to 120 Minutes when I started losing interest in metal and became more into indie rock. I remember seeing Pavement's Stereo video for the first time on 120 minutes, which opened up a whole new world to me. Matt Pinfield FTW.
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Funnily enough, I also got interviewed for a minute on Mtv. I was working the Genesis rehearsals at the old Goodyear blimp base on 45 and Mtv came out and was covering the rehearsals for the massive world tour they were doing that year, they decided to go thru and interview a few of the stagehands and I had my mug on tv for a minute. And for me...Headbangers Ball of course.
Too young for these shows, but too old for anything post-2007. I guess I'm part of the TRL generation.
Mtv sports with Dan cortes. House of style with Cindy Crawford. And remember the Grind with Eric Nies? Niese?
Thats similar to my experience of the hip-hop rollout. Def Jam knew what appealed to people with PE, Beasties, LL, Run DMC, Slick Rick, thats a murderers row of acts. Then all the other talents lending their unique sound and voice.The white kids digging it lol. The thing with hip-hop is EVERYONE got the same start, or close to the same beginning to follow it from the origin and anything after. Almost like a grass roots effort, you could "help" it grow and chart the progress. So everyone can be a hip hop historian of sorts, everyone sharing in the discussion. There's many types of rock so thats why I said MTV Raps could last longest because rap was still lean and concentrated enough where the ONE All-Encompassing platform could cover it all. Whereas rock needed several shows I remember them pumping up Siouxie "Kiss Them For Me" being like some advanced piece of the "now" sound lol. I wasnt a metalhead so Headbangers Ball was DEFINITELY revealing of the gritty stuff. But once the "alternative" sound came through, thats where my direction went. But 120 Minutes came on too late for me.
Anyone remember the Closet Classics segment? Thats OLD school (literally). Before VH-1 its was MTV playing older music from the 70's and back. Its the stuff VH-1 would later feature for itself. ( Its odd to think for a while we treated GREATS like Bob Dylan and The Who like outdated has-beens and just about relegated them to amusement parks and county fair shows. Until later we remembered again that theyre legends.) C'Moooooooon, you KNOW you liked some Pauly Shore. Don't act like you hated "The WEASEL" :grin:
I'm in the right age range, but I didn't have cable as a kid and didn't watch any MTV on any kind of regular basis. I saw a little bit at friends' houses now and again (but half the time my friends didn't have cable either) and I didn't think I was missing out on anything.
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Starting around 88, I quickly learned to set my VCR to record 120 Minutes because I wasn't allowed to stay up that late on a school night. I remember seeing Ministry's "Stigmata" and it blew me away. It was so different from "Every Day is Halloween". I was hooked and didn't miss an episode until I moved away to college in 91. I still have fond memories of watching Kevin Seal and then Dave Kendall introduce me to some really great music. I still have a couple of VHS tapes full of music videos from those shows.
