Many many years ago shortly after I was first married and living in Lake Wildwood (near Nevada City) in California. My wife worked for Sunsweet and we volunteered to work at the California state fair in Sunsweet's booth handing out prunes and prune related products. Ken Ober (of MTV Remote Control fame... died in 2009) and Kevin Seal had a short run summer roadtrip show on MTV called Amuck in America where they traveled across the US seeing dopey things along the way. They came across the Sunsweet prune booth and for whatever reason that was dopey enough to film a short segment. They worked out a few lame jokes culminating on asking where the nearest bathroom (yea, it was that lame) and filmed a short five minute interview with me asking questions about prunes. I had to sign a waiver since I was now considered "on air". A few months later I happened to be home and saw they were going to broadcast being at the CA state fair. So I quickly turned on the VCR to record (over a movie I liked at the time). And sure enough... a few minutes of me talking about prunes and pointing to where the bathroom was. So that's my few minutes of fame on MTV. Not playing the guitar. Not singing. Not talking to Kari Wuhrer. Talking about prunes.
All the obscure bands are on streaming now. Found a lot of good stuff on KEXP and Audiotree. There are a couple of gems on Levitation Austin too. https://www.youtube.com/user/kexpradio https://www.youtube.com/user/Audiotreetv https://www.youtube.com/c/levitationaustin/featured
im glad to hear you caught that! the first time i heard garbage i actually thought it was curve trying to water down their sound so they could break in america. from what i heard butch vig was desperate to produce curve, but they did all their records with alan moulder, who is married to the singer from curve (check out link below for his pretty damn impressive resume). so vig formed a rip-off version that he could produce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moulder i saw curve in 1992 at the vatican and then fizgeralds in 1994 and liberty lunch in austin in 1997 or 1998. they were a great live band.
I learned most of my music knowledge thanks to Beavis and Butthead reruns so thankfully I'm not completely lost on this.
Agree about 120 Minutes. I always get excited when I see it on the guide but it's literally the same 20 songs over and over again. Metal Mayhem is pretty cool though.
120 Minutes (or waiting for it to come on) introduced me to The Young Ones. Was a win-win-win for me.
For those reading this thread, I recommend the book ... I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Rob Tannenbaum
LOVE MTV Classic. Friday nights are the best with the "I Love 80's" 3 hour block, followed by the 4 hour block of "Metal Mayhem." If I could loop those 2 together for 24 hours 7 days a week I would.
A thread about 80's-centric stuff and @Roscoe Arbuckle hasn't commented? Wtf is going on around here?
Just found this, and it's awesome. She was/is so hot. Fun Parody. Definitely uses Gloria Gaynor and the music from Footloose, but I don't care. She and Victoria Principal were the fit "President & First Ladies" girls of the 80's. And it's so catchy. And this song has always helped me. Never worry about what you look like. Like your attitude. Dude tried to nudge me to the side tonight. I didn't budge. Half my my age and larger. He finally asked if I minded and I said "Yep." I moved, but you don't encroach on me without an issue.
So….couldn’t sleep last night, and I was flipping through Hulu and came across “Biography: I want my MTV”. For an old guy that lived through those early years, it was quite the trip down memory lane. Perhaps it was the bottle of wine, but I started grinning a few minutes in, and the grin never left. Even when my eyes got a little watery. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.
