Three hours of MTV from 1983
Uw Moeder posted three hours of MTV from 1983 (with Mark Goodman as VJ), including commercials, on two Google videos. Link
Uw Moeder posted three hours of MTV from 1983 (with Mark Goodman as VJ), including commercials, on two Google videos. Link
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About 3:30 in there's a commercial for "MTV in Stereo," which apparently required a special hookup from the cable providers. That's nuts.
Heh, yeah, we had that stereo hookup. Closed circuit radio from the cable company, and it had great sound. So much so that when regular stereo televisions were being produced, I was very disappointed with the sound quality.
Whoa. The Tubes covered Major Lance's "Monkey Time."
Does it say something about the music industry/MTV when a 25 year old male would rather watch these two files in a loop than turn on the current incarnation?
I love watching these old vhs rips. They are like little mpg time capsules of pop culture.
MTV used to show music videos? Was that before reality was invented?
...Empty-Vee hasn't shown anything of substance since they quit just being a music video channel and tried to be the Be-All and End-All to the young adult demographic. Although turning the channel over to reality shows and drug thug rap ghetto "music" was the sign that the plug needs to be pulled long ago, the first *real* sign that things were about to change for the worse was when they decided to air Beavis and Butthead. Once they moved away from the music, it was downhill from there.
I want VHS rips of Night Flight.
Mark and Zuzu: A lot of these search results are from "Night Flight."
This is amazing. Check out Mark's shirt--it's regular gray fabric, but it's cut like a black leather jacket. And he probably thought it was stylin'.
And I had that stereo hookup, too, but I hacked it. It was simple: just split the coaxial cable, run one side to the TV, use an adapter to connect the other to the FM antenna hookup on my stereo, and then find the right FM frequency. Voila.
Got a lot of mileage out of that little hack. People even paid me to duplicate it for them.
Oh, and I'd frickin' kill for a VHS rip of IRS's The Cutting Edge. God, I loved that show.
As funny as [i]Beavis and Butthead[/i] is, I have to agree with OM.
On a related note, now TV Land is showing Just Shoot Me and [i]Extreme Makeover: Home Edition[/i] and movies and original series, and Cartoon Network is showing live-action shows and movies, and VH-1 is.... whatever VH-1 is.
TV confuses me.
Michael Bolton had a video on MTV????
There was a time, Grasshopper, when mullets were actually fashionable.
aye, t'was so
http://www.amazon.com/Mullet-Hairstyle-Gods-Mark-Larson/dp/1582340641
Post three hours hosted by Martha Quinn and I'll be so there.
This is the next best thing to being able to go back in time and spend a day in sixth grade again.
What strikes me while watching is that I remember MTV being the network that launched the "second British Invasion" where at one point during 1983, more than half of the tracks on the US Top 40 were by non-US artists, which I don't think has happened before or since. You never knew what kind of crazy thing you were going to see, they seemed just desperate to fill 24 hours a day with content. But here, all I see is white, American meat-and-potatoes rock, albeit with loads of synthesizer and hairspray. Maybe it depended what time of day you were watching.
Anyone know where in the country this was taped? I've been watching for local cable commercials that would tip that off, but so far nothing.
I gave up after five minutes. I realized the last time I watched MTV was about 1983, and stopped because they played that same Night Ranger video about three times an hour.
What a bad flashback.
hey mark, this may help;
http://cgi.tripod.com/night_flight1/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=nf_general;action=display;num=1071708470