[Vince]

One of my favorite albums of all time. :agreed:

They used all kinds of wicked and strange instruments on this album, like 30+ different instruments. Sitars, hurdy gurdys, I think that damn fish thing from 3rd grade music class made it in there too :lol:

Seriously though, this whole disc is just simply incredible and I highly recommend it to people who love that Led Zeppelin / The Doors vibe.

 

[F1Filter]

:agreed: I still have that on VHS, watched it soooo many times.

Same here. Wore mine out :lol: So I picked up the DVD of it the day it got released. :yesway:

Funny thing about that broadcast. It created a big buzz on some online bulletin boards/newsgroups at the time. Just because it was really going to be the only way for anyone outside of Canada to see them perform live. "Transmission" was getting some college radio airplay in the States. So there definitely was an underground following. But what I remember most was sitting through class, just waiting for it to end. So I could meet up with some buddies back at my place (I was the only one with DirecTV), getting a whole bunch of pizza and Moosehead to kick back and watch it.

One other thing I remember, vividly, about it. We were all having a good laugh at this one nerdy guy in the audience, who was dressed up in an all-black getup. He took himself and the band wayyy too seriously. By the end of the show, you could tell he was angry that the band wasn't all broody and dark like he was expecting them to be. There's a shot at the end of the show when Jeff Martin is mingling with the crowd. The dude his just staring at him all cross-armed. :lol:

2 other great clips from that show.

 

[Variant]

Youtube?

I'm not a kid anymore, but I myself haven't really watched TV in probably 7 or 8 years. The internet has what I want, when I want it. If I want to watch/listen to new or old music I usually go to Youtube.

I use youtube as well, but it's not really geared towards introducing new music like MTV or the radio did. You have to more or less know what you're looking for when you go in.

 

[fvlt]

I use youtube as well, but it's not really geared towards introducing new music like MTV or the radio did. You have to more or less know what you're looking for when you go in.

True, but for the most part MTV really only exposed people to American owned corporate rock. It's not like they were regularly playing Japanese Avant Garde or Norwegian Black Metal. Youtube isn't subject to those limitations, and introductions can happen via other media than television;

 

[Variant]

True, but for the most part MTV really only exposed people to American owned corporate rock. It's not like they were regularly playing Japanese Avant Garde or Norwegian Black Metal. Youtube isn't subject to those limitations, and introductions can happen via other media than television;

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Highly anecdotal... I don't think the average kid is getting either of those things out of youtube. :lol: Probaly the same percentage of us who got into really obsucre undergound music in the '90s through college radio... which is to say, not much. I'd reckon ~7,800 youtube plays in 2010 equals a 2:00 AM spin on college radio in 1993.

I was thinking more from a wider market standpoint. I don't think a band like Faith No More would have a chance to get out in the mainstream as much as they did through MTV on the occasion that they drifted a bit out-of-the box. I also wouldn't say that in it's prime years that it wasn't pushing second and third tier artists on the late night specialty shows (Headbanger's Ball, 120 Minutes, Yo!, etc.). While short lived, there was a lot more in-between kind of stuff then, IMO, which I think helped bridge listeners into underground music more. The internet still seems to have a pretty wide gap in that respect. :shrug:

 

[Vince]

God I love this guy's voice. And he never needed autotune.

 

[eleven59]

:agreed: