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MTV started August 1, 1981

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If you're old enough to remember it, today is the day that changed music - and television.


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DaveNV said:
If you're old enough to remember it, today is the day that changed music - and television.


Dave
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I don’t know that I was watching at the moment it started, but I certainly watched a lot over the years. I love rock music so it was natural that I would watch and listen to this new medium. I also thought it was cool that one of the original DJs, Alan Hunter, was from my hometown of Birmingham, AL. However, two performances do stand out to me from over the years. The second most vivid memory is Eric Clapton Unplugged. I believe it was his first performance of ‘Tears in Heaven‘, a tribute to his son who had died in a tragic accident a few months earlier. We had lost our son in an accident the year before so the song really hit home. The best memory I have is watching LiveAid in 1985 in it’s entirety. Everyone who was anyone in rock music participated and there were some spectacular performances. I was glued to My MTV for all of them.
 
Rolltydr said:
I don’t know that I was watching at the moment it started, but I certainly watched a lot over the years. I love rock music so it was natural that I would watch and listen to this new medium. I also thought it was cool that one of the original DJs, Alan Hunter, was from my hometown of Birmingham, AL. However, two performances do stand out to me from over the years. The second most vivid memory is Eric Clapton Unplugged. I believe it was his first performance of ‘Tears in Heaven‘, a tribute to his son who had died in a tragic accident a few months earlier. We had lost our son in an accident the year before so the song really hit home. The best memory I have is watching LiveAid in 1985 in it’s entirety. Everyone who was anyone in rock music participated and there were some spectacular performances. I was glued to My MTV for all of them.
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I spent a lot of time watching MTV, when it was "only" rock and roll. Then VH1 came along to pick up the slack, and show music from other genres. It was definitely the musical Wild West in those days. Michael Jackson came along, and turned the music world upside down. The first time I saw Thriller, I was blown away. Fun times, a long, long time ago.

Dave
 
DaveNV said:
I spent a lot of time watching MTV, when it was "only" rock and roll. Then VH1 came along to pick up the slack, and show music from other genres. It was definitely the musical Wild West in those days. Michael Jackson came along, and turned the music world upside down. The first time I saw Thriller, I was blown away. Fun times, a long, long time ago.

Dave
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Two of the videos I remember the most were Thriller and Pat Benatar's Love is a Battlefield. I'm glad she finally got in the RHOF. She should have been there long before Joan Jett.
 
My parents hated the idea of "pay-TV," so I was the last kid on my block to get cable. But they LOVED the idea of "not paying for movies." So I was the first kid on my block with a VHS -- this was late 1970s. My parents got lucky and picked the right format. Not just one. TWO. For recording movies.

I had a friend who lived in New York City. (NEW YORK CITY!!!!). And he also had a VHS. And he recorded a local TV show called Album Tracks. That was the precursor to MTV. He mailed me tapes, media mail. I watched them religiously -- sometimes even the ads, because even those were entertaining in 1979. I saw all the music videos long before everyone. I recorded over his tapes with movies and sent them back. Everyone was happy. Except Hollywood -- who really should have paid more attention to the early adopters of piracy.

So, my friend had his finger on the record button the night MTV launched. "Ladies and gentlemen: Rock 'n' Roll."

I wasn't there. But I saw it the week it aired. I still have the tape. I don't even have a player anymore. But get rid of that? Never. Belongs in a museum.

MTV was a fixture in my life (my parents eventually succumbed to pay-TV when they could get movies cheaper than renting). But by then, everyone I knew had it. "Come over and watch MTV" was my generation's version of "Netflix and chill." Sometimes, we would even watch MTV first. A great many families started because of that network.
 
And now you can't even watch music videos on MTV unless you stay up to the week hours of the morning.
 
Superchief said:
I'm glad she finally got in the RHOF. She should have been there long before Joan Jett.
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If I had my way, a group of stone-cold professionals would break into the RRHoF. They would steal every single piece of memorabilia. Then they would burn that [censored] building to the ground. And then they'd douse the ashes with kerosene and burn it again.

And THEN, maybe we could have a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame which is worth its name. I wouldn't wish the RRHoF induction on an enemy. Read what Steve Miller had to say about his induction. That place needs to go.
 
After #1, the next 9 videos played on MTV...
2. Pat Benatar - "You Better Run"
3. Rod Stewart - "She Won't Dance With Me"
4. The Who - "You Better You Bet"
5. Ph.D - "Little Susie's On The Up"
6. Cliff Richad - "We Don't Talk Anymore"
7. The Pretenders "Brass in Pocket"
8. Todd Rundgren - "Time Heals"
9. REO Speedwagon "Take it on the Run"
10. Styx - "Rockin' the Paradise"
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Grew up on a farm when music videos were becoming popular, so no cable was even available, only OTA TV at my house. I watched Friday Night Videos on NBC religiously, as that was really the only place to see the new music videos. Anyone else remember that show?

Kurt
 
MTV wasn't available on our cable system growing up so I only got to view it at friends and families houses until I was on my own and got my own cable at 19. By the time I was able to watch MTV whenever, was about the time they started to transition away from music videos. I remember the beginnings of many non-music shows like Real World and Road Rules and I have watched very little MTV since over the last 20+ years.
 
I loved the original MTV and all those rock music videos. Also really liked Max Head room shorts.
 
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