Granted, you lived about 20 years beyond your sell-by date, but in the early 1980s basic-cable universe there was no other vehicle to smash through the façade of practice-boyfriend corporate rock for us small-town kids. How subversive is this sample intro from a 1984 episode?
Motley Crue, Lee Aaron, Genesis, April Wine... Laurie Anderson? Hey, who invited the weird lesbo to this bush party? For a generation of mainstream-minded listeners, TNM lineups like this performed the transformative task of revealing that the mainstream existed and that we were all swimming in it. For the instinctive outsiders, I can only imagine that the show must have been like an eagerly-awaited weekly message from one's true home planet.
Comments (6)
Lesbo?
"On April 12, 2008 Laurie Anderson married longtime companion Lou Reed in a private ceremony in Boulder, Colorado."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Anderson
Course, I thought that Reed was gay . . .
Posted by Half Canadian | December 1, 2008 5:15 PM
Posted on December 1, 2008 17:15
How about that J.D. -- er, John -- Roberts doing the intro?
Posted by Mark Wickens | December 1, 2008 5:53 PM
Posted on December 1, 2008 17:53
dun-dun-dun-dun.
dun-da-daaa-daaa.
ITV. 11 or 12 at night. After Love Boat and Fantasy Island if I recall.
The show opened my eyes to music CHED (when they were the AM rock station) and K-97 missed.
Whenever I see John Roberts on American national news, I still see JD Roberts doing a gag tryout with Triumph to play rhythm guitar alongside Rik Emmett.
I keep hoping John Roberts would throw to Daniel Richler and the rooster hairdo and foppish accent to cover the next story.
Posted by Dave | December 1, 2008 6:49 PM
Posted on December 1, 2008 18:49
Ah, yes, you've strolled me down memory's lane. I can still remember kneeling in front of a lousy television, captivated by some new band call YOUT00...opened a wide world it did.
Posted by thor | December 1, 2008 7:58 PM
Posted on December 1, 2008 19:58
Someone's gotta post the older opening when the theme was Rush's "2112".
Posted by Jason | December 2, 2008 8:59 AM
Posted on December 2, 2008 08:59
Right, and a nude Christopher Ward was menaced by a giant red star representing collectivism.
Posted by Colby Cosh | December 2, 2008 11:20 AM
Posted on December 2, 2008 11:20