LEGEND Your Song of the Day

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CodeMonkey said:
That song was of course covered by Judas Priest on an album that I played to death in my younger days. People aways assume JP wrote it and they did do a damn good job on it.
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Yeah they did a good job on it as well. Used to play this song in bands back in high school. Peter Green is a great guitarist but those acid trips he did almost did him in.
 
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This is one of my favorite JP songs from my favorite album of theirs. It also happens to be one of their lesser selling albums. "Point of Entry" was released just after "British Steel". It was quite a bit more cerebral but also didn't sell as well. They went back to the known heavy metal formula with "Screaming for Vengeance" and thereafter. I sorta fault them for not being a little more artistic sometimes. I know they can be but I guess you gotta pay the bills too.

 
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CodeMonkey said:
This is one of my favorite JP songs from my favorite album of theirs. It also happens to be one of their lesser selling albums. "Point of Entry" was released just after "British Steel". It was quite a bit more cerebral but also didn't sell as well. They went back to the known heavy metal formula with "Screaming for Vengeance" and thereafter. I sorta fault them for not being a little more artistic sometimes. I know they can be but I guess you gotta pay the bills too.

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I'm totally with you on this album. Most underrated JP album by far.
 
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Have you checked out Robert's band, "The Band of Joy"? If not you should definately do so. It's a very eclectic sound...I like to call it kind of a Folk/Zeppelin/Jungle/Bluegrass/Country thingy...lol. Beautiful stuff! The band name actually existed in a few variants since 1966. Robert revived the name with its most recent members in 2010-11.

Some interesting history on the "Band of Joy" and its variants/members is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_Joy

 
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Get in here @beej! You will not be chastised for liking Elton John or anybody else in here. Bring us your worst!!!! This is one of my favorite EJ songs. I'm not embarrassed to admit that.

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Tumbleweed Connection was the first album I ever bought with my own money. I'm not embarrassed either. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road & Captain Fantastic are still among my favorite albums of all time.
 
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Remember when MTV played videos all night? I saw this one at 2am in an altered state and thought "what the fuck is this?" loved it!
 
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Good stuff. Yes, MTV was such a cool innovation. "VJays" for F's sake. How cool is that?!? I was personally lucky because my father was a western auto dealer when satellite television was a brand-new thing. We purchased one of the early gigantic prototype satellite dishes at a merchandise show and we mounted it in our yard. We basically had to line everything up manally. You had to manually switch satellites by pulling the pin and moving to the next pin/satellite. We had a holes drilled for all of the good ones. At that point in time there was nothing scrambled...Know what I mean, nudge nudge. You could get all of the porn channels from the hotel feeds and anything in the air. There was no guard. You could not only watch Star Wars, you could pick your scene. Most of the stuff was on one or two of the main satellites though...Like freaking MTV. Whatever happened to MTV? they have certainly lost their way. What a beautiful model they had. 24 hour rock and roll!!!! I think sometimes people out think themselves.

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Whatever happened to MTV? they have certainly lost their way. What a beautiful model they had. 24 hour rock and roll!!!! I think sometimes people out think themselves.
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MTV and VH1 both saw their ratings decline so they switched over to 'reality' programming with occasional music videos. You Tube has basically taken their place.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci3afKw_mcY
 
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CodeMonkey said:
They had something so brilliant that VH1 copied them and they added a channel. Now, its just 3 channels of crap. It's a shame.
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Video killed the radio star and Reality TV killed off MTV and VH1. Never forget that it's not about music, art, and creativity for these people - it's all about money. Most in the recording industry would tell you the same thing about what they do.
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I spoke with ex-MTV VJ Adam Curry to get an insider's point of view about the programming changeover from 24-7 music to reality TV and he said, "It was the best business decision they ever made." Curry explained that during his stint, starting in 1987 the network's ratings were never that great. So even in the best of times, music never pulled big numbers, but MTV's very first trivia game show, "Remote Control," did really well. It went on to do "The Real World" in 1992, which was the first unscripted reality show. That, and the others that followed saved MTV, and doomed 24-7 music programming.

I can't blame MTV for abandoning music; its job was to deliver ratings and make money, and the audience for music, even before YouTube, was never all that big. Curry reminded me that MTV is currently a $4 billion-a-year business, so it must be doing something right.
 
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Video killed the radio star and Reality TV killed off MTV and VH1. Never forget that it's not about music, art, and creativity for these people - it's all about money. Most in the recording industry would tell you the same thing about what they do.
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http://www.cnet.com/news/mtv-and-the-day-the-music-died/

I spoke with ex-MTV VJ Adam Curry to get an insider's point of view about the programming changeover from 24-7 music to reality TV and he said, "It was the best business decision they ever made." Curry explained that during his stint, starting in 1987 the network's ratings were never that great. So even in the best of times, music never pulled big numbers, but MTV's very first trivia game show, "Remote Control," did really well. It went on to do "The Real World" in 1992, which was the first unscripted reality show. That, and the others that followed saved MTV, and doomed 24-7 music programming.

I can't blame MTV for abandoning music; its job was to deliver ratings and make money, and the audience for music, even before YouTube, was never all that big. Curry reminded me that MTV is currently a $4 billion-a-year business, so it must be doing something right.
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MTV has always operated the same way - super cheap content (music videos and reality TV) and paying their employees close to nothing
There was always someone who worked for MTV that would offer you a job, and it was always the job you turned down cause living in NYC and getting paid next to nothing would mean the death of you, it was better to stay in LA and get paid $88 a day as a production assistant than to be a camera man. At least on $88 bucks a day you could pay gas rent and food
So nothing has changed. Video content was free - there is a bit more involved with producing reality tv shows but it is still essentially the cheapest form of production you can have.
 
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