Re: V66 (WVJV-TV)

[TC Cheever <tc@chaostheory.com>]

On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 08:18  PM, SteveOrdinetz wrote:
> Another factor, though that would have hurt V-66 was a lot of the 
> record labels giving MTV exclusivity on many videos...often the 
> superstar or hip acts, leaving the independents with a lot of 
> second-tier stuff.
>
True, but where V66 excelled was by bringing exposure to a lot of local 
bands, to an audience (specifically me & the rest of my 14/15/16 year 
old suburban friends) who wouldn't normally be exposed to them, because 
either we didn't listen to college radio, or we were too young to go to 
clubs, or both. I remember seeing O Positive do a remote with V66 at 
some mall...  Dave Herlihy looking very amused about the whole thing.  
That's one band-- also New Man, Digney Fignus, uh.. a band I can't 
remember the name of, but the video was black & white, sort of a rip off 
of "A Hard Day's Night", and the song was "Many Thanks to You". I have a 
lot of vinyl still laying around that can be directly traced back to 
having seen these bands on V66. That made up for the lamer aspects, like 
the video they made for "Raspberry Beret" by Prince, which mostly 
consisted tight macro shots of the cover art and the album spinning on a 
turntable... I think that was due to the MTV exclusivity, actually.

I think I still have a V66 bumpersticker somewhere, too.

TC