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From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: music videos on NBC; unusual videos
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Date: Sat, 6-Aug-83 01:50:01 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  6 01:50:01 1983
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For people wanting to see what all the fuss over MTV is about, there's a
weekly 90 minute collection of videos and a few features on NBC, at
12:30am.  One of the features is a brief and shallow interview with someone
(tonight it was Billy Joel).  Another is a vote-for-your-favourite-video-by-
phone, patterned after the Saturday Night Live phone votes.  Each week a new
video is put up against the "defending champion".  A third is the world 
premiere of a video (tonight, Elvis Costello's "Everyday I Write The Book",
with some uncanningly good Charles and Di look-alikes).

An aside: people looking for good-to-excellent and unusual videos might
look for the work of John Sanborn and Dean Winkler.  Their work has appeared
on "The New Music", a weekly syndicated music magazine produced by CITY TV
in Toronto, and at SIGGRAPH '83.  3 of the pieces they accompany are by
Adrian Belew (Big Electric Cat), Philip Glass, and Jim Capaldi.  They have
more of a flair than most, are much less gimmicky, and even have some 
conceptual unity to their work.  Greg Kihn's "Jeopardy" video has their
style, but I'm not sure if they did it.