Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!genrad!wjh12!n44a!ima!inmet!andrew From: andrew@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: VIDEOS - (nf) Message-ID: <1009@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 05:57:12 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1009 Posted: Wed Mar 7 05:57:12 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 19:39:39 EST Lines: 14 #R:nsc:-71200:inmet:6600091:000:676 inmet!andrew Mar 6 11:53:00 1984 Videos are a new form of promotion more than a breakthrough in music. They have already become as formulaic as the FM radio they were supposed to have supplanted. Five years ago, a new band would release a record that sounded like everybody else in order to get FM airplay; now they release a video that looks like everybody else in order to get MTV exposure. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss! Andrew W. Rogers, Intermetrics ...harpo!inmet!andrew 733 Concord Ave. ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!andrew Cambridge, MA 02138 ...uw-beav!cornell!esquire!inmet!andrew (617) 661-1840 ...yale-comix!ima!inmet!andrew