Mats and MTV

[Kathy]

www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/15166634.htm

A story on the 25th anniversayr of MTV from the Pioneer Press includes this from Peter Jesperson:

"Right after the Replacements signed to Sire in '85, we were in L.A. on tour, and Paul (Westerberg) and I were summoned to the Warner Brothers offices in Burbank to meet with Jeff Ayeroff. I will never forget walking into his office. Jeff's opening gambit was, 'I don't want to talk about the fact that you don't want to make a video, I want to talk about the video that you will eventually make.' Personally, I didn't think that was a good way to open up a discussion, especially with Paul, who wasn't exactly partial to authority figures. Anyway, without batting an eye, Paul replied, 'Get us on "Hee Haw," and I'll lip sync to "Waitress in the Sky."' Why WB didn't take him up on that, I never did understand."

[cford]

admin said:

www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/15166634.htm

A story on the 25th anniversayr of MTV from the Pioneer Press includes this from Peter Jesperson:

"Right after the Replacements signed to Sire in '85, we were in L.A. on tour, and Paul (Westerberg) and I were summoned to the Warner Brothers offices in Burbank to meet with Jeff Ayeroff. I will never forget walking into his office. Jeff's opening gambit was, 'I don't want to talk about the fact that you don't want to make a video, I want to talk about the video that you will eventually make.' Personally, I didn't think that was a good way to open up a discussion, especially with Paul, who wasn't exactly partial to authority figures. Anyway, without batting an eye, Paul replied, 'Get us on "Hee Haw," and I'll lip sync to "Waitress in the Sky."' Why WB didn't take him up on that, I never did understand."

It's amazing to me that these corporate moguls put the rubber stamp on the Bastards of Young video, which would have been viewed at the time as the "anti"-video... Of course, in retrospect the crazy thing seems fairly creative.

CF

[Stegman]

admin said:

www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/entertainment/15166634.htm

A story on the 25th anniversayr of MTV from the Pioneer Press includes this from Peter Jesperson:

"Right after the Replacements signed to Sire in '85, we were in L.A. on tour, and Paul (Westerberg) and I were summoned to the Warner Brothers offices in Burbank to meet with Jeff Ayeroff. I will never forget walking into his office. Jeff's opening gambit was, 'I don't want to talk about the fact that you don't want to make a video, I want to talk about the video that you will eventually make.' Personally, I didn't think that was a good way to open up a discussion, especially with Paul, who wasn't exactly partial to authority figures. Anyway, without batting an eye, Paul replied, 'Get us on "Hee Haw," and I'll lip sync to "Waitress in the Sky."' Why WB didn't take him up on that, I never did understand."

That's awesome.

[hootenanny58]

It just seems to me that it was divine comedy that the Mats kept feeding the Tim videos to the "cool" guys over at MTV ... as if to say, "As dumb as you think we might be, the joke's on you." It's just one of the thousands of things that cinches it for me: The Replacements were above the rest - end of story. As for MTV, the slogan should be "Anti-intellectual all of the time and proudly unaware of it." What a load of gobshites.

[scoOter]

that story is pretty awesome.

[timsch]

I want my music videos........MTV. Get the message! Or don't and go to FUSE.

[Freddy]

If MTV ever had a soul, they lost it a long time ago. They created MTV2 to play videos on and now they have even fucked that up. Yep, FUSE is about as close as you can get to a music video channel.

I like popping in my Come Feel Me Tremble DVD and getting 90 minutes of what I want to see and hear!!! :-) Freddy