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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
More today trivia:
38 years ago today, Saturday Night Live debuted with George Carlin as the host.
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Watched it.
Do you know the show that used to rotate once month into the SNL time slot?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_(news_program)
http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.co...eekend-tv.html
In those pre-VCR, pre-news channel days, Weekend was among the first to show footage of the then new punk rock scene in the UK. Everybody who saw the report was transfixed by it--it was so much cooler than the crap being fobbed off as music in the US (outside of New York and a very few other places). A small snippet of that report is at the beginning of this weird compilation clip from NBC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNBWPvVSl8s
Actually NBC (through SNL and the Tomorrow show with Tom Synder) really was the first outlet for punk (and proto-punk) performances. Patti Smith (more proto-punk) on SNL in 1976 blew my effing mind at the time--so much different than the crap on the radio.
http://vimeo.com/5456823