15 years ago today

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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.

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