{"id":18,"date":"2005-07-06T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2005-11-21T03:28:54","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T03:28:54","slug":"mtv-makes-me-wanna-smoke-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/mtv-makes-me-wanna-smoke-crack\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No, no, I’m not advocating drug use. For those that didn’t get the reference in the title, it is the name of an old, rather obscure Beck song. I believe off the single (import?) of Loser from back circa 1993 or so. Anyway, onto the point of the story before I digress…<\/p>\n

On 7\/2\/05 was the Live 8 concerts from around the world, Philadelphia, London, and Paris just to name a few. MTV and VH-1 were covering the events as they unfolded in all of the cities.<\/p>\n

I’ll just get straight to the point. MTV?…you suck!. My girlfriend and I are sitting in a Courtyard Marriot in Saratoga Springs, NY enjoying the day as we wait for our DMB concert to start at 7pm later that evening. So, we decided to watch the Live 8 coverage on MTV, especially since DMB was playing there, and then scurrying back up to upstate NY for their evening show.<\/p>\n

This is how a typical hour’s segment of Live 8 coverage happened on MTV. Talking, talking, blah blah, performers in the background, commercial, talking, interviewing the crowd, 1 full song shown, “lets see whats going on in London, Jim” (cut to London), commercial, talking, interviewing the crowd, and so on.<\/p>\n

In an hour’s time, if we saw 5 minutes of music, it would have been a lot. Instead, MTV just simply showing the concerts uninterrupted by senseless banter and commentary. I kept my mouth shut after the first 45 minutes, but when I realized this was more about MTV advertising than showing the music, I was pretty damn disgusted. What makes MTV think that me, sitting in my living room, that I care about what 3 drunk idiots from Ocean City, NJ think about the Live 8 concerts. I don’t care, SHOW ME PINK FLOYD.<\/p>\n

Instead, and I never thought I’d say this, AOL – yes, AOL – had an Internet broadcast of the concerts, and they still have it online in archives for people to view.<\/p>\n

Thanks MTV, for once again, really dropping the ball on an event. You people could fuck up a wet dream.<\/p>\n

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No, no, I’m not advocating drug use. For those that didn’t get the reference in the title, it is the name of an old, rather obscure Beck song. I believe off the single (import?) of Loser from back circa 1993 or so. Anyway, onto the point of the story before I digress… On 7\/2\/05 was … <\/p>\n

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