MTV on a Tuesday Wayback

We wake up sore. Finally did the hour on the treadmill and it was the damndest thing. We were just dying and thinking, crap we probably have 20 minutes left. We looked and we had four. Where did the time go? Just awesome. We brought glory to the treadmill.

More plugging along on The Weser yesterday. This thing is really coming together. We will, repeat will, have the rough done by the end of the summer. The Great Nuclear War of 1975 continues to look good. We admit to concerns about the format of this novel. It may just move too damn fast. There's nothing we can do about that. This is it. This is The Great Nuclear War of 1975. The MS will enter editing in September. Two novels are written. Good or bad, they're a go. At some point one must needs trust it Kek, and remind oneself that one is very good at what one does. 

One of this blog's Confederate readers mentioned how MTV got him hooked on the Monkees. For younger readers The Monkees were a TV show rock band from the late 60's inspired by and parroting the Beatles. They have fans. The late Kathy Shaidle did a lot of writing about them. Anyone over 40 now has the theme song in their head.

Beginning about 1986, MTV got a ton of mileage out of airing old shows and old clips. 1966 is roughly where 'the 60s' start, man and by '86 MTV decided enough time had passed. Dear lord it seemed like ancient history. You'd see a lot of Woodstock clips and old television performances. This is how we found out Ozzy used to be in a band. A lot of the late 80's heavy metal imagery was tinged was 60's psychedelic  aesthetics(click warning, people. It's phony and wretched but gets the point across). They played a lot of clips from John Lennon's Live at Madison Square Garden concert. MTV had a Beatles weekend where that's all they played.

The generational wars had not yet begun, and most Generation-Xrs thought the 60's were pretty cool. 'Hey, cool. Peace and love. You know, I hear girls are into that.' The biggest Gen-X music event was the Woodstock 25th anniversary concert of 1994. It's a who's who of Gen-X popular bands (Aerosmith, Metallica, Chili Peppers etc...etc...) , and plenty of acts from the the 60's too, man. Ironic, isn't it?