Post #83945 by donhonyc on Wed, Mar 31, 2004 11:54 PM

Shipwreck-

All of those shows you mentioned from back in the day were the only ones worth watching. I saw so many cool bands on the ORIGINAL Sat. Night Live. That show did a nose-dive in the 80s but in the late 70s I remember seeing The Specials, Tom Waits, J. Geils Band, etc, and of course the amazing night when the Stones were on. I guess I could say Billy Joel gets an honorable mention too when he appeared on there. He was kinda gritty back then. SNL would've never considered putting on someone like Britney Spears on in those days. I guess her equivalent back then would be like Marie Osmond or something. Could you imagine them putting HER on? Yeah...backstage doing lines with Belushi! Today they'll put anybody as musical guest on SNL. The only prerequisite for that is to play sucky music and be in the Billboard top 10.

I miss Nite Flight, I wish that was still on. As I recall New Wave Theater was also on the USA network. I saw it in Florida bakc then. Wish someone would put a DVD compilation of that show out.