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Guest FeArHaVoC
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VH1 started off with a show called "Legends" which covered bands like Led Zeppelin, The Doors, U2, etc., which then led to "Behind the Music."

 

Pretty much everyone and their mother has done these and I can't think of the last time VH1 had a New Behind the Music. Hell, even Artist and bands I hate I watched because the show is interesting.

 

Anyway, who would you like to see do a "Behind the Music" who hasn't yet?

 

My picks

 

Guns N' Roses

Chances of that are slim to none with Axl

 

Van Halen

I think most of us know about 90% of the story and Drama of this band. But I would like to see the early stuff. The early days and how the band got together with David Lee Roth.

 

Anyone else?

Guest bob_barron
Posted

I like the BTMs of different years in music

Guest Youth N Asia
Posted

They've pretty much done all the interesting ones they're going to get. It would be too hard for them to do any other big names and actually get the people to show up and talk.

 

You know they're stretching when you get Hall & Oates

Guest Dmann2000
Posted

I'd want to see them do Weezer, and if possible a full 2hr Pink Floyd one

Guest Plushy Al Logan
Posted

Pink Floyd

The Doors (Just bought the Oliver Stone DVD)

Elvis Presley

Chuck Berry

Guns N' Roses

Van Halen (They did something similar called the Sammy and Dave show. Where are Eddie and Alex anyway?)

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I'd want to see them do Weezer, and if possible a full 2hr Pink Floyd one

Weezer would be a really good pick especially given the fact that it would be a good place for the Weezer to set the record straight about the all of the craziness and rumor of an all-out mutiny against Rivers that the band staged during the period of 1996-1999.

 

GnR would be another pick but I can see VH1 delaying any sort of BTM edition until the new album comes out, which means we'll never see it.....

 

Van Halen would also be a good pic for a two-hour edition, especially given the drama that was involved with the numerous changes in the line-up

 

Wilco and Aimee Mann is another potential BTM candidate given their "I fought the record industry to preserve my our artistic integrity and won" story material

 

Pink Flyod also needs a full two hour edition, as the VH1 Legends special only covered up through The Wall and barely touched upon the controversy over the fight over the Pink Floyd name in the late 1980s and such....

 

As for year themed BMT:

 

1991 and 1993: To finish up the story of the rise of Alternative and the fall of the hairbands

 

1988: Metallica goes mainstream with "One", Dirty Dancing Fever, the rise of teenyboppers Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, NKOTB, and the formation of NWA, Nirvana, and the grunge movement

 

1964: Rise of the Beatles and their effect on Pop Music

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1998: Metallica goes mainstream with "One", Dirty Dancing Fever, the rise of teenyboppers Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, NKOTB, and the formation of NWA, Nirvana, and the grunge movement

1988, though it does seem like a few years ago. :)

Posted
Pink Floyd

The Doors (Just bought the Oliver Stone DVD)

Elvis Presley

Chuck Berry

Guns N' Roses

Van Halen  (They did something similar called the Sammy and Dave show.  Where are Eddie and Alex anyway?)

The Doors was given one of the first "Legends" specials and it's pretty packed in terms of covering their career (and is narrated by Henry Rollins to boot).

 

Eddie and Alex weren't involved in the Sammy and Dave Show because the focus of the S&DS was on Sammy and Dave in terms of their times with Van Halen and out of Van Halen as solo artists.

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1998: Metallica goes mainstream with "One", Dirty Dancing Fever, the rise of teenyboppers Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, NKOTB, and the formation of NWA, Nirvana, and the grunge movement

1988, though it does seem like a few years ago. :)

I've made the correction. Thanks for pointing it out to me.....

Guest Edwin MacPhisto
Posted

Since the best BTMs thus far have been the likes of Motley Crue, Poison, and Def Leppard, I'd love to see them fill out their catalogue with some ridiculous rise and fall of Whitesnake, the Scorpions, and other hair-metal castaways.

 

"And then I thought to myself, 'oh man! Did I just kill my buddy?"

Guest converge241
Posted

The Cure

 

Pop Will eat Itself (no way in hell on that one)

 

Joy Division

 

 

have they done one on just David Lee Roth? like focusing on him leaving and his solo career rise and fall? Id like to see that

Guest Nevermortal
Posted

Slayer

 

The Black Metal Church Burnings/Killings of the Early '90s

 

Ramones

Guest NoCalMike
Posted

Slayer, Pantera, Cannibal Corpse(yah right) Maybe just a big special on the "underground" metal scene, with a bunch of bands wrapped into one show.

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The Black Metal Church Burnings/Killings of the Early '90s

That would be cool. I have a book somewhere that deals with that. Count Grishnack(Burzum) is one crazy dude.

Guest Vern Gagne
Posted

Eddie and Alex probably won't talk to BTM.

 

Nirvana and Alice in Chains seem like good canidates. There also a perfect fit with drug use, and dead lead singers.

Guest whatitistoburn
Posted

I'm probably gonna get shit for this but....

 

Great White.

Guest Steviekick
Posted

I'd like to see a BTM on either Black Flag or the Misfits.

Guest CoreyLazarus416
Posted

Misfits, Slayer, IRON MAIDEN...

 

...and Insane Clown Posse. I'd LOVE to hear all the bleeps and gay jokes in that one...

Guest Banky
Posted

I should quit with all this Lemonheads talk, but I'd want to see one on Evan Dando.

Guest snuffbox
Posted

Perry Ferrell, Bob Seger, Mike Patton, Sublime

Guest bps "The Truth" 21
Posted

I really want a GNR one...but it won't happen.

 

At least not the way it should. I could see them having Slash, Duff and everyone not named Axl do the interviews and then just tell the story without him.

Guest Polish_Rifle
Posted

Beastie Boys, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Guns n' Roses

Guest Banky
Posted
Sublime

Already been done partna.

 

 

I'd also like Bboys and Janes Addiction.

Guest snuffbox
Posted

No shit? I must check that out. Looks like Ill have a reason to turn on the flickering box if that ever gets replayed. Sublime B-)

Guest Harry Hood
Posted

perhaps phish and GD but i may have missed them

Guest snuffbox
Posted

GD - I recommend the E True Hollywood Story of Jerry Garcia. Very awesome shit.

Guest redbaron51
Posted

Don't watch the show so correct me if i'm wrong:

 

Ozzy

Alice Cooper

Jimi Hendrix

The Who

Rush

Megadeth

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