Memories of MTV..the passing of J.J....

BuPHett · Post by **BuPHett** » March 19, 2004 7:03 am

With the untimely death of J.J. Jackson, one of the original five VJ's at MTV, I'm curious...

What were your favorite videos, VJ's and memories of MTV??? Ya know..when MTV actually played videos...

Rock on, J.J....

chalksoperations · Post by **chalksoperations** » March 19, 2004 7:11 am

what happened?

BuPHett · Post by **BuPHett** » March 19, 2004 7:17 am

chalksoperations wrote:what happened?

J.J. died of a heart attack in L.A. yesterday...

f2cdlzrd · Post by **f2cdlzrd** » March 19, 2004 7:42 am

Ahhh...I WANT MY MTV!!

I loved MTV when it was cool; late 80's and early 90's. Remember the game 'Remote Control'? That was too funny! And of course 'Headbanger's Ball'. (before it got stupid) But my all time favorite videos were by:

f2cdlzrd · Post by **f2cdlzrd** » March 19, 2004 7:47 am

And of course, my second favorite of that era:

parottthead · Post by **parottthead** » March 19, 2004 7:58 am

I remember when MTV first went on the air...watching The Buggles and Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Now THAT was entertainment!

poohbear1324 · Post by **poohbear1324** » March 19, 2004 8:46 am

here is my fav in the 80's

NYCPORT · Post by **NYCPORT** » March 19, 2004 9:13 am

poohbear1324 wrote:here is my fav in the 80's

You sure you want to admit that in public???

RAGTOP · Post by **RAGTOP** » March 19, 2004 9:29 am

Hey Matt isn't that Bob's favorite too

?

Jahfin · Post by **Jahfin** » March 19, 2004 11:07 am

I grew up out in the country so my family didn't get cable until 1989 so I never saw any of the original MTV VJ's except in retropectives. Even though they played more "rock" videos back I think MTV has always sucked for the most part but I did like J.J. I've heard him on a quite a few Westwood One radio specials over the years and always enjoyed listening to him. At least you knew he was knowledgeable about the artists he spoke about.

Ilph · Post by **Ilph** » March 19, 2004 11:15 am

Oh man, Remote Control was the best!

barefootpirate · Post by **barefootpirate** » March 19, 2004 11:24 am

Can't forget "Oh, Mickey, you're so fine." I think it played every hour on the hour when MTV first started.

PHIN ^

bixxx · Post by **bixxx** » March 19, 2004 11:30 am

went to school in salem mass, one of this first cities to have MTV how great to go from five channels, to cable, for 4.94 per month, with movies and MTV (still have that Warner cable box) earliest videos were great, Whip it my favorite Now my cable bill is $50 800 chaneels and nothing on, except for the HDTV channels never watch MTV now,

BuPHett · Post by **BuPHett** » March 19, 2004 11:39 am

How many times did we see this?