Sunday, May 25, 2025
Time: 9:45 PM
Song: Insider
Artist: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Mode of Consumption: Watching a DVD of Tom Petty’s Music Videos from 1979-1993
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/6I9mM7Q3YXKYSppopUuCQN?si=7416647bdf6c4ac6
It was a holiday weekend so we were staying up a bit later than we usually do on Sunday nights. We watched an episode of “Mad Men.” We are in the second season, having bought pretty much the entire series at garage sales. When it finishes, we don’t have the energy to watch a second episode or watch a half-hour sitcom. We do establish that we both want to eat a small snack of fruit before bed (grapes for me, strawberries for Jodi).
“Well, we’ll watch a couple music videos while we eat.” I pluck the Tom Petty DVD from next to the TV and put it in. We had bought this DVD a week or two before for a buck at a garage sale.
The first video is for “Here Comes My Girl.” It was made in 1979 and it is basically the band playing the song (or probably pretending to play the song). Nothing fancy.
“So, 1979 is before MTV, where would these have been shown?” Jodi asks.
“I’m not sure,” I answer. I don’t really know. “I suspect maybe there was some sort of late-night show that played music videos. Maybe on Saturday night or something.”
Jodi thinks I mean like after midnight and mentions that most channels used to just go off the air at some point in the night. I was thinking more like at 10:30 PM, after the news or something on a night when the late-night shows like Carson weren’t on.
I don’t really know. I am just thinking about how young Tom Petty looks here. I still get a little sad thinking that he’s gone. He was such a mainstay on radio stations when I was growing, and he was also a regular on MTV countdowns because many of his videos are eccentric.
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