Comments on: Kara DioGuardi’s Pretty Great, If Unsurprisingly Ego-Inspired, Reality-Show Idea

By: revmatty

revmatty — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:44:12 +0000

@fre2daa: One of the early eliminees (sp?) was a pretty decent piano-rock band that I was sad to see go. Then the jam-bandy one had a few good songs including the possibly cleverly titled 40oz of Domestic Violence.

By: fre2daa

fre2daa — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:28:52 +0000

@Audif Jackson Winters III: Yeah! I'm starting to remember now! They were the first ones kicked off. And it was weird because all the 'tough-rocker' types were crying like little girls, and the actual girls were chillin' in the back. Memories!

By: Audif Jackson Winters III

Audif Jackson Winters III — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:48:55 +0000

@fre2daa: One of the other two was Soulcracker, which was portrayed as blatantly careerist and willing to skirt the rules to win the competition. And yes, the fourth band was very much what you described, kind of a Dave Matthews Band knockoff that was mostly forgettable and, as I recall, the first band to get kicked off.

By: fre2daa

fre2daa — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:27:43 +0000

@revmatty: I don't remember the other two bands, one was like some sort of jam multi cultural band or something? The other, I don't have any memories about them.

By: revmatty

revmatty — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:45:56 +0000

Flickerstick put out a great live album and follow up album that I thought were pretty decent. Enough so that I bought them at least. I would *love* to see a return of Band On The Run, and the Dropped show idea is also a lot better than much of the content on tv these days.

VH-1 is following the footsteps of MTV in terms of actually having anything directly to do with music. I guess they figure since they have shows with musicians doing stuff totally unrelated to music it somehow still counts?

Wasn’t one of the women in Harlow a former member of Kittie or some such?

By: fre2daa

fre2daa — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:38:46 +0000

@Maura: Close enough!

By: Maura

Maura — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:30:40 +0000

@fre2daa: Harlow. But ha!!

By: fre2daa

fre2daa — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:10:18 +0000

@Audif Jackson Winters III: Bands on the Run was the best thing, seriously. The all-girl metal band (Harlot?) was just perfect. Fucking VH1 now only produces reality shows about anything but music.

By: Audif Jackson Winters III

Audif Jackson Winters III — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:33:49 +0000

Can’t we just get “Bands on the Run” back? Or at least put Flickerstick on “Dropped”, maybe?

By: Weezy F Baby

Weezy F Baby — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:54:56 +0000

I can garauntee that the dropped-by-Island/Rock The Cradle alum/daughter of Joe Lucy Walsh will be on this.

Which means I will not be anywhere near it. Ugh.