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Anybody ever been on TV?

#101
I was in the Spanic Boys out of Milwaukee for a while mid Nineties. On a swing through the east coast we were booked on the Conan O'Brien Show on a Monday night.
It was quite awesome! Radio City Music Hall baybee! What you can't see is the house band was facing us over to one side between us and the audience. Tough crowd those guys, reading the paper, doing their nails and everything but paying attention to us. This was the Max Weinberg led band. The sound was great, the song was great and I had a blast!

 
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#102
My claim to fame was Popeye Playhouse around 1970 in Miami. Only advice I can give is keep creative control over your look. I didn't, mom decided a yellow Nehru shirt and hair held in place by a last minute application of "Mom Spit" was the ticket. Being seven weakened my position but I tried.
 
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#104
Twice on the tube for me.

The first was in 1957 as a 7 year old kid on the original Walt Disney's Disneyland TV show. I was part of a family living in the House of the Future. My segment was using the futuristic electric toothbrush (which was hardwired to the wall. LOL).
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Fast forward 59 years for my second TV appearance. A local cable broadcast from our city's concert in the park series.
I'm front and center in the black GK t-shirt.
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Ok, ok, so I was just in the audience but I WAS on TV ;)

Credit where credit is due... I was there to see our own Mr. @BassCliff and the Kelly Rae Band. :cool:
Thank you Cliff for the opportunity to be on TV once again. :)
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#105
Unless the studio is set up for music performances, it most likely will be lacking in mics/mic input channels on the board to accommodate a band. Plus the boards used for broadcast TV aren't that great for mixing music. They don't include many if the features even found on small mixing boards used for music. No EQ, phase switching, pan, pre-levels, phantom power, multiple outputs, seperate monitor mix, IEM support. None of the stuff to help you sound good.

TV boards are basically ON/OFF and the audio guy might be up to mixing a few guest mics and an occasional music bump just by potting up to the predetermined "set it here" mark on the console. They tend to ride audio to keep everything at 0 VU on the meter. That kills your dynamic range. Plus if they proc the audio it is likely set up more for voice than music.

We did an acoustic folk music series out if our TV studio and rather than mix on the TV studio console, we ran the mics over to the radio station where they had a decent production board for mixing music. We had the radio audio production guy do the mix. It all got sent back over to the TV board. We had 12 mic channels available for the show.
The TV board had a total of 12 inputs with only four dedicated to studio mics.

I would think most TV studios that aren't set up for music would prefer you have someone do your mix and feed it to the board. Lot less trouble for them. Much better audio for you. Win-win.
 
#107
Visualize what is going to happen from a big picture point of view. The TV studio, and your (and your bands) point of view. Take what you need to set up fast and reliably the first time with NO fuss. Make sure your band mates do the same. Help them prepare if they need it. Then go over it again. Then sit back and relax and have fun and enjoy whatever happens knowing you did your best. Smile and be easy to be around. Life is an adventure. You will have video proof of it.
 
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jubl said:
My claim to fame was Popeye Playhouse around 1970 in Miami. Only advice I can give is keep creative control over your look. I didn't, mom decided a yellow Nehru shirt and hair held in place by a last minute application of "Mom Spit" was the ticket. Being seven weakened my position but I tried.
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Your mom was pretty hip, but about 3 years late. I, for one, need a picture of this.:D
 
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I've been on TV (on both sides of the camera) enough to know that it is great fun, but basically it is Not That Big a Deal. It's just another form of recording, and if your records suck, your TV performance probably will too, but you get to see just how bad, which can lead to growth, which is a Good Thing. Everyone should have the chance at it, and decent cameras are getting really cheap-- the cost, as always, is in the software and ancillaries. Just relax, be friendly and have fun, and listen to the floor director, because he's working hard to help you not suck-- and let us know how it goes.
 
#117
Bunk McNulty said:
Redhead has been invited to be on a local (community cable) TV show next month. We'd do two songs for a telethon (raising money for the high school band). I have absolutely no idea what to expect, except I know we'll get a pro video for free that we can use to promote our wiggly selves. Tech advice, war stories, etc. greatly appreciated.
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Late 80's, local cable show. We went into the studio, got a little makeup to kill the shine and talked with the host about our music for about 10 minutes. Then they played a music video we had shot. When we came back from the break the show took calls and the band answered questions for the remainder of the 30 minutes.
As far as I know, it did nothing for our local draw or standing since we were a (mostly) covers band and most of the people watching were probably already in our extended circle.
 
#118
I was doing some land surveying in downtown Jacksonville Fl early one morning, and as my crew and I were doing a recon of a city block we passed a group of non working type older fellas congregated on the sidewalk doing whatever folks of that ilk do that time of day (looked to be just smokin and jokin, with a few pints of malt liquor in rotation). One of the guys was perched on top of an old busted up telly that someone had tossed out, and As i passed by em, I looked at him, stopped and did a double take and ask him, "uh, hey man, didn't I seent you on TV"?.... he scratched his head, and looked confused but his mates got it, and as I strolled on I could hear them laughing and trying to explain the joke to him.
 

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