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I happened across Vh-1's Sunday evening music video+musical guest by accident and didn't realize the value of this show soon enough to archive it on VHS soon enough. (I did put it on SuperBeta HiFi, but these tapes can't be played due to the last Sony SLH-360/600 biting the dust 5 years ago.) This series wasn't about Rock & Roll, and the studio performances were quite interesting. All good/interesting things come to an end, once music videos became passé and MTV preferred to reach only the teen audience. I pause once and a while, at MTV and VH-1 to see what non-music subjects are hip, then move on to The Discovery Channel or PBS, to hear/ see original/intelligent TV programming. I wonder if there is the equivalent of "New Visions" out there in the cable TV wasteland, overseen by say, Verve or Down Beat magazine. Naah, that would make too much sense, and confuse the 17-34 market with all this "Old People"/non-Hip Hop/Rap music. All that's left is NPR's All Things Considered PodCast, which is interesting, but visuals+music shouldn't be limited to Rock/Country/Hip Hop/Rap genres only. A dream of mine is to find that MTV decides to squeeze more money out of their vaults and issue at least one season of "New Visions."

On Sunday nights 2 hours of New Age Smooth Jazz Prog Rock-Synth music Videos. Sort of the flip side to what MTV played at that time. Some of the videos are rare one of a kind. New Visions regular VJ was Frankie Crocker the famous DJ at WBLS in NYC. Celebrity guest hosts could invite other artists. Guest Hosts that I know of: Pat Metheny, Laurie Anderson, Chick Corea, Anthony Phillips, Micheal Hedges, David Torn, Mark Egan, Bill Evans, Wynton Marsalis, Larry Fast, Carlos Alomar, Gary Burton, Bill Bruford, Nile Rodgers. Ben Sidran took over as VJ when the format went to all Jazz in 1990. Some of the invited artists: Makoto Ozone, Susan Vega, David Van Tieghem, Mark Ribot, Kazu Makino.

A track list from my VHS rec in 1986. The first video by Jerry Goodman I like to refer to as the 'flying geese' video.

Jerry Goodman - On The future Of Aviation, Chick Corea/Gary Burton - Finale, Jean Michel Jarre - Rendez-Vous4 Houston Live, Paul Winter Consort - River Run, Laurie Anderson 'One on One' interview, George Howard - Dancing In The Sun, Steven Halpern - Greensleeves, Daniel Sofer - The Fourth, Bill Oskay/Micheal O'Domhnaill - The 19A, Philip Glass - Act 3, Pat Metheny Group - Are You Going With Me? Clannad/Bono - In A Life Time, Kitaro - Cloud, Patrick O Hearn - Beauty in Darkness, Jean Luc Ponty - Open Mind, Shadowfax - The Big Song, Michael & Kevin Shrieve - Transfer Station Blue, Paul Speer & David Lanz - Behind the Waterfall, Mike Oldfield - 5 Miles Out, Liz Story - Deeper Reasons, Andreas Vollenwieder - Pace Verde, Tangerine Dream - Tiergarten, Apsaras - Apsaras, Michael Hoppe & Michael Grunstein - Eyes of the Wind, Mike Oldfield - Wonderful Land, David Sanborn - Love & Happieness, Eddie Jobson - Memories of Vienna.