{"id":116,"date":"2006-07-03T12:39:24","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T16:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/07\/03\/fear-the-tv-appearance\/"},"modified":"2006-07-03T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T16:39:24","slug":"fear-the-tv-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/07\/03\/fear-the-tv-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear, the TV appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traitor Vic posted about being inspired when he saw Devo on Saturday Night Live way back when<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Fear\"<\/a>I had a similar SNL moment when Fear played on October 31st, 1981.<\/a> This was monumental. They played at John Belushi’s insistance. The audience was brought in to thrash and that too was allowed only because Belushi insisted. They destroyed the set. Ving said some things you can’t say on television.\u00c2\u00a0It was beautiful. Because of that performance, punk was banned on the show for a decade. I recall Lee Ving saying “I’ll give you a dollar to be my friend” to the audience and spitting on people. It was crazy and exactly<\/em> how I felt. I had been in the sub-culture for a while and listening to U2, B-52s, BauHaus, etc., and when I saw Fear, I knew this was my music. My voice.<\/p>\n

Ah, to be a punk in the Reagan era…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traitor Vic posted about being inspired when he saw Devo on Saturday Night Live way back when. I had a similar SNL moment when Fear played on October 31st, 1981. 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