MTV's Big Bang 89

[@wolfeadventures]

1,000,000 times better than any New Year’s Eve show on current tv.

[@etownshawn]

Vixen is a real-life Jem & The Holograms. awesome! ♥

[@CurbsideLife]

Great post! This is when mtv was the greatest thing since sliced bread. My childhood was saturday morning cartoons , 7-9pm sitcoms(central time) and Mtv the other 22 hours.

[@keithfloydjr4014]

I think you just described most of us watching this video! Haha..the GOOD OL DAYS

[@Briandoesit]

late 80s was a great time for music. Rock was at its peak, R&B/pop was at it's peak, HipHop was rising fast and Country music wasn't far behind

[@joedimaggio3687]

For the most part, the 1980s rock scene was terrible.

[@Tre404]

Surprisingly good audio for VHS.

[@godwillguideme.3773]

Fun fact. The same recording tape recorded on all master tapes of the 70's 80 's 60's. ..VHS has amazing audio sound....used on all albums we grew up with.

[@PorkchopPete]

It was poison who was on top of the world when this special aired - the song they performed Every Rose had just spent its 2nd week as the #1 song on the billboard charts

[@hairbandsrule1800]

2019 and rocking out to this! Tonight seeing a kickass 80's cover band. Happy New Year my fellow rockers!

[@vitopetroni333]

I have been looking for the cameo performance from this new years special everywhere....thought I finally found it when i started watching this ...but of course its the only one cut out ...smh

[@Poison0473]

Who’s here watching this New Years Eve 2018

[@marlon72]

Me!

[@pumpkinhead34]

I AM!! That was a great year for me!

[@Riverphoenixisinheav]

Me! I am!!

[@goodfella2400]

Right here!! Because nowadays everything else on is crap.

[@robertthomas5736]

New Year's Eve 1989,Classic Rock and Roll

[@stargazer4625]

Thanks for uploading. I actually saw a handful of these bands in 89. Love hair metal

[@isabel1983]

Gosh how I miss the 80’s 💔

[@12doorknob]

Anyone who thought women cannot rock as hard as guys just got schooled. Vixen mopped the floor with everyone else here. Jan Kuehnemund one of best guitarists in world. It shows. Pure technical genius. Roxy pounding so hard on drums she's coming up out of her seat. This is over the top awesome. These girls laid it down. I need a cigarette.

[@thatgirlinitaly]

Dude no way. Winger was easily the best performance of the night.

[@shayh.3556]

I love Vixen but Winger kicks some serious ass, especially live!!!

[@stargazer4625]

I saw vixen in concert. They kicked ass

[@godwillguideme.3773]

Winger ruled.

[@fordhamdonnington2738]

Winger... huh huh uhhh huh huh

[@anthonymetcalf8806]

awesome post... luv the 80's

[@MetalMaster101]

This is different from the other one I watched. Which was mainly hosted by Sandra Bernhard in New York. It did show snippets of the LA portion, but I thought that just how the main show was. I didn't realize the LA party was aired entirely on it's own.

[@sean4339]

Love this and love hall and Oates ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@philduff6474]

this was the End of the 80s

[@Tre404]

Yeah, the rest of us were able to do the math, too.

[@Scottocaster6668]

Literally 😆

[@richevans609]

This was a great time!

[@nullcorporation2332]

Excerpt from: Stevie Rachelle's 'Tuff Diaries' 'Entry #7 MTV’s NYE Big Bash, Riki & Taime’s Cathouse & My Girlfriend was a Poster at Spencer’s (August 20th 2018)' metalsludge.tv/tuff-diaries-7-mtvs-nye-big-bash-riki-taimes-cathouse-and-my-girlfriend-was-a-poster-at-spencers/ ''It’s now New Years Eve 1988. Well sort of… MTV is shooting an epic New Year’s bash in Reseda California. It’s called “MTV’s Big Bang ’89” They are filming it at the Country Club, but one small catch. It’s NOT New Year’s Eve. Matter of fact, it’s not even December 31st. Nope, it was filmed 3 weeks earlier on December 9th in the middle of the day. So in short, the whole thing was staged. The show was started and stopped, with a film crew who would instruct the audience, “Okay, so GO CRAZY now!” This was repeated several times, and then they’d pan the cameras across the crowd. C.C. DeVille and Sam Kinison jamming “Wild Thing” as the night’s encore with Robbin “King” Crosby, Rudy Sarzo and others. It was a mostly invite only and industry crowd, so of coure Tuff were on the list. The event was hosted by the hottest comic at that time, Sam Kinison. Also co-hosting was MTV Veejay “Downtown” Julie Brown. Musical guests included The Escape Club, Hall & Oates, Bobby Brown, Vixen, Poison and Robert Plant. It was a fun time, but obviously way before modern technology with everything being shot and edited weeks before it aired.''

[@YAMISOOLD2009]

thanks for posting this!

[@zava34]

thanks for the upload!

[@theshawnmurphyjournal2946]

Escape club were a band that should have been huge, but they became a one hit wonder

[@55Mrcry]

Pretty sure some of these bands were using backing studio tracks for stage quick change up but with live vocals...I've been listening to these tunes for 34 year's and know every nuance of the studio recordings, nobody plays live exactly as it was recorded in the studio...this was live TV...so bands had to get on and off quick.

[@woobrahamlincoln6696]

Def the sam wild thing was the track.

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

..BROKEN HEART....is a theme song of mine if there ever was one. I will always remember, 1989 MTV HIGE New Years Show.....VIxen and Winger I was SOOO happy, first time VIXEN was on tv and I was taping at home and my Mom was so excteid to. We ordred pizza and it just got there in time and we were having fun, I was blushing like crazy...My Mom came running in the lving room to watch as she loved them too....Edge of a Broken Heart, yup....we were bringing in the NEW (WORST) YEAR OF MY LIFE. I would not have my Mom in 11 months. My Mom LOVED metal she got me into KISS in 1976 ( I was 3) I REALLY HATE IT when people say "oh if your parents like the same music as you that's a bad sign." FUCK THAT!! That only means when a new cd/cassette (back then LOL) it was almost a sure thing that when one your bands released a new album you would get it ASAP because she wanted to hear it as well!!! It breaks my heart, that night still is so freash in my head. Also, I SO LOVED JAN. As al of us metakheads know she was an AMAZING guitarist and it was forever silenced 8 years ago from cancer. She was a GREAT person....Cancer took my Mom and Jan way too soon. I am a Cowboys fan and I can promise "Every Rose Has It's THorn..." MISS YOU MOM AND JAN

[@joelewishenry7886]

Thanks for sharing your very special moment with your mom. She was special. Really sorry for your loss. Was a huge fan of Vixen and Winger during those years as well. Cheers.

[@nullcorporation2332]

Wow, Thanks for the Great Upload. You should be knighted for your services!

[@spaghettismith8343]

Remember it well I was 22 oh to go back... now sucks 🤔

[@jasonfeathers7958]

You aren't kidding more fun. Less worry back then

[@debby631]

23 great times 🤘

[@fuckyou96]

Do you feel old now ???

[@wingerboy88]

New Years Eve 2019!

[@robertthomas5736]

Back When MTV was All about The Music, 24 Hours a Day in Stereo

[@PizzaTmusic]

I like when Bobby Brown fakes playing keyboard guitar.

[@cartman414]

You cut out Cameo and Robert Plant?

[@FreakingCrazyMan]

CC was fucking blasted. Well, he wasn't probably the only one..

[@JK-nd1oo]

In what way? He seemed surprisingly sober to me compared to other MTV appearances he made later on, especially considering this was NYE.

[@annetteslife]

Rest in Sam

[@Spectre-wk5vx]

Dude this is amazing do you have anymore stuff like this

[@Tre404]

I'm pretty sure that's Freestyle superstar Sa-Fire singing backing vocals during the last number, "Wild Thing," standing stage right (left side of the screen) wearing white.

[@patrickrancourt4782]

Only Bobby brown really unfit whit this mtv powerful blasting tv rockin new years eve 1989 gr8 show show

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

So my Mom got me into KISS at age 3 in 76. SHE LOVED music, all kinds....me as well (we hated rap though). My Dad went to sleep..but we ordered pizza....we just got cable a few weeks before this...we were hoping these would bite lyp synched. We just had the most awesome night...I was 15 and Mom 46...... little did we know ....we were rocking in THE WORST year of our lives...this same night fast forward next year.....my friend was sleeping over..... eating pizza, my Dad drunk....why? My Mom.....best friend died from cancer Nov 30, 89.....it was horrible

[@MarilynFinland]

Kip Winger looked so damn fine

[@CopperPriestess]

Fucking amazing

[@Whiskel]

Yeah... those repertations and resalations...

[@pjay5964]

Vixen whooped everybodys a**!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@WhatsCookingTime]

And looked hot as hell doing it

[@robertthomas5736]

Vixen, Got Their Big Break in The Movie Hardbodies, during The 1980s

[@Jaheartsjonas]

please post the H&O perfomances separately, I came here for them 😂

[@splint1872012]

I was 15 in 1989

[@sdsmt99]

I don't believe you.

[@splint1872012]

@@sdsmt99 ummmm, ok i’ll be 49 In March but I really don’t need you to believe me

[@joedimaggio3687]

And?

[@jerryroach7281]

U know I'm JOKING right??

[@patrickrancourt4782]

Where G E "" 6 strings Master"" Smith from H&O band ?

[@trytobenice7234]

🚭 0:43 🥗 2:04 🎧 6:33 ⛸️ 9:43 🍨 18:55 💊 25:03 🥩 35:16 🥖 1:05:39 🎈

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

How bad did Bobby Brown stick out????

[@mful9628]

Side-eye for that mix between live vocals & the studio tracks for Vixen. This was pre-Milli Vanilli scandal tho

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

As a lifer metalhead..... it's okay to say.....Sam Kinnison got on my fuckin nerves

[@pauricboylan3571]

Only lead vocals are live the instruments and backing vocals are playback

[@alanndrake2619]

pauric boylan not on all they weren't as the solo on Every Rose is played without a pure tremolo as he used a Gibson double neck for it. He also added the end fills that aren't identical on the original track.

[@jasonfeathers7958]

What happened to this music and actual bands that could write and play their own instruments.

[@spaghettismith8343]

Crap music....i mean rap

[@robertthomas5736]

Downtown Julie Brown, VJ

[@sdsmt99]

Wahbah Wahbah Wahbah

[@yoyoloach24]

So which front man got the most chicks that night?????

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

People just DO NOTY understand ow GReat WINGER truly is as a band...REB BEACH FUCKING AMAZING...listen to that tone. VIXEN, WINGER AND POISON RULED

[@woobrahamlincoln6696]

Poison was #1 billboard song at that moment

[@joelewishenry7886]

All great live bands in their own right. But yeah, back then nobody -myself included- really listened to Winger live and they were top notch.

[@thevideofan4788]

Where’s the MTV logo?

[@michaelh.8260]

Some goofy shit right here...

[@AllboroLCD]

Is the dude from winger really wearing his own bands shirt?

[@fuckyou96]

Metallica used to , so what ?

[@DR676767]

True musicians do that

[@sdsmt99]

@@fuckyou96 because metallica shirts are cool.

[@RichardMcConte-lw4go]

It's not Green Day

[@snarlingrabiddog5150]

48:02

[@Les537]

1989 - the year of maximum pose. The horrors that gen X lived through.

[@killboybands1]

when people complain about how bad pop music is these days (myself included) I'll just show them this stinker.

[@RichardMcConte-lw4go]

In my household we only consume peruvians for Christmas Not to dry no garlic

[@ALLMUTANTER]

Wild West sucks

[@TombstoneChris]

Yes it does.

[@Tre404]

...but "Shake for the Sheik" was better.

[@OtBe]

"performances"

[@ChCh-qm5hw]

Crime sucks

[@keithfloydjr4014]

Ahh..when MTV was cool..now IT SUCKS ASS

[@justsomedudeyouknow8372]

Beginning of the 80's music was amazing. By end it was all ballads and bullshit.

[@jerryroach7281]

Give me YO. Mtv anytime.

[@joedimaggio3687]

This is terrible

[@Briandoesit]

Winger: I'ma write a song promoting pedophilia No one in the 80's: Yeah, You shouldn't do that

[@fuckyou96]

16 used to be the legal age.