MV3 - Rough Trade - All Touch

In the early 1980s not everyone had cable TV. In Los Angeles a sort of new wave American Bandstand was the alternative to cable's MTV. It was called MV3.

This syndicated music video show featured (1) the latest music videos as a backdrop to (2) local dancers and (3) lip synched performances by artists such as X, The Plimsouls, Lords Of The New Church, Oingo Boingo, Berlin, The Bangles, Missing Persons, English Beat, Thomas Dolby, Psychedelic Furs, Adam Ant etc.; artists that were currently being played on KROQ (Los Angeles).

Three hosts included then KROQ DJ, Richard Blade, "comedian?" David Maples, and "actress?" Karen Scott.

Trivia: Blade and some of the regular dancers also appeared in an episode of "Square Pegs". Bret Easton Ellis mentions MV3 in his book "Less Than Zero".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• MV3
• 80s
• music
• Rough
• Trade
• All
• Touch
• New
• Wave
• Richard
• Blade
• LA
• KROQ
• 1980s
• los
• angeles
• videos
• Carole
• Pope

[parkman35]

Iremember back in the mid 80's Rough Trade appeared on a show on the Playboy channel, and sang 'All Touch" Carole Pope was dresed in a very, very short white fringed mini dress with a chain around her waist and she was barefooted. I thought she looked very much like Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane/Starship

[crashsite000]

They also appeared on 'Solid Gold' believe it or not.

[MissNovemberTuesday]

Wow, I remember this song. I had forgotten all about it, but it comes flooding back. Love the crowd. Amazing what a difference a year or two made. When the show started, everyone was all preppie and pastel. There is still some here, but you can see the Adam Ant/Duran Duran/new wave influences by this time. Big improvement on the fashions.

[TheCriticEye]

@derekmimi I don't know, but today he's probably fat and bald LOL!

[sicilianotoronto]

NICE! Rough trade rocks

[Harmonie66]

Although not a regular, I was a dancer on a two or three episodes of MV3. Good to see these clips!

[marko723]

i was about 13 or 14 years old when i got to go on a school trip to see solid gold in person at ktla in los angeles, and i remember they were the guest and sang this song. of course they sang it about 5 times to get the right performance they needed, but i remember enjoying the song. i still have my ticket too!

[Nokorola]

Another show that would be awesome on DVD... if the music industry wasn't so hard to deal with.

[lasquid]

Does anybody have any "Video One?"

That was the show Richard Blade had after this one was canceled.

[arachnidfreak101]

It hit me like a slap