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**Bwana** · 04-21-2019, 11:21 PM

Sex, cocaine and Van Halen — inside MTV’s wild ‘80s contests

In 1984, MTV gave contest winner Kurt Jefferis a chance to party all weekend with his heroes: the notoriously depraved band Van Halen.

The then-fledgling music-video channel flew Jefferis and a pal from Phoenixville, Pa., to Detroit, where they met up with the band at Cobo Hall. First things first, Jefferis told The Post, “a guy handed me a bottle of Jack Daniels.

I took a sip and asked for more.” After being passed a joint, “I took a couple hits and a couple more swigs of Jack Daniels.”

During the show, Jefferis got smashed in the face with cake and showered in champagne by the band members, then he went backstage where there was a feast of lobster, filet mignon and cocaine.

“I did a couple lines. Then David [Lee Roth, the singer] said, ‘I think Kurt needs Tammy,’ ” Jefferis recalled.

The groupie “took off her clothes and started dancing naked. The two of us wound up together in the shower.”

After that, things got fuzzy. Unbeknownst to MTV, Jefferis had suffered brain trauma a couple of years earlier, as a result of falling 13 feet over a stairwell, and was not equipped to handle Van Halen-level partying.

“I blacked out, and the next thing I remember is waking up in a hotel room bed,” said Jefferis, now 54. Tammy was long gone and “my head was killing me.”

But he still had another day of partying with the band. So Alex Van Halen told him to shotgun a 16-ounce beer. A hungover Jefferis declined, but the drummer wasn’t taking no for an answer: “Alex said, ‘Kurt you are not leaving this spot until you drink it.’ ”

By the time Jefferis got home, he was sleep-deprived, in pain and happy to be back at his job as a stock boy at Gimbels.

His wild time is captured in a new documentary short, “Lost Weekend,” premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday. (The movie “I Want My MTV,” about the channel’s early days, is also part of the fest.) It’s a look at a time you can never imagine happening now, when the break-the-rules channel let viewers in on the fun by gifting them cars, VIP treatment at concerts and even their idols’ homes. The contests sometimes ended up in sex, chaos or with winners owing thousands of dollars.

More MTV early days stories here: https://pagesix.com/2019/04/20/sex-c...-80s-contests/

Sweet Daddy Hate · 04-22-2019, 09:07 PM

My friend almost won the Motley Cruise. They picked the post card right next to his though. He was bummed.

Can you imagine being on that ship as a teenager though? You'd have Doc McGee or Doug Thaler trying to hide smack and all of the other crazy shit those guys were in to at the time. "Come along Timmy, you don't want to know about that".

Titty Meat · 04-22-2019, 09:29 PM

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rabblerouser · 04-23-2019, 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

Young Jefferis had no idea what he was getting into.

MTV was great when it first came out, but it mutated into something unwatchable several years ago. Some of the MTV contest stories in the link are golden, talk about flying by the seat of their pants.

They don't even play music on MTV anymore.

It's really very sad. Kids get their videos by watching Cash Me Ousside Girl doing "Gucci Flip Flops" on the youtubes...this is how they're dumbing down America?

rabblerouser · 04-23-2019, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Titty Meat

You werent afraid of the AIDS?

Nah, in the early 80s, AIDS was for the gays and the people doing the arm heroin.

stevieray · 04-23-2019, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by jjjayb

I was about 12 when MTV debuted. We were all glued to the TV watching MTV after school until my dad got stationed in Panama. They didn't have MTV in panama at the time. We used to have to rent betamax tapes of MTV. Good times.

did someone say Panama?

crashcourse · 04-23-2019, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by stevieray

did someone say Panama?

true AFRTS only had one station but the Panamanians did have mtv. I was in panama 84-86 and we watched mtv all the time
in fact living in panama at that time was like winning one of those contests. Panamanian women were drop dead gorgeous--lines of coke and 10 dollar hookers were plentiful

lot of soldiers down there got into a lot of trouble

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