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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/

**Bwana** · 04-22-2019, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by alpha_omega

FYP

Hard to dispute that.

**Bwana** · 04-22-2019, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

I miss music videos. One of the most underrated joys of childhood was watching music videos for hours at a time.

Indeed, that article brought back a lot of memories.

**ChiTown** · 04-22-2019, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

Indeed, that article brought back a lot of memories.

Member when MTV actually was all about Music Videos? ****ing reality TV killed all that...........

**TinyEvel** · 04-22-2019, 10:00 AM

We couldn’t afford cable. But my friend Andy Gattuso had MTV. We used to walk to school together. Sometimes I’d get to his house and he wasn’t ready yet, so I’d wait in the living room where they had MTV on. I started showing up earlier and earlier, so I could watch MTV before school. It ended when I arrived to a dark house and his dad answers the door in his underwear “you gotta stop coming here so early, kid, have some common sense.”
Lol

KCUnited · 04-22-2019, 10:03 AM

I remember that Batmobile giveaway. I also remember Daisy Fuentes, Kari Wuhrer, and Julie Brown (non-Downtown) :fap:

**SAUTO** · 04-22-2019, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by TinyEvel

We couldn’t afford cable. But my friend Andy Gattuso had MTV. We used to walk to school together. Sometimes I’d get to his house and he wasn’t ready yet, so I’d wait in the living room where they had MTV on. I started showing up earlier and earlier, so I could watch MTV before school. It ended when I arrived to a dark house and his dad answers the door in his underwear “you gotta stop coming here so early, kid, have some common sense.”
Lol

siberian khatru · 04-22-2019, 10:45 AM

The Police in Montreal story is great:

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The plan was for Foti and VJ Martha Quinn to take a limo to Philadelphia and fly to the gig with the winners. Adding to the excitement, they were going on the network’s signature airplane. (According to MTV’s Sykes, it was actually a leased Learjet with the network logo taped to its side and removed before take-off for fear “that it would get sucked into the engine.”)

But “the driver got lost and we wound up in Delaware,” said Foti. “Martha and I got to the plane three hours late. The concession stands [at the concert] were closed, and we were starving. The winner quickly shook hands with the Police before we went to our seats — way up in the stadium. The winner was screwed from beginning to end and he started arguing with his wife in front of everyone. She said, ‘Go f–k yourself.’ He said, ‘If I could, I would not have married you.’

siberian khatru · 04-22-2019, 10:47 AM

I was 15 years old when MTV debuted. Those who weren't around then can't fully appreciate what a massive cultural force it was.

**ChiTown** · 04-22-2019, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by siberian khatru

I was 15 years old when MTV debuted. Those who weren't around then can't fully appreciate what a massive cultural force it was.

Yep, we are aptly dubbed the MTV Generation

**Nzoner** · 04-22-2019, 10:54 AM

The intro I'll never forget

eDave · 04-22-2019, 10:58 AM

Pfft. This is every Saturday night over here.

Titty Meat · 04-22-2019, 11:01 AM

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Same - In 1984, I would have been in the best shape of my life and willing to wreck myself in Booze, Drugs and Women

I wasnt even born yet

**Bwana** · 04-22-2019, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by ChiTown

Member when MTV actually was all about Music Videos? ****ing reality TV killed all that...........

Oh I hear you on that. I got busy with life and didn't tune in for years. One day I did, expecting it to be the same. I was like, what in the hell is this crap?

I spent a couple of years in Radio doing both on-air and sales, crazy business. There was always some promotion that was going wrong, so I can really relate to those stories.

I swear, it was mandatory for every radio station manager on earth to come up with a promotion concept and never think about the details of the promotion until it was too late.

I can't count the number of times the promotion would be an hour away and the station manger would be in a compete panic, because he forgotten two dozen important details.

It turns out WKRP In Cincinnati wasn't that far from the truth.

**ptlyon** · 04-22-2019, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Bwana

Oh I hear you on that. I got busy with life and didn't tune in for years. One day I did, expecting it to be the same. I was like, what in the hell is this crap?

I spent a couple of years in Radio doing both on-air and sales, crazy business. There was always some promotion that was going wrong, so I can really relate to those stories.

I swear, it was mandatory for every radio station manager on earth to come up with a promotion concept and never think about the details of the promotion until it was too late.

I can't count the number of times the promotion would be an hour away and the station manger would be in a compete panic, because he forgotten two dozen important details.

It turns out WKRP In Cincinnati wasn't that far from the truth.

Was going to ask if you ever dropped turkeys out of a helicopter

**Bwana** · 04-22-2019, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by ptlyon

Was going to ask if you ever dropped turkeys out of a helicopter

Best episode ever.

04-21-2019, 11:21 PM
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