Morton Downey Jr. Show Metal Episode 2 JJ French Great Kat 

I'm a 52 year old man who lived through the 80s as a metal fan. It didn''t corrupt me. On the contrary, it helped me. I now work with and help young adults with challenging behaviour. HEAVY METAL LIVES!!

The fact that he is smoking cigarettes on tv shows you how different the times were

Those PMRC warning labels were probably responsible for selling more albums than any advertising campaign that the record company could come up with .

the nostalgia is strong with this one..... oh how i miss the 80's and early 90's

Wow, I remember this. 1989 I was 13, I’m still a metal fan. Shows like this wouldn’t exist today.

I'm 52 and am still a metal head and a musician. I remember clearly this time in my life and I'm grateful that I lived through that time. Metal saved me and still continues to keep me alive. I am an accomplished guitar player and songwriter and played in death metal band for the last ten years and a former resident of the bay area where i was born and raised. I turned out just fine

All I know is that Crazy Eddie had some straight up Deals 🤣

What an innocent time. People booing Metallica because the cover looks violent; today kids are like "dad metal"

And JJ donated an autographed guitar to a charity event for hospitalized children that I organized. Went to his apartment to pick it up. One of the good guys.

Metal changed my life.... specifically Metallica...when I first heard Metallica I was blown away. Metal heads are the nicest people you'll ever meet

Little did they know that those advisory stickers would essentially become one of the best marketing tools of the 90's

two eggs, two bacon, two pancakes for $2.16, i'm in, like when my grandparents would tell me they used to buy a soda for $0.05

The Great Kat- she used to rehearse at the same studio Dream Theater did, and as a teenager I used to hang out there and listen to them both practice. And she's perfectly represented here- her head pops off the pillow with that insane energy, still- and she was always straight edge- no drinking no drugs, just natural mania. She came into a guitar store I was working at a few years back and I knew from the second she walked in that that was her- 'CAN SOMEONE HELP ME?!?!', 'NO, YOU SUCK, GET SOMEONE ELSE OVER HERE!!!', 'NO HE SUCKS TOO, IS THERE ANYONE HERE WHO DOESN'T SUCK??!?' What made it even better was I was the only one there who knew who she was, everyone else was getting pissed, I was like Nah, don't toss her, this is who she always was. I played them some of her songs and one of the guys was like This music is like a nervous breakdown, I said Yep, now you understand her.

Nikki Six said it best when he heard about the label. "I love it, put it on ours. It will guarantee sales!"

Love that the commercial breaks were not edited out by the original poster.

Thank you for keeping the commercials! It makes it more nostalgic.

Can u imagine if a song like WAP was around back then?? Music nowadays has reached the bottom of the sewer.

Those commercials we awesome. Added bonus for watching. The good old days before all this Internet b.s. & drama.

I really love the commercials left in. Takes me back to an epic childhood.

I'll be 53 this year I grew up with this generation. In my honest opinion most of 80s metalheads turned out to be the best well adjusted people

I was a kid when the PMRC started putting their tags on all the tapes and albums . We would seek those out specifically thanks for showing us where all the good jams were .

23:27 "you're chain smoking in my face and you're gonna get cancer." In June 1996, Downey was diagnosed with lung cancer and had to have a lung removed. He died from the disease on March 12th, 2001.

The best TV talk show in America in that time. And it beats every old TV network that has a late night talk show host today, and I mean CBS, NBC, ABC!

As a 58 yr old man and lived thru all of this, for JJ to sit there and actually say that he's never seen drugs or alcohol and metal bands were nothing but professional is a total croc of 💩

24:38 "You're chain smoking in my face and YOU'RE GOING TO GET CANCER". Downey did indeed die of lung cancer. She was a witch! lol

Saw this wave it fist suited. I'm proud to say... Ozzy and all the 80s bands/music kept me ALIVE. guitar kept me alive. We musicians are quirky. We know we're outcasts. I must have listened to Ozzys "speak of the devil" million times. Never thought about shooting up high schools or killing myself! We had real friends back then.

I started listening to Twisted Sister when I was 7 or 8. I lived a childhood of unrelenting abuse. I never smoked a day in my life. I didn't drink & I've never done drugs. If anything, heavy metal saved my life. Twisted Sister particularly because of their music and lyrics. I first had suicidal ideation at 12 years old due to what I was going through and one night when I was considering it, I just so happened to be listening to TS and I had a change of heart. As much emotional and physical pain as I was in; I made myself a promise... That anytime I felt this way, I'd listen to Twisted, and each time, they got me through it. (To this day!) I'm alive today because of them, so to hell with anyone that thinks otherwise! I grew up watching Tom & Jerry and Elmer Fudd, that was constant maiming! I've never held a gun a day in my life. I've never abused animals; I've rescued and adopted them, loved and cared for them. Jay Jay is right in essentially saying you fear what you don't understand, and the pmrc made no effort to ever understand. Heavy metal saves more lives than anything else.

what I like about this is the audience. you can hear them cheer and boo and they do not stand down. I think people had more spirit back then and were not afraid. the culture was just different. these people had spirit and I love it. i want this guy to come back. this show is hardcore.

Metal changed my life for the better . I would Lift Weights and excercise to Rock and Roll . It motivated me to become a bad ass .

This is 30 years ago already. I was 19 in 89

Well, I wasn’t a metal head, but today’s music lyrics make the 80’s lyrics sound like Sesame Street!

I’m 53 and was a metal head. Still kind of am. Now that I’m older the pmrc seems more reasonable. They just wanted parents aware of what kids are listening to. Not banning.

Megadeth gets a shout out on commercial TV..... man, I wish I was alive during those glorious days

Crazy Eddie was really insane!! He was selling all those museum quality art from $14 - $39!!

25 Years later and HEAVY METAL is still alive and kicking and the Morton Downey Jr. Show was canceled in 1989. So we out lasted him! And as for the PMRC They were about promoting a political agenda (Al Gore) and not giving a DAMN about helping parents know what their Children where listing to. It was Back in the day I watched the hearings and listened to all the artist say there bit for the public record. In the end the PMRC helped me decide what music to listen too. Every chance I got I would pick the album with the [Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics] sticker on the cover. So did the PMRC help the music to sale better for more profane albums. Hum?? It did in my case. So where is the PMRC today, No really, where is the PMRC? At least I can Thank God, Al Gore did not become President. But then again, what we got was not much better. Long Live Heavy Metal!!

Then came gangster rap. The true downfall of society.

Mort holds the drug that killed him in his hand while talking about "drug free communities"; nice bit of irony.

Morton Downey was great, loved it when he would light up his cig! I was 13/14 loved watching his show late nights . In NY they showed it on channel 9! Best show during that time slot! R.I.P Mr .Downey!

All the PMRC, also known as "the four Karen's of the apocalypse,"did was help with record sales and made artists write lyrics that made sure they would get that sticker on their album. Thanks PMRC you guys rule!

I remember well the “satanic panic” of the 80s. But that music was absolutely charming by comparison to what is being made today. Plus, many of those artists still alive and contributing are themselves upset with where much of the music industry has gone.

How cool is hearing The Great Kat asking people to "Take it easy":-))

Love how he lit up a dart right before addressing the guests like a boss

Creeping Death taught me more about the Passover than I ever learned in church.

PMRC helped make rock and metal even bigger and more popular. I grew up during it all and graduated in 1990 and I loved it and still do

Kat was hilarious. I'm pretty sure she got invited and encouraged to just cause as much mayhem as possible. Classic Kat. She was so fucking cute and she still shredded like a wild beast

In June 1996, Downey was diagnosed with lung cancer while being treated for pneumonia, and had one of his lungs removed.[50] He did a complete about-face on the issue of tobacco use, going from a one-time member of the National Smokers Alliance to a staunch anti-smoking activist.[51] He continued to speak against smoking until his death from lung cancer and pneumonia on March 12, 2001.[

"Home Sweet Home" is a beautiful melodic song by Motley Crue.

Crazy how commercials have changed, the cheesy fun commercials are long gone but Metal will never die , remember Downey on wwor via cable

Oh wow the commercials ugh i feel like I stepped into a time machine so many memories

I love the full on promo of Kat after he booted her out. Lol. Her ability to see right thru him is impressive.

crazy eddie.....where the prices are INSANE! now thats a blast from the past! for ny'ers!

she's classically trained on the violin, she uses that training on the guitar. its not my type of metal, but she is very talented

this was BEFORE Dee Snyder DETROYED tipper gore's council at a congressional hearing.

When TS played Davenport, IA on the Stay Hungry tour. Got to talk to Jay Jay and Mark Mendoza outside after the show. Two of the coolest, down to earth people I've ever had a chance to talk to.

Oh Frank Zappa LOVED the "PMRC."

Used to watch this Friday nites on ABC 7 88-89 I'm 55 now!!

thank you for leaving in the commercials! That is beyond awesome

Haha...I remember his...I would tape it on vhs when I was 13. '87 was a great year for metal

Girl on the ID commercial: "Being popular means not being fake" 😂😂😂

Bust off on your couch now you got Seamans Furniture

these commercials are gold

Death metal fan checking in. That IHOP commercial hits hard AF!

Jennifer Norwood is cute. It's funny how so much of what she is saying back then came true, about how music influences young males and how they act, and especially how they treat women. Only thing is, it turned out not to necessarily be true where rock music was concerned, but definitely for rap music.

This really brings me back. Grew up in Philly and was able to get the great channel 9 from new York as well as channel 5. These were fun stations with fun shows and the commercials were very local. Morton Downey, Howard Stern, etc. Unfortunately, we'll never see this again........

KISS out lasted all of them in the end!!!!!!! God Gave Rock and Roll To You!

I remember this episode, i was 15 and went right out and got the Damien album after hearing that clip. Its a really good album.

Jennifer was intelligent and not judgemental. She held her own. She was right about what media was going to become

I miss the 80s. I remember Kat giving guitar lessons on Lawng Island

Seems more like 1987. The ad for Good Morning Vietnam puts this in the 1987 time frame.

I was a 20 yr old metal head in 1983. I still love heavy metal/hard rock!! What a different, more innocent, world the 80s were!! Wow!!

God Bless whomever posted this with commercials. What a blast from the past. The A team lol...

I remember watching mort & Howard when i was like 9 on upn late night Saturdays... Then USA up all night

I am a Navy veteran and retired Army 1SG. My first concert was Black Sabbath/Master of Reality at about 12 and loved hard rock and metal since that show. I have seen Maiden from Number of the Beast thru Book of Souls and nearly every concert was while I was in the military…concerts all over the world and it never interfered with my career. I was in the advanced electronics field as a Sonar Technician. Maintained a Top Secret clearance as well as full compliance on the Nuclear Weapons Handling Team and the Personal Reliability Program (the same program that the Air Force officers that were in the bunkers). Rivetheads have always taken $hit. Worst thing I have seen degrading metal…in the Decline of Western Civilization II, with the lady making 666 out of 🤘🤘🤘.

This is actually from early 1988, not 1989. Poor Morton Downey Jr, reading the cigarette label at the end, that came back to haunt him.

Mind games. Those labels and this controversy sold a lot of records. If it had the label, you had to have it. The record industry loved this and pretended they didn’t.

"You're gonna get cancer!" Sadly she was right :(

Tipper Gore's book Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society, the bible of the PMRC, is a must read. It's a great look into the hysteria Gore was trying to stir up. My favorite part of the book is a letter from a woman that claimed heavy metal changed her son. As example she sited was that he refused to take the garbage out. No joke.

I'm 54 years old. I grew up listening to Hard Rock and Heavy Metal music. I have never done drugs, I haven't even smoked pot ever. I used to listen to Ozzy Osbourne when I was 11 years old with headphones in my bedroom. I never had the urge to put puppies inside microwave ovens. I used to listen to all those so-called "satanic" bands. It didn't affect me, to the contrary, it helped me through the tough times. If you're messed up, the Happy Birthday song will make you do crazy things regardless.

Holy Crap, that chick at 23:31 said "blow smoke in my face and you're gonna get cancer". And he did. Wild.

little did they know that a little blond headed boy from Aberdeen wa. would put out a little album called ''nevermind''....then they would all be out of business anyway.

I own and love Kill Em All and Peace Sells. Two must have metal albums.

I bought my music by the name and album cover art. I love Metal. I always will. Wait what were we talking about .

this makes me feel better....people were stupid back in the 80's ....I thought it was a recent dilemma

I remember watching this live.

No drug use? I have to call BULLSHIT on that one.

Wow... @57:04 Just 8 years after this episode aired, Morton was diagnosed with lung cancer and had one lung removed. He became an anti-smoking activist for the last five years of his life, passing away in 2001.

wow... the commercials really took me back.

Long live Morton Downey Jr 😂😊🎉🎉🎉🎉

WHAT A CIRCUS!!!! LOVE IT

nikki sixx said when they put the parental advisory on all their albums their album sales quadrupled

Kat is real as fuck.

I remember EVERY commercial! I grew up in Hudson County in NJ, right by WWOR. LOL!!!

Music is and has been one of the things that drives this country good or bad it's just the way it is and there shouldn't be anyone controlling it it just needs to be left to be period!! 💯💯💯+10

Love the commercials. Grew up in North jersey.

The commercials were better back then.

I am 55 year old fuck I listen to Heavy Metal death metal rock n roll punk rock I used to blaze the great music I put the speakers up all around me and turn it up very loud I did the mosh pits jumped off the stage stage dive that is and it never corrupted me I am perfectly fine I love it hard music rules it fucking rules 🔥🤘😖🤘🔥

Thanks just for putting this shit on, I was too young to really appreciate and stay awake for but smart enough to understand who this guy was and what he was trying to do...

I'm orginally from north Jersey, and I actually remember these commercials when they originally aired. Makes me feel old. lol

Um, I'd rather a kid listen to metal than mainstream anything... Our Disney sweetheart of this generation frolicks naked with with strap-ons... And I don't even have to mention the message of control by violence that permeates rap music these days... The scum of the earth is endlessly glorified...

JJ French wearing a “ Johnny lives dangerously“ t-shirt. That’s an old cable show from Manhattan New York City, I was on it with him back in the 90s!