1992 ABC STUDIOS, vic, australia
Source:
TV broadcast > VHS/M > DVD-R/MAudio:
Quality:Video: A
TV system: PAL
Aspect Ratio: 720x576 (4:3)
Bitrate (average): 6976 kb/s VBR
Audio: A
Audio Coding mode: AC3
Sampling Rate: 48kHz
Bitrate: 192 kb/s
Duration: 50min 00sec
Notes:
Thanks to Dion for sending me his VHS to copy to DVD.Interesting audience-discussion program called Couchman Over Australia in which broadcast journalist Peter Couchman discusses the effects that heavy metal music has on its listeners.
It includes audience discussion (featuring Andrew Haug), a segment on a kid who shot himself listening to Slayer (but didn't kill himself - not a good look) and a live performance by Melbourne band Necrotomy.
Also on the DVD is the 'founder' of a made-up movement called Young People Against Heavy Metal T-Shirts (YPAHMTS). The following excerpt is taken from here.
The YPAHMTS campaign prompted the ABC to ask whether heavy metal culture should be blamed for youth suicide, drug abuse, violence, dysfunctional relationships, academic failure, and so on. Defensive band members argued with scientists - one old chap claiming that certain experiments carried out in Berlin some years ago proved that extended exposure to loud, low frequency noise, causes serious brain disorder. I felt the topic itself was quite dysfunctional - and after using antigrammar to prove that the poet Keats was a metal head, I turned the YPAHMTS assault on Couchman himself.The YPAHMTS guy is the one featured in the fourth screenshot below.
"The problem with these people," I said, pointing to the pissed off rows of metal heads, "is that they feel they need to wear a uniform to be credible. It's the same with TV show hosts like yourself. Why do you need to wear a suit to be credible as a TV show host?"
"That's a good question," replied a rather taken aback Peter Couchman.
"Well, why?"
"That's a very good question." The show ended shortly afterwards.
