The Real Unknown Comic- Murray Langston

Murray Langston owned a popular comedy club that all the stars would appear at and the club went bankrupt.  So someone suggested that Murray go on the Gong Show to make a quick amount of money.  But he didn't really have an act.  So he decided to put a bag over his head so that people wouldn't know it was him, and got onstage and started insulting Chuck Barris with some one liners and people loved him.
He became an overnight success.  He was hired in LasVegas for 15K a week and still didn't have an act.  So he hired a band and called them the Brown Baggers and had some girls that danced called the Baggettes.  They would play for a half hour, then Murray would come out an do a few minutes of one liners and just kept building his repertoire of jokes. Eventually he had enough material to finally take his show on the road.

Murray was headlining at Seekers Comedy Club in Scottsdale when I first shot him for my TV show.  The second time he appeared he was headlining at Knuckleheads in Phoenix, AZ.  He has always been one of my favorite comedians.

Interview with the Unknown Comic
Murray Langston - the Unknown Comic - Unbagged
My Interview with the Unknown Comic On BS Cactus

Rob Halford on Backstage Pass in Arizona

Rob Halford 1985 Interview 

The first time Rob Halford(lead singer of Judas Priest) came to be interviewed for Backstage Pass, he was hanging out with the band Surgical Steel.  They were trying to get a record deal and had just finished a movie, Thunder Alley.  When I found out that he was in the studio I asked if we could get an interview. Since my co-host, Cindi Garrett, knew all there was to know about Judas Priest, she was the logical choice to do the interview.

Years later Jim Keeler and Rob Halford were in publishing business together-a weekly entertainment magazine called Where It's Hot.  They came down to the studio to do a commercial and interview to promote their project and this was the next time Rob was on Backstage Pass in Arizona.  This was shortly after he had appeared in congress to refute the claims that heavy metal was a bad influence on the youth because of their lyrics.  

Classic Rob Halford Interview With Surgical Steel 

   Classic Rob Halford- Interview In Depth

If you like heavy metal music, Sugical Steel, and Judas Priest, I think you will enjoy the videos that I have of posted on YouTube.  Please check out the links below.
Arizona Heavy Metal Gods 1980's
Surgical Steel-Two Songs-Classic Arizona Metal
Surgical Steel-Heavy Metal Music
Surgical Steel - The Basement Tapes
Surgical Steel
Rob Halford (Judas Priest) Commercials

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