When I was little my dad owned an ad agency (in a small town) and we used to do little bumps between local news segments or as they went out to commercial. I was in several of those as the happy little kid with a red wagon or lemonade stand or whatever. Some of the bumps were incidental shots; others were completely staged.
As an adult, I've been on Good Morning Memphis and another morning news show in Memphis that I can't remember the name of. Both performing with my band. Let me tell you a 4AM load-out getting ready to hit the stage at 7AM ready to sing is not my favorite thing to do. They said they'd server breakfast. They didn't tell us that they'd also be feeding around 100 homeless people they use as the audience for the show. That wasn't so bad ... I know a couple of the homeless around town. What was bad was the food ... left over <a href="http://www.krystal.com/" target=_blank>Krystal</a> chicks and biscuits. The reporters and staff for the station got catered breakfast from someplace. Classy.
Good Morning Memphis got great wacky shots of the singer and bass player; but for some reason they focused on my left hand and the drummers kick pedal. What kind of director decides to devote 20 seconds of air time to a keyboard players left hand and a drummers kick pedal? Oh well, at least it's air time. My favorite part though was when one of the anchors "interviewed" the band. We had to submit short questions with answers that they could ask us. Yep ... we did our own interview (which is not too unusual). However, she strayed from the questionnaire anyway. She asked if we considered ourselves metal. The singer just sort of laughed at the camera and said we were not in any way metal ... but we could play some if they wanted. (Some of you guys have heard us ... we're not metal). The second morning show was pretty much the same.
I was interviewed a couple of months or so ago about my daughter's day care. It's a Spanish Immersion program. All of the teachers are from Spanish speaking countries. I think it's probably the best thing ever for a kid. That's pretty much the entire interview.
Other than that, I've been in various other bands at events covered by local news. At the one shot at Graceland you can see my back with a "My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult" T-shirt. The next week there was a memo about a dress code for performers at Graceland. It's all my fault ...