I saw this as a kid with my dad, and I was like, “Jeez, imagine having a teacher like that.” He was like, "Imagine having a student like that.” I was like, “What's wrong with the student?”
There were guys like Bobby in my high school band class. It was rock or nothing. Thus they could never get drunk, where the rest of us who liked multiple genres could.
Something made you think of this skit recently too, eh? Earlier today, I was thinking, "life's a pretty sweet fruit!!" "Ah, who am I kiddin'? 13 bucks a month nearly *killed* me..." Go watch that one 😉
"If Rock and Roll doesn't reinvent itself, then it probably deserves to die." - Gene Simmons. I'm not much of a Kiss fan, but I actually agree with that quote.
Same here, but doses instead of shrooms. Crazy, seen them come and perform live as well, 1994 was the year of that I believe. But I was a little younger than 18!
I like to think that Dave Foley's Mr Gorgenchuck character is actually the mystery serial mass murder in the Life as a Mass Murderer, and Substitute Axe sketches.
Now that you say That? I can kinda see that. But? Sametime? He out and public so much about it? The mass murder. People won't say anything. You know chop chop
@@kazumahazeuzumaki and every 20, 30y-50y it comes back. Probably du to generationnal overlap and how kids immitate teens and teen imitate adults 30y + . Good stuff prevail by definition tho.. its going to be interesting times soon we already see 70s 80s 90s nostalgia in full force . Im gussing 1920 30 style is going to come back a bit like it did a bit with amy winehouse and lady gaga. (You know jetson space race like era after that..)
@@jessejamesainger3263 you are out of line there. Black Sabbath, one of Black Sabbath's best songs, is the opening track on their best album, Black Sabbath.
@@abraxasjinx5207 That is also absurd, even though the music is far superior. A self titled debut is fine, but naming a song after your band is idiotic. Imagine how stupid it would sound if Led Zeppelin had a song called Led Zeppelin.
People don't even realize the extent to which Jazz influenced Rock.Maybe not the dixieland or swing stuff, but you can definitely hear Coltrane in a lot of bands that came after.
Though every music is dying, all there is now are bpm formulas and discrete sound effects. At least there was some good alt&prog rock into 00s, good jazz died earlier
Somewhat accurate. Rock lasted more than 3 years which would have been the mid-90s. And it was much more Hip Hop that led to Rock becoming increasingly passe boomer music than International music ever did. If this sketch had played in the mid-2010s instead of the mid-90s, and cited artists like Jay Z instead of the pogues, yeah, it would have been dead on. As it stands, it was a great harbinger of things to come.
@@psisis7423 Serious music fans get into Jazz. It's not huge, but the cream of the crop tend to be it's fan base. And there's different era's to choose from. Give me The Bill Evans Trio- Sunday At The Village Vanguard , A Kind Of Blue from Miles Davis, or Jaco Pastorius any day.
@@mikewilson3581 I see you're into classic jazz. I like Kind of Blue too and at the extent Art Blakey and Freddie Hubbard. I enjoy more freer jazz, Miles's late 60s-70s and Mingus, some Hancock. But still, if you ask someone what jazz is today, they'll point you to either big band singing or computer generated music, which feels alienating.
@@psisis7423 Right. The thing is about Jazz is it's an escape from the mediocrity most folks wallow in musically these days. People can't say your favorites are rubbish because they don't know anything about your choices in the first place. I actually got into it in my 40's after picking up a Chet Baker compilation. His voice blew me away. Coltrane and God, Brubeck fighting racism with his music, and Jaco giving the bass the respect it deserves. I still love that footage of Hancock hitting a bum note and Miles giving him "The Look".
I knew guys like Bobby in high school. The easiest way to piss them off was to play a parody of, "Stairway to Heaven," (best one had the lyrics to, "Gilligan's Island," on it). "Dude, you can't mess with Stairway! That's sacrilegious!" I think you mean, "Sacri-licious!' * turns volume up *
Haven't seen this in 30 years but I'll never forget it, because at the time I was an oddball teen getting into rock from the 70's and I was really into Bad Company. It was cool to hear a reference to them in a skit.
@@knuteboy3778 Holy shit, you're right. I raced home every day after elementary school to watch KitH. I never realized the pilot aired before I was 1 year old. My apologies.
@@JustOneAsbesto Yeah no problem. I did look up the year before i posted the original comment because I couldn't quite remember what year it was..lol. I knew it was early in their run.
This character Bobby reminds me a bit of Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar. Same generational trends. There were a lot of dudes like that then and now they’re just all metal heads. Or posers who dress like them.
We had guys like Bobby in band class, not sure why - the most modern songs we performed were Conga by Gloria Estefan and All I Need Is a Miracle by Mike and the Mechanics, and our biggest crowd-pleaser for the parents in the bleachers during basketball games was the Dallas theme song. Maybe because in between sets, they liked playing tapes on the band room's admittedly bad-ass stereo set-up. I made them hate me when I put in a tape, and Stairway to Heaven started playing, which got them excited, but it was a parody with the words to Gilligan's Island replacing the lyrics. The Bobbys declared that sacrilegious.
Dave is right, if you nurse rock long enough your musical tastes can branch out. I've come to like some blues and folk because of rock. But I still like rock all the way.
WOW, that information from the 80s turned out too be right!! Rock has basically died, when you look at most of today's popular music! Sad!!!! Not many bands rock out like they used too.
What makes this funny is I think of this as a person looking back at how you were before sort of Like when I watched this I still were alarmed at how my buddies were starting to love Country music it was sort of like Invasion of the Bodie Snatchers tell they all did then you one day wake up and listen to the Music you hate that that jerk said you would I do like jazz at the time so I was sort of happy knowing Rock will give way to what ever maybe jazz maybe country but the music of boomers seen to go on forever
Here's an example of Jazz influence in Metal: Original Megadeth members Chris Poland (lead guitar) and Gar Samuelson (drums) were jazz musicians before joining Megadeth. Listen to the albums they were on (which were the first 2, "Killing is My Business...and Business is Good" and "Peace Sells...But Who's Buying"). Some of those time shifts and arrangements, also heard in other metal and progressive rock, have some jazz roots (and blues), whether they know it or not.
Some of best acts of the past and today's music both popular and alternative come from canada, Arcade Fire, Our Lady Peace, Alanis Morissette, and Bare Naked Ladies to name a few. I'll also add that as a country, we apologize for nickleback, they didn't always suck.
I don't know; I teach music to 6-8th graders, and recently one of my 6th graders was telling all about the Slipknot concert he went to last year; a couple weeks later he asked if he could play Zombie by The Cranberries as a violin solo. And most of my 7th and 8th graders were excited when I got out Don't Stop Believin' by Journey for them to play at our next concert.
@@guccideltaco Though Don't Stop Believin' is more known as a meme than anything else. Similarly Zombie got a resurgence when Delores died. But kids listening to rock outside of songs which had a resurgence on social media is getting increasingly rare.
You see the problem is the rap music. All these kids with the hipin' and the hopin' and the bipin' and the bopin', Soooo they don't know what the Jazz is all about you see...
Jazz is fantastic. But rock isn't dead, it just needed some new lifeblood from some different voices. I've got the new album from The Warning on pre-order, and bands like Band-Maid are making new fans all the time. Babymetal is a global phenomenon, and Rolling Quartz are doing great out of South Korea.
@cookmoore= I loved him in the Beverly Hillbillies. Rock and roll isn't dead. The dignity of MTV is. I remember when MTV started fgoing down the toilet. I started playing techno and "gulp" country music on my radio.
On the road to rock and roll there's a lot of wreckage in the ravine some you'll recognize used to hang out on the scene Joe Strummer Road To Rock And Roll (it's a lament)
I got to spend alot of time with Joe Strummer, and when I asked him about this song, knowing that he wrote it for Johnny Cash, he said that after it was recorded he went down to the studio where Johnny was recording with Rick Ruben, to show them his new song, and they weren't there! He spent three days on the sidewalk. Poor Joe.
When this KITH came out, rock WAS becoming a sad, tired thing that couldn't digest solid food and talked to itself on the bus. It was all Hair Metal and Pop/Dance. Then, Sub Pop/Seattle happened.
Mr Gorgenchuck could have never forseen Bobby destroying the devil in a guitar-off.
Mr. Gorgenchuck WORKS for the devil!
And the devil won.
Rock IS dead now!
"Jazz...Never!" I once said that very line in my youth, and now I am a jazz cat.
I saw this as a kid with my dad, and I was like, “Jeez, imagine having a teacher like that.” He was like, "Imagine having a student like that.” I was like, “What's wrong with the student?”
Poor kid!
The ignorance
Great father and son bonding moment.
"I have that album!"
"Of course you do, Bob..."
Bruce McCullough always had great facial expressions in his sketches.
I Bruce and the way he can get sincere about anything. It's that over the top intensity that makes him so funny.
There were guys like Bobby in my high school band class. It was rock or nothing. Thus they could never get drunk, where the rest of us who liked multiple genres could.
Rock rock rock rock
This held up pretty well.
Rock has been dying for a long time.
Something made you think of this skit recently too, eh?
Earlier today, I was thinking, "life's a pretty sweet fruit!!"
"Ah, who am I kiddin'? 13 bucks a month nearly *killed* me..."
Go watch that one 😉
@@keithklassen5320 Been dead.
If only jazz were popular...
@@nromk check out Tom misch, the Internet, and moon child man jazz is definitely popular
"If Rock and Roll doesn't reinvent itself, then it probably deserves to die."
- Gene Simmons.
I'm not much of a Kiss fan, but I actually agree with that quote.
All these years -- I didn't know Dave was a flute player!! Awesome!!
And a tap dancer!
"But I'll never get drunk on one beer!"
exactly Ryan
He mentions the Pogues haha awesome
Dave saying "12 beer" and "4 beer" is such a weird little detail, and that's why I love Kids in the Hall.
But
... Why he didn't said it in plural? 12 beers /4 beers
Beer refers to singular units (cans, bottles) or uncountable substance. He contracted the “bottles of”. Must be a hoserism.
Well if ya got the flute, you can meet halfway with Jethro Tull, Lol
Jethro Tull won Best heavy metal alum in 1990 beating Metalica
eF u
And loved Jethro Tull. 👍😉
I was 18 when they started in 89. I miss those late night showings on CBC tripping on shrooms with some buddy's
You are me
Me too....same age....but alcohol instead of 'shrooms....and yes "hair metal" still does suck.
Same here, but doses instead of shrooms. Crazy, seen them come and perform live as well, 1994 was the year of that I believe. But I was a little younger than 18!
Totally man!
But you'll *never* get drunk on one beer!
A cow at the top of the food chain
I like to think that Dave Foley's Mr Gorgenchuck character is actually the mystery serial mass murder in the Life as a Mass Murderer, and Substitute Axe sketches.
Now that you say That? I can kinda see that. But? Sametime? He out and public so much about it? The mass murder. People won't say anything. You know chop chop
Love this sketch. Plus, Bruce's "Choose Hell" shirt is gnarly.
I was really surprised that bob could figure out that 12 beer (-) minus 6 beer (-) minus 4 beer (-) minus 1 beer, leaves 1 beer remaining.
i couldn't even figure it out
Beer math. Just gotta keep it relatable
He put it in terms he could understand
I went to a Beach Boys concert a few years ago, and it was awesome :)
Because you didn't know they weren't the originals?
And so it came to pass that rock 'n' roll did not die ... it just got really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really old.
Really.
Then you sir, are my nemesis!
Well, this sketch turned out to me tragically prophetic...
It's almost like change is the only constant.
I lives in Norway!!
yeah i like jazz now wtf happened to me
@@kazumahazeuzumaki and every 20, 30y-50y it comes back. Probably du to generationnal overlap and how kids immitate teens and teen imitate adults 30y + . Good stuff prevail by definition tho.. its going to be interesting times soon we already see 70s 80s 90s nostalgia in full force . Im gussing 1920 30 style is going to come back a bit like it did a bit with amy winehouse and lady gaga. (You know jetson space race like era after that..)
As a jazz flutist and huge fan of Ladysmith... I adore this.
Then you, are my nemesis!!!!
And yet Rock has lived on, despite Bad Company.
Did it though? I mean, I can't quite tell through ALL THIS JAZZ....
I still can't understand the concept of calling your band name, first album and first single by the same name. It is absurd and seems like a joke.
@@jessejamesainger3263 you are out of line there. Black Sabbath, one of Black Sabbath's best songs, is the opening track on their best album, Black Sabbath.
Despite?! You're crazy!
@@abraxasjinx5207 That is also absurd, even though the music is far superior. A self titled debut is fine, but naming a song after your band is idiotic. Imagine how stupid it would sound if Led Zeppelin had a song called Led Zeppelin.
He was so right. Sad but true.
I always lose it when Dave responds condescendengly and arching his brows: "alright!".
then i'll live each day like my rockin' last !
This is one of my favorite KITH sketches EVER! And it's relevant about today's pop music, too.
"Long live rock.....be it dead or alive!"
Best sketch ever.
People don't even realize the extent to which Jazz influenced Rock.Maybe not the dixieland or swing stuff, but you can definitely hear Coltrane in a lot of bands that came after.
Agree. Espically the blues and many others. Also jazz and tap dancing and you can story tell jazz,etc with jazz.
Blues dude. Blues.
This show was pure genius
Is it strange that in this modern time this sketch is pretty accurate?
It was pretty accurate back when it was made, too.
He was so right. Though I mostly blame napster since after that what people actually would pay for was basically irrelevant.
Though every music is dying, all there is now are bpm formulas and discrete sound effects. At least there was some good alt&prog rock into 00s, good jazz died earlier
Somewhat accurate. Rock lasted more than 3 years which would have been the mid-90s. And it was much more Hip Hop that led to Rock becoming increasingly passe boomer music than International music ever did.
If this sketch had played in the mid-2010s instead of the mid-90s, and cited artists like Jay Z instead of the pogues, yeah, it would have been dead on. As it stands, it was a great harbinger of things to come.
The video I fell for Foley's sass and charm.
I started puberty minutes after watching my first Kids in the Hall show.
i love rock. and i love jazz flute
Young me vs Old me
This is only true with Corporate 'Music'. Long live Napalm Records!!!
Thank you so much for posting it! One of my all-time fave KOTH bits. Seeing them tonight, too!
he speaks from the heart, jazz is better than 99.9% of music today
Yep. I'll stack up Miles Davis's accomplishments against what's out there today musically. And Bill Evans or Jaco Pastorius are for anyone with taste.
@@mikewilson3581 Just sad jazz died so soon. Can't believe how people pass digital lounge techno tunes as jazz.
@@psisis7423 Serious music fans get into Jazz. It's not huge, but the cream of the crop tend to be it's fan base. And there's different era's to choose from. Give me The Bill Evans Trio- Sunday At The Village Vanguard , A Kind Of Blue from Miles Davis, or Jaco Pastorius any day.
@@mikewilson3581 I see you're into classic jazz. I like Kind of Blue too and at the extent Art Blakey and Freddie Hubbard. I enjoy more freer jazz, Miles's late 60s-70s and Mingus, some Hancock.
But still, if you ask someone what jazz is today, they'll point you to either big band singing or computer generated music, which feels alienating.
@@psisis7423 Right. The thing is about Jazz is it's an escape from the mediocrity most folks wallow in musically these days. People can't say your favorites are rubbish because they don't know anything about your choices in the first place. I actually got into it in my 40's after picking up a Chet Baker compilation. His voice blew me away. Coltrane and God, Brubeck fighting racism with his music, and Jaco giving the bass the respect it deserves. I still love that footage of Hancock hitting a bum note and Miles giving him "The Look".
I just bought a Choose Hell t-shirt for my Halloween costume as Old Man Bobby
WHAT? THey did this in the 90's during the Grunge era yet they were right that Rock was dying! PROPHETS!!!
I knew guys like Bobby in high school. The easiest way to piss them off was to play a parody of, "Stairway to Heaven," (best one had the lyrics to, "Gilligan's Island," on it). "Dude, you can't mess with Stairway! That's sacrilegious!" I think you mean, "Sacri-licious!' * turns volume up *
Mr Gorgenchuck is a jazz maverick! #themightyboosh
Haven't seen this in 30 years but I'll never forget it, because at the time I was an oddball teen getting into rock from the 70's and I was really into Bad Company. It was cool to hear a reference to them in a skit.
This sketch isn't even 30 years old NOW, 2 years after your comment.
@@JustOneAsbesto 2023-1990 = 33 years
@@knuteboy3778 Holy shit, you're right. I raced home every day after elementary school to watch KitH.
I never realized the pilot aired before I was 1 year old. My apologies.
@@JustOneAsbesto Yeah no problem. I did look up the year before i posted the original comment because I couldn't quite remember what year it was..lol. I knew it was early in their run.
Best sketch comedy show ever.
This was the very first sketch comedy character I ever looked at with a shock of recognition.
Boy did he nail the Beach Boys but good. LMAO @ jazz sounding a lot like Jethro Tull the way teacher plays it.
yeah, I noticed the same. Definitely more folk than Jazz.
This character Bobby reminds me a bit of Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar. Same generational trends. There were a lot of dudes like that then and now they’re just all metal heads. Or posers who dress like them.
Then you, sir, are my nemesis!
NOOOOOOOO!
1974?...And that's why the Punk Revolution took over. Followed by the post-punk/Indie era.
I will never get drunk on one beer.
Exactly bob. Lol great stuff.
I just looked up the Billboard top 100 after Kids in the Hall went off air. Mr. Gorgenchuck was right. Rock died in 5 years.
I still rock, so what if it's not the most popular any more?. There's still good rock music coming out all the time.
Those Jeans!
I love this!!
We had guys like Bobby in band class, not sure why - the most modern songs we performed were Conga by Gloria Estefan and All I Need Is a Miracle by Mike and the Mechanics, and our biggest crowd-pleaser for the parents in the bleachers during basketball games was the Dallas theme song. Maybe because in between sets, they liked playing tapes on the band room's admittedly bad-ass stereo set-up. I made them hate me when I put in a tape, and Stairway to Heaven started playing, which got them excited, but it was a parody with the words to Gilligan's Island replacing the lyrics.
The Bobbys declared that sacrilegious.
Dave is right, if you nurse rock long enough your musical tastes can branch out. I've come to like some blues and folk because of rock. But I still like rock all the way.
What's that sketch where they're encouraging a rock star to die just for record sales?
He nailed it. Rock died in the mid 90’s
Lol...try listening to more music. Try not america and not England.
hahaha! love this one! Thnx, I want to see the Laura skit with Bruce as this character
WOW, that information from the 80s turned out too be right!! Rock has basically died, when you look at most of today's popular music! Sad!!!! Not many bands rock out like they used too.
Quit looking at pop music and you'll find better music, it's out there you just have to make an effort to find it.
That true. But there some good modern ones. Steel panther and ninja sex party,Brandon Yates,therewolfmedia,etc. Only ones I can think of
@@insectwarriorjojo7780 you are right, their are some good rocking bands around, it’s just not very common to hear them on the radio.
Can't a guy like jazz and rock?
Yes, especially if you're Neil Peart!
No. It is impossible to like jazz. So, no.
Why sure, Bobby; we call those bass players.
If you don't believe me take a look at the one you're with!
Genius Straight forward comedy Bet they rehearsed the shit out of that one ✌️🇨🇦❤️
Christ I miss these guys...
What makes this funny is I think of this as a person looking back at how you were before sort of
Like when I watched this I still were alarmed at how my buddies were starting to love Country music it was sort of like Invasion of the Bodie Snatchers tell they all did then you one day wake up and listen to the Music you hate that that jerk said you would I do like jazz at the time so I was sort of happy knowing Rock will give way to what ever maybe jazz maybe country but the music of boomers seen to go on forever
LOL i went from liking rock as a stupid teen to liking jazz and other ethnic music
Here's an example of Jazz influence in Metal:
Original Megadeth members Chris Poland (lead guitar) and Gar Samuelson (drums) were jazz musicians before joining Megadeth. Listen to the albums they were on (which were the first 2, "Killing is My Business...and Business is Good" and "Peace Sells...But Who's Buying").
Some of those time shifts and arrangements, also heard in other metal and progressive rock, have some jazz roots (and blues), whether they know it or not.
Some of best acts of the past and today's music both popular and alternative come from canada, Arcade Fire, Our Lady Peace, Alanis Morissette, and Bare Naked Ladies to name a few. I'll also add that as a country, we apologize for nickleback, they didn't always suck.
The real 'School of Rock'.
They didn't realize how correct they were with this skit. Here we are in 2019 and nobody in the younger generations listens to rock.
I don't know; I teach music to 6-8th graders, and recently one of my 6th graders was telling all about the Slipknot concert he went to last year; a couple weeks later he asked if he could play Zombie by The Cranberries as a violin solo. And most of my 7th and 8th graders were excited when I got out Don't Stop Believin' by Journey for them to play at our next concert.
@@guccideltaco Though Don't Stop Believin' is more known as a meme than anything else. Similarly Zombie got a resurgence when Delores died. But kids listening to rock outside of songs which had a resurgence on social media is getting increasingly rare.
This convo will happen with every generation 😂
I'm in the garage!
Amazing
Of course you do, Bob.
then you sir, are my nemesis, lmfao. haha, like rock would ever die.
I wanted Jazz to live.
You see the problem is the rap music. All these kids with the hipin' and the hopin' and the bipin' and the bopin', Soooo they don't know what the Jazz is all about you see...
I love how many musical "experts" there are on TH-cam.
Haha......
@DasGoldenBoy We just so happen to have greats such as Rush, April Wine, Kim Mitchell, and Neil Young too!
Dave was really playing that flute!
Fuck yes! " How long is.... rock.... god?" I say this whenever possible! Lolol
does anyone know if Bruce's "Jazz Shmazz" thing is on youtube? Used to be, but I can't find it now. Pls, pls upload it, if you've got it!!
DOPE SHIRT
RIP Rock (1944-2000)
The origin of jazz flute.
The funniest thing about this sketch is that he wasn't wrong...
I like the Jethro Tull Jab in there at the end.
R.A.M.O.N.E.S. Gabba Gabba Hey!
Gabba Gabba hey!
Incorrect jethro tull can make a jazz flute a weapon of rock😎🔥
So true!
This is my favorite KITH sketch.
Jazz is fantastic. But rock isn't dead, it just needed some new lifeblood from some different voices. I've got the new album from The Warning on pre-order, and bands like Band-Maid are making new fans all the time. Babymetal is a global phenomenon, and Rolling Quartz are doing great out of South Korea.
@cookmoore= I loved him in the Beverly Hillbillies. Rock and roll isn't dead. The dignity of MTV is. I remember when MTV started fgoing down the toilet. I started playing techno and "gulp" country music on my radio.
Why not jazz? That's the birth of rock and roll
Watching this in 2024 lmao
On the road to rock and roll
there's a lot of wreckage in the ravine
some you'll recognize
used to hang out on the scene
Joe Strummer
Road To Rock And Roll
(it's a lament)
I got to spend alot of time with Joe Strummer, and when I asked him about this song, knowing that he wrote it for Johnny Cash, he said that after it was recorded he went down to the studio where Johnny was recording with Rick Ruben, to show them his new song, and they weren't there! He spent three days on the sidewalk. Poor Joe.
When this KITH came out, rock WAS becoming a sad, tired thing that couldn't digest solid food and talked to itself on the bus. It was all Hair Metal and Pop/Dance.
Then, Sub Pop/Seattle happened.
Nemesis? No, I am your future.
Fucking brilliant