MTV True Life - I Wanna Be An MTV VJ | Jesse Camp [Partial]

Jesse Camp entered MTV’s first Wanna Be a VJ contest in 1998. Camp beat fellow contestant Dave Holmes for a VJ job on the popular music video show Total Request Live, known as TRL. Holmes was also later hired by MTV. Camp was popular on the channel, with Rolling Stone saying “An unlikely instant star, he was soon adored by preteen fans, who crowded around him devotedly as he paraded through Times Square in feather boas, leather trousers, sparkly Steven Tyler scarves, and mismatched leg-warmers during his wacky man-on-the-street segments for MTV.“ Camp held his position on TRL with Carson Daly as the main host for over a year. Camp also hosted two additional programs of his own for daytime MTV audiences. Camp convinced MTV executives to let him book acts such as Faster Pussycat, Ratt, Sebastian Bach and Dee Snider as guests on his summer series “Lunch with Jesse“ at a time when these artists were years past being in rotation on the channel. For over a year, Jesse hosted the contemporary rock program “MTV Rocks Off“ interviewing artists such as Joey Ramone, Henry Rollins, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Sugar Ray, Garbage, Peter Steele, Silverchair and Metallica. Following his departure from TRL, Camp parlayed his MTV fame into a rock career with his 1999 debut album Jesse & the 8th Street Kidz on the Hollywood Records label. The album was produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Kid Rock) and Julian Raymond (Cheap Trick, Glen Campbell), and specialized in the 1980s style glam metal that fell out of fashion almost a decade before the album’s release. Guest stars on the album included Stevie Nicks duetting with Camp on ballad “My Little Saviour“, Rick Nielsen, Steve Hunter and Gregg Bissonette. Camp cowrote the album with Alex Kane (Life, Sex and Death, Antiproduct), Bam Bam and Jo Almeida (Dogs D’Amour) and Share Pedersen (Vixen, Bubble). The album sold 2,600 copies in its opening week.