Miles Davis / VH1 1987

Click HERE to see a rare, and damn good, clip of Miles Davis from the early days of VH1, long before it turned into a receptacle for utterly ridiculous reality shows. Nevertheless, VH1 was once cool. Here is the proof.

I wasn’t able to embed the clip, sorry, but for sure check it out.

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