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01-18-2011, 11:25 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | Don Kirshner RIP
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Man, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert was a great show back in the day! 
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01-18-2011, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese  | Yeah, it was! I used to watch it every Friday night when it was on. RIP, Mr. Kirshner, and thanks! |
01-18-2011, 11:48 AM
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01-18-2011, 11:48 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Kenosha, WI 53140 | | | At the time, there was no MTV or VH1 or any of that crap. Don Kirshner's Rock Concert was the Best out there!!
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01-18-2011, 11:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Lake Charles, La. | | | Saw some great groups on his show. RIP, Don.
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01-18-2011, 12:23 PM
|  | layin' it down like pavement | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North Kingstown, Rhode Island | | Yes, I too, spent many Friday nights in a "slightly" altered state watching Don Kirshner's Rock Concerts. Used to run the headphone output from my TV to my receiver and get half-way decent sound. R.I.P Don....  )-(
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01-18-2011, 12:26 PM
| | layin' it down like pavement | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North Kingstown, Rhode Island | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MIJ-VI | Wow....I checked out that link and there was a VERY impressive list of performers on that show. )-(
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01-18-2011, 12:26 PM
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01-18-2011, 12:42 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Can't say I remember anything about the guy. However, has someone replaced him, or is this another lost legend? I'm guessing channels like VH1 and MTV kind of ran him off the scene anyway?
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01-18-2011, 12:44 PM
|  | Johnny and Joe | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by doktorfeelgood Wow....I checked out that link and there was a VERY impressive list of performers on that show. )-( | Heck yeah! I used to look forward to it as a kid. RIP, Mr. Kirshner.
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01-18-2011, 12:50 PM
|  | Friends, Romans, Bass Players... | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | | I remember Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, The Midnight Special, and Soul Train being an integral part of my life as a young man coming of age in the 1970s. As a couple of well-known characters in All In The Family used to sing, "Those were the days"! Heady days indeed!
RIP Mr.Kirshner.
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01-18-2011, 12:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Iowa | | | man, i remember that show. i also remember paul schaffer's killer impression on SNL. he was a great part of rock'n'roll.
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01-18-2011, 01:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Packernation | | | It was always a highlight to turn the television knob late on a Saturday night in the early-mid seventies and find Don K's Rock Concert playing. Was all good stuff with no fluff.
RIP DK
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01-18-2011, 01:16 PM
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FWIW I played a few times on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert . . . it was a good gig . . .  . . . |
01-19-2011, 08:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I spent many a Friday watching his show!!! The first time I saw Stanley Clarke on TV was on Don's show.....R.I.P.
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01-19-2011, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by EBodious i also remember paul schaffer's killer impression on SNL. | Yeah, that too!
I didn't realize he was exec producer of In Concert too. |
01-20-2011, 05:21 AM
| | | RIP, Don...good work, I know you brought some pleasure in my teen life. Well done!
Yes, In Concert was a great thing, too!
As a 14-teen year old wannabe, SEEING my favourite Rock bands was "it". Those shows also reintroduced me to what I also liked as a kid: R&B. I recall an In Concert show with Curtis Mayfield & band doing "Freddie's Dead"...blew me away. Also, I think the first time I heard "Superstition" was on one of those shows...it was Stevie Wonder & it Rocked! 
BTW, anyone recall a VH-1 special about The Monkees? It was called Daydream Believers...probably still available on DVD (I bought it a few years back). Anyway, Kirschner is portrayed in this...at first, everyone loved him...then they wanted to give him das boot (since he was about studio musicians & A-list songsmiths)...then, after Headquarters (The Monkees playing/singing with others)...they return to Kirschner's formula (without him) for the next few albums.
Anyway, it's a worthy biopic...well done.
Amazon link- http://www.amazon.com/Daydream-Belie...5526168&sr=8-1
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01-20-2011, 06:05 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Outside Boston | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimK RIP, Don...good work, I know you brought some pleasure in my teen life. Well done!
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+1. Thanks, and RIP.
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01-20-2011, 06:39 AM
| | | | Now that Don's gone, does this mean they'll agree to release the shows so we can see them again?
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