Author Topic: RIP Don Kirschner  (Read 1141 times)

Denis

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4036
  • Harvester of Appendixes
    • View Profile
RIP Don Kirschner
« on: January 19, 2011, 10:25:35 AM »
My first exposure to both Rush and Dire Straits were from watching "Don Kirschner's Rock Concert".

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/01/18/rock-promoter-don-kirshner-dies-age/
Why did Salvador Dali cross the road?
Clocks.

Basshappi

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 352
    • View Profile
Re: RIP Don Kirschner
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2011, 10:37:43 AM »
Sadness.
R.I.P. Don, thanks for finding all that great talent and making us aware of it.
Nothing is what it seems but everthing is exactly what it is.

ack1961

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1000
    • View Profile
Re: RIP Don Kirschner
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2011, 10:45:48 AM »
Too bad..and thanks Don Kirschner.  The first live footage of Heep I ever saw was on "Rock Concert".
As a youngster, I was always amused that someone his age could still dig rock music. 
Now that I'm old, I totally understand.
Have Fun.  Be Nice.  Mean People Suck.

uwe

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 21533
  • Enabler ...
    • View Profile
Re: RIP Don Kirschner
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2011, 11:00:55 AM »
I always liked his voice.

BÖC tributed him here (unfortunately the vid doesn't run in Germany due to IP issues):

We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

lowend1

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2581
    • View Profile
Re: RIP Don Kirschner
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2011, 11:21:34 AM »
Paul Schaffer used to do a great DK impression on SNL.

« Last Edit: January 19, 2011, 01:53:08 PM by lowend1 »
If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter

Chaser001

  • Guest
Re: RIP Don Kirschner
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2011, 12:17:31 PM »
"I believe that after I'm gone, my grandchildren will be whistling these tunes. Whether they know that I published them or not - they will be whistling these tunes the same as they do songs from My Fair Lady and Camelot, and these tunes will be part of American culture - they'll be used in movies and so on. Of all the legacies that I have given, personally to me it's very important that I was able to come out of the streets of Harlem, out of my dad's tailor shop, and have the ability to create an environment where this sound will be part of American and international culture forever."
....... Don Kirshner

gweimer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4085
    • View Profile
    • My BandMix Site
Re: RIP Don Kirschner
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2011, 01:44:32 PM »
Yeah, he introduced a lot of music to my generation.  The first Kansas album was on Kirschner Records.
Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty

godofthunder

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6643
  • Keep On Rock'n !
    • View Profile
    • Johnny Smoke
Re: RIP Don Kirschner
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2011, 02:00:38 PM »
I spent many a late night waiting in anticipation for Don Kirschner's Rock Concert!
Maker of the Badbird Bridge, "intonation without modification" for your vintage Gibson Thunderbird

Highlander

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12542
  • There Ken be only one...
    • View Profile
Re: RIP Don Kirschner
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2011, 04:29:34 PM »
Wow... one of those legendary names... RIP
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

gearHed289

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4454
    • View Profile
    • Book of faces...
Re: RIP Don Kirschner
« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2011, 09:12:40 AM »
I spent many a late night waiting in anticipation for Don Kirschner's Rock Concert!

+1!