I'm likely in the minority, but I despised just about everything Kirshner did and promoted in the music biz.
On Jan 18, 4:23 pm, Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Diner <bwayst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I never actually saw "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" - I was eight years > > old when it started, and it was on way past my bedtime. But I do > > remember Paul Shaffer's very funny impression of him on SNL. As with > > Dan Aykroyd's impression of Tom Snyder, more people saw the SNL parody > > than saw the real thing. > > I remember Don Kirshner's Rock Concert fondly. NBC started a Friday > late night concert series called The Midnight Special and DK's Rock > Concert seemed to be a way to ride its coattails. Rock Concert aired > locally late on Saturday nights, after SNL though not on the NBC > affiliate, and had a much lower budget and far less mainstream acts > than the Midnight Special. If, in terms of acts and budget, the > Midnight Special was the main room, DK's Rock Concert was the lounge. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
