**** Clark RIP at 82

[TomInPA]

**** Clark died this morning of a massive heart attack at age 82. Most of you on the forum are probably too young to remember what this guy did to shape entertainment, and rock as we know it today...or maybe not.

Anyway, pass the baton to Brian Seacrest...and "For now, **** Clark...so long,"

https://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/04/18/****-Clark-1985_244x183.jpg

 

[MEM]

**** Clark died this morning of a massive heart attack at age 82. Most of you on the forum are probably too young to remember what this guy did to shape entertainment, and rock as we know it today...or maybe not.

Anyway, pass the baton to Brian Seacrest...and "For now, **** Clark...so long,"

https://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/04/18/****-Clark-1985_244x183.jpg

The end of an era. But, hey - what a way to go

Brian Seacrest? or Ryan Seacrest ?

 

[Papa Georgio]

I am so depressed over this that I think I should call in sick tommorow. I should go on a long ride, that will cheer me up.

 

[TomInPA]

**** Clark died this morning of a massive heart attack at age 82. Most of you on the forum are probably too young to remember what this guy did to shape entertainment, and rock as we know it today...or maybe not.

Anyway, pass the baton to Brian Seacrest...and "For now, **** Clark...so long,"

https://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/04/18/****-Clark-1985_244x183.jpg

The end of an era. But, hey - what a way to go

Brian Seacrest? or Ryan Seacrest ?

Um, Brian / Ryan...who cares? CRS :lol:

 

[user 8909]

Hopefully a tribute will be showing on TV.

**** and American Bandstand will never be forgotten.

RIP.

 

[juniorfjr]

I'd have to give it a "5", it's got a great beat, you can dance to it and it pisses of my parents. RIP ****. Saturday afternoons wouldn't have been the same without him.

 

[garyahouse]

Good grief. I grew up on bandstand. In those days, I had no idea that the musicians I was watching were part of a golden era that would soon enough be gone forever. But, as much as we're sad to lose the icons who served as the mid-wives through the birth of rock and roll, I'm thankful for the recording industry that preserved it all and even ended up giving us mp3. In one tiny iPod, I carry 55 years of amazing music wherever I go. Sure helps to melt away the miles. Thanks Mr. Clark for your dream to bring a new type of music to the masses. By the way, he was also giving black artists their shot in a time when doing so would have spelled demise to the careers of lesser men. 30+ years on ABS, he was truly an legend. Come to think of it, when he got his start, I was still in...

Gary

darksider #44

 

[monkin]

Sad news..RIP

 

[HotRodZilla]

Hell, I'm old enough to remember American Bandstand. Watched that guy through a lot of New Years celebrations. He will definitely be missed!

RIP

 

[SacramentoMike]

What I remember about American Bandstand was all the boys' hoody haircuts (with the curl hanging down the middle of the forehead, and all slicked down with lots of oil), the skinny ties and lapels, and that goofy Philly-style dance they all did (kind of a precursor to the Bump) while they tried to see themselves in the studio monitors. But everybody watched it.

 

[yamafitter]

... I'm thankful for the recording industry that preserved it all and even ended up giving us mp3. In one tiny iPod, I carry 55 years of amazing music wherever I go. Sure helps to melt away the miles.

Gary

darksider #44

Don't thank the Music Industry for mp3's, they did everything they could think of to have mp3's banned. In the end mp3's have almost completely destroyed the business model that the music industry is based on which if you believe in innovation is not really a bad thing.

 

[dcarver]

Never really watched AB nor DC.

Way before my time.

Geesh, ya'll are a bunch of geezers.

RIP ****.

 

[garyahouse]

... I'm thankful for the recording industry that preserved it all and even ended up giving us mp3. In one tiny iPod, I carry 55 years of amazing music wherever I go. Sure helps to melt away the miles.

Gary

darksider #44

Don't thank the Music Industry for mp3's, they did everything they could think of to have mp3's banned. In the end mp3's have almost completely destroyed the business model that the music industry is based on which IF YOU BELIEVE IN innovation is not really a bad thing.

Thanks Fitter... you don't miss a thing, do ya? Good call. However, I'll tell ya what I believe in, to coin the words you used. 95 % of the music that's really worth listening to was already ancient history by the time anybody even heard of mp3. It appears that the modern junk they're producing is the genre that's suffering... which in my humble opinion, is a GOOD thing. Unless of course you've been drinkin that modern day music koolaid.

It's Friday. Let the pile begin.

Gary

darksider #44

RIP **** Clark... knowing the trends in show biz, wonder if that was his REAL name?

 

[Tyler]

I am so depressed over this that I think I should call in sick tommorow. I should go on a long ride, that will cheer me up.

I think that's a wise idea... crank up the tunes while you're out there.

Thanks to **** Clark for everything he did and gave... hope you're groovin' on the other side. B)

 

[yamafitter]

Never really watched AB nor DC.

Way before my time.

Geesh, ya'll are a bunch of geezers.

RIP ****.

Carver trying to pretend he is not old, now that's pretty funny. I was out on the dirt bike yesterday and my stiff back this morning is reminding me just how old I am. My sister once went to a show that **** Clark was hosting back in the early sixty's but I was just a little kid at the time.

**** Clark was a true pioneer in TV for the way music was presented on TV and introduced a number of great bands to the general public that would have never would have heard otherwise. As an example ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow

I can still hear my dad saying to turn that garbage off.

PS. For the youngsters in the crowd, that is a record player in the video playing a '45'. Ask your dad.

RIP ****.

 

[Fred W]

As one might imagine, the above song had a huge resurgence in popularity among Celtics fans in the 80's. God that was a great time for basketball in Boston. Bird, McHale, Parrish, Ainge and Johnson. There might never be a starting 5 as good as that ever again. Certainly not as white. (Oh! did I just say that?)

I was most decidedly not a big watcher of American Bandstand. I had far more important things to do on Saturdays of my youth than to sit around watching music being danced to on (black and white) TV. There was always a game of pickup something-or-other going on at the local school yard. And I had a perfectly good bicycle that I could ride all over creation on. Relaxation was casting a line in the water and kicking back on the river bank. Who needed TV when you can go out and live? Come to think of it... some things just don't change.

My memories of DC will be forever tarnished by him being propped up and slurring his way through the last few New Years Rockin' Eves after having stroked out back in '04. IMO, he should really have known when to call it quits to preserve his previously established image. I know that I tend to equate everything in sports terms, but; It's like an old ballplayer who doesn't know how to go out on top.

Which brings us back around to the song. The Bird definitely went out on top. Of course his bad back helped make the decision really easy.

 

[Mooseonagoose]

Yeah Man, ...learned how to do da Bop & da stroll watchin' AB!! What an amazing carreer the guy had, stayed at it for nigh 60yrs, Wow! Always got the impression he truly enjoyed what he did! ...and he never seemed to age, & if he had cosmetic surgery, he never looked like he did? Think how many other carreers he influenced. ****'s wife even gave Chubby Checker his stage name. Bet there's a sock hop in Heaven every afternoon now!