Members caveman Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 I never missed an American Bandstand sorry to see him go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bbreaker Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 Just heard the news.The oldest living teenager is no more.RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members etawful Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 RIP Dick - you'll be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xStonr Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 He is an American icon. He will be missed. I grew up in Philadelphia when his show was still being broadcast from there. I was too young, but my older sister did get to go on. She was 16 at the time had to cut school that day to make it to the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cbh5150 Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 Pity that he was still pretty youthful up until the stroke...what a sad difference that made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Krank'N Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 American icon. Too bad his last famous act was being an A-hole in a Micheal Moore Doc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members harold heckuba Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 I watched Bandstand every Saturday for probably 20 years. I have seen at least a partof every single "New Years Rockin Eve" since the beginning. Dick brought a lot of joy to the youth of America, RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeanoBoy Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 Dick was a huge part of my life, especially my teen years. RIP Dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members smorgdonkey Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 American icon. Too bad his last famous act was being an A-hole in a Micheal Moore Doc. After all of the music that he was involved in, and every New Year's Eve, and every award show & guest appearance, when I hear his name I see the clip of him getting in his van to avoid questioning in Bowling For Columbine. When someone super rich pays minimum wage so that they can be richer it just seems to hack away at humanity in some way. That said, he has a family who will miss him...or does he have a 35 year old widow who is already shopping? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blazingblake Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 Rip Dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 I don't think anyone has ever commented on it, hopefully maybe some have noticed it, but the THIRD line in my signature box below (which has been there for quite some time now) is a homage to his show, American Band Stand. It was funny to me, even back then, to hear the kids on American Band Stand judge a song after listening and dancing to it, one boy and one girl would be brought up to the stand with Dick Clark and they would say virtually every time .... . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members smorgdonkey Posted April 18, 2012 Members Share Posted April 18, 2012 It was funny to me, even back then, to hear the kids on American Band Stand judge a song after listening and dancing to it, one boy and one girl would be brought up to the stand with Dick Clark and they would say virtually every time .... . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bob411 Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 RIP. For the record, Soul Train had way better music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pilon Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 Hard for kids today to appreciate someone like dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 I don't think anyone has ever commented on it, hopefully maybe some have noticed it, but the THIRD line in my signature box below (which has been there for quite some time now) is a homage to his show, American Band Stand.It was funny to me, even back then, to hear the kids on American Band Stand judge a song after listening and dancing to it, one boy and one girl would be brought up to the stand with Dick Clark and they would say virtually every time .... . . . . Oddly enough, that quote was the very first thing I thought of when I saw the news on my homepage, and I remembered it was in your sig (always thought it was funny). RIP Dick Clark, and I hope that his friends and family remember him well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kulardenu Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 Until he had his stroke I thought he was a vampire or at least had a Dorian Gray picture in his attic... Quite the career... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emory Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 Wow. Maybe add him to Mt Rushmore? Hope they put a statue up for him in Philly, if they haven't already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HeatherAnnePeel Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 Dick hosts Jefferson Airplane on Bandstand on 6/3/67, a couple of weeks before Monterey. He later said he was thrilled having them on. R.I.P., Dick.[video=youtube;VZc-kPWWQvc] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Funkwire Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 After all of the music that he was involved in, and every New Year's Eve, and every award show & guest appearance, when I hear his name I see the clip of him getting in his van to avoid questioning in Bowling For Columbine. When someone super rich pays minimum wage so that they can be richer it just seems to hack away at humanity in some way.That said, he has a family who will miss him...or does he have a 35 year old widow who is already shopping? Actually, Clark had been married to his (third) wife, Kari, for 35 years! As far as the Bowling For Columbine thing...I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal...and I'd probably go out of my way to avoid Michael Moore and a camera crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HeatherAnnePeel Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 As far as the Bowling For Columbine thing...I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal...and I'd probably go out of my way to avoid Michael Moore and a camera crew. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members harold heckuba Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 Fill the rest of us in- what was the thing with Michael Moore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted April 19, 2012 Moderators Share Posted April 19, 2012 Fill the rest of us in- what was the thing with Michael Moore? (Source: Wikipedia) "....Clark was featured in the 2002 documentary film Bowling for Columbine. He was criticized for hiring poor, unwed mothers to work long hours in his chain of restaurants for little pay. The mother in particular works over 80 hours per week and is unable to make rent and gets evicted which results in her having her son stay at his uncle's house. At his uncle's house the boy finds a gun and brings it to school where he shoots another first grader. In the documentary footage featuring Clark, Michael Moore tries to approach him to inform him of the welfare policies that allow for these conditions, and questions him about the people he employs and the tax breaks he takes advantage of, in employing welfare recipients; Clark refuses to answer any of Moore's questions, shutting the car door and driving away." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Spike Li Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 Dick was a huge part of my life, especially my teen years. Thats what she said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members smorgdonkey Posted April 19, 2012 Members Share Posted April 19, 2012 As far as the Bowling For Columbine thing...I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal...and I'd probably go out of my way to avoid Michael Moore and a camera crew. Moore was the best thing that happened in the Bush era - what did you do with yourself for 8 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted April 19, 2012 Moderators Share Posted April 19, 2012 Thats what she said. It had to be done Spike:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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