RON DELSENER PRESENTS
A film by Jake Sumner
w/ Ron Delsener, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt
Rated NR
1hr 36min
For generations of concert-goers, perhaps no three words are as interconnected with iconic live music as 'Ron Delsener Presents' – the words that preceded the name of every major act playing New York in advertisements, on the radio and everywhere else. RON DELSENER PRESENTS is equal parts all-access pass to New York's greatest gigs, as told by concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener, and a portrait of a music business pioneer who can't stop hustling.
RON DELSENER PRESENTS follows the most influential concert promoter in New York, a visionary who has impacted the live music business for the past six decades. His colorful story includes exclusive interviews with Jon Bon Jovi, Jimmy Buffett, Cher, Art Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Lenny Kaye, Lorne Michaels, Bette Midler, Gene Simmons, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt and many more. From the Beatles at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, to bringing David Bowie to Carnegie Hall and Patti Smith to the Palladium, to somehow convincing Simon and Garfunkel to come back together to play the biggest concert ever in Central Park, Ron Delsener was behind it all.
Ron's personal story tracks the tale of live music from a cottage industry to the dominant cultural force and global business it is today. The scope of his story, the breadth of archival footage and source material (largely found in Ron's basement) and personal testimonies and interviews from across the music business, spans decades and reveals a somewhat unknown history of live music.
RON DELSENER PRESENTS takes us behind-the-curtain through the last half century of the live music business, chronicling the tactics that drove live performance from disorganized, low-fi events to international tours, arenas, and, eventually, into a global empire. Now, at 86 years old, Ron’s still in the game, working in the now-multi-billion industry he helped to create. Sure, he could stop - he maybe even should. But Ron doesn’t know how.
There’s a satisfying balance between biography and pop-culture history.
Sheri Linden
The Hollywood Reporter
You could think of “Ron Delsener Presents” as the flip side of Clive Davis’s “Soundtrack of Our Lives.” The two films together explain quite a bit about the record and music businesses, and how the culture rooted itself from the 60s til now.
Roger Friedman
Showbiz 411
w/ Ron Delsener, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt
Rated NR
1hr 36min
For generations of concert-goers, perhaps no three words are as interconnected with iconic live music as 'Ron Delsener Presents' – the words that preceded the name of every major act playing New York in advertisements, on the radio and everywhere else. RON DELSENER PRESENTS is equal parts all-access pass to New York's greatest gigs, as told by concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener, and a portrait of a music business pioneer who can't stop hustling.
RON DELSENER PRESENTS follows the most influential concert promoter in New York, a visionary who has impacted the live music business for the past six decades. His colorful story includes exclusive interviews with Jon Bon Jovi, Jimmy Buffett, Cher, Art Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Lenny Kaye, Lorne Michaels, Bette Midler, Gene Simmons, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt and many more. From the Beatles at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, to bringing David Bowie to Carnegie Hall and Patti Smith to the Palladium, to somehow convincing Simon and Garfunkel to come back together to play the biggest concert ever in Central Park, Ron Delsener was behind it all.
Ron's personal story tracks the tale of live music from a cottage industry to the dominant cultural force and global business it is today. The scope of his story, the breadth of archival footage and source material (largely found in Ron's basement) and personal testimonies and interviews from across the music business, spans decades and reveals a somewhat unknown history of live music.
RON DELSENER PRESENTS takes us behind-the-curtain through the last half century of the live music business, chronicling the tactics that drove live performance from disorganized, low-fi events to international tours, arenas, and, eventually, into a global empire. Now, at 86 years old, Ron’s still in the game, working in the now-multi-billion industry he helped to create. Sure, he could stop - he maybe even should. But Ron doesn’t know how.
There’s a satisfying balance between biography and pop-culture history.
Sheri Linden
The Hollywood Reporter
You could think of “Ron Delsener Presents” as the flip side of Clive Davis’s “Soundtrack of Our Lives.” The two films together explain quite a bit about the record and music businesses, and how the culture rooted itself from the 60s til now.
Roger Friedman
Showbiz 411
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