Umm… Did anyone watch the Soul Train Gospel Experience on gmc a couple of weeks ago?
I DVR’ed it and just watched it over the weekend… I feel a little duped!
I thought it was gonna be a 60-minute compilation of the greatest gospel moments on Soul Train. Turned out to be a 1996 episode of Soul Train that featured Kirk Franklin, but not until you endured a bunch of scantily clad girls grinding to 90′s R&B artist Mona Lisa lip-synchin’ on stage. 
I’m sure it was a licensing issue–couldn’t get the footage of just Kirk without buying the whole episode, or maybe Don Cornelius wouldn’t allow slicing and editing of the episodes (in copyright law, we’d call that a “derivative work”) without getting a bigger financial cut of the pie… WHATEVER the reason, I wish I had known that upfront.
With more installments of Soul Train Gospel Experience coming, I’m gonna have to more carefully consider whether I’ll subject myself to 40 minutes of Shemar Moore dancing in leather pants (it was the 90′s, remember?) just to see 5 minutes of Karen Clark Sheard demolishing the vocals.
Sidebar: It was good to see J Moss hosting the gmc set. Whoo hoo!
Anyone else watch it? What did you think???
Yeah, I DVR'd it and watched it later. Praise the Lord for DVR....it is sent straight from heaven up above! I just forwarded through to Kirk, then deleted it. I'll probably just do that every week. Who sits and watches a show in real time anyway?? :) On another note, thank God Kirk got himself togetha. That hair and them teefeses?? Whew Lawd!
Soul Train Gospel Experience has been pulled from the network due to an overwhelming response from our viewers. And you're right, airing the full episodes did in fact have to do with the expense and licensing that would have been involved in creating gmc's own "gospel episodes" from those shows. Agreed - a warning upfront would have been an excellent idea! I will pass this along.
Wow.. I'm so bumbed to hear this. I was actually looking forward to the rare gospel performances. I guess some of those complaining havent' really watched the Stellar awards as of late. Some of those people are just as scantly dressed as those on Soul Train. Oh well.. it was good while it lasted.
I TOTALLY felt duped. Thought maybe I had the wrong show or the wrong day. I didn't stay to watch Karen or Kirk so....