At his first recording session with
The Monkees, they didn't know who he was;
Micky Dolenz actually mistook
him for a studio "gofer"--production assistant--since he'd carried in refreshments for everyone. When Kirshner began to give instructions
to the band, Dolenz's reaction was to pour the ice from the Coke he'd
been drinking over Kirshner's head, only finding out afterwards that
he'd just tried to "cool off" the man in charge of the whole musical
side of the project. Dolenz said later, "I must have apologized to him a
thousand times over the next few months." Kirshner luckily didn't hold
the incident against him.