Memories

[MixMasterMax]

I have not been here with you for a long time but there is definitely value in being here. The most obscure questions seemed to get answered, easily. So, place yourself back in the middle 70's. Forget all the DJ/record/club technical info we always comment on. Pick 3 (non Disco music) items which define that era for you. I have these;

My BIG Buick LaSebra (big back seat, many fond memories)
Eating at dinners on the way home (5-6AM)
Laughing hysterically at Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles and the Airplane movies (a good bone always did the trick)

[originalbigm]

OK!

My 1971 Datsun 240Z.Best car I ever had.No back seat.Only downside.

Learning The Hustle and Bus Stop

Going to the after hour clubs in Toronto such as Joker's Walk after my licensed club closed at 1:00AM and dancing and checking out the tunes till the wee hours of the morning.Do they still have such places?

[paul]

Mine:
My 1971 Opel 1900 painted Sky Blue. Getting Jamaican beef patties and washing 'em down with cola champagne typically because I got an attack of the munchies after smoking you know what :lol:
Movies, lots of 'em. From Swept Away to Ebony, Ivory and Jade to the Groove Tube.
I remember trying to learn the Bus Stop too. I realized then I was never going to get into the group dance thing.
My first real disco experience I think was a Hartford club called The Skycap. Oh how wonderful it was. I guess I know how Adam and Eve felt when they got the boot.

[MixMasterMax]

The Bus Stop...yes. All the more complicated in platform shoes.

[Nano]

1) Lotsa glamorous, expensive cigarettes TV ads shot in exotic places of the world.
2) Shoes with high platforms made of cork, and leather painted green and red (my older sister used them).
3) Our "Discophonic" single record player. You put the record upside down through a thin slot. The needle was looking up and there was also a small AM radio receiver. This box had a bag-like leather envelope and you could walk down the street with music sounding under your arm. Cool! 8)

[Keith RS]

Since I was 18 in 1977, here it is:

1. Having a cassette stereo put in my mother's 1969 Plymouth Gran Fury III and blasting all the good sounds of the day!

2. Smoking salem cigarettes and not worrying about any health problems.

3. Girls wearing tight jeans(vanderbilt or Clavin Klein) with high heels and smelling real good with that Ralph Lauren perfume "Lauren".

[JussiK]

- painting boring brown shoes electric blue using a wrong type of paint so that it all started to peel in the middle of the night, resulting in unbearable humiliation on the dance floor
- trying to dj while in a grip of a terrible flu, with nose dripping on the spinning vinyl
- ducking in horror seeing my mum and dad approach the disco entrance in hopes of seeing what it is all about

[HustleBaby]

I have more than my share of memories but my fondest are:

1.Learning the Hustle and the Bus Stop. I wasn't old enough to go to discotheques but I damn sure won the school dance contests.
2.Being up late weekend nights watching "Thriller" movies (creepy hand coming out of ground) and wrestling on channel 9 (Andre the Giant, George "The Animal" ?, Toro Tanaka etc...)
3.Drive-In movies
4.Halloween - I know I'm a child at heart but it was fun back then. Today this holiday has become very dangerous :( .

*DISCO DELIGHT*

[HustleBaby]

*Mushroom and Cornrow beaded hairstyles. A lot of sistas wanted the Patrice Rushen/Valerie Simpson look.
*All the good cartoons - Fat Albert, Josie & The Pussycats, Magilla Gorilla, Yogi & BooBoo (entire Hanna-Barbera family),Peanuts Gang, Couregeous Cat & Minute Mouse, School House Rock, Mr.MaGoo, Heckle & Jeckle etc...
*Summertime - We practically lived on the beach (Orchard & Coney Island)
*Skating Rinks - Back in the 70's I used to have white boot skates with pompoms to match my clothes and I went ice skating in Rockefeller Plaza and Mulally's Park.....boy those were the days.

I know that I went overboard but this is what happens when I go down memory lane :D !

Keith RS, women wearing tight jeans will never change. As a matter of fact I have a well fitted pair of Jordache jeans 8) .

*DELIGHTFUL*

[QUINNY]

The '70s were some wild times (even for me).

I remember my first DJ residency ''72 - '73. A real family atmosphere. Good people, good vibes.

I remember the first time I drove a car on the public roads. This was in Mallorca. I was pissed (drunk), the guy whose car it was (3 month old Mercedes) was absolutely legless. When he said "put your foot down" I did and we touched 200 Kph or even more (I remeber 240, but this could be a figment of my imagination). I remember we took off going over a very small hump back bridge. HE FAINTED WHEN I TOLD HIM THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME ON THE ROAD!!

I remember receiving packets of the latest Disco singles through the mail, when I was DJing in Spain and the absolute feeling of excitement, exhilaration and anticipation as I opened them up to see what was inside. What a feeling!

I remember striving for a job in Radio for years and years, only to have my dream shattered by the reality of it, when I did get to do it. I've never fallen out of love with anything quite so quickly.

I remember the best mobile disco I ever did. It was in the late '70s, at the height of Disco. A DJ mate and myself did a disco for a Chinese couple. They were related to the owner of a restaurant, the one that we'd always go to after the disco finished (back in the days of my first residency above).
We set up the gear in the restaurant after it had closed and everyone bopped the night away to all the latest and greatest disco sounds until about 8 a.m. Not once, did anyone query what we played, pull faces or be negative. They all partied like there was no tomorrow.

Lotsa other memories for sure, when I have a year out, I might write them all down.

[Bernie]

Originally Posted by HustleBaby

women wearing tight jeans will never change. As a matter of fact I have a well fitted pair of Jordache jeans 8) .

*DELIGHTFUL*

Photo please... :P

[paul]

I hear ya Bernie :P

[DiscoMan]

What memories I have!

That pounding Disco beat!

How well everyone was dressed (today's young could take lessons from us)!

The WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!
How HOT they were!!!!!!!!
Hard to believe that they're all 50 year old mothers and grandmothers today!!!!!!!!!!!
They're forever young in my memories - I love 'em all!

Gettin' it on with Barry White singing in the background :D
What mood music! Do I miss him.

Attempting to walk the race course of the Monaco Grand Prix in my platform shoes! I couldn't do it. My shoes were brutal and when I got home I threw 'em out and wore more conservative styles. The trip was a college graduation gift to myself. The race was the 1976 Grand Prix. Niki Lauda won in a Ferrari. Barry White and Disco were all the rage in Monte Carlo during May, 1976!

[Nano]

I have to say that heresofar Jussi's memories made me LOL the hardest. Guilty as charged :D :D :lol: :lol:

[HustleBaby]

Sorry Bernie and Paul, I don't have any photos in those jeans. If I do, I'm not alone in the picture.

DiscoMan
I went to a baby shower last month and everyone UNDER 25 was dressed the SAME :o ! No originality, flair, sex appeal - ZILCH! All of the generation "Y" had on each others clothes baggy jeans, hoodie sweatshirts, sports jerseys, sneakers, baseball caps, doo-rags etc....Even the girls who wore denim skirts looked like everyone else. The only colors worn were black, navy, grey and pinch of beige here and there. You can tell the age group of the guests by what they were wearing cuz ya know the old school (30 & over) was stylin'!!!! These young bloods can definetely take a lesson on how the "old school" dressed but they don't have the heart or the style to carry it off.

*DISCO DELIGHT*