Disco wasn't cool

[remicks]

uh hello, disco was huge back in the late 70's and way more popular than rock. You might recall the big disco backlash in Comiskey Park. Guess what type of people were blowing up disco records? That's right the rockers! Their reason? They were jealous that disco was taking away rock's thunder and spotlight and what they stood for: drugs, sex, partying, and having a good time. What could be done with rock was done better with disco and the rocker fanatics disliked that.

This is absolutely true .
And it applies equally to that biased rock-oriented rag Rolling Stone . They catered to that same "rock only " crowd . The only time they featured anyone like the Bee Gees was with the intent of having them deny being disco...... couldn't confirm that the hottest , most successful act of the era was disco :o for chrisakes...... That Dave Marsh crowd spent the entire disco era with constant hard-ons for wankers like Jackson Browne and Elvis Costello :P


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[Lajazz947]

OK so I'm bringing an old thread back to life.....

I used to listen to 8 tracks of Bob Seger's Live bullet, Boston Van Halen as well as all the others that are now " Classic rock " WHILE driving to "My Uncles " disco in Van Nuys, Ca in my Pinto wagon.

I loved all that music and maybe cause it was here in LA but in my high school Disco was not considered uncool.

[buckaroo]

I think this sums it up quite well disco is class
and the Working White Class and White Trash
never really appreciated the subtilities and the melody of it all they rather listen to something barbaric.

:o
Ooh...Ouch. Are you talking about the USA? Or somewhere in Europe? Even Canada perhaps? In the UK during the '70 especially, many 'White Class' people enjoyed black music and disco to the hilt. And as they frequented the many venues that played it, they mixed with quite a few black class peeps as well. There is a vibrant Northern and Southern soul scene still in existence here.

[garrybcoston]

You are right - Styx, Foreigner, Boston et al ruled the day back then, especially in mainstream America. But, those of us in and around NYC saw things differently (thank goodness!).

Yeah, but eventually, even the rock bands started bowing down to disco; and I think this pissed the truly devout rock and rollers off, because even rock and rollers and some rock bands were beginning to jump off the rock and jump on the disco train and bandwagon.

I remember that rally in Chicago in 1979; I knew then that that was the end but held on to hope even into the next year; but disco slowly waned, died, and the music as we knew it stopped.

It wasn't cool to get into disco if you were a rocker, super straight conservative, and even the vast majority of blacks were not into disco, they were into funk, soul, and funk disco (which was a minority type of disco music).

At first I wasn't into disco, I liked the music, but I wasn't into the scene; but when I found out, from visiting my first disco, that there was a lot more happening than meets the eye, and you could get an easy lay from knowing how to dance, then I got on the bandwagon and never looked back.

But I loved the music too, and the scene; DAMMIT IT WAS THE WHOLE DOGGONE DISCO STUFF!!!! And I'll never forget it and will forever love it!

Garry8)

[garrybcoston]

I lived in the Bronx during those days and partied in Manhattan primarily back then. Disco was VERY cool in NYC. Once it was all over the radio and the TV that was the beginning of the end, but while it was still sor tof underground it was cool.

As I remember it was very cool all over once it reached its peak in late 1977 through to about the end of 1978. And I agree, when you couldn't even take a **** without disco being shoved up your ***, that was the beginning of the end. But we all loved it!

Garry:cry: