Reply With QuoteIt went all the way to #58 on the Billboard chart in October '79....his claim to fame...:roll: ....that and taking out his childish anger on a bunch of vinyl records.
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Radio legend Steve Dahl and Teenage Radiation :razz:
♪♪♪ The music is higher/ I don't want to stop
♪♪♪ (Cerrone's Paradise)
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It went all the way to #58 on the Billboard chart in October '79....his claim to fame...:roll: ....that and taking out his childish anger on a bunch of vinyl records.
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Dahl is still the Hawaiian shirt-clad porker he was 27 years ago. He has a website with a message board where people still think it's 1979. Like "Disco Sucks" still has any kind of relevance today.
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I don't see what the big deal was about this event anyway. I mean, all he did was do what the bible belt people did to the Beatles records when John Lennon was misunderstood with his 'bigger than Jesus' quote.
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--- During the disco era I got to experience the hate of disco from two angles ....at a college campus radio station where aspiring DJs were allowed to program their own play lists and take to the airwaves with their preferences ..... most of whom couldn't wait to work at an FM station where the approach was to casually play long album cuts off rock albums and sort of absently cut in once in awhile to review what you'd just played ...stuttering and mumbling .."and before that I think we heard ...WILD HONEY by Steve Miller, I wanted to read who the musicians were on that ..hmm…. where is that album ….hold on here ..there it is ..let me reach over and get it ….. (hear chair squeaking as jock reaches for album) " :p:p:p This was considered most cool at the time ..... sort of the antii- uptempo TOP 40 entertaining DJ w/ jokes approach ....
Guess how many DJs at KSFS wanted to showcase this exciting new music called disco ? ..... ONE!! …....ME !!!
So while they did the pot smoking shuffle routine ....I'd come on tighter than a snare drum ...timing my intros on songs like LOVE HANGOVER … so I could play PSAs and commercials over the music ....never wanting an ounce of dead time .... & loving the fact we had two turntables and a cart machine to work off of ….
We also had one person into country , one into jazz .....and a couple or three into Top 40 ... ( we were the oddballs and I’d say especially me ) … the rest all wanted to be sleepy FM styled jocks ......
The second avenue was by working within a record store chain ( I think we were pushing about 50 stores total then ) during this Steve Dahl period. The head office had to send out mandatory requirements to the stores …….: You will play disco in your store as part of your regular rotation ( not that they at the main offices loved it either ... except that they saw the resulting sales $$$$ numbers ) ....'cause most of these managers were also of the hippy dippy mindset ....
(BTW .....don't get me wrong ...my own musical tastes always ran a wide gambit … but yes ….. When it was my turn to play music in the store 9 times out 10 …it was disco …)
My point is as disco "took over " including all of a sudden some of the biggest radio stations switching to it …...which meant they had to in turn "drop “ their playing of rock music ….disco seemed like it was edging out rock all together and there was this real & angry panic and disdain for this stuff. I saw it and honestly worried about it The radio spots for Odyssey records .... suddenly were about promoting disco ...I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE played under our radio ads ... which were now running on stations that were suddenly disco ( three I think ..that were all competing and trying to be "the" disco radio station).... This was a big shake-up .... and many many people working all sorts of angles of the industry hated it .
That incident then really resonated with a lot of people waiting to declare their hatred of disco ......
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Last edited by remicks; July 23rd, 2006 at 01:42 PM.
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:lol: ....you painted such a perfect picture! I love it!Originally Written by remicks
Isn't it amazing how that passion never died but most of those pot smoking rockers are now sitting on a couch constantly flipping a remote trying to find something to amuse themselves on television.
Interesting.......all this time, I've been bothered by that whole 'disco sucks' movement but I should perhaps be thankful that this caused a shift of the public's attention away from our music. Unfortunately, this also caused a shift in disco productions by artists. Many in the music biz ran the opposite direction in order to distance themselves from this failed phenomenon. By 1980, it became difficult to find those epic-long, cleverly-crafted disco masterpieces. Suddenly, any album that was dance-oriented was homogenized to the standard 4 - 5 cuts on each side instead of the 'disco'-associated manner of 2 or 3 songs....in essence, a conforming to the way it was before.
This has been said many times before but the popularity of disco really had nothing to do with the music but more of a focus on a commercial, money-making trend. This is something that to this day, I keep forgetting. Unfortunately, the white suit and 'bad' music is all that's left in the public's perception of this era.
But why didn't rock and roll suffer the same fate? I'm certain that when everything was rock this and roll that in the late 50's into the 60's, there must have been major opposition to it....but it wedged its way into the public's taste to become what society considers as normal. What is it about rock music that appeals to the average Joe? :???:
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It's a complicated subject ( disco ?? ...... yes .....)
But just as so many of the right things came together to erupt into a disco movement ... many things jelled in 79-80 to destroy it
I'm sure that if the point had been made as strongly that the new "rock "music white America was accepting in the mid fifties was actually BLACK music ..... as was this idea that disco music was GAY music ..... middle America would've readily fled wholesale from it too.But why didn't rock and roll suffer the same fate? I'm certain that when everything was rock this and roll that in the late 50's into the 60's, there must have been major opposition to it....but it wedged its way into the public's taste to become what society considers as normal. What is it about rock music that appeals to the average Joe?
It's really about people's needs to have an identity with that which they feel is " their own " whether that is determined by an allegiance of religion , nationality, one's own generation of peers ..... skin color .........
It seems incredible that anyone was worried about what color an artist's skin was back then and to that generation of whites' credit, they did in general , overcome that .... ( when it came to music anyway).....
Remember , white folk liking " black" music had some built in cushioning to it ....it couldn't then result in one then being percieved as being "black" yourself ......
Not so with liking ( so called ) "gay" music .........
..... the idea of being attracted to anything perceived as "gay ' ..... well that carried with it an identity factor just too few were willing to risk broaching ......
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Baby, take me
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