The older and the younger member here

**saborioca** · August 24th, 2002, 11:23 PM

I think is not important the age, but it is a way to know when you begun on music, for me it was 1972, I remember when I listened for the first time "Funky Nassau".
I am secure that I am not the younger member, I am 44, and you?

**hotdiscomix** · August 25th, 2002, 02:36 AM

I am born and grown up 1963 (now 39) in East Germany. My interest of disco music began 1977/78 with songs from Donna Summer, Claudja Barry and Cerrone.
At this time I was a "musical outsider". Friends heard Deep Purple, Pink Floyd or British popmusic of The Rubettes and Smokie.

**Masdefi** · August 25th, 2002, 04:39 AM

I started on 1973 with Barry White's "Let the music play". I was born in 1959 and I remember that at that age I was an outsider too, because quite all of my friends listened only to rock... I still have some rock album in my collection, as Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Genesis, but now they are covered by dust... Now I'm 43!

**Funky Dude** · August 25th, 2002, 08:59 AM

I'm not necessarily the youngest member on the board but I am probably the youngest regular to the board, I'm 20 and going to be 21 in October this year. I got into disco when I was 13 back late 1994 when I was listening to retro radio show "Lost in the 70's" which played mainstream music that hit the Australian charts. First disco songs I listened to were "Never Can Say Goodbye" by Gloria Gaynor, "Le Freak" by Chic and "Get Dancin'" by Disco Tex & The Sex-o-lettes and that song I first heard when watching the Simpsons Thanks Giving episode when Homer was driving to pick up his grampa. Anyhow a few years later after hearing all of the pop disco I started record collecting and discovered a whole range of disco and funk and have now got a total collection of say somewhere between 200 and 300 records.

**Bernie** · August 25th, 2002, 09:28 AM

Hard for me to believe, but I am 38 and will turn 39 on October 7. Still feeling like a kid and I think music has played a major factor in this. As long as I have that connection to my youth I'm good to go-music does that for me.

Would have to say the song "Rock the Boat" back in 1972 got me into Disco although I didn't know it at the time.

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**Outsider** · August 25th, 2002, 10:14 AM

At 34, I'm probably one of the younger members of this message board (though not the youngest), and I didn't get into disco until 1995. I heard this disco radio show one time I was at a Thai restaurant, and when I left I decided to tune into that station in my car, and I've been into disco ever since. I was mainly into rock until then (and I'm still into rock), but I think that disco helped me get into other types of music.

**QUINNY** · August 25th, 2002, 10:26 AM

I'm old enough (50) to not remember which record or event got me into Disco music. I think the first soul record I appreciated was Reflections by the Supremes. I recall it was at a fair and I was riding on the Dodgems, when it came blasting over the PA system. It just blew me away for some reason.
However my conversion to dance music came when I began DJing. Prior to that, I was heavily into Rock music.

**discohunter** · August 25th, 2002, 10:39 AM

I was born July 8, 1974, which makes me 28. Like a lot of people, my first taste of disco was the mainstream. Nowadays (and particularly after discovering Dance100-FM) I have gone away from the more mainstream stuff, and to the more underground "real disco" tracks.

Not that I don't like some of the mainstream stuff...used to listen to KC & The Sunshine Band a lot when I was younger.

discohunter

**sirius** · August 25th, 2002, 11:08 AM

Dear Friends!
I was born in 1965 and my first contact to
music was GlamRock like Suzi Quatro, T.Rex,
David Bowie, Gary Glitter, Sweet and so many
others.
It was about late 1975 that I´ve heard for
the first time Donna Summer, Silver Con-
vention, Gloria Gaynor and Barry White.
Because my most friends were a lot older,
I was very interesting in music.
About 1977 Amanda Lear came along and touched
my heart...then one year later the great Miss
Summer and then I went really Disco-Under-
ground!
About late 1980 I moved to the NewRomantic-
Scene, which was great here in Vienna(re-
member ULTRAVOX!),but HI-NRG never really
touched me!, but I loved Sylvester and Patrick Cowley.
About 1985 I went Gothic...
About 1989 I went AcidHouse, Techno, House
and New Beat.
About 1996 I went TripHop.
About 1997 I went Disco back again!!!
Cosmic Love & Kisses From SIRIUS & DARKTUNES

**DotBomb** · August 25th, 2002, 11:33 AM

I got hooked on disco in 1993, while going through my father's crap in the attic. Found some tapes he'd recorded from WBOS 93.3 FM, "Disco 93" in Boston. Live mixes, early morning recordings. I listened to those for ages... until I discovered his vinyl in 1999, and then Napster came along... and that's when I turned hardcore.

Just realized I'd left out my age... I am 18, will be 19 in March.

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**jazz_pilgrim** · August 25th, 2002, 01:26 PM

I was born in 1960 and now I am 41 :???:

I got into disco music at the tender age of 16 in 1977. I was then a rock lover and I went along to the local disco up the road and I heard all this American Import soul and funk for the first time. The record that got me hooked? - ROY AYERS - Running Away

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**DanceMan** · August 25th, 2002, 03:29 PM

The moments that I first really started to get into music was somewhere btwn the Beatles and The Supremes....of course, Diana and the Girls won out - they had better wigs, gowns and hand gestures....plus Motown versus Capitol - puhleeeeasse!

My first real disco experience was when I first danced with another man and that was to "Honey Please," by Barry White. It came out the same year I was a few months away from turning 20....you do the math.

**Nano** · August 25th, 2002, 05:45 PM

I was born in 1965, have brothers much older and I remember the day my sister brought home a record called "The Rosko Show", plus some soul singles from people like the O'Jays, Aretha, Roberta Flack, etc.
But my first personal taste with disco was in 1978 with "Saturday Night Fever"... the soundtrack, because the movie was no-minors allowed in my country.
In 1979 the first home parties started... I remember the first one, with a little record changer (tocadiscos) and some singles like Patrick Juvet's "Got a feeling/Another lonely man", this was a 7'.
Then came the clubs, teenage parties... I wanted to be a DJ back then. But, at the same time, I also listened to rock music (still do both). Then it came prog rock, then prog jazz, then new wave, goth, blues, older jazz... Then rap and electronica, also had a taste for the Pixies and Jane's Addiction... Anyway, a pretty mixed mind. But the best parties still have disco music for me.

**NickNack** · August 25th, 2002, 07:10 PM

I was born 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, and for as long as I can remember there was ALWAYS music in my house. My parents loved blues, jazz and plain old 'soul'. They were always dancing around the house. They and the neighbors loved to throw house parties. As I got older, Mom always wanted to hear the latest and newest songs I had spent my money on. For me, "getting into disco" was like getting up and getting dressed in the morning.

Ironically, the first song I remember catching my attention in a large club is Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly". The dj hadn't been mixing, just playing one song after another. When he used this to slow the room down it was awesome. The 'highs' were so clean and that foot pedal coming out of the bass speaker had me drooling. For a kid just out of the service and back home from being overseas, I couldn't wait to see what was going on with the music.

**disco1999** · August 25th, 2002, 08:36 PM

I'll be 40 soon. My interest in this music started in 1974-75 when dances were organized every 2nd friday night at the high school, I recall these tracks being played: Resonance - OK Chicago, TSOP-MSFB, The Hustle, The silver convention, Belle Epoque - Miss Broadway, etc.
First time I have listened to Moroder's "I feel love" I was really impressed on new sound technology.

**paul** · August 25th, 2002, 11:31 PM

Yes DotBomb. Boston did have some kickass clubs in retrospect.
Anyway my date of birth was August 1, 1960. I always liked music. I remember "What Can I Do For You" at a block party back around '75. I was forever hooked on DISCO. Back then the drinking age was still 18 and in addition to clubs, I had a chance to attend many disco parties and concerts. Disco was more than just the music for me. It was an entire culture.

**ruoffended** · August 26th, 2002, 07:53 AM

Was born oct 04-1977, i guess you can say im a BARRY WHITE baby , cos when i was conceived my folks where listening at some MR WHITE's music ,got into disco in 1995 after purchasing 2 SALSOUL compilation , got hooked with FIRST CHOICE - Dr love , RIPPLE - beat goes on and on , METROPOLIS - I love new-york , DOUBLE EXPOSURE , BEBU SILVETTI , etc almost all of the tracks , before i was listening to DANCE , HOUSE MUSIC, ACID JAZZ (INCOGNITO , BRAND NEW HEAVIES , GAZZARA ...etc ) which had lead me to listen at some new funk and then old one and then DISCO ,
its funny cos my folks where not really interrested in DISCO at their time , my mom was 18 and my dad was 20 , but they liked BARRY WHITE , now i bring them the music of the 70' s and they like it , what i like about disco , is the spirit of happiness and partytime , i personnaly think it as its place in music today , cos the music scene lack real music instruments and sometimes sounds a bit depressive probably because of the times we live in , anyway producers of today probably like it too because they try reproducing it by sampling trax from this era. Hope they will continuing reissue and make compilation like they are doing now cos each day im discovering great things and treasures from that time ......RU

**Blaxman** · August 26th, 2002, 10:17 AM

I'm 37 and I got hooked on disco and black music since 1973....when I borrowed a tape from my sister. Among the songs ......"Soul Makossa" By Manu Dibango!!! That was my first contact with disco. Later in 1977 I won my first Disco LP (a disco compilation) with my early fave disco songs:

Crown Heights Affair - Dancin
Gibson Brothers - Non-Stop Dance

And here I am now.........

Peace.

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**Leanmean** · August 27th, 2002, 11:27 AM

I was a hard rock acid queen until 1973 when Barry White first hit the radio airwaves where I was in Columbia, South Carolina. I thought I would nearly have an orgasm when I heard "I'm Gonna Love You (Just a Little More Babe)." I was 16. I turned 17 that summer and moved back to Orlando.

I decided to check out this "gay" thing and went to my first gay bars underage. The music and the scene shook my world! I knew this was home! Then,someone I knew who got kicked out for being underage ratted on me and I got kicked out. The drinking age was 18 then. As soon as I turned 18, I headed back to the bars and the life. I am now 46, no longer drink or do drugs, but I have fond memories of how my life was shaped in those early days. I'm lucky I survived! I LOVE disco. Music is my life! STILL!

These songs were my favorites at the time and were the backdrop to my "coming out" years of 1973 & 1974:

"I'll Always Love My Mama"
"Armed & Extremely Dangerous"
"Girl You Need a Change of Mind"
"Put Your Hands Together"
"Mighty, Mighty"
"Rock Steady"
"Soul Makosa"
"Boogie Down"
"Feel the Need" (Graham Central Station, not the Detroit Emeralds - it's faster!)

Of course, I still liked rock, especially David Bowie, Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers. Toady I enjoy rock, disco, R & B, some hip-hop, Contemporay Christian music, Freestyle, Brazilian (thanks Jussi and Boodikka!), smooth jazz, bluegrass and country. Pretty much everything except opera. I still don't get into that!

**mrbill** · August 27th, 2002, 07:42 PM

8/18/62 for me and I can still remember exactly when I heard my first 'legit' disco tune...Marshall Fields :sad:) in downtown Chicago and the song..."Tangerine" by Salsoul Orch. Soon to follow by Barry White,
KC, Silver Convention's "Fly, Robin, Fly' and
Wing and a Prayer's "Baby Face" ... it was all downhill from there...

Marcio** · August 28th, 2002, 02:22 AM

France Joli is one year older than me and the first disco I've heard maybe it was "What a diff'rence a YEAR makes", by Esther Phillips.

**coma_toso** · August 31st, 2002, 10:08 AM

I think age is not important.
The most important thing is the feeling inside all of us. When I hear any disco song, I ride a time machine and set my mind in the middle of a crowded discotheque and let the rythm flow. Today we only keep memoirs. This site is neccesary to keep that feelings alive.

By the way, I was born in 1962.

**guille** · September 3rd, 2002, 12:02 AM

37 now, will turn 38 in October. There's something about being in the late 30's that makes you want to catch up with life. Barry White's "Love's Theme" was the first ever disco song I loved. My spirit just feels good everytime I listen to it.
Have a Disco Life.

**Giovanni** · September 3rd, 2002, 05:50 AM

There's something about being in the late 30's that makes you want to catch up with life

I really love how you summarized a feeling I also have. Thank you!!!

Sorry for being offtopic

**DanceMan** · September 3rd, 2002, 07:52 AM

On 2002-09-03 01:02, guille wrote:
There's something about being in the late 30's that makes you want to catch up with life.

Yes, I remember that feeling and can relate to it as well.

With that in mind, I guess at my age, life has already passed me by and I am running on empty. (But don't count this group out yet...lol.)