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Paulo thanks so much for this one !!
Much insight contained within this interview .
This was of particular interest to me ......
Interesting that of all the disco songs he must've heard that night .... it's LOVE'S THEME that comes readily to mind . "THE state of the art" he calls it . Interesting how certain disco roads followed backwards lead to Barry White and therefore Isaac Hayes ain't it......So how did you get introduced to Disco?
We lived right behind the place called Studio One (:icon_cool:) that held a thousand people in this giant barn, in West Hollywood, which is pretty much gay central. He said I want you two guys to go down to Studio One tonight and listen to this Disco stuff and see if you can do this. And we were hardcore long hair Rock’N’Roll guys with Jazz backgrounds and we went “Okay, sure” - we were under contract. Mike and I went in and sat there amongst these sweaty gay guys screaming and yelling and we’re saying – “What the **** is this?” We were just shocked at what was going on. We’d never seen anything like that. Life changes when you turn left or you turn right, that is exactly what happened that night. (:icon_mrgreen::icon_cool:)
What exactly were they playing in the club that night?
It was this remixed R&B Motown stuff, Van McCoy’s ‘Hustle’ hadn’t come out yet. There was a little bit of Barry White ‘Love’s Theme’ and that was THE state of the art. "
The process of retracing the events of music that would then become disco and who were the original disco men therein remains most intriguing to me .... but it also seems that in many ways ... such as is illustrated here .... the arrival of disco was almost by spontaneous combustion ..... A force that just exploded on contact outward from within.
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