THERE FOR THE GRACE OF GOD,,,,MACHINE

**ACE** · September 7th, 2004, 09:49 AM

:D Hey All: I'm brand spanking new here, and I'm elated. Who knew there was such a forum? Anyway I stumbled here trying to check out lyrics for the Machine song. I graduated in 78, and as we know it was the best time ever for dance music. Letting us loose in Wildwood, NJ when drinking age was 18 now seems insane. Fifteen girls in a beach house doing the Hustle to Donna.....FUN!!!! I'm proud to say I had a ponytail growing out the side of my head for a few years.

Did anyone else have the internal fights in the family of Disco vs Rock? My brother, and I would fistfight over the huge stereo which was like a piece of furniture. He was a WHO, and Stones guy.....I call them the male bonding groups. LOL I'd play my Evelyn Champagne King, and he'd start wacking me over my ponytail.

Glad to be here, and hope I can take that trip back with you all. BTW they have a disco version on one of these video games the kids play, and I hear my kid singing some familiar tunes. Keweeel. LOL Thanks all.

**Bernie** · September 7th, 2004, 10:06 AM

Welcome to the site! Although our family was pretty much into Disco, some of our friends were not and this caused all types of arguments for an against.

**efunk_adelic** · September 7th, 2004, 05:49 PM

Welcome Aboard.... :D

I have a similar situation in my current living status... my roommates hate anything non-rock.

One likes Jimmy Buffet :roll:
The other is younger and current rock & rap :roll:

they both hate anything to do with dance music....
so guess what I do when they are not around...

**Spellbound** · September 8th, 2004, 10:53 AM

i have never understood why such a debate should even exist

there is so much great material from the 1970's from both styles of music

early 1980's too

why would one want to limit themself?

i can watch both dazed and confused & studio 54 back to back and love them both equally

**efunk_adelic** · September 8th, 2004, 12:22 PM

Originally Written by Spellbound

i have never understood why such a debate should even exist

there is so much great material from the 1970's from both styles of music

early 1980's too

why would one want to limit themself?

i can watch both dazed and confused & studio 54 back to back and love them both equally

I am also versatile, because I can enjoy music from both those movies and I own all those CD's from both movies.

One of them likes MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA (allthough not disco) he's in his mid 20's... and was a former dj , mobile jock by the way.

I've tried to play different types of stuff for him funk or disco and the main reason why he doesn't appreciate it is that he likes to hear songs where all musicians are jammin'

I played CHICAGO'S - CHICAGO II and he about barfed, he said it sounds like a bad theme song from an old TV show... :lol:

the other one is into STARS WARS...

I played MECO- THEME FROM STAR WARS for him in fact last week.... lmao besides, he's just a typical white male who was to young to enjoy it...

**Rab** · September 8th, 2004, 07:18 PM

I vividly remember those days back in the late 1970's. Highschool years were tough. Anyone who liked disco, particularly male listeners had to be in the "closet" about" it. And there wasn't that much more support from the girls. It was considered gay music. I was the only one in my family that liked the music. After I graduated, when I was completely out and was attending the gay clubs it was the first time I met other people that lived and breathed disco the way I did. I think for a lot of gay guys it was like one of those final missing puzzle pieces that finally came together. The clubs back then were incredible, sadly the whole art of mixing has been lost since then. The only collectors I've ever known were gay guys.

For those that don't understand the hostility centered around disco, they don't understand the culture of the time period. It never made any sense but the conspiracy to destroy it and drive it underground was relentless.

**Videoskooter** · September 8th, 2004, 07:43 PM

When I was still in school in the 70's almost nobody liked disco.

There were 3 units in the classroom: the folkies (Simon and Garfunkel, Dylan,...), the Hard-Rock guys (Zeppelin, AC/DC) en me :D the discoguy. I really was the only one, at least in my class and I really didn't know any other pupils that were much into the dancesound. They laughed at me, they called me gay (even when they knew I had a girlfriend) and myself, I honestly didn't give a damn about it. I bought the records I liked and I listened to what I liked. And I told them many times to go and F:o...their :o

I always had one principle and that was and is: If I like something and if it doesn't hurt anybody , I'm gonna do it and I simply don't need the permission of the sheeps.

And BTW my parents who only listened to classical and opera didn't like disco but they preferred it to the terrible noise of Rock or the wheeping of the softies. My dad even said sometimes that certain instrumentals were very much related to classical compositions.

"Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another".

I FEEL DISCO GOOD

**DJ Marky Mark** · September 10th, 2004, 06:21 PM

I've just searched out my original RCA 12" copy of the Machine, There but for the grace single, and WoW it still sounds fresh and POWERFUL today. If I was still DJ'ing I would have NO hesitation of playing this track during a thumpin house set!

**Anonymous** · September 14th, 2004, 04:16 PM

I've never had a problem with family members in regards to disco. I inherited alot of my disco leanings from my mother who bought Sylvester,Chic,and Donna Summer records. It was also very common in black households in the 1970s to find the soundtrack to [i]Shaft,a few Barry White albums here or there, and Chic. You did have your hardcore funk heads who would diss disco, but for the most part, I remember "Fly Robin Fly" being played on the school playground, and hearing disco and funk records played back to back on most local radio stations. Maybe because I was so young, I didn't get the backlash at the time. My mother even took me to see "Can't Stop The Music" for chrissakes! And I do recall seeing the ads for "Thank God It's Friday" when I was only 9 years old, and thinking-"I wish I was in that club!"I came up in the hip-hop era as a devout house music head, so I know from a more modern point of view, what anti-disco sentiment is about-homophobia,fear of expression through the art of dancing,etc,etc...Nevertheless, I remain a devoted househead, and I still love my disco!