Question for the R&P baby boomers & early Gen-Xers?
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My Boomer Tips
I'm curious about the disco era and would like to hear about it from you wise souls of R&P that were teens/20's during that time period.
Was it a fad that few got into? What did people in general think about it? What did *you* think about it? Was the radio flooded with only disco, or was it rarely played?
Any information you want to give would be appreciated, I'm looking forward to your answers!
It had it’s followers thats for sure. It seems like those that did not like it REALLY did not like it. I think there were a lot of closet listeners too. The radio stations that played top 40′s obviously had a lot of disco as well as other music of the 70′s. A lot of young people today think the 70′s was all disco but thats not the case. A lot of heavy music was alive in the 70′s as well as a lot of mellow music and a lot of singer/songwriters were very popular in that decade. We did not go from the 60′s to disco to the eighties.
i never got into the disco scene. just never cared for it. i did, however, go to studio 54 a few times. didn’t care for that, either. but in certain places, there was a big scene, mostly larger cities.
radio played as it does now – a station for disco, rock, country, etc.
In my school, we had a disco vs. rock war. The rock kids hated disco, and vice-versa (often there was a racial element involved). These fights got serious, the police started monitoring the school.
Yes the radio was flooded with it, it was inescapable. Saturday Night Fever was the biggest movie around.
Good non-disco artists started adding disco beats to their tunes, the whole thing was very depressing.
Years later, I came back to appreciate disco for what it is, in retrospect. But at the time, no rock kid could listen to a disco song, unless he wanted his butt kicked after school.
I didn’t really get into it but I guess when I’ve had a few beers, I find myself able to tap my foot to some songs now
I did take my sister to a Bee Gees concert wearing my Disco Sucks tshirt. Needless to say, most concert goers were angry at me. And let’s not go into how they reacted when I tried to smoke a fattie…damn, RELAX people!
I thought most people caught up in that stuff were those trying to be like the characters from the Saturday Night Fever movie. You would go to bars and see guys with their shirts open and all those gold chains. My god, what a horrible fashion flashback!
As for the radio, it’s like it is now. Stations played rock, country, disco…whatever the station was directed towards.
This is how disco died
Disco Demolition Night was a promotional event that took place on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9XxLmdMpcA
I wasn’t into Disco but I knew quite a few women who were. I didn’t know of too many guys that were into Disco (or at least admitted it). Besides the music there was a certian fashion Disco fans wore and even Disco hair styles. Remember platform shoes and leisure suits with gold necklaces, lol.
There were lots of radio station "wars" over it. Some rock radio stations would have Disco album bonfires where people would bring their Disco records to set ablaze. It was mostly separate radio stations that only played Disco or stations that played Disco and Pop.
Edit: Stella Blue, Fatties weren’t appopriate for Disco but if you had a rolled up dollar bill, a small mirror, and some coke, you were very popular.
I loved the 70′s and I was hooked on certain aspects of disco. Mind you, I was too young to know what a gay night club was, but I loved the music. KC and the Sunshine Band, Saturday Night Fever, Evelyn King. Although I owned all of the Village People albums at one time, they are no longer in the collection….they were terrible! Never was into the fashion and can’t dance worth a lick, but the disco beat is forever in my head!