My boomer mom told me how she liked punk and Disco when she was young. She told me how she'd be with the punk kids across the street where they were playing disco and chanting Disco sucks.
@@applescruff1969 Nonsense, Steve Dahl was just an edgelord who didn't want to admit it that he liked it up the ass. Even if it was a trend, Disco managed to bring people of different backgrounds together and was just hated for being something different which is the same thing that happened to rock in the 50s through 60s. Plus sucks for him because disco is making comeback with the millennial crowd.
Music was meant to evolve and change. Music was also meant to have many different creative sounds and styles too FOR ALL HUMAN CULTURES not just Steve Dahl's and Rock Bands Culture of the 1970's or the Pre- 1950's Rock & Roll People's Culture such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Etc.
Back then people were a lot more immersed into the popular culture and trends than now. These days some people might hate hip hop or something but can simply ignore it and pretty much never hear it because we have far more listening options and devices now. Pretty much everyone listened to radio back then and they all had TV but only with a few channels. If a popular craze annoyed you back then it was a lot harder to just ignore it.
Yeah, that's what a lot of commenters are failing to acknowledge. Of course disco isn't all bad, plenty of great and terrible songs, but overexposure of any genre is eventually going to break people when like you said, they only had a few ways to listen to music without going out and buying a bunch of records themselves. The internet changed all that, but before then you were basically fucked and at the mercy of radio/tv stations, bars, nightclubs, etc if you couldn't afford your own copies of the music you like
I am a ballpark vendor who sold beer at Sox that night. The Sox were not drawing, and over 50,000 showed up this night to watch Dahl do this thing between games of a double header. Dahl whipped fans into such a frenzy, that they stormed the field. We vendors went out there too! Sold some beer, then realized we could be robbed or killed...so we got out of there. The fans ruined the field, forcing the Sox to cancel game 2. They had to spray paint the field green as fans pulled out grass.
I remember that! I wasn't at the disco demolition, I had to work the next morning. I had tickets to see REO Speedwagon, and my mom grounded me b/c she found a roach in the ash tray in her car. Fun times. I wish I could go back & relive my youth. I'd make better decisions about my education.
@54. It's neat to hear from somebody at this event who worked as a vendor. I'm sure you were shocked with what you saw with this crowd who didn't give a hoot about the ballgame but were only there for this event.
it did get commercialized.....and yes, dahl never said he was anti-gay or anti-black, but to deny that the droves of people wasn't at least partially due to those sentiments is ridiculous.
this was a silly time. If something sucks that bad, why spend time/energy bashing it. It was the same with the Auto Workers in Detroit smashing Made in Japan Cars (Honda)...well we all see how well that effort worked out for them.
i've never had a problem with any music style or genre that makes humans feel positive and get up to dance in any decade. Anyone that hates that has some type of problem internally with them. Life is too short to not want something that actually makes humans feel good and happy regardless what style of music it is.
I think a few factors played in disco's ugly demise: 1) Apathetic audience who'd simply grown tired of it's over saturation (though I doubt they had that level of hostility toward the genre to want to go set things on fire) 2) Nervous middle aged white rockers finding their position of influence and privilege in the world being challenged. 3) The sound was already changing quite drastically and this just sped up it's evolution into New Wave and Synthpop.
No comparison with other events you mentioned: this was a rally "against" something, not a pacific gathering. These people reminds me the ones burning Beatles' records in early Sixties. And also: no girls in the mob!!
Yes--exactly! That's the way I remember it too. That Thriller was nuth'n but basic power disco...I tried to tell my friends that, but they always told me I was crazy, that it's not disco...but indeed it is! So, it was Walter Yetnikoff that complained about MTV back then. I'm sure at the time, MTV was try'n to be careful NOT to play anything like disco. Too bad that they finally gave in. Anyway, U said it right- techno and rap/hip hop is today's new disco. Rock is STILL doing good despite it..
Steve Dahl was naturally afraid of change in the Music scene business because it would put people like him out of business just like the older 1930's-1940's Heydey media generations were who hated Rock & Roll Music when it first became big in the 1950's.
his own parodies for one....Do You Think I'm Disco? he's just mad he got fired when wdai changed there format to disco.....anyway, im done, have fun....
🌐📻🎧🕺🏻💃🎶😃DISCO is still alive and still cool on 2020'ies. Steve DAHL must be angry when he heard DISCO MUSIC on Chrismas parties or on the Restaurants or on the radio when he drive his car😂😂😂. We can heard DISCO MUSIC on 2029'ies😊.
Haha, someone mentioned that David Gilmour hated disco with a passion. Funny how years later, he would be singing Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" during a soundcheck on his last solo tour. Search for it on UA-cam if you don't believe me.
They televise it o 44. I remember sitting at home (I was 11 at the time) and couldn't believe what I was seeing. I wanted to be there just because it would have given me a chance to be on the field! I remember Harry Caray & Jimmy Piersal talking on camera and saying they weren't going to show what was happening on the field because it was disgusting. I was so surreal they were sitting there talking about baseball while you could tell all hell had broken lose on the field below.
Disco WAS NOT being pushed down anyone's throats. It was a genre of black music that the rock fans hated mainly because EVERYBODY enjoyed and danced to it, and rock music was pretty much going down the toilet at that time. 99% of disco was not bad.
One destroyed batting cage, one wrecked field, stolen bases, and the White Sox losing both games (the second game was forfeited to Detroit). Why wasn't Steve Dahl fired from his job for this?
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Okay,let's not fight about who likes what music,and hates other kinds of music.How about if they blow up "Hannah Montana",or "Jonas Brothers" CD's instead,then I hope no one would get upset.Deal?
This is what happen when a music style died in glory...like Jesus Christ , Disco resurection was inevitable , it took 20 years but in the 2nd part of years 1990's , Disco came back to life while ROCK music was dying for good with no memorials no priest , no funerals ceremony and in total indifference...
This happended inbetween games of a Major League baseball double header. This guy made a total ass of himself and eventually caused a riot with fans storming the field and tearing up old Comiskey Park in Chicago. Thus, the White Sox had to forfeit the second game of the Double header. All this just to oppose a type of music? Couldn't they have come up with a more important topic concering the US? Wow, how times have changed.
True studio 54 did massive drug use, but that was only 1 out of 10,000 US discos. Alot of people at other discos were classy and well dressed and maybe ocasionally did a little coke. They were not heavy pot smokers and used LSD like a lot of rockers did.
Studio 54 was a pompous NYC disco with outrageous cover charge that arbitrarily only let certain folks who fit their "hip" image in. That sort of thing was never legal in Chicago where a dress code was posted at the entrance and as long as you met the dress code standard and had proper ID and didn't appear too drunk, you had to be let in or owners could face charges of discrimination and lose their license. ☺
Too bad all the music class students today follows Steve Dahls footsteps. Disco is a more of a hippieculture gone stable and neat. The same values is there, like Love, Peace and Understanding.
No, actually the answer is exactly correct! It can be proven. Rap/Hip-Hop has it's roots in disco, which is well documented--look it up on the internet. You can do a search on "Disco Lives! Actually, It Never Died" and U'll find several sites that varify that Rap/Hip-Hop, Trance, Gabber, Electronica, etc are all rooted in disco. (BTW, that's the later phase of disco; the first phase was rather benign.)
I used to like disco, along with rock and some country as well. I was quite unbiased and I didn't understand why the big anti-disco movement was occurring... until some disco folks started put'n me down for liking rock music, telling me that "Rock is dead!", "Rock Sucks!", etc. THEN I began to understand why the rockers were against disco- it wasn't so much the music, but the disco attitude that they hated. Sad to say, that same 'disco' attitude is in today's rap, hip-hop, and techno music.
Andres Arias Are you claiming not liking rap is racist? Oh pleeez! White folks invented rap. Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb AND Convoy were 1st and 2nd rap songs on the Top 40. ☺
A lot of people don't understand that Disco put a lot of local musicians out of work!! Some clubs tried to compromise by playing Disco tunes,during the band's break,but still Disco did it's damage!! For a lot of musicians,it was a "Wake Up Call",to get day jobs,and/or go back to school to learn a skill to back you up!!
hey Steve Doll why don't you blow up some of those hip-hop records because it contains off key singing profanity and dangerous stupid ass lyrics no chord patterns its low quality music
ahh that suxs disco was jivin, they should do this to rap lol a hard headed jockey or dahl, but todays rock or pop blows, got to get some real good bands.
6:15 shows the dreadful White Sox uniforms from back then...of course, this video also shows the lovely Lorelei, who fueled many of my hottest fantasies during puberty...
He wasn't just criticizing the music itself... it was the way of life in that time.
My boomer mom told me how she liked punk and Disco when she was young. She told me how she'd be with the punk kids across the street where they were playing disco and chanting Disco sucks.
Yes he was he was a Fu*king idiot
The way of life at the time was one was either with the disco loving crowd or the rock and roll loving crowd.
There's good and bad music from every genre. Not as simple as saying the whole thing sucks, or the whole thing is great
Yeah, but disco was a trend that led to every awful genre afterwards. Hard not to hate it.
@@applescruff1969 Nonsense, Steve Dahl was just an edgelord who didn't want to admit it that he liked it up the ass. Even if it was a trend, Disco managed to bring people of different backgrounds together and was just hated for being something different which is the same thing that happened to rock in the 50s through 60s. Plus sucks for him because disco is making comeback with the millennial crowd.
@@Juanhernandez-zx7kt ) this.
Music was meant to evolve and change. Music was also meant to have many different creative sounds and styles too FOR ALL HUMAN CULTURES not just Steve Dahl's and Rock Bands Culture of the 1970's or the Pre- 1950's Rock & Roll People's Culture such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Etc.
he did all that and the BeeGees music is still popular. one of the best groups of all time...
How is it that the Disco Demolition would've worked more in TODAYS era then back then???
Back then people were a lot more immersed into the popular culture and trends than now. These days some people might hate hip hop or something but can simply ignore it and pretty much never hear it because we have far more listening options and devices now. Pretty much everyone listened to radio back then and they all had TV but only with a few channels. If a popular craze annoyed you back then it was a lot harder to just ignore it.
Yeah, that's what a lot of commenters are failing to acknowledge. Of course disco isn't all bad, plenty of great and terrible songs, but overexposure of any genre is eventually going to break people when like you said, they only had a few ways to listen to music without going out and buying a bunch of records themselves. The internet changed all that, but before then you were basically fucked and at the mercy of radio/tv stations, bars, nightclubs, etc if you couldn't afford your own copies of the music you like
I was there! Can't believe it was 30 years ago, damn i'm old....
Now it's 41 years ago...
Jajaja 11 years Later
nearly 43 years ago
now you're even older lmao
nazinfidel
Steve Dahl certainly achieved a great deal of notoriety during that time.
I am a ballpark vendor who sold beer at Sox that night. The Sox were not drawing, and over 50,000 showed up this night to watch Dahl do this thing between games of a double header.
Dahl whipped fans into such a frenzy, that they stormed the field. We vendors went out there too! Sold some beer, then realized we could be robbed or killed...so we got out of there.
The fans ruined the field, forcing the Sox to cancel game 2. They had to spray paint the field green as fans pulled out grass.
I remember that! I wasn't at the disco demolition, I had to work the next morning. I had tickets to see REO Speedwagon, and my mom grounded me b/c she found a roach in the ash tray in her car. Fun times. I wish I could go back & relive my youth. I'd make better decisions about my education.
@54. It's neat to hear from somebody at this event who worked as a vendor. I'm sure you were shocked with what you saw with this crowd who didn't give a hoot about the ballgame but were only there for this event.
@@robertmasina7388 Do remember what happened to the ball field, and the fall-out afterwards?
it did get commercialized.....and yes, dahl never said he was anti-gay or anti-black, but to deny that the droves of people wasn't at least partially due to those sentiments is ridiculous.
disco is better, and yep, rap, hip hop, techno are all descendants of disco, showing that it will never die......house music all night long
Steve Dahl was threatened by Disco. How funny is that. Ha! Ha!
You have a wild imagination.
LOL! I love Nancy Faust playing the organ to the chant "disco sucks."
So This guy hated disco but not most of us. Disco open the doors to House music and Techno.
He was just a fat jealous twat, period
It's time for a modern pop demolition! Who's with me?
How about a K-LOVE demolition?🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
So who's going to target Taylor Swift & her vacuous fans? 😂
@@luisreyes1963 I'm down!
Next will be KPop demolition night
Being fired from a radio station that went to a disco formant turned Steve Dahl into a bitter and resentful little man. He'll burn in hell.
The loop fm 98 Chicagos kick ass rock and roll station
I remember people painting the word disco underneath the stop sign.
Yup, that's 1 event that got WAY outa control! Even Steve was shocked about it. I Don't think it ended up the way he intended it.
this was a silly time. If something sucks that bad, why spend time/energy bashing it. It was the same with the Auto Workers in Detroit smashing Made in Japan Cars (Honda)...well we all see how well that effort worked out for them.
My moms friend said to look this up because I wanted to go to a panic at the disco concert...
Drunk History.
even though i was not born that year, it looks like a crazy event that people were lucky enough to experience.
People like the DJ in this video clip were having their livelihood threatened by disco. Follow the money ...
11 years later jajaja
kinda amazing they wanted to do this twice too......can only imagine how a 2nd time would have gone.
i've never had a problem with any music style or genre that makes humans feel positive and get up to dance in any decade. Anyone that hates that has some type of problem internally with them. Life is too short to not want something that actually makes humans feel good and happy regardless what style of music it is.
the answer is wrong..The disco attitude is in House music and not hip hop, rap and electronic music.
Modern Pop Sucks! Modern Pop Sucks!! Modern Pop Sucks!!!
It was meant to be entertainment between two games of a double header. Those who didn't want to sit through the second game could have left.
Are they the same sweet heart tolerant mates who entered in the capitol 41 years later january 6th 2021 USA?
Disco rules. In France we love wine and disco (Daft punk is french). Billboard 2021 january top 10: 2 EDM disco tracks versus zero Rock and Suck music
@John Mateus No rock sux and is violent
@John Mateus OK I can't change your mind
I think a few factors played in disco's ugly demise:
1) Apathetic audience who'd simply grown tired of it's over saturation (though I doubt they had that level of hostility toward the genre to want to go set things on fire)
2) Nervous middle aged white rockers finding their position of influence and privilege in the world being challenged.
3) The sound was already changing quite drastically and this just sped up it's evolution into New Wave and Synthpop.
No comparison with other events you mentioned: this was a rally "against" something, not a pacific gathering. These people reminds me the ones burning Beatles' records in early Sixties. And also: no girls in the mob!!
just......don't listen to it...? just a thought.
Wow...now I know why Steve had a Disco Demolition!
What were they so scared of?
Don't be deceived. This video clearly expresses anger and hatred because disco was at that time popular with white and straight middle class Americans
this!
stop making "there should be an ~X~ demolition!" jokes
Perhaps, but the 60's and the 70's did pretty good too.
Nah 80's had the most creative music ever.
I was there for my best friend;s birthday and my parents were there too!
Yes--exactly! That's the way I remember it too. That Thriller was nuth'n but basic power disco...I tried to tell my friends that, but they always told me I was crazy, that it's not disco...but indeed it is!
So, it was Walter Yetnikoff that complained about MTV back then. I'm sure at the time, MTV was try'n to be careful NOT to play anything like disco. Too bad that they finally gave in. Anyway, U said it right- techno and rap/hip hop is today's new disco. Rock is STILL doing good despite it..
Steve Dahl was naturally afraid of change in the Music scene business because it would put people like him out of business just like the older 1930's-1940's Heydey media generations were who hated Rock & Roll Music when it first became big in the 1950's.
Not even close.
Steve Dahl loses his job and career but disco never dies...
Steve' Dahls career lasted LONG past that event! #CrackIsWhack
Disco's been around for around 40 years now,and it's not going anywhere.
his own parodies for one....Do You Think I'm Disco? he's just mad he got fired when wdai changed there format to disco.....anyway, im done, have fun....
steve dahl is the shit. I was 7 yrs old when this happened and i remember this like yesterday.
🌐📻🎧🕺🏻💃🎶😃DISCO is still alive and still cool on 2020'ies. Steve DAHL must be angry when he heard DISCO MUSIC on Chrismas parties or on the Restaurants or on the radio when he drive his car😂😂😂. We can heard DISCO MUSIC on 2029'ies😊.
The Insane Coho Lips shall rise again...Be Afraid...😬
Haha, someone mentioned that David Gilmour hated disco with a passion. Funny how years later, he would be singing Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" during a soundcheck on his last solo tour. Search for it on UA-cam if you don't believe me.
Is it just me or does the bearded guy shown in the center of this procession in the opening seconds of the video look a hell of a lot like Barry Gibb?
Meanwhile, compared to rap and hip hop disco is Mozart
Epic.
They televise it o 44. I remember sitting at home (I was 11 at the time) and couldn't believe what I was seeing. I wanted to be there just because it would have given me a chance to be on the field! I remember Harry Caray & Jimmy Piersal talking on camera and saying they weren't going to show what was happening on the field because it was disgusting. I was so surreal they were sitting there talking about baseball while you could tell all hell had broken lose on the field below.
They should do something like this for (c)rap music. lol
Haha cRap is not music, it is .....hell I don’t know what it is but it not music!
Disco WAS NOT being pushed down anyone's throats. It was a genre of black music that the rock fans hated mainly because EVERYBODY enjoyed and danced to it, and rock music was pretty much going down the toilet at that time. 99% of disco was not bad.
You summed it up right...
One destroyed batting cage, one wrecked field, stolen bases, and the White Sox losing both games (the second game was forfeited to Detroit). Why wasn't Steve Dahl fired from his job for this?
he was, two years later!
"The Insane Coho Lips Anti-Disco Army"
You will pay for this, Steve!
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Okay,let's not fight about who likes what music,and hates other kinds of music.How about if they blow up "Hannah Montana",or "Jonas Brothers" CD's instead,then I hope no one would get upset.Deal?
I wish they'd do this to Reality TV Shows
Squid Game, anyone? 🦑
Steve Dahl el Hitler loco de los 70s.
Without look'n it up, what does "R n B" stand for? (Hint: it does NOT stand for "Rap n Beat")
Great stuff. Dahl's "Disco Death" song after this wasn't that good though. Everything else was top notch marketing and amusement.
This is what happen when a music style died in glory...like Jesus Christ , Disco resurection was inevitable , it took 20 years but in the 2nd part of years 1990's , Disco came back to life while ROCK music was dying for good with no memorials no priest , no funerals ceremony and in total indifference...
If there was a black metal demolition night... shit would be serious.
not the bee gees 😖
They say there aren't Monsters...Wrong This Man Killed the love and Beauty of Music.
If a bunch of cokeheads dancing to shitty, artless music is you're idea of "love and beauty", you ought to get your head checked.
*your
How does disco rule? ...what does it rule?
This happended inbetween games of a Major League baseball double header. This guy made a total ass of himself and eventually caused a riot with fans storming the field and tearing up old Comiskey Park in Chicago. Thus, the White Sox had to forfeit the second game of the Double header. All this just to oppose a type of music? Couldn't they have come up with a more important topic concering the US? Wow, how times have changed.
True studio 54 did massive drug use, but that was only 1 out of 10,000 US discos. Alot of people at other discos were classy and well dressed and maybe ocasionally did a little coke. They were not heavy pot smokers and used LSD like a lot of rockers did.
Studio 54 was a pompous NYC disco with outrageous cover charge that arbitrarily only let certain folks who fit their "hip" image in. That sort of thing was never legal in Chicago where a dress code was posted at the entrance and as long as you met the dress code standard and had proper ID and didn't appear too drunk, you had to be let in or owners could face charges of discrimination and lose their license. ☺
I was there. lol
Can you explain what you mean?
It seems a little to close to a book burning to me. Definitely sensing a hostile vibe.
I would host a similar event for Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat and Billie Eyelash CD’s.
I personally don't know why it happened.
Cause that would upset all the straight guys who worshiped those bands and make them question their own sexuality.
Too bad all the music class students today follows Steve Dahls footsteps.
Disco is a more of a hippieculture gone stable and neat. The same values is there, like Love, Peace and Understanding.
No, actually the answer is exactly correct! It can be proven. Rap/Hip-Hop has it's roots in disco, which is well documented--look it up on the internet. You can do a search on "Disco Lives! Actually, It Never Died" and U'll find several sites that varify that Rap/Hip-Hop, Trance, Gabber, Electronica, etc are all rooted in disco. (BTW, that's the later phase of disco; the first phase was rather benign.)
I used to like disco, along with rock and some country as well. I was quite unbiased and I didn't understand why the big anti-disco movement was occurring... until some disco folks started put'n me down for liking rock music, telling me that "Rock is dead!", "Rock Sucks!", etc. THEN I began to understand why the rockers were against disco- it wasn't so much the music, but the disco attitude that they hated. Sad to say, that same 'disco' attitude is in today's rap, hip-hop, and techno music.
Target Field should have a Yankee jersey demolition night! Lol!!!
I'm still waiting for rap demolition. ☺
WytZox1 I'm still waiting for a racism demolition.
Andres Arias W-w-w-w-what?!?!?!? ☺
WytZox1 Yep.
Andres Arias Are you claiming not liking rap is racist? Oh pleeez! White folks invented rap. Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb AND Convoy were 1st and 2nd rap songs on the Top 40. ☺
He's the worst chanter, ever.
@SisterUnity Great analysis of the evolution of disco.
I keep getting asked if I'm related to him. Just a coincidence.
I agree with you. It will die pretty soon, if not next year.
Why do they hate disco so much? lol
They can't dance!
I remember the cool kids carrying a D.R.E.A.D card. Then on the weekends they'd go to the disco clubs and community centers. 😆
A lot of people don't understand that Disco put a lot of local musicians out of work!! Some clubs tried to compromise by playing Disco tunes,during the band's break,but still Disco did it's damage!! For a lot of musicians,it was a "Wake Up Call",to get day jobs,and/or go back to school to learn a skill to back you up!!
What do you mean?
I remember people painting the word disco underneath the stop signs. Then rap happened. Jeez
Ok then. Explain to me why then that Disco was more acceptable in Philadelphia and New York
who that tied phillies game?
What have got agains rock?
hey Steve Doll why don't you blow up some of those hip-hop records because it contains off key singing profanity and dangerous stupid ass lyrics no chord patterns its low quality music
1979, modern hip-hop doesn't exist yet.
+Hiroko Kaku hip hop really sounds like Shit blow up those records
Hiroko Kaku hip-hop exsist now and it sounds like garbage, blow up those records
@jigyoda rap hip-hop is shitty off key low quality music nonsense
@jigyoda and only good thing is they get rich off low quality shitty so called music
Were you around when all this happened? Do you remember who criticized eho first?
ahh that suxs disco was jivin, they should do this to rap lol a hard headed jockey or dahl, but todays rock or pop blows, got to get some real good bands.
I agree with you!
You right!
At 2:56 there's a guy with a box. Apparently he was trying to hide a Bee Gees record he was trying to make off with!
same here
6:15 shows the dreadful White Sox uniforms from back then...of course, this video also shows the lovely Lorelei, who fueled many of my hottest fantasies during puberty...
That looked harmless enough. I guess everyone went nuts and stormed the field shortly after it.