WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE INFAMOUS DISCO NIGHT?
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Don't let em fool you, bruh. The backlash to Disco had more to do with the culture wars we see still playing out to this day than anything regarding musical taste. The same way that terms like "woke" and "black lives matter" came to stand for something larger and not particularly relevant to the original intent, "Disco Sucks" was the "Let's Go Brandon" of it's era. When the "disco era" exploded, it displaced other genres that had dominated the airwaves in the years prior. More importantly, it was a microcosm of a rapidly shifting culture change in the post civil rights era. Not everybody was open to those changes. Kinda reminiscent of another more recent backlash to cultural change.
Very well put and so so true.
Absolutely, 100%. As for myself, I had the time of my life! Still to this day, as far as I'm concerned, I'ts not Disco per se, I'ts R&B, soul, jazz, Pop, and Blues, Is there really any other kind of music? Not for me there isn't, even to this day! I'm white & love to dance, feel good, & feel the heart, That's what this music does for me! Even watching the music channels, what do you see? Reacters bouncing, moving in their seat & just plain grooving! For me, that speaks volumes! 😁💃🕺🎶🎶🎶 LET THE MUSIC PLAY!
So well said.A war fumed with prejudice.Had an impact in the USA though in Europe i recall it was less effective especially North/Cental continents.
There is an AMAZING documentary about the Bee Gees called How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? They do a cool job of juxtaposing this event with the group at the height of their popularity.
DDN was really thinly veiled racism and homophobia. People didn’t just bring disco albums, they brought anything made by black people. And disco was clearly accepting of the gay community when it was still largely taboo. So people felt threatened by that.
I loved Disco and all kinds of other music. I hated what the group Bee Gees went through over it. They gave people songs for a movie that was very low budget and BOOM it was HUGE. They had to get bodyguards the death threats were so bad. They were low profile for around 9 years. The group considered their music funky but got the Disco label. The albums they made afterwards some stations refused to play and so many people missed out on some fantastic music. They reinvented themselves over and over again.
I still remember when this happened, and yes , there were tons of tshirts that said, "Disco Sucks" on them....
I didn't come to appreciate disco, until I was forced to learn a bunch of disco songs for a variety band I had just joined. Then, my respect for disco became immense, as it was much harder to play than standard rock & roll...
OMG! My bestie and I were 14 that summer. We're from Detroit and hated Disco! So, we knew we HAD to be there, but we had to figure out how we were going to do it! We pulled out a map(remember those) and Chicago seemed to be about 2 inches away (remember we were 14), which we equated to 3 hours. I'm trying to give the condensed version. Anyhow, we knew a couple boys who were going. So we rode with them - in a car the driver stole out of his driveway! This story doesn't get any better! Lol! It takes much longer than 3 hours to get there! Once we get in, we lose the boys we were with! It was still relatively calm at that time, and then it wasn't! We never found the boys, but we ran right into the police! We couldn't produce any ID. We couldn't give them a local number! They took us to the station and called our parents, who had to come pick us up!! This was not good! Our moms rode together and were so calm when they walked in! Terrifyingly calm! As soon as the station door closed, they tore into our behinds! I'm quite certain that I'm still grounded!
LOL: "I'm quite certain that I'm still grounded!" Fabulous story, which I'm sure you've recounted multiple times!
@@HidingFromFate Oh I have many stories! My bestie and I were lacking some very important brain cells and common sense! Lol
Great story!❤😂❤
IMO, Every decade has their fads, and disco was a style that was relegated to a fad status. With a 70's "brand" it was doomed to end, but it really just morphed into another popular music fad and changed the name.
It was reported that many of the albums weren't even disco, but were R&B by black artists. This is why I believe this was at least partly racially motivated.
Disco was fad. RB is not fad. Radio was segregated until 80s when POP was more than Ross and Ritchie. Unfortunately stereotype Black men are criminals is glorified in hip hop. Now woke folks think they know us.
An album was the price of admission.
People were grabbing the cheapest record they could find. I can’t speak for every person but it was not a “racist” event
I am 66 yrs old. Steve Dahl did a mini rock club tour of the disco sucks movement. One stop was in Detroit. I was in charge of keeping the spotlight on him at all times during the show. There was a back up band as well.
I saw SD and TR in Carbondale. SIU. TJ's Mc Fly's Bar. Finals were the next day. We had a blast and got so drunk. To say the least finals didn't go well! Lol!😎
Here is one of the big problems. The DJs were forced to play the top 10 or top 40 by radio station policy. So DJs & the listening public were forced to listen to the same disco records over & over. After Saturday Night Fever the movie, the BeeGees dominated with 5 songs on the Billboard top 10 all at once. So the BeeGees, the poster boys of Disco, were overexposed. It was quite unfair to the BeeGees & the Disco overall!!
It was the 1st time in 20 years that Rock music took a back seat to Disco in the mid-70's. Biggest rock bands & their fan's weren't going to let that happen, cause the disco songs continued to dominate the Billboard Charts with #1 hit songs from The Bee Gees & Donna Summers. Most Radio Stations join the band wagon & a few hard rock DJ's weren't going to stand for it. We want our music back!! But, then again their is room for all kinds of music. I love rock, pop, country, & even disco music, too. ❤
Man! me and 10 of my friends were there. Rock ‘n’ rollers hated disco so much because none of the bars were hiring rock bands anymore. They all had disco all the radio stations switched to disco except for one. disco was on the TV, the radio it was everywhere and it was replacing rock ‘n’ roll. I’m watching this very closely because the guy you just talked about sliding into second base, I was standing right there by second base when he slid in and I saw that the base moved so I pulled it out of the ground and immediately got attacked by 10 people who stole it from me. It was fun and games until the police showed up on horseback and we had to run to the centerfield wall and climb the wall with the help of people in the seats. I almost got killed that day. They had shuttle buses out front for after and they didn’t show up till everybody was out there. So I’m standing on the curb and the bus pulls up and stops in front of me and 10,000 people tried to get on it. I got smashed up against the rear tire. when the bus got full it started to pull away, and the tire was rubbing against my stomach, but my buddy got in the bus and he stuck his hand out the window. So I got the climb in the window of a city bus while it was going around the corner. It was an adventure.
My insane coal lips T-shirt, completely disintegrated into nothing. I wore it so much. So that’s my story and it’s all true …no lie!
as Trump is my witness✋
Sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
I don't think Bob Seger liked it either. " Just gimme that old time Rock and Roll, don't take me to a disco, you'll never get me out on the floor, In ten minutes I'll be late for the door " and yes, Disco sucks.
Well, while Steve Dahl was having his one night in the spotlight, the Bee Gees were laughing all the way to the bank grossing millions of dollars with their 1979 "Spirits Having Flown" tour. And, I do believe if I'm not mistaken, they actually performed in front of a sold-out audience that very same night. The backlash for them actually occurred in the early 80's when dumb disc jockeys like Dahl refused to play their new music on the air (1981's "Living Eyes", a wonderful album) so these three amazing men outsmarted these dumb jocks once again by getting their music on the radio anyway by writing songs, entire albums for that matter, for major artists like Barbara Streisand, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, Dionne Warwick and Diana Ross. All these artists saw a rejuvenation of their own careers with #1 hits thanks to the Bee Gees and our smart guys finally came out with a new album in 1987, "E.S.P." with their hit, "You Win Again", putting them back on the charts once again for a third decade in their incredible careers. Robin even had a very successful solo career in Europe from 1983 to 1985 with three great albums that he, along with his twin brother Maurice who helped him write the songs and produce the albums, was able to accomplish during this lull in his career. And, as I've said before, three very amazing men who were able to adapt to what every new decade threw at them more times than they probably cared to admit. But, that's what true genius is all about and these men were just that! Geniuses!
'Living Eyes' was a good album treated in an unfair way by USA Dj's.'Btw 'ESP" included their comeback chartbuster 'You win Again" that made huge success in Europe in 1987,it was everywhere.
@@christianoazzuro6711 Thank you for the correction. I must have had a senior moment when I wrote my comment or I was just really tired, probably the latter, or maybe a little bit of both! 😊
@@lauriebarnes2999 No apologies i do understant you.I've done far more awful job mistyping words or wrong phrases due to my poor English.lol.Btw "Jive Talking' that great groovy soulful track was even covered by George Michael in disguise back 1987 under the name Boogie Box High and was a top 10 hit in Uk.He did a fine job.
@@christianoazzuro6711 Thank you, Christiano, for making me feel better after I messed up on the '87 song title from "E.S.P." and also for that fun fact about George Michael. I didn't know that he had done a cover!
@@lauriebarnes2999 The cover is available in utube,sounds very close to the original G.M.'s voice fits fine.I still have the 12 inch from '87.Cheers.
Much of the hatred against disco was racially and socially based. Disco was a communal, inclusive music that embraced every race, creed, color, social standing, sexual orientation, and political belief. It was beloved in urban communities among minorities, and gays, as well as the rich and famous, and clubs where theese various ethnicities and socio/sexual strata met. Frankly most of the haters, who were loud, aggressive, and at times violent, were white suburban males. Ultimately they succeeded in getting disco pulled from radio stations, but they were unable to dispel the public's need for dance music.
Disco / dance music never sucked. The Problem was it was so big and popular & records sold in the millions like no other era. The market got over saturated and commercialized. The rocks folks couldn’t handle it. They Brought its image down. It was racism period. But disco never died, only the tag name did. In the 80s & 90s it became dance, house, techno. :)
I remember watching it while on vacation with my family. Made for an interesting night! Back then, people had far fewer sources to enjoy media. I remember that disco became popular fast, and that format took over radio stations, angering people. Probably the reason for the big turnout and anger towards disco.
But through all of that, KDKB stayed strong playing music that ROCKERS wanted to hear Radio is a joke now It's gone corporate Play the hit singles over and over and rarely if ever played the obscure stuff What happened to people sitting around listening to music without the fools running their mouths?
I was a rocker, disco came, and I was getting older,didn't want to listen to same old r&r, so started listening to country,disco didn't do it for me,but the chick's got all decked out they loved it😢
I couldn’t dance and dance became THE popular activity. Disco was vapid. I hated the clothes..polyester, leisure suits, etc. I hated the Bee Gees because they epitomized the disco culture. As another commentator mentioned, I dove into outlaw country and took up chewing tobacco to survive the disco atrocity. There were a few good rock groups getting airplay, but many went pop to survive. ZZ Top went from beer drinkers and hell raisers to Legs. Still better than disco, but moving closer to pop to survive. Michael MacDonald ruined the Doodie Brothers with insipid stuff like it Keeps Me Running. Peter Cetera made Chicago limp with soft tripe like if you leave me now, eschewing the gorgeous horns. Disco was like a disease to formerly good bands. Thank God for Bad Company for staying rock. And Stevie Wonder and Fleetwood Mac. But more so for Willie, Waylon, David Alan Coe, Hank Junior.
I thoroughly enjoy classic rock but don’t hate disco 🪩. At least in certain scenarios…
Disco had a run from about 1973 to 1981. But Gisco wasn't the only thing happening. Rock was still the biggest thing happening. Rock bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, The Who, Deep Purple, The Eagles, Kansas, Soft Machine, Queen, Kiss, Yes, Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Fleetwood Mac, Rush, Genesis, UFO, Roxy Music, King Crimson, Allman Brothers Band, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Santana, Electric Light Orchestra. Blue Oyster Cult, Chicago, ZZ Top, and more Rock bands were filling Stadiums. There was a resurgence of Country music, not the old stuff but what was called Outlaw Country with a grittier harder edge. Funk and Soul were out there. Reggae was around, though not as big. There will always be many kinds of music. Disco wasn't my favorite, but it was mostly what was played at school dances when I was in high school. Disco was for dancing.
Steve Dahl had a band called “ The Teenage Zombie Drug Band “ . They did a rendition of Pink Floyd’s The wall about John Wayne Gayce called another kid in the crawl. They did Blondie’s Call me but made it about a TV evangelical called Heel Me. There are many more and are all funny as hell
Another kid in the crawl. ua-cam.com/video/DGyCT7XNwEw/v-deo.htmlsi=m_qxMyp4pzvRKLsf
Do you think I’m disco ua-cam.com/video/4LAApU-QHfI/v-deo.htmlsi=Ww7yKWnIbGQyBUeV
As said in the video the worst thing too the anti disco group was that many rock artists began making disco tracks; that was just too much! Rock artists like The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Grand Funk Railroad just to name a few.
It wss disco destruction. I went to one of these events at Empire stadium put on by 99.9 Cfox in Vancouver Canada. Myself and two friends went. I had alot of albums collected some confiscated from the girls we knew. Albums from Donna summer Kc and the sunsine band , Bee Gees saturday night fever, chic, sister sledge, Bony m, Gloria Gaynor, travares, Village people, Tramps, Kool and the Gang, Abba, Chaka Kahn, 3 degrees and Barry Manilow, taste of honey, Lips and more we had to take the bus for 2 hours to get there with over a hundred record albumbs myself was heavy. 1979 I was fifteen and hated disco so much I took great pleasure in the smashing every record to pieces and throwing them on a huge pile. There was rock music like Boston and Styx, Supertramp, Foreigner, Heart, BTO, The Who, The Beatles, The Cars, playing on the loud speakers. The Mascot of The C fox radio station was there. It was estimated at over 1800 people attended It was advertised on 99.9 Cfox within 6 months disco would be over. By 1980 Disco was dead and its huge popularity was over. It really was a relief. For a few years little to no Rock music could be heard on radio except Fleetwood mac Rod stewart Do you think im Sexy Shit. I even stopped listening to the Rollingstones because they put out Emotional rescue album. I lost respect for them for many years. It may be hard to believe this. There was almost no Rock on radio in the day some on late after midnight on weekends you would get Don Kirshner Rock concert. This is why in my view it ended. The stations DJs were mostly disco oriented and alienating Rock listeners they stuffed the disco down the eardrums of all without ceasing and destroyed disco as the #1 popular music forever and many careers. To bad I actually don't mind from time to time listening to Disco today.
Rock was king at the time and Disco was everything rock was not. Beloved rock stations changed their format to chase what was hot and brought listeners and revenue. Rockers who were comfortable for a long time in jeans and t-shirts and bars that were fine with that attire were now competing for the ladies who loved to dance, at flashy disco clubs and guys decked out in silk shirts and polyester pants. Rockers saw them as phones and plastic. “Disco Sucks” was a very popular bumper sticker.
That said, how did I miss this?
I was there, then 29 today 73, disco still sucks...
I was there too. Great night! DISCO SUCKED THEN, STILL SUCKS TODAY!!!!!😎
I would say about 1975-79
I looked at it music is music you listen to what you like and don't listen to what you don't like.
Disco was like the new gangster on the block that had gotten in on the pay offs of Vito Corleone's cut of the pie that was too much for Don to be cool with . Disco was gonna get whacked but it really did not get hit too hard .
Thanks for doing this! Where I went to school, you could get your ass kicked if you listened to it around the wrong people (and there were a lot of wrong people). You almost had to be a part of that time to understand. To the best of my memory, Disco wasn't even a specific genre of music until the movie Saturday Night Fever came out... then shit hit the fan. That whole thing started the Disco Craze, and that's what got everybody pissed. Before the movie, what ended up getting lumped into the Disco pile was pretty much just Club and Dance music. Nobody got irate about it for the most part... you either liked it or you didn't. Even the early to mid 70's Bee Gee's weren't called Disco. But when Saturday Night Fever hit, It was like it was being shoved down your throat whether you liked it or not. Plus, most Rock cover bands couldn't get work, because the clubs switched from live bands to DJ's spinning Disco records. There were probably other reasons for the animosity against Disco, but those things seemed to be a part of it.
Probably, in my opinion is because it sucked Reminds me of the" boy bands. Blasphemous to call yourself a band when all you do is dance and sing to prerecorded music. You don't play instruments your not a band That crap is for people with no identity They glom onto what they think is popular Until the next fad comes along Like the new country, which is a Rock rip-off Flash pods, fancy lighting, spinning drum kits And people actually pay to go see it Country thunder my ass
I grew up listening to real Country music, my mom always had the radio tuned to KNIX in Phoenix I was 4 yrs old sitting on my brother's bed listening to Hendrix, and I was hooked. Would spend time looking through his record collection Resding lbum covers There was a band called Cactus with Carmine Appice On the back cover was the band and below the in bold print it read "Must be played at HIGH level I was fascinated. Have remained true to my roots ever since No identity crisis here
My friends and I were all rock fans (especially Punk) and everyone hated everything about Disco. There were Disco Sucks nights at the local colleges and clubs and I remember the pictures of that crazy night at the ballpark...it looked like a warzone. But things were very different back then, there wasn't the gun problem that we have now, so as chaotic and destructive as it was it wasn't as violent as what we'd end up with today.
I wouldn't have been a part of that, but disco does suck!
Here in Detroit, the biggest rock radio station WRIF came out with
D.R.E.A.D. cards, Detroit Rockers Engaged in the Abolition of Disco.
😂😂😂😂 I totally forgot they were playing the Tigers that night, lol
Everyone I knew had DREAD
cards. Got you discounts on stuff.
But, my girls and I would go to the discos because we wanted to dress up and dance.
I don’t think the disco groups really cared after all the people had to buy the albums before they destroyed them! Lol
This was actually five months before the Who tragedy, but it was still an idiotic promotion. Five years before, there was another baseball game that ended up being forfeited, though there's no music connection involved. That took place in Cleveland on June 4, 1974 and was the result of some bad blood that was already present between the teams AND more importantly, the fact that beer was being sold for 10 cents for a 12-ounce cup. Drunken idiots stormed the field and attacked the Texas Rangers, with the umpires eventually calling a forfeit.
Rich people had cocaine, which was taking all our women. It occured simultaneously with Disco.
I felt out of place.
And rockn roller had no drugs, cocaine??? Your comment makes no sense, sorry!!!
Overall many of the disco records sounded similar with much repetition though there was some outstanding memorable hits too. Some of the hatred was racial and linked r & b records with disco which had nothing to do with disco. Many people of little intelligence just like many haters of today’s society are just followers and did whatever radio host or person told them what not to like. Disco was around mostly from the mid 1970’s till the very early 1980’s. Most rock bands had sold out and were doing more pop songs rather than rock and roll and that is what led to partially why disco became so popular. People would go to dance halls, disco clubs and just dance all night. Some great dancing styles and great dancers developed over that time.Those who broke the law in a very unruly way should have been arrested. You do have a good point as the organizers should have done tine and paid a large fine.
The other thing may be that Disco was kind of elitist and intimidating, some of the music was okay, but the expectation of wearing a certain type of clothing and the fact that most dude's can't dance worth a shit probably had a lot to do with the overall disdain for it.
Disco DID suck. It still does.
Before disco, the corporate systems in place making money off of popular music were at the mercy of chance. They didn't know what was going to become a hit and what wasn't. They tried to portray the rock culture on TV, in movies and in general but always failed miserably. Do you think people actuallu acted and talked like the Mod Squad? We didn't. Anyway, disco seemed to us as the first time corporate suits were determining what would be a hit and what wouldn't. That bullshit continues today and has overshadowed real, good music for years.
Disco had some great, catchy dance songs that are still classics to this very day, but it also produced a lot of trash. I suppose it came to a head when the song "Disco Duck" became a hit. I knew Disco was over, at that point. Wow! React to that song, Chod, if nothing else for a laugh.
I was there! My buddy slid into 2nd base. Steve Daul and Teenage Radiation from The Loop fm 98 were the hosts. Cost us 98 cents and a disco record to get in. There were thousands of fans who couldn't get in Comisky Park. When they blew up the records in center field a riot broke out. There were fires in the stands. Fans overtook the field. This is when it actually got scary. The field was destroyed and center field was on fire! Game 2 of the doubleheader between the White Sox and Tigers was canceled. I was there with about a dozen of friends. Eventually we met up back at the cars. This night made national news. The news didn't do it justice, not like being there! A night I will NEVER forget!!!😎
Cool.. you participated in a piece of History.. however barbaric it may have been. That was the 70's! Rock ruled over Disco, at least on that night. I was 19 at the time and I remember it on the news.
@@4tuneagent Definitely a night I will never forget. It was a blast!!!💣💥😎
I was there. At 19, My buddy and I were Tiger fans and living in Northern Indiana we decided to go. We had no idea it was disco demolition night. It was an absolute shit show. Broken jagged album pieces were being thrown like frisbees. When the semi trailer of albums were blown up the field was rushed. We sat there for about five minutes and then agreed they are never gonna play the second game. 45 minutes into our ride home they cancelled the second game. Maybe 10% of the crowd were baseball fans. They had a cop stationed about every 50 feet along stands. Way short of enough.
Thanks for sharing.
I was getting ready for my freshman year of high school then. Remember it well.
Theres probably 15 good disco songs and the rest completely suck!
DISCO SUCKS!!!😎