Also Bill Curtis has one of the most recognizable voices in news broadcasting history lol... he looked young and different but I recognized his voice right away.
I can’t believe I actually watched this TV game in real-time when I was a young teenager staying at my cousin’s home who lived in a Chicago suburb. It was quite an epic event at the time watching it especially when not expecting a melee to unfold on a baseball field and television. Those were the days though!!!
@@seamac206 as far as the word disco u r correct. MJ don't stop til u get enough, no more tears summer n striesand both hit no.1. the three platinum sings of 1980? Funky town lips Inc, Queen another one bites the dust, take ur time the sos band. 2 out of 3 peaking @ no.1. the word died, dance music didn't.
I was there and had just been released from Rush Presbyterian for cancer. it was a gift from my sister and her boyfriend to celebrate my getting out. We were on the first base side and decided to stay in the stands. What a memory.
The funniest thing about this is that more than half the people that were involved in this back then, miss the disco days and wish they could go back. I know a lot of people that still listen to disco today.
You on crack??? Geez. Them was my people, my age. Obviously they were big city folk. Looking for alittle fun, beer, pot, etc....We loved our RnR...Zep, Stones, Aerosmith....and still do.
Senile Animal god why can’t you people accept that music is subjective, no matter who you are you look like an idiot when you suggest getting rid of an art form.
@@depecher6s311 calling EDM, trance, dubstep, Rave an art form? It isn't an art form if it is done by some computer programming person and not done by people playing an actual musical instrument. All this dance BS that got popular all eventually died. This EDM and all this other electro techno programming computer crap will die as well. Guess what! Real musical genres will always stay alive. Classical music and traditional old world Celtic folk music is still around for many centuries and will stay alive for many future centuries. The popular forms of real music from the 20th century that was done by real musicians that played with real instruments like Jazz, blues, country & western, American folk, Americana, Rock, metal and a combination of these art forms together will will stay alive as well. As long as music is real and played with real instruments these genres will stay alive for many centuries. Music that is not done by real musicians but done by computer programming DJ's will have great short term success only and then die overnight.
punk 2008 nice paragraph, but by the same logic digital drawing isn’t art either, so I won’t accept that. I personally don’t like electronic music at all, but I’m not stupid enough to suggest it isn’t a form of musical expression. It takes skill, precision, foresight and everything else playing a physically instrument requires.
@@depecher6s311 It is just someone with great computer skills and nothing else. Stop trying to defend this crap since you claim that you don't like this BS. Not only is it crap but it sounds like video game effects. It is ripping off Pacman and many other video games, lol! Why the hell would anyone want to her some computer expert DJ that uses these synth sounding video game effects in music? These video game sound effects are annoying as hell and this EDM stuff mixes this crap with popular songs as well as other dumbass sound effects. So this is a form of musical expression? Video games are very popular today so I guess that I shouldn't be surprised that people actually like to hear these weird sounds mixed with popular mainstream songs. Don't know how you can say that using other musicians songs and mix in weird video game sounds is a form of musical expression but apparently it is lol! I have the right to rip this shit and rip people that like this shit. I am not and never will be politically correct.
they tried to kill disco music..they couldn't..it just went underground and merged into house music..still going strong 35 years on..and on..and on..rip Frankie!
Vaughn reed jr “get lucky”, “uptown funk” “treasure” “love never felt so good” “can’t stop the feeling”, all these were number one hits from 2013 to today. And they’re all disco.
All I can say is, finally someone posts some thirty year old television footage that doesn't look like it's 2,000 years old. It's, for once, like I remember seeing it.
Disco was a victim of its own success. "Disco 77", a live dance show broadcast from Ft. Lauderdale in the summer of 1977, actually had very listenable playlist, but "Disco Magic", the show's successor one year later, didn't come close to measuring up. Too much had happened after "Saturday Night Fever" went viral; suddenly everyone, including rock stars and even country stars, had to record a disco hit. The quality of disco records accordingly took a very sharp nosedive, and it never recovered.
I must admit, this was not 1 of Chicago's brightest moments in history, but what a time we had! After all, me & my brother witnessed the carnage on TV back then!
I was 18 in 1979. I remember the music very well. Rock was great in the late '70s with the groups you mentioned, BUT, by 1979 it was at a major crossroad. You were too young, but Punk & New Wave was squashing Classic '70s-style Rock and finally put it in its grave by the early '80s. 1979 was a battlefield for all '70s genres "fighting" to see who would make it into the next decade.
@corkscrew. I too was 18 that year, I had just graduated high school in 1979. I remember what it was like to be an adolescent at the time. One was either for rock and roll music or for disco music.
My dad took me and my two friends there for my 11th birthday. We were sitting behind home plate. The players had one eye on the game and one eye on flying 45's and 33's. It was amazing how far those things could be thrown,lol. I remember afterwards it was crazy trying to get out of there. My was an ex football player in the 60's so he huddled us around him an barreled thry the crowd to get to the exit. There were fights all around us. Those were some good memories at that stadium.
For you youngsters "Disco Demolition" was the perfect climate for the times. As a Black male 18 year old from Chicago's North side the 70's was about rebellion and freedom. You were either on the"left" or the "right". No in between. I loved Disco, Soul, Raggae, Punk, and even Rock. But as a youngster I truly related to the "Demolition". Hell, in 1979 a lot of the white guys on the field probably couldn't stand me, but I wore a "LOOP" T-Shirt right along with them. Thanks
I love all of those genres too and I’m black but disco is freakin’ amazing ❤️🪩💃🕺 What the hell was wrong with those people in that stadium and what was wrong with Steve Dahl’s ears? Disco strangely enough rocks ❤️
In retrospect I think rock/punk/metalheads were a little to hard on disco. It really isn't THAT bad of music. (this coming from a metalhead) It was just so wildly different from anything else at the time. One of those moments I wish I had access to a time machine and warn both rock and disco fans that music is going to get so, SO much fucking worse! If seventies rockers had just a glimpse of millenial corporate rock, they would probably embrace and accept disco.
This bubblegum pop shit today is far worse than disco. Plus this EDM, trance, dubstep, Rave etc also makes me want to vomit. Disco does sound great when compared to modern popular music like the stuff I just mentioned. Hell even this crap is being mixed with rock and metal music and many young adults today actually love this stuff. When I tell young adults that this music isn't music and is just being done by a DJ with great computer programming experience but that these people aren't real musicians they call me an elitist. They also call myself too close minded since I don't embrace these newer forms of so called musical genres. I tell them that I love tons of genres besides rock and metal such as classical, jazz, blues, country & western, bluegrass, Americana. folk, celtic folk, Japanese folk, any kind of old world folk from around the world, and love it when rock and metal mixes these genres together they still call me an elitist because I don't embrace this EDM, trance, dubstep, Rave etc. When I tell them that much of the most popular forms of music from the 20th century is based off of the blues and are in reality subgenres of the blues and heavily criticize this younger generation for following these newer techno dance forms of music and not supporting old school blues music than they say "get lost baby boomer". The blues is totally lost with today's youth because I see less than 5% of these young adults, teenagers and preteens at blues festivals and blues concerts. It is in reality probably less than 1% and this should be very scary for rock and metalheads that so many of today's young adults are not blues fans since rock and metal are in reality subgenres of the blues. If this trend continues than rock and metal will no longer be rock and metal but just a blend of this stuff mixed in with this computer programmed techno dance stuff done by a computer programming DJ expert.
There are actually a bunch of rock-disco, metal-disco, and punk-disco hybrid songs of great appeal. Singers known for disco were starting to embrace the rock guitar backing sound in 1979 (Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" is just one example), while bands like KISS and the Rolling Stones who came from the opposite side were turning disco. In Europe there was an interesting rock-disco version of "For Your Love" by Chilly, and Jackie's "Under Fire" is another great and famous rock-disco hybrid, but neither of those became big hits in the U.S.
As if the genres that followed were better? No more fun, dancing, good music....And everyone overweight, great.. Good call on this....Thank God Disco Music is going mainstream again.
Actually, the idea was Veeck's, he included Steve Dahl because he was the most outrageous rock jock around, the original of the so-called 'shock' jocks; the event corresponded with a previous "Teen Night" as well as a "Disco Night" so Mike wanted a rock night and knew about the comedy bit that Steve did on the radio, it just seemed to fit. All in all it was just bad planning, lack of security, too many people, too much alcohol (and whatever!), but it was never intended to be the event it became.
+2007vidz none, because stupid mass don't want guitar blues anymore, they just want stupid dance songs about sex, rock is now in the place of jazz, sophisticated music for smart people
+2007vidz The music represents the times. People are getting farther and farther away from the daunting reality that the rug has been pulled out from under their sorry asses by their governments and corporations. Electronic dance music, even more so than disco, is the ultimate escape from reality into some delusional E-induced fantasy world. Nothing gets accomplished. No problems are solved, none are even fucking acknowledged. At least disco had SOME music that is slightly relevant (i.e. I Will Survive). EDM is a psychosis unto itself. The Macbook is playing as Rome burns. By the way, hip hop wasn't "born out of" disco as much as it was a reaction against it, you sad revisionist. Young rappers started writing music relevant to their struggle, from their hearts, as disco became elitist, excluding, white asshole music (much like EDM today). Hip hop is a very organic, real style, which is why it never died like disco did, and like EDM will. Rock and roll will also survive. Neither hip hop (other than Fetty Wap, god help us) or rock and roll are on the charts or radio. However, rock and rap videos are still regularly hitting the 100's of millions of views on UA-cam, highlighting the irrelevance of the charts and radio in the first place. Jazz and funk are coming back. Organic music is on the increase. EDM? It peaked last year lol. People are sick of synthetic music and want something more raw. Hip hop is the likely candidate to kill EDM, but I do hope rock will manage to reinvent itself and lend a hand.
I love how Harry Caray tried to get them back to the seats by singing "Take me out to the Ballgame." Then Nancy Faust serenaded the the departing crowds when the police chased them off with "Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye." Such a great Sox tradition. I got to sing the song to Paul Byrd on Wednesday when the Sox pounded him for 5 ER in the 6th.
It’s funny watching these old 70’s videos. The world was totally different back then! and I can remember the 80’s so can sort of relate. Can’t really destroy a music genre anymore though. There is no real main trends or culture anymore because we have IPhones and Spotify so people can listen to anything they want at anytime and not many people listen to radio compared to the past. Sure certain genres like hip hop/rnb may be more popular and I don’t really care for them but I can easily ignore them without protesting them.
Greg Gumbal (wow... he looks YOUNG!) was close to cracking up at 4:15 and 4:30 ... as they played the footage of the disco records exploding. I can't blame him.
I am against of having multitudes of uncreative bland music but to outright destroy the albums and records is just fucking stupid and immature. You like rock? fine but don't dare to destroy or ruin everyone else's happiness just because you don't like it. How would you people like it if there was also a parade of people who burned rock cds and albums?
read the history of music, like jazz, soul, hip hop, etcs. they are also black music, and fyi rock music adapted some elements from gospel music, and its also black music.
House music = Disco's revenge. Now we hear elements of House music ("Disco") everywhere, in other genres and in soundtracks for TV, films, all over the place! So, attempting to strike Disco down made it become more powerful than Dahl could possibly imagine, ha ha! 🙂
Some kind of ill manners, if this guy was one of those stupid rock fan, I dont want my kids to listen to the rock music if they will inherit this unethical attitude
I find it mildly amusing that people are saying, "Disco is just another form of rock" and "Disco uses real instruments unlike today's music that just uses synthesizer" considering the main grievance taken against disco was it being too electronic and using a drum machine and not using real instruments. lol
Meade Skelton Idk, were there a lot of disco songs about sex? I thought they were mostly about dancing, which was kind of the point of disco. lol I had never heard a complaint about disco that wasn't tied to the instruments (or lack thereof in some cases) that were used.
Sorry to burst your bubbles, but don't you know that producing disco music was the most costly and elaborative production during those times. there was also percussion and orchestral instruments used like violin, piano, guitar, bass and drums. THESE ARE REAL INSTRUMENTS people, classical instruments unfortunately most dance music genres don't used today and always relied in synthesizers.
All of this happened because Steve Dahl was fired from a radio station in Chicago who'd changed their format from rock to disco. Some retaliation, huh folks.
I was there to watch baseball and watch the records demolished . I was 16 and an avid baseball fan as well as a listener to Dahl. I took my sisters Bee Gees album and a dollar, I had been to a few sox games that year and I was blown away at the size of the crowd. It took 20 minutes just to get into the park because they were so understaffed. People were climbing up the walls to get into the place. It was more like a super bowl of rock concert (remember those). The reason it went haywire was the crowd was enormous at least 8-10 times what the Sox normally drew. I was sitting in the upper deck right near the foul pole and thought ok they will do some lame ass fake explosion or at best fireworks type stuff. The explosion that went off was unreal, extremely loud and you could see that the records were thoroughly destroyed...once that happened all bets were off. It took everyone by surprise and then chaos ensued. I was standing right next to the foul pole and watched the lunatic shimmy his way down to the field...ahhh what a little weed and few beers will do for you on a warm July night in Chicago! Good times
LOL yeah, that's exactly the feeling I get whenever I see footage from that period. It's like every building is outdated and corroded, every outfit needs dry cleaning, and the cars are oversized and ugly. Sports at that time seemed awesome, though. I was born in 78 BTW.
This was a well-assembled video of the coverage of that night. I was a few days from 16 when it happened and wasn't even there - I was at a screening of the movie "Dracula" with Frank Langella and that was interrupted because of a phony bomb scare, with Langella and his wife in the audience. I was shocked at how the whole thing turned out - and I didn't hear of the Ten Cent Beer Night in Cleveland until today when reading about this in Wikipedia. It probably boosted disco for a while...
Van McCoy ("The Hustle") died six days earlier. Minnie Riperton died on that very same day that craziness happened. (Okay, Ms. Riperton never sang disco, but I feel she deserves a mention here.)
Many people think that this event had killed disco but not exactly.Disco was still on the air and in the clubs during the early 80,s,1980-84 to be exact but it just evolved into a more R &B oriented sound with a dance beat and it also involved into a more high energy sound.Examples of this transformation is groups such as BBand Q Band,Change,Jones Girls,Jocelyn Brown,SOS Band as well as Donna Summer so disco did not completely die,it only evolved.
oddly, those same records are going for sky high prices on ebay and STILL pack floors to this day...Long Live Disco and good music...the folks that are burning these records obviously cant dance or lack rhythm..lol
I just now googled it, and it turns out that LP didnt even make the top 100 in the USA. It barely made the top 50 in the UK and Australia, and didnt chart anywhere else. She is a memorable performer to be sure, but not renowned for out-selling others in the field.
Same here, man. But fun fact: Disco Demolition Night was a pretty pivotal event in the rise and development of House and Electro in general, so it's a bit ironic lol.
in one of the Disco Demolition Clips where Jimmy interviews Bill Gleason, Jimmy Piersall was being ironic by calling Steve Dahl a jerk for burning records, while Jimmy himself had done unruly things, he engaged in a scuffle before a Yankees game with two people, he was ejected four times in three weeks in the minor leagues, etc. He should take a look in the mirror .
+lonesaku1 Whether or not this happened, the backlash itself was deserved. It deserved to die the same way glam metal did ten years later - radio and TV suddenly ignoring it and the new generation openly mocking it. The same way boy bands and teen pop died in the early 00's, and the same way EDM will die by 2019.
+Burt Kocain What did disco, glam rock, or any other pre-90s genre do to "deserve" the backlash? Also, what died in the early 00s was alternative & grunge rock, which was much bigger with 20somethings than teens. "Teen" rock started taking over the Top 40 in the late 90s, and the vapid sex kittens & heart-throbs have dominated it ever since.
@Capt777harris maybe where you were at but in Chicago there were plenty of places you could listen to rock or other types of music without having to hear Disco.
A lot of the records brought to the game weren't even disco records, they were just black records, Marvin Gaye and so forth. This wasn't a rally about anti disco, this was an anti-black-music rally, another accepted demonstration of racism in America. But disco never left us, it is the mother to Hip Hop and House.
ya all those bands were formed before the 2000s. Disco is constantly getting new artists but doesn't need pop radio. the only reason why rock fans think it is dead is because either they are stuck in the past or because they dont look past the radio. just my opinion, wasn't talking directly towards you but to others who think the same.
I think what some of the who people are claiming this whole thing was racist or homophobic or whatever are forgetting is that disco basically RAMMED DOWN OUR THROATS for awhile there. You couldn't get away from it. Even people who nothing to do with disco were being forced by their labels to make disco records. You had rock, country, blues etc artists making records that their fans didn't want to listen to. That's really why the whole "Disco Sucks" thing came into being.
And here I was a card-carrying member of the Insane Coho Lips back then. Of course, Steve Dahl had it out for disco ever since his previous station to WLUP/The Loop, WDAI, changed station formats and left him out of a job. You guessed it -- it went all-disco format, and Dahl used to rant on the air about "Disco D-A-I" (as they called themselves) being "Disco D-I-E".
I remember in the mid 80s Harry Volkman still was using weather maps without Chroma Key. Meaning they would sticky a sunshine symbol on the board and he would pull out this big board.on a map of the usa.
To Christine- I dont blame you for hating rap, techno, dubstep and electronica. Disco, however, is good music with rhythm, melody and real instruments. I like both classic rock and disco. By the way- daft punk rocks!!!!
@MarshalErwinRommel There shouldn't be night like this for any genre. I'm getting fed up with people spending more time complaining about music that they don't like, than listening to music they do like. It's all just music. It's not like they're having any discussion about creating a completely new form of government.
It died 45 years ago and glad rock, punk and metal music made waves. Disco went underground after and metal music became underground in the early nineties
Yes I was referring to the U.S. as this discussion is about a U.S. event and this thread seemed to be about U.S issues. For the record punk/new wave music regularly topped British (as well as many other countries) charts from late 1976 on. The Clash's "London Calling" album was regulary played not only only on WPIX-FM but other NYC AOR stations as well. From what I remenber B-B2's were not as regularly played as other groups mentioned (until 1989)
I was at the game as a 14 year old 8th grade graduate. My uncle took me as a present for my graduation. We had box seats behind the 3rd base dugout..Box 75...Tier 10....Seat 5. I remember the Chicago police dressed in riot gear streaming down the aisles headed to the field.I also remember people climbing the outside wall of the park trying to get in..same thing once indide...people climbing diwn the foul pole from the upper deck down to the field. Watching this news cast..channel 2 That reporter on tv on the news wasJohnny Morris #47 wide receiver for the Chicago Bears
the guy was arrogent . didnt care about nobody but himself didnt think that someone could have been seriously hurt or killed because of that and he should have been put in jail along with bill veck and gary meyer for that.you remember august 68 and the westside riots of 68 and june 66.you never forget that
@xreddragonx I didn't mindlessy toss in 'women.' I never said that they were a minority, either. But it is clear that women were very powerful in the Disco movement, eg, Summer, Gaynor, etc. If you look at the music that Dahl probably likes, Journey, Chicago, Led Zep, etc, all the huge rock groups of the era (and, by the way, far more popular than Disco music could ever dream of becoming except for Saturday Night Fever), not one had a female group member.
I bet they wished they hadn't destroyed all that quality music now. As the modern music just aint the same and never will be. Disco was a great era , it was fun happy and far better times than now. Disco is and was the best.
@mysteryperson1976 actually, when you consider the fact that disco was EVERYWHERE back in the day, it seems that it was impossible to not ignore it, to the point that it got FAR too overexposed. This overexposure along with a multitude of knockoffs meant that even the disco fans got sick of it all, culminating in this event.
People are having a big riot like this about music that they can choose not to listen to. It's not like anyone was tying anyone up and forcing them to listen to disco.
This was a joke. Disco never died. It just went underground for awhile back in the 1980's but then came M/A/R/R/S "Pump Up The Volume", S Express "Theme From S Express" and Technotronic "Pump Up The Jams" in the late 80's and it came back as house music and techno. Now there are many types of house music and techno and dance music is as popular as ever. Steve Dahl was a jerk. I think he wouldn't organize this if he knew house music and techno would be as popular today as disco was back in the 1970's.
Jeff Baker is half right. In Chicago producers created disco for a local underground clubs called the warehouse which the name house music is from btw Mars and Technotronic weren't the first. They owe their existence to Franky Knuckles, DJ Pierre, Phuture, JM Silk, etc of Chicago
The only problem with disco was it was everywhere...commercials, tv shows ("CHiPS", love boat, Sesame Street... ) It got rediculous. The music itself was fun and uplifting; no one tried to analyze the musicianship required to play it, who cared? The revolt at the stadium was probably because of the excess. Everyone said disco sucked, but those same people would be at the discos too. If everyone hadn't tried cashing in on it (even Rod Stewart did), and radio stations had played more rock, it pro
What a complete hater. He couldn't get with anyone on the dance floor so he decided to project his rage against a music that brought so many people much happiness. Disco is not dead. From Disco came House Music. Disco and Real House will never die.
You're kidding,right? Corporate rock existed long before the 80's,ya know.Disco only came to represent mainstream conformity after Saturday Night Fever,when every suburban dad decided he had to get in on the act - and many rock acts,too. Just look at Chic for christ sake.Absolutely phenomenal musicians,yet they couldn't get a break in their early when their style was more geared towards rock - and disco gave them that break,as it did with Sylvester and Donna Summer.
Why are kids today so much better behaved compared to back then??? Look at those crazy kids storming the field and breaking everything. What kid today do you see doing that?
disco never died. i have a lot of todays disco on my playlist. its still being made a lot.
Also Bill Curtis has one of the most recognizable voices in news broadcasting history lol... he looked young and different but I recognized his voice right away.
This event could have been a great backdrop for a scene in Forrest Gump.
Or spoofed/parodied in Anchorman. Definitely getting some Ron Burgundy vibes from these 70s newscasters.
I can’t believe I actually watched this TV game in real-time when I was a young teenager staying at my cousin’s home who lived in a Chicago suburb. It was quite an epic event at the time watching it especially when not expecting a melee to unfold on a baseball field and television. Those were the days though!!!
Fun fact, the number 1 song the week of this event Anita Ward ring my bell
amazing lol
In less than a year, no disco song would be #1 ever again
@@seamac206 as far as the word disco u r correct. MJ don't stop til u get enough, no more tears summer n striesand both hit no.1. the three platinum sings of 1980? Funky town lips Inc, Queen another one bites the dust, take ur time the sos band. 2 out of 3 peaking @ no.1. the word died, dance music didn't.
"We didn't do this thing as a publicity stunt..." Oh, OK... got it.
I was there and had just been released from Rush Presbyterian for cancer. it was a gift from my sister and her boyfriend to celebrate my getting out. We were on the first base side and decided to stay in the stands. What a memory.
The funniest thing about this is that more than half the people that were involved in this back then, miss the disco days and wish they could go back. I know a lot of people that still listen to disco today.
You on crack??? Geez. Them was my people, my age. Obviously they were big city folk. Looking for alittle fun, beer, pot, etc....We loved our RnR...Zep, Stones, Aerosmith....and still do.
Can we have a trap music demolition night?
TheGrandRevo we should
Senile Animal god why can’t you people accept that music is subjective, no matter who you are you look like an idiot when you suggest getting rid of an art form.
@@depecher6s311 calling EDM, trance, dubstep, Rave an art form? It isn't an art form if it is done by some computer programming person and not done by people playing an actual musical instrument. All this dance BS that got popular all eventually died. This EDM and all this other electro techno programming computer crap will die as well. Guess what! Real musical genres will always stay alive. Classical music and traditional old world Celtic folk music is still around for many centuries and will stay alive for many future
centuries. The popular forms of real music from the 20th century that was done by real musicians that played with real instruments like Jazz, blues, country & western, American folk, Americana, Rock, metal and a combination of these art forms together will will stay alive as well. As long as music is real and played with real instruments these genres will stay alive for many centuries. Music that is not done by real musicians but done by computer programming DJ's will have great short term success only and then die overnight.
punk 2008 nice paragraph, but by the same logic digital drawing isn’t art either, so I won’t accept that. I personally don’t like electronic music at all, but I’m not stupid enough to suggest it isn’t a form of musical expression. It takes skill, precision, foresight and everything else playing a physically instrument requires.
@@depecher6s311 It is just someone with great computer skills and nothing else. Stop trying to defend this crap since you claim that you don't like this BS. Not only is it crap but it sounds like video game effects. It is ripping off Pacman and many other video games, lol! Why the hell would anyone want to her some computer expert DJ that uses these synth sounding video game effects in music? These video game sound effects are annoying as hell and this EDM stuff mixes this crap with popular songs as well as other dumbass sound effects. So this is a form of musical expression? Video games are very popular today so I guess that I shouldn't be surprised that people actually like to hear these weird sounds mixed with popular mainstream songs. Don't know how you can say that using other musicians songs and mix in weird video game sounds is a form of musical expression but apparently it is lol! I have the right to rip this shit and rip people that like this shit. I am not and never will be politically correct.
they tried to kill disco music..they couldn't..it just went underground and merged into house music..still going strong 35 years on..and on..and on..rip Frankie!
Yeah, baby. Disco lives!
"on and on and on,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
was an ABBA DISCO song, and a good 1 at that.
Vaughn reed jr “get lucky”, “uptown funk” “treasure” “love never felt so good” “can’t stop the feeling”, all these were number one hits from 2013 to today. And they’re all disco.
fbw71u you mean house music came to Europe which became Eurodance right
Calling Out Fascists Online electro funk came in the early 80s from rap groups like Afrikka Bambataa and Man Parrish. You must mean Electro house
All I can say is, finally someone posts some thirty year old television footage that doesn't look like it's 2,000 years old. It's, for once, like I remember seeing it.
Disco didn't really die, it just changed it's name to club music.
Disco saw a big resurgence in the mid-1990s, after over 15 years of obscurity...
Correct, disco didn't die. It just continued on a smaller scale.
It went underground
It just became dance pop
Disco was a victim of its own success. "Disco 77", a live dance show broadcast from Ft. Lauderdale in the summer of 1977, actually had very listenable playlist, but "Disco Magic", the show's successor one year later, didn't come close to measuring up. Too much had happened after "Saturday Night Fever" went viral; suddenly everyone, including rock stars and even country stars, had to record a disco hit. The quality of disco records accordingly took a very sharp nosedive, and it never recovered.
Stellamasters - thanks for the motherlode of Disco Demolition Nite coverage. That was one of smokiest of victories for the Freaks over the Jocks.
I must admit, this was not 1 of Chicago's brightest moments in history, but what a time we had! After all, me & my brother witnessed the carnage on TV back then!
I was 18 in 1979. I remember the music very well. Rock was great in the late '70s with the groups you mentioned, BUT, by 1979 it was at a major crossroad. You were too young, but Punk & New Wave was squashing Classic '70s-style Rock and finally put it in its grave by the early '80s. 1979 was a battlefield for all '70s genres "fighting" to see who would make it into the next decade.
There is and that new musical genre is called Hip-Hop or Rap!
@corkscrew. I too was 18 that year, I had just graduated high school in 1979. I remember what it was like to be an adolescent at the time. One was either for rock and roll music or for disco music.
My dad took me and my two friends there for my 11th birthday. We were sitting behind home plate. The players had one eye on the game and one eye on flying 45's and 33's. It was amazing how far those things could be thrown,lol. I remember afterwards it was crazy trying to get out of there. My was an ex football player in the 60's so he huddled us around him an barreled thry the crowd to get to the exit. There were fights all around us. Those were some good memories at that stadium.
For you youngsters "Disco Demolition" was the perfect climate for the times. As a Black male 18 year old from Chicago's North side the 70's was about rebellion and freedom. You were either on the"left" or the "right". No in between. I loved Disco, Soul, Raggae, Punk, and even Rock. But as a youngster I truly related to the "Demolition". Hell, in 1979 a lot of the white guys on the field probably couldn't stand me, but I wore a "LOOP" T-Shirt right along with them. Thanks
I love all of those genres too and I’m black but disco is freakin’ amazing ❤️🪩💃🕺
What the hell was wrong with those people in that stadium and what was wrong with Steve Dahl’s ears? Disco strangely enough rocks ❤️
love the guy at 7m eating nuts during the interview
In retrospect I think rock/punk/metalheads were a little to hard on disco. It really isn't THAT bad of music. (this coming from a metalhead) It was just so wildly different from anything else at the time. One of those moments I wish I had access to a time machine and warn both rock and disco fans that music is going to get so, SO much fucking worse! If seventies rockers had just a glimpse of millenial corporate rock, they would probably embrace and accept disco.
This bubblegum pop shit today is far worse than disco. Plus this EDM, trance, dubstep, Rave etc also makes me want to vomit. Disco does sound great when compared to modern popular music like the stuff I just mentioned. Hell even this crap is being mixed with rock and metal music and many young adults today actually love this stuff. When I tell young adults that this music isn't music and is just being done by a DJ with great computer programming experience but that these people aren't real musicians they call me an elitist. They also call myself too close minded since I don't embrace these newer forms of so called musical genres. I tell them that I love tons of genres besides rock and metal such as classical, jazz, blues, country & western, bluegrass, Americana. folk, celtic folk, Japanese folk, any kind of old world folk from around the world, and love it when rock and metal mixes these genres together they still call me an elitist because I don't embrace this EDM, trance, dubstep, Rave etc. When I tell them that much of the most popular forms of music from the 20th century is based off of the blues and are in reality subgenres of the blues and heavily criticize this younger generation for following these newer techno dance forms of music and not supporting old school blues music than they say "get lost baby boomer". The blues is totally lost with today's youth because I see less than 5% of these young adults, teenagers and preteens at blues festivals and blues concerts. It is in reality probably less than 1% and this should be very scary for rock and metalheads that so many of today's young adults are not blues fans since rock and metal are in reality subgenres of the blues. If this trend continues than rock and metal will no longer be rock and metal but just a blend of this stuff mixed in with this computer programmed techno dance stuff done by a computer programming DJ expert.
There are actually a bunch of rock-disco, metal-disco, and punk-disco hybrid songs of great appeal. Singers known for disco were starting to embrace the rock guitar backing sound in 1979 (Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" is just one example), while bands like KISS and the Rolling Stones who came from the opposite side were turning disco. In Europe there was an interesting rock-disco version of "For Your Love" by Chilly, and Jackie's "Under Fire" is another great and famous rock-disco hybrid, but neither of those became big hits in the U.S.
Give me Earth, Wind, and Fire and Donna Summer over Nickelback anyway.
How you gonna discount the 90s like that?
As if the genres that followed were better? No more fun, dancing, good music....And everyone overweight, great.. Good call on this....Thank God Disco Music is going mainstream again.
You’re right it’s Not any better. ( make if they Tried dancing to Disco they wouldn’t Be Overweight)!! 😂😂😂
Actually, the idea was Veeck's, he included Steve Dahl because he was the most outrageous rock jock around, the original of the so-called 'shock' jocks; the event corresponded with a previous "Teen Night" as well as a "Disco Night" so Mike wanted a rock night and knew about the comedy bit that Steve did on the radio, it just seemed to fit. All in all it was just bad planning, lack of security, too many people, too much alcohol (and whatever!), but it was never intended to be the event it became.
R&B, rap, pop, house, trance, etc.. all of these are descendants or related to disco music.
Now how many rock songs are on the charts today?
+2007vidz none, because stupid mass don't want guitar blues anymore, they just want stupid dance songs about sex, rock is now in the place of jazz, sophisticated music for smart people
+2007vidz The music represents the times. People are getting farther and farther away from the daunting reality that the rug has been pulled out from under their sorry asses by their governments and corporations. Electronic dance music, even more so than disco, is the ultimate escape from reality into some delusional E-induced fantasy world. Nothing gets accomplished. No problems are solved, none are even fucking acknowledged. At least disco had SOME music that is slightly relevant (i.e. I Will Survive). EDM is a psychosis unto itself. The Macbook is playing as Rome burns.
By the way, hip hop wasn't "born out of" disco as much as it was a reaction against it, you sad revisionist. Young rappers started writing music relevant to their struggle, from their hearts, as disco became elitist, excluding, white asshole music (much like EDM today). Hip hop is a very organic, real style, which is why it never died like disco did, and like EDM will. Rock and roll will also survive. Neither hip hop (other than Fetty Wap, god help us) or rock and roll are on the charts or radio. However, rock and rap videos are still regularly hitting the 100's of millions of views on UA-cam, highlighting the irrelevance of the charts and radio in the first place. Jazz and funk are coming back. Organic music is on the increase. EDM? It peaked last year lol. People are sick of synthetic music and want something more raw. Hip hop is the likely candidate to kill EDM, but I do hope rock will manage to reinvent itself and lend a hand.
+Burt Kocain yes yes yes
+Burt Kocain What type of EDM are you referring too?
Burt Kocain many EDM styles come from disco
It was before satellite radio, disco was everywhere, you could not get away from it.
I love how Harry Caray tried to get them back to the seats by singing "Take me out to the Ballgame." Then Nancy Faust serenaded the the departing crowds when the police chased them off with "Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye." Such a great Sox tradition. I got to sing the song to Paul Byrd on Wednesday when the Sox pounded him for 5 ER in the 6th.
It’s funny watching these old 70’s videos. The world was totally different back then! and I can remember the 80’s so can sort of relate. Can’t really destroy a music genre anymore though. There is no real main trends or culture anymore because we have IPhones and Spotify so people can listen to anything they want at anytime and not many people listen to radio compared to the past. Sure certain genres like hip hop/rnb may be more popular and I don’t really care for them but I can easily ignore them without protesting them.
Greg Gumbal (wow... he looks YOUNG!) was close to cracking up at 4:15 and 4:30 ... as they played the footage of the disco records exploding. I can't blame him.
I am against of having multitudes of uncreative bland music but to outright destroy the albums and records is just fucking stupid and immature. You like rock? fine but don't dare to destroy or ruin everyone else's happiness just because you don't like it. How would you people like it if there was also a parade of people who burned rock cds and albums?
all black people dug disco
read the history of music, like jazz, soul, hip hop, etcs. they are also black music, and fyi rock music adapted some elements from gospel music, and its also black music.
Steve Mandl looks like charlotsville is repesented
Steve Mandi actually no many black producers hated disco because it was becoming ruled by white artists
House music = Disco's revenge.
Now we hear elements of House music ("Disco") everywhere, in other genres and in soundtracks for TV, films, all over the place!
So, attempting to strike Disco down made it become more powerful than Dahl could possibly imagine, ha ha! 🙂
love the guy at the 7 minute mark that can't stop snacking for a moment to talk to the reporter lol
Some kind of ill manners, if this guy was one of those stupid rock fan, I dont want my kids to listen to the rock music if they will inherit this unethical attitude
I find it mildly amusing that people are saying, "Disco is just another form of rock" and "Disco uses real instruments unlike today's music that just uses synthesizer" considering the main grievance taken against disco was it being too electronic and using a drum machine and not using real instruments. lol
Disco uses an electric guitar, a bass guitar, strings, drums and woodwinds. Yes they use a drum machine and a synthesizer but they limit it.
Disco uses an electric guitar, a bass guitar, strings, drums and woodwinds. Yes they use a drum machine and a synthesizer but they limit it.
Karen21242 it had to do more with Disco and its disgusting songs about sex and non sense songs that had no meaning.
Meade Skelton Idk, were there a lot of disco songs about sex? I thought they were mostly about dancing, which was kind of the point of disco. lol I had never heard a complaint about disco that wasn't tied to the instruments (or lack thereof in some cases) that were used.
Sorry to burst your bubbles, but don't you know that producing disco music was the most costly and elaborative production during those times. there was also percussion and orchestral instruments used like violin, piano, guitar, bass and drums. THESE ARE REAL INSTRUMENTS people, classical instruments unfortunately most dance music genres don't used today and always relied in synthesizers.
All of this happened because Steve Dahl was fired from a radio station in Chicago who'd changed their format from rock to disco. Some retaliation, huh folks.
blame the radio stations for this mess not the Disco singers
Yep. A fat, ugly-looking, 24-yr old inciting hatred against (of all things) an entire music genre. All coz he was butthurt over being canned.
@@eightysixyoarse ) people like him are the worst even today.
Couldn't believe the first time I saw Steve Dahl. This guy was the ultimate nerd. Can you say revenge of the nerds.
I would think Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are / were more famous 'nerdy' types.
... this was when Chicago morning radio was fantastic !
God I miss those days ... rock on, ... ya old folks !
Except for WGN radio, it sucked elephant taint. 😆
I was there to watch baseball and watch the records demolished . I was 16 and an avid baseball fan as well as a listener to Dahl. I took my sisters Bee Gees album and a dollar, I had been to a few sox games that year and I was blown away at the size of the crowd. It took 20 minutes just to get into the park because they were so understaffed. People were climbing up the walls to get into the place. It was more like a super bowl of rock concert (remember those). The reason it went haywire was the crowd was enormous at least 8-10 times what the Sox normally drew. I was sitting in the upper deck right near the foul pole and thought ok they will do some lame ass fake explosion or at best fireworks type stuff. The explosion that went off was unreal, extremely loud and you could see that the records were thoroughly destroyed...once that happened all bets were off. It took everyone by surprise and then chaos ensued. I was standing right next to the foul pole and watched the lunatic shimmy his way down to the field...ahhh what a little weed and few beers will do for you on a warm July night in Chicago! Good times
Everything about the 1970s looks dirty and sketchy lol.
LOL yeah, that's exactly the feeling I get whenever I see footage from that period. It's like every building is outdated and corroded, every outfit needs dry cleaning, and the cars are oversized and ugly. Sports at that time seemed awesome, though.
I was born in 78 BTW.
.the 70s were great!
Well, duh. 🙃
Etch a sketch!
Your mom did too
This was a well-assembled video of the coverage of that night. I was a few days from 16 when it happened and wasn't even there - I was at a screening of the movie "Dracula" with Frank Langella and that was interrupted because of a phony bomb scare, with Langella and his wife in the audience.
I was shocked at how the whole thing turned out - and I didn't hear of the Ten Cent Beer Night in Cleveland until today when reading about this in Wikipedia. It probably boosted disco for a while...
Van McCoy ("The Hustle") died six days earlier. Minnie Riperton died on that very same day that craziness happened. (Okay, Ms. Riperton never sang disco, but I feel she deserves a mention here.)
And the Village People's career died that night too.
Many people think that this event had killed disco but not exactly.Disco was still on the air and in the clubs during the early 80,s,1980-84 to be exact but it just evolved into a more R &B oriented sound with a dance beat and it also involved into a more high energy sound.Examples of this transformation is groups such as BBand Q Band,Change,Jones Girls,Jocelyn Brown,SOS Band as well as Donna Summer so disco did not completely die,it only evolved.
What happened in the early 80s was the invention of hip-hop, which became the dominant music being played in urban clubs.
DISCO IS LIFE
oddly, those same records are going for sky high prices on ebay and STILL pack floors to this day...Long Live Disco and good music...the folks that are burning these records obviously cant dance or lack rhythm..lol
We need a current pop music demolition nite.
I would buy a Katy Perry CD just to go to the demolition night.
What would we burn, our cell phones? :)
*****
No,just the people that thought of selfies.
That's a good idea Mr. Pete. We need a current pop music demolition nite or a bubblegum pop demolition nite.
MrPete8680 DODGER STADIUM INDIE IMPLOSION NIGHT
Grace Jones saved the music industry when she went post-disco with Warm Leatherette in 1980.
Pull Up 🖤
I just now googled it, and it turns out that LP didnt even make the top 100 in the USA. It barely made the top 50 in the UK and Australia, and didnt chart anywhere else. She is a memorable performer to be sure, but not renowned for out-selling others in the field.
They couldn't kill disco ..when disco had a moment in 80 to 82 the name was finally born ...hi nrg ...after hi nrg house music ...it never died ...
Blondie, Cars,Joe Jackson,Gary Numan Devo, The Clash were groups in the Punk/New Wave genre that had chart success 1979/1980
And the Bee Gee’s!! Don’t forget the Bee Gee’s !!❤😂
@@blossom1643 The Bee Gee's were not Punk/New Wave
Same here, man. But fun fact: Disco Demolition Night was a pretty pivotal event in the rise and development of House and Electro in general, so it's a bit ironic lol.
in one of the Disco Demolition Clips where Jimmy interviews Bill Gleason, Jimmy Piersall was being ironic by calling Steve Dahl a jerk for burning records, while Jimmy himself had done unruly things, he engaged in a scuffle before a Yankees game with two people, he was ejected four times in three weeks in the minor leagues, etc. He should take a look in the mirror .
Disco didn't deserve this.
+lonesaku1 Whether or not this happened, the backlash itself was deserved. It deserved to die the same way glam metal did ten years later - radio and TV suddenly ignoring it and the new generation openly mocking it. The same way boy bands and teen pop died in the early 00's, and the same way EDM will die by 2019.
+Burt Kocain What did disco, glam rock, or any other pre-90s genre do to "deserve" the backlash? Also, what died in the early 00s was alternative & grunge rock, which was much bigger with 20somethings than teens. "Teen" rock started taking over the Top 40 in the late 90s, and the vapid sex kittens & heart-throbs have dominated it ever since.
@Capt777harris maybe where you were at but in Chicago there were plenty of places you could listen to rock or other types of music without having to hear Disco.
It deserved worse.
A lot of the records brought to the game weren't even disco records, they were just black records, Marvin Gaye and so forth. This wasn't a rally about anti disco, this was an anti-black-music rally, another accepted demonstration of racism in America. But disco never left us, it is the mother to Hip Hop and House.
ya all those bands were formed before the 2000s. Disco is constantly getting new artists but doesn't need pop radio. the only reason why rock fans think it is dead is because either they are stuck in the past or because they dont look past the radio. just my opinion, wasn't talking directly towards you but to others who think the same.
I think what some of the who people are claiming this whole thing was racist or homophobic or whatever are forgetting is that disco basically RAMMED DOWN OUR THROATS for awhile there. You couldn't get away from it. Even people who nothing to do with disco were being forced by their labels to make disco records. You had rock, country, blues etc artists making records that their fans didn't want to listen to. That's really why the whole "Disco Sucks" thing came into being.
Disco FOREVER!
Dude... that sounds even better than Rap Demolition Night!!!
Disco will live on.
In your dreams, Sailor. 😂
Dahl looks so young there. I listened to him a few yrs later when he was on wls and the lup
I'm surprise Hollywood hasn't made a comedy based on this yet. It would be funny as hell if it was done right.
And here I was a card-carrying member of the Insane Coho Lips back then.
Of course, Steve Dahl had it out for disco ever since his previous station to WLUP/The Loop, WDAI, changed station formats and left him out of a job. You guessed it -- it went all-disco format, and Dahl used to rant on the air about "Disco D-A-I" (as they called themselves) being "Disco D-I-E".
5:15, you could here the typewritters in the background...lmao!!!
I remember in the mid 80s Harry Volkman still was using weather maps without Chroma Key. Meaning they would sticky a sunshine symbol on the board and he would pull out this big board.on a map of the usa.
Disco still rules.
Keep dreaming, Sailor. 😂
That's a matter of one's musical taste.
To Christine- I dont blame you for hating rap, techno, dubstep and electronica. Disco, however, is good music with rhythm, melody and real instruments. I like both classic rock and disco. By the way- daft punk rocks!!!!
I remember this well. I was a junior in high school at a suburban Chicago high school and we were pissed because we didn't go.
I was 2 months old when this happened.
I Was 8 Months;
@MarshalErwinRommel There shouldn't be night like this for any genre. I'm getting fed up with people spending more time complaining about music that they don't like, than listening to music they do like. It's all just music. It's not like they're having any discussion about creating a completely new form of government.
I'm from Gary,In and born in 78 and I wish I was old enough to take a bat to Steve Dahl face for this atrocity!!!
It died 45 years ago and glad rock, punk and metal music made waves.
Disco went underground after and metal music became underground in the early nineties
7:12 Steve Dahl should have burnt his own shirt instead...
Yes I was referring to the U.S. as this discussion is about a U.S. event and this thread seemed to be about U.S issues. For the record punk/new wave music regularly topped British (as well as many other countries) charts from late 1976 on. The Clash's "London Calling" album was regulary played not only only on WPIX-FM but other NYC AOR stations as well. From what I remenber B-B2's were not as regularly played as other groups mentioned (until 1989)
i think its about time we had another! THE LOOP ROCKS!!
Only this time, we blow up Taylor Swift CDs! 📀💥😆
30 years ago this coming Sunday. How did they not know this would end badly?
I was at the game as a 14 year old 8th grade graduate. My uncle took me as a present for my graduation. We had box seats behind the 3rd base dugout..Box 75...Tier 10....Seat 5. I remember the Chicago police dressed in riot gear streaming down the aisles headed to the field.I also remember people climbing the outside wall of the park trying to get in..same thing once indide...people climbing diwn the foul pole from the upper deck down to the field.
Watching this news cast..channel 2
That reporter on tv on the news wasJohnny Morris #47 wide receiver for the Chicago Bears
disco is life baby
i'm so glad you posted this!
Oh, those kids. Such quaint times back in the '70s!
wow
the guy was arrogent . didnt care about nobody but himself didnt think that someone could have been seriously hurt or killed because of that and he should have been put in jail along with bill veck and gary meyer for that.you remember august 68 and the westside riots of 68 and june 66.you never forget that
Needs to happen again to modern pop and hip hop. Both of those genres died in the 90's.
Tho disco wasn't that bad
@xreddragonx I didn't mindlessy toss in 'women.' I never said that they were a minority, either. But it is clear that women were very powerful in the Disco movement, eg, Summer, Gaynor, etc. If you look at the music that Dahl probably likes, Journey, Chicago, Led Zep, etc, all the huge rock groups of the era (and, by the way, far more popular than Disco music could ever dream of becoming except for Saturday Night Fever), not one had a female group member.
HEY! It's the guy who played T-1000 in the Terminator films at the 8:20 mark.
Is Steve Dahl and Mark Chapman (Lennon's killer) one and the same guy?!
I bet they wished they hadn't destroyed all that quality music now. As the modern music just aint the same and never will be. Disco was a great era , it was fun happy and far better times than now. Disco is and was the best.
...and my 13-year-old self was jumping up and down in front of the tv, cheering and laughing. You can't beat fun at the old ballpark.
@mysteryperson1976 actually, when you consider the fact that disco was EVERYWHERE back in the day, it seems that it was impossible to not ignore it, to the point that it got FAR too overexposed. This overexposure along with a multitude of knockoffs meant that even the disco fans got sick of it all, culminating in this event.
6:55 the guy being interviewed eats a few peanuts. He couldn't wait until his TV interview was over?
oh please...disco does not suck...these people were just mad they couldnt get into Studio 54. either that, or they cant dance.
People are having a big riot like this about music that they can choose not to listen to. It's not like anyone was tying anyone up and forcing them to listen to disco.
Hey look it's famed CBS broadcaster Greg Gumbel! I recall hearing that the Gumbels are from Chicago.
Good day Mr. Gumbel!
This was a joke. Disco never died. It just went underground for awhile back in the 1980's but then came M/A/R/R/S "Pump Up The Volume", S Express "Theme From S Express" and Technotronic "Pump Up The Jams" in the late 80's and it came back as house music and techno. Now there are many types of house music and techno and dance music is as popular as ever. Steve Dahl was a jerk. I think he wouldn't organize this if he knew house music and techno would be as popular today as disco was back in the 1970's.
Jeff Baker is half right.
In Chicago producers created disco for a local underground clubs called the warehouse which the name house music is from btw Mars and Technotronic weren't the first. They owe their existence to Franky Knuckles, DJ Pierre, Phuture, JM Silk, etc of Chicago
The lads who did Pump Up The Volume went on to do indie rock as A.R. Kane.
At least disco didn't die in Europe from early 80's to late 80's. It just took a different form, Italo disco baby!
Love Disco music. Love Disco Music. Love Discooooooooo
Disco never died. He survived with other names
@Patriotic Dandelions BOOGIE 'TILL YA PUKE
Daft Punk saved this genre.
And we have to thank them.
That's Greg Gumbel..... yes THAT Greg Gumbel.
The only problem with disco was it was everywhere...commercials, tv shows ("CHiPS", love boat, Sesame Street... ) It got rediculous.
The music itself was fun and uplifting; no one tried to analyze the musicianship required to play it, who cared? The revolt at the stadium was probably because of the excess. Everyone said disco sucked, but those same people would be at the discos too. If everyone hadn't tried cashing in on it (even Rod Stewart did), and radio stations had played more rock, it pro
What a complete hater. He couldn't get with anyone on the dance floor so he decided to project his rage against a music that brought so many people much happiness. Disco is not dead.
From Disco came House Music. Disco and Real House will never die.
It was too much fun ! It made Steve fameous ; thank God!!!
You're kidding,right? Corporate rock existed long before the 80's,ya know.Disco only came to represent mainstream conformity after Saturday Night Fever,when every suburban dad decided he had to get in on the act - and many rock acts,too.
Just look at Chic for christ sake.Absolutely phenomenal musicians,yet they couldn't get a break in their early when their style was more geared towards rock - and disco gave them that break,as it did with Sylvester and Donna Summer.
A ''Reggaeton Demolition Night''. would be awesome. If only they could have it in Yankee Stadium.
damn what a night!
Freakin' A!! 😂
WLUP the Loop, still Rockin after all these years DonSellsVegas
Why are kids today so much better behaved compared to back then??? Look at those crazy kids storming the field and breaking everything. What kid today do you see doing that?
we need a drake and maroon 5 demolition night. it's long overdue.