― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
styx bassist chuck panozzo came out a few years ago. styx of course were faves of the hard-rockin' anti-disco crowd. later they'd get booed off the stage *at their own headlining stadium shows* for playing synth-dominated pop.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
However, from what I've read about Mancuso's original parties, it seems like he was applying a very Zen-like tea ceremony approach to throwing the perfect dance event, which might be a product of hippie interest in such things. Also, in that book Last Night the DJ..., the rhetoric from many of the early DJs sounds quite cosmic: creating the perfect vibrations and flow, etc.
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kitaj (kitaj), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a221/hardstaff/rushdiscosucks.jpg
― hank (hank s), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, I hate funk even more than I hate disco, but I do not hate soul. OK, I am not too keen on Stax/Volt, but I like Motown, and I really like Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson and a bunch of other black acts who have put sufficient emphasis on melody and harmony.
Now, disco was at times rather melodic, but it was extremely corporate as well, and I think that was the background for most of the disco hate (the same people will also dislike current white corporate trends such as boy/girl bands). And as far as the more prejudiced minority of disco haters went, I think there was more homophobia and sexism in there than rascism.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_FXBkoYxMM
― hubertus bigend (m coleman), Monday, 13 December 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
you're half right -- disco culture was decadent in the eyes of 60s veterans too, not an extension of the hippie thing but a rebellion against it, the next step on the cultural path to 80s conservatism.
think this is otm. pretty much what Steve Dahl, who was behind the Disco Demolition, has always said. In Chicago (and prob in most places that aren't NYC), disco was associated with rich white young downtown businessmen, not black or gay people. He also now says "lol yeah I was fat and couldn't dance, disco dudes were getting all the women".
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 13 December 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
aw this thread
― the tune is space, Monday, 13 December 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link