RARE Steve Rubell Studio 54 Casablanca Records

[RAGINGDEMON500]

I HAVE BEEN HERE MANY NIGHTS AND I CANT WAIT TO GET IN,:  Steve ! Not with that shirt.

[RAGINGDEMON500]

RIP STEVE



[deejayogi]

First Song Is Shake your groove thang By the Peaches & Herb, Second Last Dance By Dona Summer, Disco Nights By GQ, A pice of YMCA Special RMX, Cher Take me Home

[buttholebzerker]

What was the last song featured in this clip? It's beautiful ... Someone please concentrate...!

[oldschooljunkie]

@buttholebzerker the very last song was Cher - Take me Home 1979

[buggeazy102]

i would have been doing alot of fucking if i was in there

[theoryg]

I was in grammar school when the place was going on. In 2011 its hard to understand much about those times. I remember pieces but I think those years are another dimension from now.

Its better to concentrate on health and lifestyle development now anyway. I dont think anubody knew a thing like they would now. Perhaps we will be better in a future disco scene.

[futuristfood]

this is amazing,. this was a big part of my life,.. disco,. disco was huge,.

[SupaNami]

@futuristfood you're a poser ... stop saying shit you know nothing about ... Mr. 110 year old dude

[SupaNami]

@futuristfood did the mental hospital, let you have some free time?

[SupaNami]

@futuristfood those are very big words you're using .. im scared

[djrage70]

I remember seeing something on TV.. probably on NBC one night looking for Diff'rent Strokes or something and there was a special running called A Night at Studio 54. I have been looking for some kind of record of this but have never been able to find anything about it

[HvonS]

It was so bizarre - you'd go in around midnight, and come out five hours later - and most of the same people outside would still be standing there waving money or yelling at Joesph, Marc, or Steve to get in.

[HCShannon]

Was that Tiny Tim?

[roddiero]

@HCShannon Yep

[HvonS]

@HCShannon Yes. Sans Miss Vickie.

[TheSecondEvolution]

People literally were dying to get into this place. 

[discooriginal]

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!

[BreezesofConey]

Despite what people think, this wasn't the only place for craziness and in fact... we the members of NYC's gay community can tell you that we were partying in other places before this club opened. It was so publicized only because it was the first time a mainstream club featured such an atmosphere. What made it more surprising was the fact that it had a huge celebrity draw and the the crowd was completely mixed. As for the drugs and sex... you could the same plus more in the gay clubs.

[gud11man]

mike myers in the role of steve rubell was very well done shame about the rest of the film didn't live up to the legend of 54

[BreezesofConey]

@gud11man I have to disagree. He sort of stripped Steven of his sweetness and highlighted his bad side. They overplayed what happened that was BAD about studio. Guess it's hard for a modern person to try and understand what the scene really was at the time, the social mood, everything. I was very disappointed in the film because it didn't evoke any of my own memories of the club. Going to see Cabaret there, however, did.

[djrage70]

@BreezesofConey You can blame the movie studio for the version we got in the theater. They weren't liking what they were seeing in the dallies as the movie was being made, it was too risque, dark and gritty. So they changed it, rewrote alot of it. The ending was changed to be more of a feel good ending. It was disappointing, I remember feeling that when I walked out of the theater, my wife said at least it gave some insight to what it was like at 54.

[nonstopclubber]

The 54 Double Album that they speak about was mixed and compiled by Roy Thode.

Roy was a very active dj in the 70s.

[myleyfan4life]

I wanted to see the actual steve rubell after recently viewing 54 and Mike Myers nailed the role!

[LBJTV]

@myleyfan4life same here...i just finished watching that film and i was surprised with Mike's acting....

One of the best films i've seen for some time..it captures the whole night-life scene.

[readynow12345]

I knew him back in the 80's when he owned the pallidium as well as the morgan hotel, steve had mellowed at this point of course he had aids, but he was still partying like it was the studio days, hey he was jewish & could be rude as fuck if he didn't like you, he liked good looking people I guess who doesn't...

[BreezesofConey]

@readynow12345 I don't. I have no particular fondness for people simply because they are attractive. Most especially attractive people are intolerable because they know they are. They expect the world to kiss their ass even if they have nothing else going for them. I like people for who they are and how they are.

I knew Steve in the 70's, through the club. His attitude had more to do w/ being from E. NY and not so much being Jewish. My best friend at the time was both and he, too, is sharp.

[readynow12345]

He played studio like a fiddle, after all it was his baby, but the way he would abuse people at the door was a little over the top at times, he was always nice to me I never paid to get in the palladium & some of my drinks where comped if he was there of course, I did feel bad for him I could tell he was sick though I never asked him

I would see him sometimes with david geffen, now this guy is a total fucking asshole, steve was alright..

[BreezesofConey]

@readynow12345 So very well said. I do agree that he could be obnoxious, more than your typical city attitude but in the same way because it was his baby and he made it so big you have to consider that with all the fame and success he developed a bit of an inflated ego. However he was always sweet to me as well. I never had to pay for drinks or anything at the club. It is unfortunate that I never got to know him outside of the club or later in his life and I was so sad to hear what happened.

[readynow12345]

I just joined face book maybe you've seen me, search for scott daniels, I live in atlanta now

[BreezesofConey]

@readynow12345 I was never at Palladium, so maybe not unless you went to Studio. I left NYC in 1981. I moved back in 1996 of course, but very long after the end of the disco scene.