I miss disco - I miss the horn sections. I miss seeing four (or more) singers on stage, dancing. I miss real drums and bass. I miss people who cared more about having fun than being cool. And by the way, 'Miss You' is a great record. Keith Richard's opinion on the subject is not relevant. I have spoken.
@ksmontanaro Me too...I miss horn sections and string arrangements very much...with disco, song arrangements came to the height of their power...after disco, music became so stripped-down and monotonous...you hear nothing else but a boring simply played guitar strumming and computer-produced sounds..no real playing, no vocal abilities...just a need for a good sound engineer..
Hey, me and a guy who should we say was a little bit to the Right in his opinions downed a load of beer in 1990 and decided to have a House Music Must Die show and shot a Megabass/ Deep Heat CD to pieces and smashed up cassette singles by Black Box and Technotronic. It was such a good buzz destroying all that shit music made by faceless berks and " models" who can't sing.
DISCO? Disco will never be over.. the day disco died in America, disco survive in europe under the name "ITALO DISCO", and then evolved into the 90's dance music, and late 90's early 2000's euro dance... until house music reached europe in its electro and progressive forms.
Disco never died, disco survived and changed its style.
Sorry to bring up the R word but there was a lot of racism behind the alleged destruction of disco. people didn't like to see Whites, Blacks and Hispanics happy and having fun and coming together it really pissed people off to see this unity and happiness.
@selffless1 So What? it still sucked...and when they did it, the result sucked too....they saw an opportunity to make money off a popular trend with no effort...and they grabbed it... its called capitalizing. It does not change the fact that the misu sucked...no matter who did it. Look now...who is still touring , selling out stadiums, making millions..the rockbands...and they are doing it by making rock , not disco. where are the disco bands? doing lounge acts in nightclubs, if they are lucky.
@524pmdnyc I wouldn't say the result sucked "Miss you" is still a great song (one of my faves) today. And I'm in know way comparing disco to rock at all.All I'm saying it didn't suck and brought alot of people togetherand does have its place in music history. In fact you hear discos legacy in many other genres today ie trance, house, techno, etc..
@selffless1 Actually.."Miss You" sucked...it is one of the most enbarrasing points in the history of the Stones, and that comes from non other than Keith Richards. He said.."Dont blame that on me, That was Mick with help from Bianca" and You threw up Rock bands doing disco, so you brought up the comparision. as for you mention of House, techno, Trance, they suck too, so its no surprise they are similar to disco
@524pmdnyc I wasn't making a comparison just pointing to a fact. Anyhow if you cant appreciate the genre and the legacy it has left then that's up to you Peace...
@selffless1 Those bands came out with "disco hits" because that music was popular at the time and they also wanted to cash in on that sound too. They made music to make money, period.
Disco didn't die, it only evolved. Now we have house, trance, dupstep, breakbeat, dnb, nu-jazz, experimental, goa, progressive, & so much more...even hip hop wouldn't be here if it weren't for disco LOL So much for Disco Demolition Night /sarcasm LOL
"Bill Veeck, Red Sox Owner" hahaha... It seems like one of those marketing strategies to raise franchise income. A mainstream exprerience announcing the destruction of another mainstream experience. Such a paradox.
I love how everyone is calling classic rock fans racist as if disco didn't have its own dubious issues when it came to race. Disco isn't even black music... if anything, it's a betrayal of true black music, like Funk and Soul. Disco just stole elements from those genres and made them palatable to a mainstream (read: white) audience. And if disco was supposed to be all-inclusive, then why is it that 90% of the black people who were allowed into Studio 54 were celebrities?
Hardly, disco lives on. Fuck these classic rock zombies, no respect, no control and I guarantee you 90% of them are now working dead end jobs in a factory or as a clerk.
@Gmancrap I don't hate disco, I just prefer instrumental disco, funk, soul, and jazz-funk myself. I think there was clearly a point where there were way too many average quality disco songs being played on the radio stations. There is good disco, and there is bad disco, just like there's good and bad rock music. The riot had a place to demonstrate against bad taste in music, though, just as well need one now.
usually anybody who says "disco sucks" say it cuz they cant dance 2 it! shit...thank god i can!! haha! anywyz...disco never really died...only the "mainstream" thinks so!
A lot of those alleged rocker idiots up there couldn't even dance to rock music of the 60s, meaning they might've been just starting in their teens if not much younger. Disco sucks. Yeah, sure, there are some aspects of disco music that is obviously an attempt to mimic genuine dance music but, yeah, the 70s era got confused when the 60s ended.
Dance music today is expanding 'cause many R&B and Hip Hop artists are performing in dance production. Kelis, Kelly Rowland, Shaggy, Sean Paul are some of them.
Disco never died, it just got renamed "dance music," despite what some might like to believe. Burning a few records in a field is never going to "kill" such an influential form of music.
Almost all styles of dance music around today are just forms of disco that have developed further. Disco has had an enormous influence on pop music and some rock and the sound is still popular today eg. Lady Gaga.
See this: news(dot)bbc(dot)co(dot)uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8907000/8907388(dot)stm
No. That's why rockers hate disco. All the jersey shore fist pumping douchebags suck ass. GIve me some springsteen n Stones!! Hell,I'm in college and rather rock to that!
@talkedtoaflower There's nothing influential about disco. Is one of the worst genres ever created and yes, it died. Just like that bitch lady gaga will soon die.
@talkedtoaflower There's nothing influential about disco. Is one of the worst genres ever created and yes, it died. Just like that bitch lady gaga will soon die.
Does anyone know when it actually died? I'm guessing around 1981-1982 when Regan came to power. There were still disco grops around in the early eighties but they were working on changing their style because they ceased dominating in that era.
Sure Motown groups like the Supremes and Jackson5 were popular in the 60s but Motown never dominated the whole music industry like Disco did in its heydey. There was always bands around like the Beatles to level things out. On the fan side a lot of disco's supporters were homosexuals and and that's was the sort of thing that the right winged society didn't approve of. They believed that disco music endorsed and encouraged homosexuality and freedom of expression. I think I'm starting to agree.
I've read a lot of books about Disco music in the 70's and why it might have died. Apart from a lot of comments on Steve Dahl loosing his job a lot of people believe the campaign against disco music was racially motivated and homophobic. I can sort of see why though. From the mid seventies it was the first time that black orientated music completely took over the music industry. Unless you were the Beegees or Abba, It was a black invasion as it were and white supremist artists were not happy.
Like it or not, all this did was simply put down the creativity of a lot of genuinely talented musicians. The Bee Gee's for one...They were hitting beat perfect long before drum machines were invented. Variety is the spice of life and rock music would quickly go stale if that was all you ever heard on the radio. Disco certainly got its revenge and how many rock acts top the charts today ? Zilch, thats how many. Commericalism won.
Imagine if the White Sox didn't schedule a Doubleheader that night! This event after the first game of the Doubleheader was completed. The White Sox had to forfeit The Nightcap because of the excess broken records that was dumped onto the Comiskey Park field. No worries though as far as Bill Veeck was concerned.
As someone below said, Disco never died, but it's ultra-commercialised late 70's incarnation did. The burning wasn't what killed it, though it was a symptom of it's decline. The soul of Disco moved on and continued to cause shockwaves in popular music for the next thirty years. Turn on the radio, it's still there, and still annoying the retentives, which is nice. I hear people like to dance, which is also nice, but pretty hard to do to The Eagles..
commonly referred to as the day Disco died but that is not a literal meaning Disco was clearly a viable genre even throughout most of 1980 though this did mark the beginning of the end e.g a declining period and probably hastened it's demise by a year or so.
How many people here know that the same people who organized this, who paid off the DJ`s and promoters to do this where the same people who started MTV? If you want to know why music totally sucks today, there is your answer. They put image/video in front of music in terms of importance. They replaced the Bee Gees with Madonna and her watered down disco. Look it up if you don`t believe me.
Middle America always hated disco primarily because disco had a demographic that included blacks, gays, and affluent people. So, ignorant blue collar, Midwestern types took out their hate and did things like this. Back then, if you liked disco, you could be verbally or even physically attacked. Sadly, things haven't changed all that much in Middle America.
These days with the way "authority figures" are there wouldve been tear gas, pepper spray and about 50 dead people by the end of the night and the cops would be soley responsible!!! FUN IS OVER !!!!!!
How about a demolition night for the following bands/artists: Fall Out Boy, Nickelback, Puff Daddy, Justin Timberlake, Black Eyed Peas, Lindsay Lohan, Jonas Sisters, Christiana Aguilera, Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, Beyonce, and Souija Boy
It's just another way of showing their hatred against non white people. Only they do some sissy ass shit like blowing up disco records. If it has nothing to do with white people or white people didn't come up with it, they don't want to accept it. Just plain childish.
@3rdbass618 The race card over this, lol! Fucking hilarious!!! Maybe they played disco to death and ppl got tired of it. Like todays pop sluts & rims bitches n' ho rap shit. Kids have to turn to college radio & other alternatives to find some decent music. Who'd think that those prostitutes walkin' the streets would be the inspiration of the shit the pop skanks find fashionable.
the reason it was at a sox game was because steve dahl was told that anyone who brought a disco album to the game could get in for like 2 dollars or something like that... so inbetween games they blew them up and people stormed the feild and fucked it up so bad that they couldnt even play the second game... so it wasnt a random roit steve dahl kind of started it lol
And second, I find this ironic how this video is about the death of Disco, yet disco music is playing.
To me, disco music is not all that bad. When it's commercialized and overplayed and repetitive, yes it is (bad). But people should think about about how disco kind of revolutionized music. :l
lol...look at the racial makeup of these people. what was so superior about rock music? looks to me like some social conservative white people who couldn't stand for disco being so danceable, black and homosexual.
Actually disco was pretty good in the mid 70`s then it got ridiculously commercial, just like rap is today. But we don`t have any burning of Kanye or Lil Wayne records because everyones a pussy about being called a racist.
no its because this kind of act can land people in a correctional facility and fined $50,000 especially if they disrupt a concert or other public event.And disco did not die because of that night it was still played until 1980-81 or so, than simply replaced with freestyle,new wave(remember the break dance era of the very early 80s) Michael Jackson's thriller era, and rap
Well why would people need to destroy property.... not listening to what you don't like is enough.... and people should listen to what they want to... even if some would juge the taste of most people un-original.
kill rap. rap Demolition Night!!!!!! febuary 14. white socks staduim hosted by Mike Veeck yup so come on down he did wonders with disco now see what we do with rap 2010.......copy and paste rock lovers...just thought i bring it to your guys attention. they will be zz top performing live as well as ted nugent, Lynyrd Skynyrd and a couple more bands....
hey man, you obviously don't know what you are talking about. ask your favourite mc or your favourite producer what they think of the influence of disco.... shitty raggeaton is cool, but soulful disco influence and soul not? haha
Well just use your imagination. If rap/hip hop are stereotyped as "gangstas with guns", that's exactly what you'll see if the rock community decides to start a demolition night on our music. =-)
LOL hip hop has nothing to do with race despite stereotypes as usual about it being "a 100% black dominated music". It's just that, much like rock, hip hop doesn't tolerate hate and criticism towards our music and culture, therefore, the hip hop community will definitely fight back if the rock community dares challenge us with a demolition night. Also, I don't hate rock, at least not all of it, but the ignorant fans who blatantly criticizes my music just to be "kewl".
You had said "our music" instead of somthing like "music that I/we like". Can you explain that?
Also, if there was, say, a rap/hip-hop demolition, why would there be a revolt? I'm guessing you mean that there would be shootings and such, right? Why would those that like that music take such action?
"Our music" can be the same as "music that I/we like" etc, but anyways, are you telling me that rap/hip hop fans should just ignore a rap/hip hop demolition night? Let's just point it like this, if someone said something bad about your mom, your girlfriend, or whoever, would you just ignore it or would you actually say something back? That's how us rap/hip hop fans feel about the very music we like, if someone messed with it, we would fight back, the same thing rock fans would do if people...
attacked rock music. If someone doesn't like a certain genre of music, they should just do the very most simple task known to man and that's ignore it, or, instead of a demolition night, try forming your own band, work hard, and maybe your band/music will get noticed and will get more airplay.
I'm not suggesting anything-but I think it's rather odd to equate the importance of one's family with music. If someone insults the music U like, so what? Just tell them that it's just their opinion, nuth'n more. If it's not true, don't worry about it. Those folks that do those things will just look foolish. Still, if you 'fight' for the music U like, is it OK to kill someone for it? is this what the rap/hip hop fans do? Really, WHY? What does that say about people who behave that way?
Ok, U made an interesting point. U said, "...we would fight back, the same thing rock fans would do if people attacked rock music." Gee- ya think maybe that's what happened in the 1st place? Maybe that's why there was the Disco Demolition. The rockers simply made a big statement to the disco-ers that insulted their music to begin with. Nonetheless, the rockers did not kill anybody. Praytell, why would the rap/hip-hoppers kill people if 'their' music was insulted?.....
Ok well, now I understand why the rockers did what they did towards disco, even though they should've handled it in a different way rather than rioting like it's WW3. So what has rap/hip hop done to rock that they deserve a demolition night? And the whole "rap/hip hop fans would kill" was just a joke, even though I didn't make it out that way in the 1st place, but yea it was just a joke. However, still, us rap/hip hop fans wouldn't just sit back and let people attack our music like that.
Oh ok, I guess it's not always clear when someone's jesting when reading print. Yes, the disco demolition was WAY over the top--they way over reacted. Even Steve Dahl admitted this. Gee, isn't that so much like we humans! We can tend to get so worked up into an emotional frenzy and do crazy things that we wouldn't normally do. Anyway, music is very powerful. Indeed we can take things very personal thru it. I like to use music for construstive means, not destructive. Cheers!
LOL I think you're completely misreading what I'm trying to say here. People are allowed to like/hate whatever they want, I don't have a problem at all if people don't like rap. However, you see the basis of what a "demolition night" does as shown in this video, and that is something no one should tolerate. I mean destroying records and encouraging a banned on a music genre just cause a certain group doesn't like it? I don't know about you, but that to me just sounds ignorant and immature.
LOL my name originally was made to partake in the YOUTUBE BASED rap vs. rock/metal warfare and to piss ignorant rock/metal fans off. Then it was just down to piss metal fans off since they were the ones responsible for many of those biased anti rap videos and such. Nowadays I've taken myself out of these pointless battles, but will only get involved once every full moon when I see somebody saying stupid shit like "rap takes no talent" or "rap fans are idiots".
Heh, ok, I kinda thought that's what it was. Yup, pointless battles will just make you crazy. I'm still amaised at the sensitivity that folks have with this. I'm still a l'il curious if some folks still tend to 'attach' themselves to the musical genre...or if perhaps they make and wear a genre of music to make some kind of statement. Granted, some hate a music and they really don't know why; they're just following along.
People who just tends to stick to one genre and believes there's some kind of a music warfare going on are the true idiots. I mean I'm mostly into rap/hip hop, however, I also listen to r&b, pop, rock, electronic, jazz, and classical. And you're right, most people who do hate another genre of music don't really have any reasons behind it other than following the crowd, and that's what mainly youtube metal fans display. If only they knew what they were missing besides their own music.
Those who refuse to accept the past are condemned to REPEAT IT , and if you ever meet me, I will always be reminding you that the 70s are still alive and DISCO RULES you dumbass!!
As someone who was visiting Rome 15 years after this incident in my home town, I couldn't understand why the rest of the world never figured out that disco was a cultural embarrassment that needed a healthy dose of ridicule to put it in its place.
thank god, I prefer the hair metal era and the 70's hard rock(queen, black sabbath, the who, grand funk railroad)80's: van halen, extreme, nitro, metallica and megadeth obviously the best of the era
This happened just 2 years after I left Chicago, & in Las Vegas at the time, there was no cable TV yet. I never really understood the situation that evening in Chi. until just last year, when I received a DVD of LIVE coverage of this ridiculous incident. "Now I know" exactly what happened, I feel that Steve Dahl should have known better to bring on such a stupid event to the park, that only encouraged the fans to terrible fools of themselves.
Disco is a celebration of happiness, mostly the celebration of being an happy consumer - happy consumers like to spend their saturday night in the disco and dance a few hours, just to take a break from the city life or everyday's tasks.
Disco was born in the middle 70's, after the Vietnam war, after the student riots (in europe) and the hippy movement. Disco can easily survive the presence of other music genres, like Rock, while Rock needed a whipe out of disco to rise again.
Granted, however, there sometimes seems to be rilvaries between genres of music, sometimes due to misunderstandings, pride, bias, etc. At 1 time, rock and soul existed together. Then sumth'n happened in the mid-70's and the rilvary began. Read some of my other comments in this on this forum. Hopefully in the future, we can all be better educated about music, thus setting aside the biases and preduices. If we can, it'll be thus reflected in the music of the future.
Indeed. For the most part these "genre wars" only exist on youtube or the internet in general, aside from maybe pop, emo, and yes even disco, there hasn't been any music wars out in the real world unless it was within their own like a rapper vs. another rapper or a rock/metal band vs. another rock/metal band. However, the biasty does need to stop and people should just let others express themselves however they like either through music or style w/o judging and criticizing.
Good point. I can remember 1 thing about it back then, that when I would mention that I liked rock, I'd get severly critisized by the folks who liked disco. I just couldn't never understand that! I have to wonder how many more folks had this same kind of experience as me. Perhaps this was why the Disco Demolition happened.
LOL yea, people who follow the mainstream tend to be pretty egotistical. That's the same thing we face in the rap/hip hop community where the "wankster" kids say Soulja girl and Lil Wayne are better than any old school rappers. The mainstream folks will always think their music is the best cause that's the most played and everyone's into it, not realizing that most mainstream = bullshit.
"mainstream = bullshit" that's probably more true than what people realize. Personally, I tend to like music with intellect. Mainstream generally doesn't reflect that.
I was about to turn 15 back then. I remember. I also remember the old "disco sucks" tee shirts people wore, and the great radio battles. This is not to mention actually signing a petition so that a certain radio station wouldn't go disco in favor of such.
Ah, the good old days of head shops and the Grateful Dead and whatnot.
For all you who dont understand what happened that night, THIS NIGHT is what the White Sox are about. The Chicago Bears are the Kings of Chicago sports. The Cubs are the Prince's, no doubt about that. The White Sox were the court JESTERS and Bill Veck, a great owner, understood and embraced this simple fact. Its the reason he signed a Midget, had belly dancers, hot air balloons and dont forget Harry Carey who the Cubs like to claim started with the Sox and was a Veck creation. GO SOX!!!!!
... until it was resurrected in 1992 or so (with songs like Madonna's "Deeper") when American's like to revisit the past (20 year visits) with fond memories of days long ago. They never seem to remember ugly times like this or how much hatred of a retreaded fad Disco had become.
You know, most of the people posting comments here weren't even alive when this took place and miss the point all together on why it happened like it did. The people who put this together in Detroit had no idea how deep the backlash to Disco ran. From songs like "Disco Duck" to 3 piece Polyester Sport Suits, most Americans had had enough of Disco culture. I remember almost overnight how even playing a disco song with friends got ridiculed. This lasted all thru the80's and into the early 90's...
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Disco rules and still does!
What we need at some corporate named baseball park is a ---all Gen Y music demolition night. Only good band in the last ten years is the White Stripes.
"Disco Still Sucks!! That's why the sound track to this video is DISCO -- duh -- where is Sam Kinison when we need him? The reason this has 20,000 views is people want to hear the disco sound. Long live the Bee Gees.
I want this video on my Xperia X10 unit.
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OMG! Unusual remarks on this video yet again.
zacherycote49 3 weeks ago
It's funny how much less obese flyover white trash was back in the 1970s.
GreatUmbrage 1 month ago 2
I miss disco - I miss the horn sections. I miss seeing four (or more) singers on stage, dancing. I miss real drums and bass. I miss people who cared more about having fun than being cool. And by the way, 'Miss You' is a great record. Keith Richard's opinion on the subject is not relevant. I have spoken.
ksmontanaro 2 months ago 3
@ksmontanaro Me too...I miss horn sections and string arrangements very much...with disco, song arrangements came to the height of their power...after disco, music became so stripped-down and monotonous...you hear nothing else but a boring simply played guitar strumming and computer-produced sounds..no real playing, no vocal abilities...just a need for a good sound engineer..
lapislazuli248 1 week ago
@ksmontanaro Thank you! "Heart of Glass" wasn't bad either ; )
selffless1 5 days ago
Wow, those white people must really hate black culture, to go to all that trouble.
ksmontanaro 2 months ago
Hey, me and a guy who should we say was a little bit to the Right in his opinions downed a load of beer in 1990 and decided to have a House Music Must Die show and shot a Megabass/ Deep Heat CD to pieces and smashed up cassette singles by Black Box and Technotronic. It was such a good buzz destroying all that shit music made by faceless berks and " models" who can't sing.
Glenn1967ful 2 months ago
July 12, 1979......the day Brock Lesnar entered his terrible twos! LOL.
ir10031981 3 months ago
Disco really did suck
shandobj1 4 months ago 3
DISCO? Disco will never be over.. the day disco died in America, disco survive in europe under the name "ITALO DISCO", and then evolved into the 90's dance music, and late 90's early 2000's euro dance... until house music reached europe in its electro and progressive forms.
Disco never died, disco survived and changed its style.
BattleForTelenuovo 4 months ago
Sorry to bring up the R word but there was a lot of racism behind the alleged destruction of disco. people didn't like to see Whites, Blacks and Hispanics happy and having fun and coming together it really pissed people off to see this unity and happiness.
selffless1 4 months ago
@selffless1 No, its just that the music sucked, Stop trying to label everything "racism"....
524pmdnyc 3 months ago
@524pmdnyc Oh it did? is that why notable rock bands at the time "rolling stones," Rod Stewart," "Kiss," all came out with disco hits?
selffless1 3 months ago
@selffless1 So What? it still sucked...and when they did it, the result sucked too....they saw an opportunity to make money off a popular trend with no effort...and they grabbed it... its called capitalizing. It does not change the fact that the misu sucked...no matter who did it. Look now...who is still touring , selling out stadiums, making millions..the rockbands...and they are doing it by making rock , not disco. where are the disco bands? doing lounge acts in nightclubs, if they are lucky.
524pmdnyc 3 months ago
@524pmdnyc I wouldn't say the result sucked "Miss you" is still a great song (one of my faves) today. And I'm in know way comparing disco to rock at all.All I'm saying it didn't suck and brought alot of people togetherand does have its place in music history. In fact you hear discos legacy in many other genres today ie trance, house, techno, etc..
selffless1 3 months ago
@selffless1 Actually.."Miss You" sucked...it is one of the most enbarrasing points in the history of the Stones, and that comes from non other than Keith Richards. He said.."Dont blame that on me, That was Mick with help from Bianca" and You threw up Rock bands doing disco, so you brought up the comparision. as for you mention of House, techno, Trance, they suck too, so its no surprise they are similar to disco
524pmdnyc 3 months ago
@524pmdnyc I wasn't making a comparison just pointing to a fact. Anyhow if you cant appreciate the genre and the legacy it has left then that's up to you Peace...
selffless1 3 months ago
@selffless1 Those bands came out with "disco hits" because that music was popular at the time and they also wanted to cash in on that sound too. They made music to make money, period.
abaneyone 1 month ago
Disco didn't die, it only evolved. Now we have house, trance, dupstep, breakbeat, dnb, nu-jazz, experimental, goa, progressive, & so much more...even hip hop wouldn't be here if it weren't for disco LOL So much for Disco Demolition Night /sarcasm LOL
DJBrokenHigh 5 months ago
People and their ignorant and distorted views.
manicnoize 5 months ago
"Bill Veeck, Red Sox Owner" hahaha... It seems like one of those marketing strategies to raise franchise income. A mainstream exprerience announcing the destruction of another mainstream experience. Such a paradox.
luchalmon 6 months ago
Chitown Clothing dot com has a sweet Disco Demolition t-shirt!
bettykilla 6 months ago
I remember this 1979 game vividly(I was a teenager at the time and seeing it on TV)
kjchicago1 6 months ago
I just enjoyed the music of the times. I'm just stuck in the 60's & early 70's music.
Siempre>Born in 53 > Miyagi
mrmiyagi13 6 months ago
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joeski4 7 months ago
Dave Sims told me to go here.
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nothing wrong with disco music just the lifestyle and the elitism.
Sjpanda 7 months ago
nothing wrong with disco just the lifestyle and the elitism.
Sjpanda 7 months ago
I love how everyone is calling classic rock fans racist as if disco didn't have its own dubious issues when it came to race. Disco isn't even black music... if anything, it's a betrayal of true black music, like Funk and Soul. Disco just stole elements from those genres and made them palatable to a mainstream (read: white) audience. And if disco was supposed to be all-inclusive, then why is it that 90% of the black people who were allowed into Studio 54 were celebrities?
PerroLuno 8 months ago
i love disco, and hate baseball.
Still, this is pretty fucking awesome.
Shirokinukatsukami 8 months ago
@Shirokinukatsukami i love baseball, and hate disco
monkeybutler20 7 months ago
It seems the Disco riot was successful. People with good taste in music need to now organize a Justin Bieber/Lady Gaga riot!
TheAntiquarian 8 months ago 4
Hardly, disco lives on. Fuck these classic rock zombies, no respect, no control and I guarantee you 90% of them are now working dead end jobs in a factory or as a clerk.
Gmancrap 8 months ago
@Gmancrap I don't hate disco, I just prefer instrumental disco, funk, soul, and jazz-funk myself. I think there was clearly a point where there were way too many average quality disco songs being played on the radio stations. There is good disco, and there is bad disco, just like there's good and bad rock music. The riot had a place to demonstrate against bad taste in music, though, just as well need one now.
TheAntiquarian 7 months ago
Disco stayed alive until 1985 with the hit fresh by kool and the gang!
otizali 8 months ago
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Gmancrap 8 months ago
I still LOVE disco!
Dawn
10Dec1971 8 months ago
the should do the same with justin bieber
ImSoDrink1 9 months ago
lo mismo deberian hacer con el reggaeton
ImSoDrink1 9 months ago
americans are getting dumber and numbmer every year so disco will always have customers
BigBishop1 9 months ago
I enjoy disco, but.......we should have a justin bieber and lady gaga record burning.
themadhacker2 10 months ago 3
probably the only sell out the woebegone pale hosers had in 1979....
crockett007 10 months ago
I love Steve Dahl but the following game was cancelled I still haven't see the SOX play guess the cubs curse rubbed off on me
mikekcmo6742 11 months ago
usually anybody who says "disco sucks" say it cuz they cant dance 2 it! shit...thank god i can!! haha! anywyz...disco never really died...only the "mainstream" thinks so!
aniraina21 11 months ago
A lot of those alleged rocker idiots up there couldn't even dance to rock music of the 60s, meaning they might've been just starting in their teens if not much younger. Disco sucks. Yeah, sure, there are some aspects of disco music that is obviously an attempt to mimic genuine dance music but, yeah, the 70s era got confused when the 60s ended.
Khultan 11 months ago
How could anyone get tired of disco? They might be tired of disco, but, not me! Now, what was the name of that tune?
BRD453 11 months ago
thanks to this morons we have shitty ass music today i should slap them
jauremd 1 year ago
Dance music today is expanding 'cause many R&B and Hip Hop artists are performing in dance production. Kelis, Kelly Rowland, Shaggy, Sean Paul are some of them.
gianca60 1 year ago
Disco never died, it just got renamed "dance music," despite what some might like to believe. Burning a few records in a field is never going to "kill" such an influential form of music.
Almost all styles of dance music around today are just forms of disco that have developed further. Disco has had an enormous influence on pop music and some rock and the sound is still popular today eg. Lady Gaga.
See this: news(dot)bbc(dot)co(dot)uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8907000/8907388(dot)stm
talkedtoaflower 1 year ago 11
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No. That's why rockers hate disco. All the jersey shore fist pumping douchebags suck ass. GIve me some springsteen n Stones!! Hell,I'm in college and rather rock to that!
rloebe34 10 months ago
@talkedtoaflower There's nothing influential about disco. Is one of the worst genres ever created and yes, it died. Just like that bitch lady gaga will soon die.
rodycaz 4 months ago
@talkedtoaflower There's nothing influential about disco. Is one of the worst genres ever created and yes, it died. Just like that bitch lady gaga will soon die.
rodycaz 4 months ago
@talkedtoaflower No. Disco is dead. Get over it.
Yemmuh4444 3 months ago
@Yemmuh4444 Lol, you wish. Troll?
talkedtoaflower 3 months ago
Does anyone know when it actually died? I'm guessing around 1981-1982 when Regan came to power. There were still disco grops around in the early eighties but they were working on changing their style because they ceased dominating in that era.
CHUNKEY70 1 year ago
Sure Motown groups like the Supremes and Jackson5 were popular in the 60s but Motown never dominated the whole music industry like Disco did in its heydey. There was always bands around like the Beatles to level things out. On the fan side a lot of disco's supporters were homosexuals and and that's was the sort of thing that the right winged society didn't approve of. They believed that disco music endorsed and encouraged homosexuality and freedom of expression. I think I'm starting to agree.
CHUNKEY70 1 year ago
I've read a lot of books about Disco music in the 70's and why it might have died. Apart from a lot of comments on Steve Dahl loosing his job a lot of people believe the campaign against disco music was racially motivated and homophobic. I can sort of see why though. From the mid seventies it was the first time that black orientated music completely took over the music industry. Unless you were the Beegees or Abba, It was a black invasion as it were and white supremist artists were not happy.
CHUNKEY70 1 year ago
steve was a complete nut but, he's fucking awesome!!
Tbraves111 1 year ago
Like it or not, all this did was simply put down the creativity of a lot of genuinely talented musicians. The Bee Gee's for one...They were hitting beat perfect long before drum machines were invented. Variety is the spice of life and rock music would quickly go stale if that was all you ever heard on the radio. Disco certainly got its revenge and how many rock acts top the charts today ? Zilch, thats how many. Commericalism won.
cameraguy38 1 year ago
Imagine if the White Sox didn't schedule a Doubleheader that night! This event after the first game of the Doubleheader was completed. The White Sox had to forfeit The Nightcap because of the excess broken records that was dumped onto the Comiskey Park field. No worries though as far as Bill Veeck was concerned.
Bill Veeck was always "The People's Owner"!
Jiltedin2007 1 year ago
There should have been a Hair Metal demolition night.
McRabbid9 1 year ago 3
This was like the Nazi book-burning and the Crystal night in 1938.
But a Rap/hip hop Demolition Night would be great!! Haha
marcol68 1 year ago 6
God, we need one of these today.
NewMadrid01 1 year ago 3
we shoul do a bieber demolition night!
jimeniuxxobo 1 year ago 3
the high point of all of chgo baseball history!
supercrazydave 1 year ago
As someone below said, Disco never died, but it's ultra-commercialised late 70's incarnation did. The burning wasn't what killed it, though it was a symptom of it's decline. The soul of Disco moved on and continued to cause shockwaves in popular music for the next thirty years. Turn on the radio, it's still there, and still annoying the retentives, which is nice. I hear people like to dance, which is also nice, but pretty hard to do to The Eagles..
illman76 1 year ago
House Music is DISCO's Revenge
Soultourist 1 year ago
I would take disco over Justin Beiber any day
BBoldtThaMixer 1 year ago
We Need to do this On Wilshire Blvd in front of KRTH FM 101
KRTH 101 is an Oldies Radio Station
Not a Disco Doctor's Office Cover Song
Station
TL250Rider 1 year ago
I find it funny how the 1970's and 1980's have some of the best music despite being some of the worst periods in American history (in some aspects).
Inlander3 1 year ago
Let's start a anti hip hop and lady gaga movement
pfootball43 1 year ago
commonly referred to as the day Disco died but that is not a literal meaning Disco was clearly a viable genre even throughout most of 1980 though this did mark the beginning of the end e.g a declining period and probably hastened it's demise by a year or so.
0TheSeeker 1 year ago
I love Youtube. The comments are so much more entertaining than the videos.
jman4212 1 year ago 2
How many people here know that the same people who organized this, who paid off the DJ`s and promoters to do this where the same people who started MTV? If you want to know why music totally sucks today, there is your answer. They put image/video in front of music in terms of importance. They replaced the Bee Gees with Madonna and her watered down disco. Look it up if you don`t believe me.
JamesTKirkCobain 1 year ago
Middle America always hated disco primarily because disco had a demographic that included blacks, gays, and affluent people. So, ignorant blue collar, Midwestern types took out their hate and did things like this. Back then, if you liked disco, you could be verbally or even physically attacked. Sadly, things haven't changed all that much in Middle America.
VIEWTUBE00000 1 year ago 2
Lol how they made it official.
And yes that Rod Stewart song was the final straw.
4eva68 1 year ago
These days with the way "authority figures" are there wouldve been tear gas, pepper spray and about 50 dead people by the end of the night and the cops would be soley responsible!!! FUN IS OVER !!!!!!
DrVegasIII 1 year ago
How about a demolition night for the following bands/artists: Fall Out Boy, Nickelback, Puff Daddy, Justin Timberlake, Black Eyed Peas, Lindsay Lohan, Jonas Sisters, Christiana Aguilera, Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, Beyonce, and Souija Boy
pujols37105 1 year ago
Take me out of the baseball game!
masterkiox 1 year ago
It's just another way of showing their hatred against non white people. Only they do some sissy ass shit like blowing up disco records. If it has nothing to do with white people or white people didn't come up with it, they don't want to accept it. Just plain childish.
3rdbass618 1 year ago 2
@3rdbass618 The race card over this, lol! Fucking hilarious!!! Maybe they played disco to death and ppl got tired of it. Like todays pop sluts & rims bitches n' ho rap shit. Kids have to turn to college radio & other alternatives to find some decent music. Who'd think that those prostitutes walkin' the streets would be the inspiration of the shit the pop skanks find fashionable.
TalkingOcean1 1 year ago
Rock is dead!! Punk is dead!!
Disco is still alive. Talk about Ironic.
Civsuccess2 1 year ago
@Civsuccess2 If disco was still alive, they would actually make new disco songs instead of recycling the ones from the '70's.
pujols37105 1 year ago
Disco don't sucks
unespanol93 1 year ago
Disco is alive and well.
79cobras 1 year ago
the reason it was at a sox game was because steve dahl was told that anyone who brought a disco album to the game could get in for like 2 dollars or something like that... so inbetween games they blew them up and people stormed the feild and fucked it up so bad that they couldnt even play the second game... so it wasnt a random roit steve dahl kind of started it lol
EaoDRampage 1 year ago
First of all, why riot at a White Sox game?
And second, I find this ironic how this video is about the death of Disco, yet disco music is playing.
To me, disco music is not all that bad. When it's commercialized and overplayed and repetitive, yes it is (bad). But people should think about about how disco kind of revolutionized music. :l
erikaemergency 1 year ago
lol...look at the racial makeup of these people. what was so superior about rock music? looks to me like some social conservative white people who couldn't stand for disco being so danceable, black and homosexual.
AznBoyBlushes 2 years ago
hip hop kill rock jajajaja. the revenge
rolandolover 2 years ago
@rolandolover hip hop is garbage, it never killed rock, you tool.
biglloyddobbs 1 year ago
Disco suck Ass!!
jherquintiz1 2 years ago
without the disco song will not be born another song
pianorenamon 2 years ago
they should do a disney demolishin
chuy655 2 years ago 5
@chuy655 They should also do a spellcheck demolition
howdyfeller 1 year ago
the music cracks me up everytime.
MidwestMex 2 years ago
this is hilarious
MidwestMex 2 years ago
it was stupid, wild animals running around...
salishaw 2 years ago
Actually disco was pretty good in the mid 70`s then it got ridiculously commercial, just like rap is today. But we don`t have any burning of Kanye or Lil Wayne records because everyones a pussy about being called a racist.
Edhallick 2 years ago 2
no its because this kind of act can land people in a correctional facility and fined $50,000 especially if they disrupt a concert or other public event.And disco did not die because of that night it was still played until 1980-81 or so, than simply replaced with freestyle,new wave(remember the break dance era of the very early 80s) Michael Jackson's thriller era, and rap
IABSC20 2 years ago
Well why would people need to destroy property.... not listening to what you don't like is enough.... and people should listen to what they want to... even if some would juge the taste of most people un-original.
Acadianiste 1 year ago
Disco still alive!!
gianca60 2 years ago
How is it still alive?
bob4analog 2 years ago
From pop music to dance to hip hop (samples), disco still influences music. And people still dancin' with it.
gianca60 2 years ago
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kill rap. rap Demolition Night!!!!!! febuary 14. white socks staduim hosted by Mike Veeck yup so come on down he did wonders with disco now see what we do with rap 2010.......copy and paste rock lovers...just thought i bring it to your guys attention. they will be zz top performing live as well as ted nugent, Lynyrd Skynyrd and a couple more bands....
fattkattz55 2 years ago
We need to do this for Hip Hop and kill that shitty genre.
senorvergara 2 years ago
hey man, you obviously don't know what you are talking about. ask your favourite mc or your favourite producer what they think of the influence of disco.... shitty raggeaton is cool, but soulful disco influence and soul not? haha
marcelvogel 2 years ago
That my friend will never happen, cause hip hop is one genre that will fight back if anyone attempts to start shit with them.
IHATEROCKNMETAL 2 years ago
Why? And what will 'they' do?
bob4analog 2 years ago
Well just use your imagination. If rap/hip hop are stereotyped as "gangstas with guns", that's exactly what you'll see if the rock community decides to start a demolition night on our music. =-)
IHATEROCKNMETAL 2 years ago
So, is it safe to say that rap/hip hop is race sensitive?
And if such a revolt against rap/hip hop should happen, why should the
"gangstas with guns" care?
Also, if I could please ask, what is it you hate about rock?
bob4analog 2 years ago
LOL hip hop has nothing to do with race despite stereotypes as usual about it being "a 100% black dominated music". It's just that, much like rock, hip hop doesn't tolerate hate and criticism towards our music and culture, therefore, the hip hop community will definitely fight back if the rock community dares challenge us with a demolition night. Also, I don't hate rock, at least not all of it, but the ignorant fans who blatantly criticizes my music just to be "kewl".
IHATEROCKNMETAL 2 years ago
You had said "our music" instead of somthing like "music that I/we like". Can you explain that?
Also, if there was, say, a rap/hip-hop demolition, why would there be a revolt? I'm guessing you mean that there would be shootings and such, right? Why would those that like that music take such action?
bob4analog 2 years ago
"Our music" can be the same as "music that I/we like" etc, but anyways, are you telling me that rap/hip hop fans should just ignore a rap/hip hop demolition night? Let's just point it like this, if someone said something bad about your mom, your girlfriend, or whoever, would you just ignore it or would you actually say something back? That's how us rap/hip hop fans feel about the very music we like, if someone messed with it, we would fight back, the same thing rock fans would do if people...
IHATEROCKNMETAL 2 years ago
attacked rock music. If someone doesn't like a certain genre of music, they should just do the very most simple task known to man and that's ignore it, or, instead of a demolition night, try forming your own band, work hard, and maybe your band/music will get noticed and will get more airplay.
IHATEROCKNMETAL 2 years ago
I'm not suggesting anything-but I think it's rather odd to equate the importance of one's family with music. If someone insults the music U like, so what? Just tell them that it's just their opinion, nuth'n more. If it's not true, don't worry about it. Those folks that do those things will just look foolish. Still, if you 'fight' for the music U like, is it OK to kill someone for it? is this what the rap/hip hop fans do? Really, WHY? What does that say about people who behave that way?
bob4analog 2 years ago
Ok, U made an interesting point. U said, "...we would fight back, the same thing rock fans would do if people attacked rock music." Gee- ya think maybe that's what happened in the 1st place? Maybe that's why there was the Disco Demolition. The rockers simply made a big statement to the disco-ers that insulted their music to begin with. Nonetheless, the rockers did not kill anybody. Praytell, why would the rap/hip-hoppers kill people if 'their' music was insulted?.....
bob4analog 2 years ago
...If that is the case, how does that make them different from the likes of gang-bangers? I don't understand that kinda behaviour, for what? Music???
bob4analog 2 years ago
Ok well, now I understand why the rockers did what they did towards disco, even though they should've handled it in a different way rather than rioting like it's WW3. So what has rap/hip hop done to rock that they deserve a demolition night? And the whole "rap/hip hop fans would kill" was just a joke, even though I didn't make it out that way in the 1st place, but yea it was just a joke. However, still, us rap/hip hop fans wouldn't just sit back and let people attack our music like that.
IHATEROCKNMETAL 2 years ago
Oh ok, I guess it's not always clear when someone's jesting when reading print. Yes, the disco demolition was WAY over the top--they way over reacted. Even Steve Dahl admitted this. Gee, isn't that so much like we humans! We can tend to get so worked up into an emotional frenzy and do crazy things that we wouldn't normally do. Anyway, music is very powerful. Indeed we can take things very personal thru it. I like to use music for construstive means, not destructive. Cheers!
bob4analog 2 years ago
LOL I think you're completely misreading what I'm trying to say here. People are allowed to like/hate whatever they want, I don't have a problem at all if people don't like rap. However, you see the basis of what a "demolition night" does as shown in this video, and that is something no one should tolerate. I mean destroying records and encouraging a banned on a music genre just cause a certain group doesn't like it? I don't know about you, but that to me just sounds ignorant and immature.
IHATEROCKNMETAL 2 years ago 2
Just curious, but why
"IHATEROCKNMETAL"?
bob4analog 2 years ago
LOL my name originally was made to partake in the YOUTUBE BASED rap vs. rock/metal warfare and to piss ignorant rock/metal fans off. Then it was just down to piss metal fans off since they were the ones responsible for many of those biased anti rap videos and such. Nowadays I've taken myself out of these pointless battles, but will only get involved once every full moon when I see somebody saying stupid shit like "rap takes no talent" or "rap fans are idiots".
IHATEROCKNMETAL 2 years ago
Heh, ok, I kinda thought that's what it was. Yup, pointless battles will just make you crazy. I'm still amaised at the sensitivity that folks have with this. I'm still a l'il curious if some folks still tend to 'attach' themselves to the musical genre...or if perhaps they make and wear a genre of music to make some kind of statement. Granted, some hate a music and they really don't know why; they're just following along.
bob4analog 2 years ago
People who just tends to stick to one genre and believes there's some kind of a music warfare going on are the true idiots. I mean I'm mostly into rap/hip hop, however, I also listen to r&b, pop, rock, electronic, jazz, and classical. And you're right, most people who do hate another genre of music don't really have any reasons behind it other than following the crowd, and that's what mainly youtube metal fans display. If only they knew what they were missing besides their own music.
IHATEROCKNMETAL 2 years ago 3
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bob4analog 2 years ago
And stay dead!
BigUriel 2 years ago
Disco STILL Sucks!! I was happy & proud to be a part of it :)
DiscoSource: Good,, keep it on that side of the pond :) Please!
DustOffUH1 2 years ago
Those who refuse to accept the past are condemned to REPEAT IT , and if you ever meet me, I will always be reminding you that the 70s are still alive and DISCO RULES you dumbass!!
70sman4ever 2 years ago
actually the 70's died January 1st, 1980
kingof20v 2 years ago 2
ignorance, sexual insecurity in men, and technology-warpedness was born in 1980.
70sman4ever 2 years ago
1. ignorance has been around for thousands of years, but was strongest in the 70's
2. same with sexual insecurity
3. techno-bable started in the late 1800's
kingof20v 2 years ago
If I might ask, in what way does disco rule?
bob4analog 2 years ago
one of the greatest events of the 1970's!
owg59 2 years ago
The day disco died? The day disco died IN AMERICA you mean, disco survived in Europe and reached the present under new form.
Disco didn't die, it just changed address. Check out "Italo Disco" and "Italo Dance" on Wikipedia if you don't beleive me.
DiscoSource 2 years ago
one of the proudest moments in american history
kingof20v 2 years ago
You are what I call American trash!
70sman4ever 2 years ago
and you are what is known as a coked out dumb shit living in the past. disco has always sucked and will always be the shit stain of musical history
kingof20v 2 years ago
...and PROUD of it the past is TODAY! Word it to your mother!
70sman4ever 2 years ago
actually the past is the past, and today is current. also when using the "word" phrase, there is no "it" involved.
kingof20v 2 years ago
like hicks know music.
WhoWhatWhenWhereWifi 2 years ago
hating disco just proves I have taste in music, my being a hick is totally irrelevant
kingof20v 2 years ago
As someone who was visiting Rome 15 years after this incident in my home town, I couldn't understand why the rest of the world never figured out that disco was a cultural embarrassment that needed a healthy dose of ridicule to put it in its place.
swagv 2 years ago
Coincidence, i am Italian, italy is the birthplace of "italo disco", check it out on wiki
DiscoSource 2 years ago
What a bunch of retards.
PSU24RULZ 2 years ago
thank god, I prefer the hair metal era and the 70's hard rock(queen, black sabbath, the who, grand funk railroad)80's: van halen, extreme, nitro, metallica and megadeth obviously the best of the era
cubsfan1591 2 years ago
haha, hair metals almost just as bad, lol.
lostgeneration7 2 years ago
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PittsburghMarky 2 years ago
Insane Coho Lips forever!!!!
winterman63 2 years ago
This happened just 2 years after I left Chicago, & in Las Vegas at the time, there was no cable TV yet. I never really understood the situation that evening in Chi. until just last year, when I received a DVD of LIVE coverage of this ridiculous incident. "Now I know" exactly what happened, I feel that Steve Dahl should have known better to bring on such a stupid event to the park, that only encouraged the fans to terrible fools of themselves.
luvthoseclips 2 years ago
sox fans are fuckin stupid asses
hester800 2 years ago
The funny thing is disco is still here in many forms and your old rock n' roll is gone. Whoops. Sorry :)
designlogicorg 2 years ago 2
Yeah, you are right - they got crap commercial bands now, we still have house music.
DiscoSource 2 years ago
What is it that you don't like about rock? (just curious)
bob4analog 2 years ago
Disco is a celebration of happiness, mostly the celebration of being an happy consumer - happy consumers like to spend their saturday night in the disco and dance a few hours, just to take a break from the city life or everyday's tasks.
Disco was born in the middle 70's, after the Vietnam war, after the student riots (in europe) and the hippy movement. Disco can easily survive the presence of other music genres, like Rock, while Rock needed a whipe out of disco to rise again.
DiscoSource 2 years ago
Granted, however, there sometimes seems to be rilvaries between genres of music, sometimes due to misunderstandings, pride, bias, etc. At 1 time, rock and soul existed together. Then sumth'n happened in the mid-70's and the rilvary began. Read some of my other comments in this on this forum. Hopefully in the future, we can all be better educated about music, thus setting aside the biases and preduices. If we can, it'll be thus reflected in the music of the future.
bob4analog 2 years ago
Indeed. For the most part these "genre wars" only exist on youtube or the internet in general, aside from maybe pop, emo, and yes even disco, there hasn't been any music wars out in the real world unless it was within their own like a rapper vs. another rapper or a rock/metal band vs. another rock/metal band. However, the biasty does need to stop and people should just let others express themselves however they like either through music or style w/o judging and criticizing.
IHATEROCKNMETAL 2 years ago
Something happened: people tought disco was better than rock.
DiscoSource 2 years ago
Good point. I can remember 1 thing about it back then, that when I would mention that I liked rock, I'd get severly critisized by the folks who liked disco. I just couldn't never understand that! I have to wonder how many more folks had this same kind of experience as me. Perhaps this was why the Disco Demolition happened.
bob4analog 2 years ago
LOL yea, people who follow the mainstream tend to be pretty egotistical. That's the same thing we face in the rap/hip hop community where the "wankster" kids say Soulja girl and Lil Wayne are better than any old school rappers. The mainstream folks will always think their music is the best cause that's the most played and everyone's into it, not realizing that most mainstream = bullshit.
IHATEROCKNMETAL 2 years ago 22
"mainstream = bullshit" that's probably more true than what people realize. Personally, I tend to like music with intellect. Mainstream generally doesn't reflect that.
bob4analog 2 years ago
@IHATEROCKNMETAL We need Pop-Rap Demolition Night! Let's keep it old school!
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bob4analog 2 years ago
I was about to turn 15 back then. I remember. I also remember the old "disco sucks" tee shirts people wore, and the great radio battles. This is not to mention actually signing a petition so that a certain radio station wouldn't go disco in favor of such.
Ah, the good old days of head shops and the Grateful Dead and whatnot.
PetePuma00 2 years ago
For all you who dont understand what happened that night, THIS NIGHT is what the White Sox are about. The Chicago Bears are the Kings of Chicago sports. The Cubs are the Prince's, no doubt about that. The White Sox were the court JESTERS and Bill Veck, a great owner, understood and embraced this simple fact. Its the reason he signed a Midget, had belly dancers, hot air balloons and dont forget Harry Carey who the Cubs like to claim started with the Sox and was a Veck creation. GO SOX!!!!!
blkm4proffems 2 years ago
... until it was resurrected in 1992 or so (with songs like Madonna's "Deeper") when American's like to revisit the past (20 year visits) with fond memories of days long ago. They never seem to remember ugly times like this or how much hatred of a retreaded fad Disco had become.
rufusman2008 2 years ago
You know, most of the people posting comments here weren't even alive when this took place and miss the point all together on why it happened like it did. The people who put this together in Detroit had no idea how deep the backlash to Disco ran. From songs like "Disco Duck" to 3 piece Polyester Sport Suits, most Americans had had enough of Disco culture. I remember almost overnight how even playing a disco song with friends got ridiculed. This lasted all thru the80's and into the early 90's...
rufusman2008 2 years ago
I still LOVE disco!! Always have and always will.. It brings back memories of a happy childhood.
10Dec1971 2 years ago
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Disco rules and still does!
What we need at some corporate named baseball park is a ---all Gen Y music demolition night. Only good band in the last ten years is the White Stripes.
RevrendJohnson 2 years ago
"Only good band in the last ten years is the White Stripes"....shows what you know about music.
boomboxlamf 2 years ago
They should do a Rap Demolition night.
ultimatesportingnews 2 years ago 8
@ultimatesportingnews - THey would but it would require millionaire investors who would profit from it like the investors of MTV
JamesTKirkCobain 1 year ago
This story tells me more about Chicago baseball than disco. Obviously, the Chicago fans wanted anything other than watching Chicago baseball.
bruceok 2 years ago
"Disco Still Sucks!! That's why the sound track to this video is DISCO -- duh -- where is Sam Kinison when we need him? The reason this has 20,000 views is people want to hear the disco sound. Long live the Bee Gees.
bruceok 2 years ago
My favorite quote of all time.
"Beer goes great with baseball. I think they had a little more than beer."
montasmob69 2 years ago
Should have just given out John Travolta bobble heads.
HippieBuddah 2 years ago