Disco Demolition Night

Countdown with Keith Olbermann interviews Steve Dahl on the 25th anniversary of Disco Demolition Night. The promotion was held by the Chicago White Sox on July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park. Disco records were exchanged for cheaper admission to a double header with the Detroit Tigers. Between games the disco records were blown up resulting in fans storming the field, lighting fires, and rioting.

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• steve
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• chicago
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• sox
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• riot
• fire
• explosion

[MrBennetzen]

Anyone want "Justin Bieber Demolition Night" or "Teen-Pop Demolition Night"?

[SeanTyasOwns]

Disco never died. It became Dance Music, and I guarentee it's never going away.

[MrBennetzen]

@Neville6000 Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

[Neville6000]

@MrBennetzen: Coming from you, that's a compliment...at least I'm not a loser wishing that Justin Bieber and Co. would die in a plane crash and never come back. Try to work for the goal of rock coming back, instead of being a childish baby whining because his diaper's not been changed.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

@Neville6000 First, I'm cheap, and I've never bought any piece of new music. Um yeah, that's the point, it's a "wish," that won't come true. It's like the two minutes of hate in 1984, everyone wants, but no one can do anything about it. Write? I live in America, unless it's a million-man-march, not much can be done. The only true way is to spread the truth about the music business and the alternatives to it.

[Neville6000]

@Morahman7vnNo2: Why not try to SUPPORT the music you like harder, rather than being douches wishing for an event like this to happen again? Better yet, WRITE TO YOUR CONGRESSPERSON/SENATOR and ask the to reinstate the regulation against one company owning every station in one market-that way, the airwaves won't sound the same everywhere?

[Morahman7vnNo2]

@Neville6000 LEAVE EVERY POP HATER ALONE, THEY HAVE A RIGHT TOO!

[Morahman7vnNo2]

@Neville6000 And for your information, everyone comenting on this video IS THE MINORITY! What is your suggestion that everyone do? Just smile and pretend that they are satisfied with everything that's going on!? Believe or not, every race, sex, GLBT person, AND ESPECIALLY TEENAGERS, don't listen to only whatever is bolstered on the radio 24/7! They listen to whatever they want. So unless you go and and some badly needed diversity to the mainstream cookie-cutter music we have today, I say you--

[Morahman7vnNo2]

@Neville6000 How is that? Just because I don't like pop music means all of that? Laughably ridiculous. I don't own any pop, thus I'm a Nazi? You might as well just go ahead and say that. The people 1979 all owned Disco records, until they got sick of the music craze/fad that overtook the decade. If I hate new cheaply produced (and in my opinion) low quality goods of today, does that instantly hate every type of person that does like it?

[Neville6000]

@rgreenberg35: Not everything in pop music or music is Autotune, moron.