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What did you listen to during disco's peak years ('74-'78)

I was in college 1975-79, at the height (Worst) of Disco...Most of it I DETESTED, but a few songs made me smile-Boogie Oogie Oogie for one, Tear the Roof Off The Sucka for another...I DO remember throwing a beer on a 5 foot zip John Revolta wannabe in a downtown beer hall in Richmond one time...Ice cream suit, black shirt, unbuttoned to reveal NO chest hair, huge ashtray/Peruvian Navy medal around his pencil neck, 2 cans (at least) of industrial-grade hairspray...He started squeaking & beeping, but I was already out the door...
 
Fleetwood Mac Rumors (issued to all suburban kids in No. Va. in the 70's)
Steve Miller
Ry Cooder
Dylan
Styx
Foreigner
Iggy and the Stooges
The Stones
David Bowie

I have a much older brother who lived at home at the time and brought home new records every payday. I had some help keeping current.
 
I listened to disco, and punk, and loft jazz.

Disco was first and most importantly dance music, and once you get too far from dancing, you've removed one of the wellsprings of music.

Besides, disco struck me then - and does now - as being in line with soul and funk and then hip-hop.

And besides, besides, I was beyond tired of classic rock, which had turned great music into some kind of weird spectator sport. I would have listened to anything that didn't involve the terrible struggle and loneliness of being a pampered rock star.

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'74, I don't think I had any taste in music by then. All I can remember is liking Love is all by Roger Glover, guess that was '75 or so and that made me into rock mostly. I listened to my parents' music, which was a lot of Beatles, Crosby, Stills and Nash and stuff like that. Later we got ELO, Supertramp, Pink Floyd and I listened to Jeff Wayne's War of the worlds. A lot.

Took me another 20 years to appreciate disco, or at least some of it.
 
I bought rock and roll. I danced to disco. Like onepixel said, that's where the chicks were:). And yes, I was their boogie man.

It was a lot of fun when I eventually got together with the Sunshine band.:D
 

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It was a bad time for rock-n-roll. Interesting topic that I look back on every now and then.
We still had a local radio station that would play alternative music. So I was always getting turned on to new stuff.
I was a blues freak and would see every blues act that came through DC. It was the "anti-disco".
I was also into roots music, rockabilly mostly. Little Feat was another favorite. Saw a lot of Jerry Garcia shows too.
 
I was playing in my first bands at this time, mostly classic rock cover bands. I did, however, play some in some disco and show bands (KC, Bee Gees, the hits of the day) and I was drug into punk rock after discovering that fusion jazz/rock wasn't the wave of the future. I was sure hoping it would be though...
 
There was lots of music besides disco. There was all that California sound like The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Brown. Little Feat were at their peak. Pink Floyd were making some of their best music or at least their biggest sellers then. Steely Dan made really great LP's during the disco years. People just remember disco because it had a name.
 
I listened to this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IinpIZd2QJ0
and this
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See the Progressive Rock thread. Although much of the good stuff was released prior to '74 I was just discovering it during these years.

Genesis
FM
Rush
Yes
Gentle Giant
King Crimson
Gong
Banko
Kansas
Camel
Tommy Bolin
Les Dudek

I was also into Jazz - Fusion
Dixie Dregs
Lee Ritenour
Return to Forever
David Sanborn
Jeff Lorber
Passport
Tom Scott


This period of time produced some excellent music that is often overlooked.
 
In 74 I was 13. By the time I could drive I had a season pass to Six Flags Over Texas and they had a place in the park called Disco Island. All the cool girls loved to go to Disco Island and I was always willing to take them. So basically I was listening to whatever they wanted to listen to. You would have done the same thing!
 
I was already into classical, jazz and folk, so disco did not sway me much.

One thing I remember - Stayin' Alive (sp?) sounded better on my friend's JBL L100 than my Dynaco A-25s. :music:
And those colorful cheesy square sponge grills..... I cannot forget.. :drool:
 
similost said:
Pretty scary huh?
Click to expand...

You bet.

I'm going through some old boxes of tubes I've had for a while. I'm finding tubes I pulled from my guitar amps and tested that are marked with a sharpie and dated... 17 years ago. :tears: Where did the time go??? :tears::tears::tears:
 
I was pretty young back then. Kiss, Aerosmith, Supertramp, Bad Company, The Beatles were all on my radar then. I heard all of the disco hits on the radio though, but didn't develop any real appreciation until much later.
 
The live acts I was seeing during the period included Allman Brothers, Dylan, Donovan, Neil Young, Yes, Zappa, Blue Oyster Cult, Springsteen, Jethro Tull, Cheap Trick, ELP, Joe Walsh, Elton John, Kansas, Santana, Eagles, ZZ Top, Leo Kottke, Clapton, and, uh, Jimmy Spheeris. Besides seeing the concerts, I also listened to a lot of Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, CSN&Y, Kottke, and some of the others up there. Listened to Patti Smith, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Zappa and the Clash too.

Toward the end of the period, another British invasion was starting with the likes of Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

That was also when I first heard Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert, Billy Cobham, Weather Report, John McLaughlin, and the progressive/fusion side of Carlos Santana.

Of course for the dorm parties we had to play stuff like the Commodores, Funkadelics, Stevie Wonder and some of the radio claptrap. After the party was the "mood setting" music like Phoebe Snow, Jackson Browne, or Michael Franks.

In other words, there was a helluva lot of music for our listening pleasure besides the Bee Gees, and other proponents of that abonimation called disco.

Regards,

D-Ray
 
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