Why The Vitriol On Disco?
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Pio1980
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It paralleled my intro to fine audio repro.
I was @ Ft Jackson when all this started mid-1970s, began flipping good for better and had a system in a single occupancy barracks room in the old hospital complex consisting of Dahlquist DQ-10s on stands with the passive sub, driven by a Phase Linear 400 from a Marantz 3600 with a Thorens 125-2 and SME 3009-2. Carts were Sonus or Micro Acoustics. Got transferred overseas and decided to break up the sys and sell it off for something more compact for unknown living cdx in Germany. Was told a new club opening in Columbia (The End Zone) was looking for a good preamp that could handle two turntables. So, I made the sale and was requested to install it and show staff how to operate it. All that took time until the doors opened and with the music playing as folks came in and started filling the venue. As it turned out, all the patrons were male and the music disco, a conflation of then current social trends, including audio.
I was @ Ft Jackson when all this started mid-1970s, began flipping good for better and had a system in a single occupancy barracks room in the old hospital complex consisting of Dahlquist DQ-10s on stands with the passive sub, driven by a Phase Linear 400 from a Marantz 3600 with a Thorens 125-2 and SME 3009-2. Carts were Sonus or Micro Acoustics. Got transferred overseas and decided to break up the sys and sell it off for something more compact for unknown living cdx in Germany. Was told a new club opening in Columbia (The End Zone) was looking for a good preamp that could handle two turntables. So, I made the sale and was requested to install it and show staff how to operate it. All that took time until the doors opened and with the music playing as folks came in and started filling the venue. As it turned out, all the patrons were male and the music disco, a conflation of then current social trends, including audio.
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KentTeffeteller
Gimpus Stereophilus!
Any good disco DJ who knew what they were doing, could set moods and tempos and make a disco a happening place to be. They didn't just play records. They often did much more than that. Ever heard of the Disco mixers of note. They created new sounds for people on the dance floor. This world would be so much better, and more physically fit, if people would dance again. Disco needs to make a good comeback, with a new twist or two added to the good old stuff.
spicer
Lunatic Member
Right, and once the dance fever was up and running you could slip anything in from Beach Boys Dance Dance Dance to Springsteen's I'm On Fire between pure disco numbers like Super Freak and everybody loved it.
ducati_EL34
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There is already club dancing, and the world is still in bad shape. No one needs disco to be physically fit. They have CrossFit for that.
KentTeffeteller
Gimpus Stereophilus!
There is already club dancing, and the world is still in bad shape. No one needs disco to be physically fit. They have CrossFit for that.
They also have weightlifting for that. AK version, bench pressing monster receivers, or huge power amplifiers.
Pio1980
AK Member
The gym is such a bore of itself. Sometimes the scenery helps, but is transitory.There is already club dancing, and the world is still in bad shape. No one needs disco to be physically fit. They have CrossFit for that.
ducati_EL34
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Johnno_Oz
W-a-y down south
100% didn't read 16 pages.
Don't much care; my father adored Abba,
I love Abba too.
Matt
Trivia : Glen Matlock copied the bass riff from ABBA's S.O.S. for the Sex Pistols track "Pretty Vacant". I've seen an interview where Glen said he was getting Christmas cards from Bjorn or Benny every year.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/sex-pistols-song-inspired-by-abba-pretty-vacant/
E2
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Ilikevinyl
Cool Breeze
Andrea True Connection / White Witch
1977 Buddah
"What's Your Name, What's Your Number" is a fun groovin' tune.
SaSi
Seriously Illogical
50 years later, we have access, remember and listen to a distilled version of the disco music. The best examples survived the time. And some of them are pretty enjoyable. I really liked Donna Summer's "Protection", only to find out years later it was composed by Bruce Springsteen. But it wasn't disco per-se. A decent Rock composition sung by "the goddess of disco".
Back then, (I was 15-17 at the time) it was a flood of "me-too" things from known and unknown "artists" that came and went and then were no more. It was bad.
We also had punk at the same time. Punk-Rock, or New Wave. And radio producers didn't even have the time or the skills to understand. I still recall "Dire Straits" being introduced as a punk rock group, along "The Boomtown Rats".
And all that, disco, was not just a genre of music. It was combined with a "style" and "fashion". Dress code, how you danced or did not, Disco clubs, how you walked, how you talked, etc.
All the fancy clothes, flashing lights and pointless (mostly) music didn't "ring a bell" for me. I much more enjoyed Rory Gallagher's Irish blues, dressed in jeans and a shirt. Much more original and "clean".
Back then, (I was 15-17 at the time) it was a flood of "me-too" things from known and unknown "artists" that came and went and then were no more. It was bad.
We also had punk at the same time. Punk-Rock, or New Wave. And radio producers didn't even have the time or the skills to understand. I still recall "Dire Straits" being introduced as a punk rock group, along "The Boomtown Rats".
And all that, disco, was not just a genre of music. It was combined with a "style" and "fashion". Dress code, how you danced or did not, Disco clubs, how you walked, how you talked, etc.
All the fancy clothes, flashing lights and pointless (mostly) music didn't "ring a bell" for me. I much more enjoyed Rory Gallagher's Irish blues, dressed in jeans and a shirt. Much more original and "clean".
Late Boomer
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Mystic
We're all born mad
Yeah, I too remember Boomtown Rats being described as Punk.
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