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Location: Michigan | i went thru that disco era and i gotta tell you i hated it. :mad: if you did want to get a girl to take away with you , you had to dance and man did the dancing style change overnight. it went from the hitch hike and the twist to this very well orchestrated disco crap . if you missed a beat in the rock and roll you could make it up but if you missed a move on the disco you screwed up you and your partner . i look back and laugh :D about how i used to go out and put on a leasure suit and go to the bar . i would only ask a girl to dance if it was a slow song not involving me in a dance routine. awe shit did i hate that era , :mad: but what about some of you ???? were any of you people disco freaks or john travolta's :confused: it is time to fess up about it.GWB |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | They keep changing the name to convince people that it ain't that same ol' trash, but
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| I lived in a rural area where everyone I knew laughed it disco type people, dancing in general and the squealing, castrati falsetto of bands like the bee gees.
For us it was southern rock, going to jam sessions, tons of beer, touring the side-roads and going to field parties...lol |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I went to Woodstock. |
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Location: Massachusetts | Never owned a leasure suit, but we did play Stayin' Alive. A terrible era in musical history. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Wait!??? Leisure suits went out of style? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | That's just a nasty rumor, dB. Stay true to your style.
Several of us depend on that. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Spent my teenage years in the 70's.
Hated disco, owned and wore a leisure suit on special occasions, drove a Gremlin, got an Ovation, had a lava lamp, went streaking, never owned a CB radio, listened to Dark Side of the Moon stoned about a thousand times, read Creem magazine and Rolling Stone, discovered Hunter S. Thompson, etc...
I was a true individual, just like the the millions of other kids exactly like me. |
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Location: Michigan | just saw db last week he was still in style. GWB
http://ts1.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1544307086400&id=ba8... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Well I had to do some research on this. May sound silly, but somehow I didn't really "notice" Disco.
Not growing up in a large town, It was just pop music on the radio for the most part. Now remember in the mid 70's pop music radio was just that, anything popular. So while you might hear KC and Sunshine Band, the next tune could have been Lynyrd Skynyrd, Elton John, or the Eagles.
I didn't know what a club was until '74 when I got my license, but the drinking age was 18 so going to a "bar" was rare. I was big into CB Radio and playing guitar. I had my own electronics repair company I ran out of my bedroom hot-rodding CB radio's and fixing guitar amps. I also had a regular job at a Printing Company. Nope, I didn't get out much. When I did, I was looking for girls into cars, guns, and motorcycles, not the general disco-going crowd from what I can tell. I graduated in '76 and worked the summer before doing my 1st two and only semesters of college in '77.
I was an On Air DJ at the Radio Station in College and there was no disco being played. My show opened with Don't Fear The Reaper and usually ended with Layla, that was my schtick. Just about anything in between was fair game.
I joined the Navy in November of '77 and Saturday Night Fever came out in December while I was in Boot Camp. In Florida during January and February there were no "dance" clubs as such, just clubs with bands, and they were all Rock'n Roll. Again, those Disco tunes were only heard on the Radio.
By August of 78 I was in the Philippines and riding ships around Southeast Asia. Ports like Hong Kong had a European influence so "disco" only meant "no band." The clubs in the Philippines I went to were all Rock'N Roll.
By 1980 I was in Hawaii and it was Rock or New Wave. I remember that Toto's Africa album swept the Grammy's that year yet no one really knew Toto had a new album in Hawaii. One band I knew did a great cover of All Us Boys from their Hydra album which was readily available, but Africa wasn't in any of the stores until months later. Certainly not disco, but just describing the landscape. The closest I got to Disco was going to a Romeo Void concert at The Wave Waikiki. (for those that know what Romeo Void is, you can giggle now).
I did see Saturday Night Fever eventually, and of course there were variety shows that had disco tunes, but it didn't really sink in that it was such a phenom until many years later.
I'm not sure if I should feel lucky or not. I feel like I missed out on something that I should have been right in the middle of. |
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Location: Route 66, just east of the Cadillac Ranch | Miles,
That's crazy. Right up to the point where you joined the Navy, that could have been my story. BTW, thanks for your service. I worked at a small market top-40 FM station and I experienced the same thing, The Bee Gee's might be followed by Yes. I never saw a disco club, and I gave myself plenty of opportunities to. So, I guess I contributed to the disco phenomenon, but I didn't know it existed. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | In my junior and senior years (77-78) I was a Bouncer at our newly opened "HB's Disco! The owner started with an under 21 dance joint and in a more metropolitan area it would have worked.
and when I say Bouncer what it really meant was ticket taker and maintenance... for the real bouncing I just let in a few buddies that enjoyed the fighting to take care of the others.
I never quite bonded with the disco but I do wish I had put away some of those Demo records that came our way... Commodores and such before they were famous.
Ah, youth... |
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| Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
(for those that know what Romeo Void is, you can giggle now). I got dragged to one of their concerts at some hole in the wall club in Toronto. Fortunately, I don't remember very much about it. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Nothing to confess here. I graduated from a Western Kansas high school in 71 and Kansas State in 75. We were always a bit behind the times. From 75 on I was too busy in law school and starting a new job out here to do anything more than wretch at the whole disco thing. We had an office photo album at the time and one of my senior partners had his picture of him in his leisure suit with his large family.
I still retain the visual of our first trip to visit my parents in Washington and watching them practice for their disco class to the Bee Gees being played on their big stereo console with an 8 track. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Yeah, I disco danced to get girls. All the girls wore their tube tops, short skirts, panty hose or fishnets, and had lots of hair. I'm not ashamed to admit it....I went after those girls. (But I NEVER played that crap on my 8 track) |
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Location: sitting at my computer | Sorry GWB no disco-nfessions here either - I couldn't dance worth $#@!... wasn't comfortable in a suit... preferred singer/songwriters and rock&rollers over discotheque glitz groups... but I will admit I was entranced by Olivia Newton John in Xanadu (or anything else). Spent much of the 70's stationed (USAF) in Charleston, SC... don't recall disco making much impression there.
Drove a '72 Ford Pinto, then a '76 Triumph Spitfire, then a '73 Jensen Healey, wrenched on all of 'em over at the base Auto Hobby Shop, had a CB radio (listening for them "smokey the bear" speed trap alerts), bought my first elect. guitar at the Base Exchange - a burgundy Ibanez SG... later traded it in for a white Fender Strat that I used while playing in a band with three other Air Force buddies. We played a hodgepodge of Elvis, Beatles, 50's-60's Rock, and whatever else we could figure out (no disco). Played at a couple local yokel bars over a few months before the lead singer got reassigned overseas. Eventually traded in the Strat on the Ovation Legend that I still have today.... and plan on keepin'!!! |
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| man I was born too late, I got to be teen in the 90s :) ... Dad kept feeding me Pink Floyd, Beatles, Queen and rock n roll... think I might've actually enjoyed disco dancing... |
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Location: Massachusetts | Leasure suit?.. I meant leisure suit. That just goes to show you.. what the hell was disco all about?
dark bar, you disco danced, just to get the girls? Very clever.. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Originally posted by dark bar:
Yeah, I disco danced to get girls. Funny, that's part of the reason I played guitar. It worked too, I met my wife 34 years ago at band practice. |
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Location: Michigan | I was a "dancin fool" |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I'm the same age as Beal and disco was just slightly after my time, although if you wanted to date (slightly) younger women, you had to get up on the dance floor so I did have the moves. I had a few leisure suits and zip up boots in the 70's, too, but never the white shoes. For me, the 70's were the worst decade for fashion, cars, motorcycles, and lots of other things defining pop culture. |
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Location: closely held secret | I didn't dance. I was the guy sitting at the bar buying the girls scotch between dances. That worked pretty well, too. |
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Location: San Antonio, TX | I do own Van Halen 2.
Does that count?
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Location: Tennessee | bobbo don't dance
Let's see ... about that time I had my choice of two paths -- going to discos or places like Madame Wong's. The BeeGees or The Ramones? KC & The Sunshine Band or EC & The Attractions? The Hustle or The Sultans of Swing? Shake Your Booty or Sheik Yerbouti? Le Freak or Psycho Killer? We Are Family or Excitable Boy?
Girls, schmirls. Sheena is a punk rocker. |
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Location: Northwest Arkansas | We started playing records right out of high school. 1976. We ended up playing that stuff for a while. Then I realized we were taking jobs away from real musicians. I quit and learned how to play guitar. Disco is short for discomfort. |
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fess up if you were one of them disco people
