DISCO DEMOLITION NIGHT AT OLD COMISKEY PARK (1979)

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10 жыл бұрын

A Bill Veeck between-games promotion goes terribly wrong, resulting in the forfeiture of the second game. Brad Palmer's radio broadcast is covered with video of the debacle.

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@kevinconnor6035 3 жыл бұрын

"Rock fans under the influence of beer and drugs and armed with disco records don't mix with baseball." What a sentence.

@PatoNani18 3 жыл бұрын

people are insane

@robertmasina4610 3 жыл бұрын

Those there for the demolition didn't give a hoot about the ballgame.

@podglorious 2 жыл бұрын

It's proved to be true over and over again!

@skybridg5705 2 жыл бұрын

I was 14 both games were on TV in detroit. I got mad when game 2 was canceled, ,then the neighbor girl came over , so, ill never forget that day!EVER!!!!

@RobKandell 2 жыл бұрын

I remember listening to this game on the radio when I was 9. I will never forget this incident. But nothing tops Ten Cent Beer Night.

@jubalcalif9100 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating footage ! THANKS so much for uploading ! It was an episode of TV's "Drunk History" that sent me here...

@reneveah440 3 жыл бұрын

All of this because people didn't like a genre of music...... Ummm.... Wow

@tonyhawksunderground2 3 жыл бұрын

if you're wondering why people are so riled up about "a genre of music", think a little bit about which types of people listened to which types of music and the historical context surrounding this event

@heinoustentacles5719 Жыл бұрын

@@tonyhawksunderground2 people got riled up about a genre of music because music cost money back then, and was a physical commodity which could grow scarce. Imagine going to the record store and seeing that they moved your favourite records out to make room for a larger disco display. Imagine going to a bar or club to listen to music, since you don't have enough money for records, only for them to play disco all night. Imagine listening to the radio, hoping for something you like, since you don't have money to buy records or go out, only for the airwaves to be filled with increasing amounts of disco. It would add up, wouldn't it? (Wasn't Steve Dahl actually laid off from the station he worked at because they wanted to play more disco?)

@robertmasina7388 7 ай бұрын

For high school life at that time, one either liked rock and roll or disco.

@nickcollins2001 5 ай бұрын

Well it was taking rock radio stations off air and if u wanted to listen to music it was one of the only few choices

@rafaelramirez1507 4 ай бұрын

Racism was the root cause

@roman61 3 жыл бұрын

Most disastrous promotion since 10 cent beer night in Cleveland.

@jimmashek6455 11 ай бұрын

depends on your perspective

@geeskin5750 5 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, the number 1 song the week of this event, Anita Ward ring my bell

@jackyclaiborne2142 4 жыл бұрын

"Ring My Bell" was a heavily disliked disco song because Anita Ward sang in such a high pitched voice, that it was like nails on the chalkboard! That was definitely one of my most disliked disco songs for that reason. I would say that House Of Pain "Jump Around" is the "Ring My Bell" of Rap Music, which has been what disco was in 1979 for 30 years. Like Anita Ward's voice, the squealing sound in "Jump Around" is like nails on the chalkboard!!!! Before tipoff at every UNC Tarheels basketball game, they blast "Jump Around" on the PA system. That's a reason I would never go to a UNC Tarheel basketball game in person. I prefer to watch the game on TV instead, and play upbeat classic rock throughout the game.

@tvtitlechampion3238 4 жыл бұрын

In retrospect, the timing of the Disco Demolition night coincides with its last real dominance of top 40 radio. The heavy blues based stuff was never as popular as the bubblegum and Beatles-influenced pop to begin with, this lashing out was kind of a last big dinosaur roar before radio stations and music categories began to seriously splinter into niche categories. Disco was already on black radio, but had started migrating to white stations. By then, white artists started producing music that strayed from traditional white formulas. I still think its odd to hear The Cars or Billy Idol on classic rock stations, but that's what happens when the succeeding generations break off and do their own thing.

@see6052 3 жыл бұрын

What a record. I'm sticking it on now I've read that lol

@koopatroopa187 3 жыл бұрын

@@jackyclaiborne2142 In 35 years of living, not once have I ever heard anyone complain about Jump Around. That song is universally celebrated. Also, nor have I ever heard anyone complain about Anita Ward's pitch in Ring My Bell. Like you're gonna sit there and try to tell me that people have a problem with high pitched vocals when Alvin and The Chipmunks were extremely popular, Mike Love of the Beach Boys and Barry Gibbs of Bee Gees are notorious for their falsettos, and David Pack of Ambrosia and Peter Cetera of Chicago are well known for their high notes? In 1977, Player's Baby Come Back charted at number 1 on the US Billboard 100, cause you know, people hate high notes. GTFO. YOU had a problem with it. Nobody else did, so quit speaking for the whole group.

@koopatroopa187 3 жыл бұрын

@Alex McCaffery Are you trying to get your ass beat by every elder millennial and gen x person in this country?

@sarahsilverlight6161 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for uploading this. Loved it!

@mustlovepretzels 3 жыл бұрын

Brad Palmer: thanks for posting. Actually happened on this day(July 12) in 1979. And people say Philly sports fans are bad. Cheers!

@nickcollins2001 5 ай бұрын

Well they are so

@shawncola123 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this!

@bradpalmer7944 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you the comment.

@galloneye64 5 жыл бұрын

They Should Do This To Modern Pop Music

@2011Azure 5 жыл бұрын

Fortunately, that can be done much more quietly these days. Flush your iPod or whatever. Discs - take them to recycling.

@nelsonx5326 4 жыл бұрын

The crowd chanting, "DEATH TO JUSTIN BEIBER!" That would be yuge.

@williamisner8759 4 жыл бұрын

That and rap lol

@mamitomoe321 4 жыл бұрын

Some minor league baseball team actually did it as well a few years back to Bieber and Miley Cyrus.

@boydevoyager5376 3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@shadowcappi415 3 жыл бұрын

In 2020 I am watching a movie “””the last days of disco””” it was filmed in 1998. Chloe Sevigny. And Kate Beckinsale Brought me here. I was 14 in 1979. I remember this Vaguely

@knowbodiesfull5768 5 жыл бұрын

That very same date (7/12/1979), Minnie Riperton died.

@madhavyu 3 жыл бұрын

Which begs the question.........who da fuqqq is that?

@theyeastinfection9871 3 жыл бұрын

@@madhavyu One of the best singers of all time.

@spongebobfan190 2 жыл бұрын

@@madhavyu Google exists my guy

@madhavyu 2 жыл бұрын

@@spongebobfan190 What is this Google that you speak of? You will show this to me?

@daveclark8337 Жыл бұрын

@@madhavyu She was Maya Rudolph's mom.

@INDLIS 9 жыл бұрын

It was Sparky Anderson's idea to call off the 2nd game

@dougtheviking6503 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Hey Hey Good times. ! Love The Sox. Good days of baseball

@alejandrodiaz1348 3 жыл бұрын

It’s crazy that I found out about it 22 years to the day (7/12/2021)😂

@caesartapia5702 3 жыл бұрын

@Cristian-vl8pg Жыл бұрын

Lol, you can't do basic math?? 🤣

@robertmasina7388 7 ай бұрын

I lived in the Chicago area in 1979 and still do. At that time from word of mouth, I heard, those there for the Disco Demolition were getting bored during the ball game. It was the first game of a scheduled double header, in which the second game was obviously cancelled and forfeited to the opposing team.

@MattGrovesFTW 3 жыл бұрын

Man the 70s were great

@MattGrovesFTW 3 жыл бұрын

@@zeeoracle sure whatever

@MattGrovesFTW 3 жыл бұрын

@@zeeoracle Haha ok tool

@steve2474 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta hand it to Bill Veeck for rolling the dice and doing something outside the box. Nobody would ever do something like this today.

@rockerseven 2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly, a minor league team did this with Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus merchandise a few years back. The team is owned by Veeck lol

@briantravelman 10 ай бұрын

@@rockersevenAre you serious? That is freakin' hilarious!😂

@robertmasina7388 7 ай бұрын

The White Sox weren't having a good year in won loss record or attendance in 1979, so Bill Veeck wanted a promotion to fill the seats at the ball park.

@Hendrix. 6 жыл бұрын

I was in East Chicago when that happened, It was a riot..lol

@wilhelmheinrich7502 5 жыл бұрын

Wade Hendrix you were in Lake Michigan?

@leeccdoo 5 жыл бұрын

It's bullshit like this why everyone I know refers to Chicago as CHIRAQ.

@Hendrix. 3 жыл бұрын

@@wilhelmheinrich7502 ..I worked in the Indiana Harbor but not in the lake but I swam in it a few times..Dang cold experience.

@kennethcurtis1856 2 жыл бұрын

@@zeeoracle ok, glad you included a comment that has nothing to do with the post. BTW, GRF is a different ballpark, in case you missed that minor detail.

@lilainanutshell5583 3 жыл бұрын

Chicago is crazy

@DonRamiro1 2 күн бұрын

I was 9 years old at the time. I remember being bummed out that the second game was canceled. I was really into baseball as a kid but when I learned the reason for the cancellation of the game, I gotta admit, I thought it was cool. I was raised to hate disco by my two older brothers. "Goodbye, Sister Disco" was a song regularly spun by my older brother who had the Who Are You record. My older sister was into disco because she was always into fads but we never paid her much attention.

@curtiswhiteheadjr1322 Жыл бұрын

But little did they know that right across the Dan Ryan Expressway in the Robert Taylor Housing Projects, Disco was re-inseminated in the womb of Black Music to be Reborn or Resurrected as House Music. 💯🎶💖

@j.maxell3030 Жыл бұрын

Unos años despues la EDM cobraria venganza (sobretodo en su rama House) 😅 El ocaso del Rock inicia con la EDM Concreta (Moroder 1977) y reunirse en un estadio para romper vinylos no hiba a cambiar la inminente realidad

@voicetube 2 жыл бұрын

An episode of TV's "Drunk History" sent me here

@SFKelvin 2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, Jimmy Carter was holed up at Camp David writing his Malaise Speech ;)

@TheDetonadoBR Жыл бұрын

When is Kpop demolition night

@IDF1987 6 жыл бұрын

RIP WLUP

@bgoc1263 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!

@bradpalmer7944 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@morganthebabygenuis 3 жыл бұрын

Disco still lives!

@jugglerj0e 3 жыл бұрын

Disco didn't really die. Because of this one event, everybody these days don't know the truth. The truth is Music NEVER Dies!

@funkystudent5403 3 жыл бұрын

people hate disco because they can't dance!

@eitanr 2 жыл бұрын

@@funkystudent5403 Yo yo with the afro, facts

@dr3w399 2 жыл бұрын

it lives on as house and nu disco

@albundy6008 Жыл бұрын

Disco STILL sucks!!!

@patriotsman6511 3 ай бұрын

Awesome 🎉🎉

@John_Smith_Dumfugg 3 жыл бұрын

Metal af

@tamathawalden2037 2 жыл бұрын

This is freaking awesome

@j.maxell3030 Жыл бұрын

@lukian09 Жыл бұрын

im glad i listening to most crazyest and underground music genres (hardcore industrial,extratone,some metal bands, grindcore, and ofcourse, my favorite samplecore xD) and i never haved problem with anyone.

@montanisemperliberi3153 4 ай бұрын

Could we have a hip hop demolition night? Please?

@andresventura471 4 ай бұрын

PLEASEEEEEEE

@agent2608 4 жыл бұрын

this is too rock help

@gavinmoore6667 Жыл бұрын

I was one week old. Magic.

@GEMINITREKKER 5 жыл бұрын

It didnt end Disco by itself,but it was a representation of how alot of people felt about Disco which had been way overplayed over the airwaves! Everybody seemed to have a Disco record out in those days and people were ready for something new. It was around this time that the Sex Pistols and Ramones emerged, and it started a new revolution which was Punk and New Wave in America, which is what would dominate the airawaves for much of the 80s.The winds of change.

@robminmonaca 5 жыл бұрын

Glam hair metal and rock as well in the 80s.

@mayhemjr.803 4 жыл бұрын

Who cares? Punk sucked too

@petebondurant58 4 жыл бұрын

Punk didn't dominate anything outside of New York.

@tvtitlechampion3238 4 жыл бұрын

Disco didn't die, it morphed into house music and was co-opted by hip-hop DJs. Today, we have EDM, which is even more soulless than disco. More accurately, the club drugs went from coke to molly.

@metalheadgamer80 3 жыл бұрын

@@mayhemjr.803, Your opinion sure sucks.

@harrylangdon491 10 ай бұрын

A documentary on this event is opening Fall 2023.

@1.4142 3 жыл бұрын

History is bunk.

@robnessmonster1531 4 жыл бұрын

The people should start doing this to their TV sets. It's all been garbage since the X-Files went off the air.

@jugglerj0e 3 жыл бұрын

People stream tv now. Who watches cable anymore unless its live tv like news or sports?

@galloneye64 3 жыл бұрын

How about Handmaid's Tale Demolition Night?

@galloneye64 2 жыл бұрын

Lets do Squid Game Demolition Night

@briantravelman 10 ай бұрын

They said on "Mysteries at the Museum", that it wasn't Steve Dahl who initially came up with the idea, but actually the White Socks promoter

@jasmyneleo9527 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic job

@bradpalmer7944 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@kinger982 2 жыл бұрын

Should've called in the National Guard to get order restored in the baseball park that night because it got way out of hand that July 12th 1979 night

@kennethcurtis1856 2 жыл бұрын

I think the protesters where done burning their records before a soldier even thought about putting a boot on.

@tamathawalden2037 2 жыл бұрын

Should have dropped a Bomb on the stadium

@Starchild1980 Жыл бұрын

Also known as a Prelude to an Insurrection

@antonigeli294 3 жыл бұрын

Are they the same sweet heart tolerant mates who entered in the capitol 41 years later january 6th 2021 USA?

@see6052 3 жыл бұрын

Bet yer arss it was

@kimsullivan5576 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@davideley4284 3 жыл бұрын

@@kimsullivan5576 more likely the ones who have been burning cities like Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, New York, Minneapolis for the past year or did you even know about that?

@kimsullivan5576 3 жыл бұрын

@@davideley4284 David, who doesn't know that? Turn down the volume.

@heinoustentacles5719 Жыл бұрын

It was hardly a political thing. people got riled up about disco because music cost money back then, and was a physical commodity which could grow scarce. Imagine going to the record store and seeing that they moved your favourite records out to make room for a larger disco display. Imagine going to a bar or club to listen to music, since you don't have enough money for records, only for them to play disco all night. Imagine listening to the radio, hoping for something you like, since you don't have money to buy records or go out, only for the airwaves to be filled with increasing amounts of disco. It would add up, wouldn't it? (Wasn't Steve Dahl actually laid off from the station he worked at because they wanted to play more disco?) Additionally, several black people also disliked disco. My father was young back then, and he disliked disco because he thought it was too aimlessly flashy and disconnected from real life. He preferred funk and soul, which he felt was more substantial and relevant.

@rafaelramirez1507 4 ай бұрын

Embarrassing disgusting time in baseball ... what a shame!

@a0b0 5 жыл бұрын

quite symbolic of a racist era, what's ironic is that a few months after this the sugarhill gang gave the world hip hop, which will never die.

@leetorry 5 жыл бұрын

cal kal to add even more insult to injury: Chicago gave birth to house music the same time this happened The 80s were full of successful musicians that where heavily influenced by disco And the radiostation who started this? They are now a christian rock radio.

@a0b0 5 жыл бұрын

@@leetorry interesting how things turn out. love house music man, it was big on the british club scene back in the day, and as a genre house music is still evolving. farley jackmaster funk went to the top of the pop charts over here in the UK back in august 1986. you guys gave us the future. peace, joy and respect .

@2011Azure 5 жыл бұрын

That would be tragic. Hip hop & rap are the current garbage.

@barbarino2000 5 жыл бұрын

@@2011Azure To you. Not to those who like it. Stop acting like an old person who once thought Elvis was the Devil's music.

@tvtitlechampion3238 4 жыл бұрын

@@leetorry funny how rock was at first a music of rebellion made by outsiders, and how its success made it a crusty institution than requires a periodic revolution to shave the barnacles off. Pop music requires outsiders to keep an edge and establish fresh perspectives. People forget that house was a black, gay movement that started on the south side and made its way north to the attention of the labels.

@donsampson9076 2 жыл бұрын

That and 10¢🍻night in Cleveland!🥴

@Sun_Simp Жыл бұрын

REGGAETON DEMOLITION NIGHT WHEN?!

@lisah8438 Жыл бұрын

Oh now you want to get rid of another majority Black people genre.

@CosticaKristianDiVogli Жыл бұрын

Life before David Guetta

@Gioveolympus 2 жыл бұрын

Disgusting.

@treatmentbound 5 жыл бұрын

Sparky @ 3:12!

@scottmedeiros5493 Жыл бұрын

Are you kidding me, Disco is more alive than that than ever‼️😁/they just jealous , because they can't dance ‼️

@fightfannerd2078 6 жыл бұрын

they need a modern day hip hop also

@JWIZZY4real 5 жыл бұрын

Fuck you dude

@ANT96-x8d 5 жыл бұрын

FIGHTFANNERD9.I'm Gay for Moonbin I totally agree. Thus Greta Van Fleet could make it bigger this time.

@Dank_Dank 5 жыл бұрын

@@JWIZZY4real You maaaaad

@mikegarrens5286 4 жыл бұрын

I'd go to that!!!

@alexandergrande 2 жыл бұрын

that will never happen, if anything we need one for bubblegum pop 😩

@killerontheloose80 3 жыл бұрын

Rock music took a dive after 1995

@jonathanlee8930 3 жыл бұрын

Rock music dipped in popularity. The music itself continues to exist, it just doesn't enjoy the same popularity it once did.

@heinoustentacles5719 Жыл бұрын

@@jonathanlee8930 It also generally sucks now.

@jonathanlee8930 Жыл бұрын

@@heinoustentacles5719 for folks that don't get out much, I imagine it does. I'm not one of those people.

@kr7949 4 ай бұрын

After 1995? Hell, by then it had been long-reduced to hard-to-find classic rock stations When GNR came out I had hopes for a revival. Never much cared for their catalogue, but it was real people playing real instruments. Sure you had the in your face, everything louder than everything else thrash bands, but the list was that and 2 rock ballads. Nothing in between.

@danadelaney7780 4 жыл бұрын

Resembles the unrest that took place in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention.

@lillianhubl8461 3 жыл бұрын

@KISS 666 tell that to the people in the neighborhood whose homes and businesses were destroyed.

@heinoustentacles5719 Жыл бұрын

You could say that about any riot

@HPSmugscraft 3 жыл бұрын

We need to do this with Star Wars and superhero movies.

@twistedviewlabs 3 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna presume Jaws was never your scene either.

@BMG19FUNNYDIE 2 жыл бұрын

Please God

@spongebobfan190 2 жыл бұрын

@thelyniezian Nice to finally see someone with sense in this comment section. I don't have a hard on for modern superhero movies myself, but you know what I do? I simply don't watch them. People find this to be a humorous event where people expressed their distain for an overplayed music genre, but I see this as an event that showcases just how stupid and complacent the average American was before 9/11. And proof that people were slaves to technology and pop culture before smartphones were invented (or technically innovated, but you get the point).

@MAGNUM05 3 жыл бұрын

*Long Live Disco!*

@INDLIS 9 жыл бұрын

Real baseball fans wouldn't rush into the field

@richardleewagner3939 6 жыл бұрын

So, who's a baseball fan. We're rock fans.

@ugurpolat6434 5 жыл бұрын

@@richardleewagner3939 You are a fucking idiot thats what you are...

@leeccdoo 5 жыл бұрын

@@ugurpolat6434 Actually I'm pretty sure that Baseball is for fucking idiots, same with burning records, or vinyl in general. To be honest, Everyone affiliated with this ignominious event should be ashamed of themselves.

@jahnsahn7695 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't. I was telling them to get off the field. We were young, drinking age was 19 and we hated disco. It was a fucking party, there was no violence, it wasn't a riot. It was just a bunch of white suburban kids having fun running around. It was fucking AWESOME!!

@robertmasina4610 3 жыл бұрын

Those there for the Disco Demolition didn't give a damn about the game.

@05chmps 2 жыл бұрын

Long live Steve Dahl !!!

@larrygod7616 5 жыл бұрын

RIP Bill Veeck A Good Guy.

@andrewturbeville6851 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I hope they would do a Dank Memes demolition night in the future as same as this event, because Dank Memes are not funny anymore. I'm being very honest, I hate Dank Memes.

@aggressive4657 6 жыл бұрын

They must do "Indie Rock/Cloud Rap Demolition Night". This shitty, soulless, fake, uninspired, boring music genres must die.

@dr3w399 2 жыл бұрын

@@aggressive4657 please do

@Valientlink 3 жыл бұрын

I can't believe how stupid this is, wow. Pretty glad I wasn't alive in the 70s not gonna lie

@heinoustentacles5719 Жыл бұрын

Stupider shit has happened since.

@liliannakifflin6343 2 жыл бұрын

To me the real reason why disco died is 1 it went too mainstream 2 rock and rollers who are straight was trying to get back at the gay community 3 Steve daul did this for the rock and roll majority And 4, the population was getting tired of disco hits, wanting something hardcore and new. Even to piss others off. That's my take.

@ericapelt4591 Жыл бұрын

Or it just sucked.

@heinoustentacles5719 Жыл бұрын

I figure most people who disliked disco didn't even know it was a gay thing. My dad was 14 in 1979, he didn't know a thing about the gay community back then, but he still disliked disco.

@AdamDKohl 3 жыл бұрын

l o l that baseball is called America's pastime sport.... ig that ac means "White America's" sport

@greghauser742 2 жыл бұрын

There's a ton of POC who love baseball, but ok.

@AdamDKohl 2 жыл бұрын

@@greghauser742 fool, no ones saying they don’t 🙄 the point is even when POC tried to enjoy it back in day, racist white people always jus made it bout themselves

@jackyclaiborne2142 4 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see this done to RAP MUSIC!!!!! For the past 30 years, RAP has been what disco was in 1979. The past 30 years, it's been taking my peers away from classic rock! Unlike disco, most of it is the so called "Gangster Rap", which is vulgar! Much of it is laced with profanity, racial slurs, and graphic sexual connotations that mention private parts, like "dick: and "pussy." I feel that Gangster Rap is a contributing factor in this uptick in gun violence we've seen across the country this past year, much of which has stemmed from petty arguments. I say that every Carolina Panthers home opener should be RAP DEMOLITION NIGHT!!!!! Fans could get their tickets to the game for half price if they submit their most disliked rap CD. The rap CD's would be put into the "Rapmobile", an early 80's Chevy Impala with 22 inch rims and subwoofers. A block of C-4 would be cut up into six chunks, and evenly distributed among the chassis of the vehicle. Three blocks on the port side, and three on the starboard side. The six chunks of C-4 would be wired to be remotely detonated, to insure that the vehicle and the rap CD's are instantly pulverized on detonation. The RAP DEMOLITION should take place after the game, not during halftime!!! The "Rapmobile" would be driven out onto center field, and parked there with the subwoofers booming. Then the C-4 would be detonated, pulverizing the both the vehicle and the CD's. Riot officers would be present to keep people from running out onto the field after the detonation.

@501764727 4 жыл бұрын

That'd Be AWESOME! I'd be All For It!! Im In!

@AAPCeg 4 жыл бұрын

Ok Boomer x

@jPHQ 4 жыл бұрын

Hey rock lover, I'm not a big fan of rap myself but you also forget that in the 1980s, rock music (esp glam metal) faced the same scrutiny you're talking about. Play songs backwards and you might hear Satanic messages. Bad cocaine habits. That one Judas Priest song that inspired a kid to kill himself. I mean, those vices are what caused Tipper Gore to lobby for the Parental Advisory labels for chrissakes. Not to mention, the Religious Right and people like Donald Wildmon and Jimmy Swaggart were fighting against rock music. Now you're becoming the like rock haters were in the 80s. And your parents also likely hated that rock & roll took over swing and big band in musical popularity too.

@tvtitlechampion3238 4 жыл бұрын

I hear rap coming out of the SUVs of backwards ball-cap wearing white suburban bro's, so go screech at them. Now, we have country rap. Or is that okay with you?

@jackyclaiborne2142 4 жыл бұрын

@@tvtitlechampion3238 People of all races are into rap, and it makes me angry that it's overtaken rock n roll. Rock N Roll is a big part of my life, and I like making friends with young people. That's the thing. Rap has been the most popular genre of music for 30 years now. I do not hate rap because most rappers happen to be black, and I happen to be white. Also, there are white rappers. M&M, and House Of Pain just to name a few.

@jamiepastman5594 3 жыл бұрын

this was admittedly a pretty racist event, but was also a justified reaction to the absolute banality of disco. Chicago was the land of prog rock back then, it was awfully hard to accept disco, it required shutting one's brain off. IO mean, i liked Keith Emerson, how am I gonna like "It's Raining Men"

@koopatroopa187 3 жыл бұрын

You're not supposed to like The Weather Girls. Nobody asked you to like them. You either do or you don't. There's absolutely no need to throw a hissy fit fueled by bigotry over it. If you don't like disco, how about you don't listen to a radio station that plays disco? Like it's really that fucking simple.

@WinslowLeach1974 2 жыл бұрын

Who "admitted" this was a "racist" event, outside of self-indulgent op-ed columnists? I was a young teen in those days, into punk (still) and hated disco (now I like the good stuff). No one I knew hated disco due to "racism." It was the infiltration of it into *everything.* Heck, even Disney and Sesame Street characters were recording disco albums. Plus, record labels were signing every crap disco act and over-saturating the market with it. And the band who maybe represented disco the most then, the Bee Gees (awesome band of course), were white guys. No one gave any racist thought to it.

@lisah8438 Жыл бұрын

@@WinslowLeach1974 You are in denial I see. It is not just the Oped. Many black people thought this was a racist even too.Majority of disco artist were Black and even if White artist like the Bee Gees sung Disco it does not make it less of a African-American creation.

@heinoustentacles5719 Жыл бұрын

@@koopatroopa187 Every radio station played disco back then. Steve Dahl himself was apparently fired partly because the station he worked for wanted to play more disco.

@heinoustentacles5719 Жыл бұрын

@@lisah8438 Many black people also disliked disco, like my father, who was a teenager back then. He felt disco was too aimlessly flashy and disconnected from real life. He preferred Funk and Soul, which he considered as being more substantial and relevant.

@nickcollins2001 5 ай бұрын

How is this a black mark on baseball. It’s probably the coolest things that’s ever happened in baseball

@Kyoderg 3 жыл бұрын

These guys are a bunch of snowflakes lmao

@heinoustentacles5719 Жыл бұрын

people got riled up about disco because music cost money back then, and was a physical commodity which could grow scarce. Imagine going to the record store and seeing that they moved your favourite records out to make room for a larger disco display. Imagine going to a bar or club to listen to music, since you don't have enough money for records, only for them to play disco all night. Imagine listening to the radio, hoping for something you like, since you don't have money to buy records or go out, only for the airwaves to be filled with increasing amounts of disco. It would add up, wouldn't it? (Wasn't Steve Dahl actually laid off from the station he worked at because they wanted to play more disco?)

@audiodood 3 жыл бұрын

I take it nobody liked Disco

@koopatroopa187 3 жыл бұрын

Nah, millions of people liked disco. The problem these people had with disco was that gay people and people of color liked disco.

@audiodood 3 жыл бұрын

@@koopatroopa187 Yeah

@pamelaleigh4225 2 жыл бұрын

It was pretty awful, particularly coming at the end of such great 60's, 70's music. Shake,shake,shake....shake,shake,shake, ....shake your bootie....Was nice to dance to, but really....

@audiodood 2 жыл бұрын

@@pamelaleigh4225 ok

@dr3w399 2 жыл бұрын

@@pamelaleigh4225 i like disco :)