Disco is on the rise.....

[Maggot]

I'm not sure if I like this or should embrace it. I have a few jackets in the closet and well..............the Bee-Gees were great singers and...........well here I am trying to fit in the son-of-a-bitch and............polyester stretches a bit but................















What the hell its fun like cheeseburgers.

[Lady Cop]

oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOO Maggot! please don't! anything but you in a polyester leisure suit! :O

[Maggot]

I was just dancing around.............I can act like a fool in my basement, as long as I black out the windows or just frost them with the spray stuff.........right? TGIF

[Maggot]

I just broke a pc of glass in the trash and am happy to report that the Disco hype was just that.........hype, I hope. 9/10/10

[pyropappy]

DISCO SUCKS!!!!!!!



Disco Demolition Night
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Disco Demolition Night was a promotional event that took place on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois. It was held during the twi-night doubleheader baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. During the climax of the event, rowdy fans surged onto the field, and a near riot ensued. It would ultimately prove to be one of the most notable promotional ideas and one of the most infamous since "Ten Cent Beer Night" in Cleveland in 1974. The event is regarded as the culmination of a backlash against disco music that had an effect on the decline of the genre.

Prelude

Popular Chicago disc jockey Steve Dahl had been fired from local radio station WDAI when its programming shifted from album-oriented rock to an all-disco format. Dahl was subsequently hired by rival album-rock station WLUP, "The Loop". Sensing an incipient anti-disco backlash[1] and playing off the publicity surrounding his firing, Dahl created a mock organization called "The Insane Coho Lips Anti-Disco Army" to oppose disco. Dahl and broadcast partner Garry Meier regularly mocked and heaped scorn on disco records on the air. Dahl also recorded his own parody, Do You Think I'm Disco? (a satire of Rod Stewart's, "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?").

Meanwhile, on May 2, the Detroit Tigers-Chicago White Sox game at Comiskey Park was rained out. American League rules called for the game to be made up at the teams' next meeting in Chicago. Thursday, July 12 was to have featured a single night game, to kick off a four-game weekend series, the last series before the All-Star Break. The single game date was switched to a doubleheader.

Dahl and Meier, in conjunction with Mike Veeck (son of then-White Sox owner Bill Veeck), Dave Logan, WLUP Promotion Director, and Jeff Schwartz, WLUP Sales Manager, devised a promotion that involved people bringing unwanted disco music records to the game in exchange for an admission fee of 98¢ (the fee representing the station's location on the FM dial, 97.9). The records would be collected, placed in a large crate in center field, and blown up by Dahl.

Event

The turnout for this promotion far exceeded all expectations. White Sox management was hoping for a crowd of 12,000, about double the average for a Thursday night game that year. But an estimated 90,000 turned up at the 52,000-seat stadium. Thousands of people climbed walls and fences attempting to enter Comiskey Park, while others were denied admission. Off-ramps to the stadium from the Dan Ryan Expressway were closed when the stadium was filled to capacity and beyond.

White Sox TV announcers Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall, who were broadcasting the game for WSNS-TV, commented freely on the "strange people" wandering aimlessly in the stands. Mike Veeck recalled that the pregame air was heavy with the scent of marijuana. When the crate on the field was filled with records, staff stopped collecting them from spectators, who soon realized that long-playing (LP) records were shaped like frisbees. Some began to throw their records from the stands during the game, often striking other fans. The fans also threw beer and even firecrackers from the stands.

After the first game (which Detroit won 4-1), Dahl, dressed in army fatigues and helmet, along with Lorelei Shark, WLUP's first "Rock Girl", and bodyguards, emerged and proceeded to center field. The large box containing the collected records was rigged with explosives. Dahl led the crowd in chants of "disco sucks" and a countdown prior to triggering the explosives. When detonated, the explosives tore a hole in the outfield grass surface and a small fire began burning. Dahl, Shark, and the bodyguards hopped into a jeep which circled the warning track before leaving the field through the right-centerfield exit. Thousands of fans immediately rushed the field. Some lit more fires and started small-scale riots. The batting cage was pulled down and wrecked, and the bases were literally stolen, along with chunks of the field itself. The crowd, once on the field, mostly wandered around aimlessly, though a number of participants burned banners, sat on the grass or ran from security and police.

Veeck and Caray used the public address system to implore the fans to leave the field immediately, but to no avail. The scoreboard simply flashed, "PLEASE RETURN TO YOUR SEATS." Eventually, the field was cleared by the Chicago Police in riot gear. Six people reported minor injuries and thirty-nine were arrested for disorderly conduct. The field was so badly torn up that the umpires decided the second game couldn't be played, though Tigers manager Sparky Anderson let it be known that his players would not take the field in any case due to safety concerns. The next day, American League president Lee MacPhail forfeited the second game to the Tigers, on the grounds that the White Sox had failed to provide acceptable playing conditions. The remaining games in the series were played, but for the rest of the season fielders and managers complained about the poor condition of the field.

For White Sox outfielder Rusty Torres, Disco Demolition Night was actually the third time in his career he had personally seen a forfeit-inducing riot. He had played for the New York Yankees at the last Senators game in Washington in 1971 and the Cleveland Indians at the infamous Ten Cent Beer Night in Cleveland in 1974.

The event was deemed newsworthy worldwide.

According to the 1986 book Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone history of Rock and Roll the event was the "emblematic moment" of the anti-disco "crusade" and noted that "the following year disco had peaked as a commercial blockbuster". Steve Dahl himself said in an interview with Keith Olbermann that disco "was a fad probably on its way out" but that the event "hastened its demise." Nile Rodgers, producer and guitarist for the popular disco-era group Chic said "It felt to us like Nazi book-burning. This is America, the home of jazz and rock and people were now afraid even to say the word 'disco'."

Aftermath

Although Bill Veeck took much of the public heat for the fiasco, it was known among baseball people that his son Mike was the actual front-office "brains" behind it. As a result, Mike was blacklisted from Major League Baseball for a long time after his father retired. As Mike related, "The second that first guy shimmied down the outfield wall, I knew my life was over!"

To this day, the second game of this doubleheader is still the last game forfeited in the American League. The last game to end in this manner in the National League was on August 10, 1995, when a baseball giveaway promotion went awry and resulted in the Los Angeles Dodgers forfeiture.

Much later, on July 12, 2001, Mike Veeck apologized to Harry Wayne Casey, the lead singer for KC and the Sunshine Band, a leading disco act.

Notable participants

Actor Michael Clarke Duncan, a Chicago native and 21 at the time, attended the event. He was among the first 100 people to run onto the field and he slid into third base. He also had a silver belt buckle stolen during the ensuing riot and stole a bat from the dugout.


BE VERY CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!!!! IT COULD DESTROY THIS PLACE!!!

[LKTraz]

Disco = mindless morons thinking they are impressive to the opposite sex with their dancing skills. Every different song is actually the same shit just recycled with 1 drumbeat dropped or added.

Yeah, let's bring that back.

[Maggot]

That sounds just like rap or..........hippity hop.

[Disciple]

Jesus! Not again! Please!?!?!?!? It is shameful that my generation invented this shit. Haven't the younger people learned ANYTHING?

[Maggot]

I still like ABBA.

[thekid65]

Funny how some of the shit is coming back around. I see a lot of kids wearing bell bottoms these days...albeit they are the pussified version, and nowhere near as big as when I wore them.

Damn, wish the OP's post still had whatever it was showing him in a 70's jacket...I'm assuming it had a nice big flared collar?

[Cynical Ninja]

Damn, wish the OP's post still had whatever it was showing him in a 70's jacket...I'm assuming it had a nice big flared collar?

What the flying fuck are you talking about retard?

[thekid65]

Could be wrong, but I thought maybe the OP had originally included a picture of himself in his 70's leisure jacket. Pictures of Mockers around here have a way of disappearing when the poster has 2^nd thoughts.

[Cynical Ninja]

Could be wrong, but I thought maybe the OP had originally included a picture of himself in his 70's leisure jacket.

?

I have never owned or worn a "70's leisure jacket" never mind posted a picture at Mock of me wearing one.

[thekid65]

OP, in this case means "original poster". So, just to save you confusion in the future (as you're obviously a bit dim-witted), when I say the OP, I'm referring to the original poster in the thread...if I just say "OP" then I'm referring to your retarded ass.

Simple enough for you to understand, or shall I include pictures next time?

[Cynical Ninja]

OP, in this case means "original poster". So, just to save you confusion in the future (as you're obviously a bit dim-witted), when I say the OP, I'm referring to the original poster in the thread...if I just say "OP" then I'm referring to your retarded ass.

Simple enough for you to understand, or shall I include pictures next time?

I do apologise I thought you were jissing on my leg as usual.

[thekid65]

Apology accepted. You should do that more often when you realize that you clicked "post reply" before thoroughly thinking out your response to a post.