Was disco awesome?

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by JMRouse

Like all things, people's memories far exceed the reality of what was history.

Dylan said that anyone who remembers the 60's wasn't really there, and I think the same can be said for the 70's (and to a greater extent, the 80's).

 

[NorCal]

Originally Posted by lefty

^Solid 71st post.

It was sweaty and glittery; and you got to lick cocaine off the nipples of supermodels before there was such a thing as supermodels.

Still, by the time '78 rolled around I was in tartan and leather with cropped blue hair and safety pins through my ear lobes.

lefty

*sigh* I've been feeling old lately. Thoughts of cocaine and lithe young nipples does not help.

 

[imageWIS]

I wonder if conne has ever tried coke...?

 

[MrG]

Originally Posted by Cashmoney

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If you liked punk/new wave, you were required by an obscure federal law to loathe disco. And loathing disco had lots to do with homophobia and racism.

Weird. I always figured figured that loathing disco had lots to do with hating ****** music.

From the descriptions here, it sounds like the disco era was a hell of a lot of fun (I'm far, far too young to have lived through it), but the whole scene was set to one of the worst sountracks in the history of popular music.

 

[Jr Mouse]

Ok, curious. What got you thinking about this Conne?

 

[limping_decorum]

if only for soul train....

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[Crane's]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

With all the hairspray and freebasing going on, I'm really surprised more people weren't blown up. Seriously.
Wrong era dude. Back in the day it was snorted.

Originally Posted by lefty

It was sweaty and glittery; and you got to lick cocaine off the nipples of supermodels before there was such a thing as supermodels.
Just nipples? Yeah it was a good time.

 

[Dakota rube]

Originally Posted by Crane's

Wrong era dude. Back in the day it was snorted.

I was a snorter, but several in my circle were burning rocks during the disco era.

 

[Crane's]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

I was a snorter, but several in my circle were burning rocks during the disco era.
Ahhh, the pioneers of the day.

 

[Dakota rube]

Originally Posted by Crane's

Ahhh, the pioneers of the day.

A couple of them actually lived.
My generation seems to have lost a lot of members to over-indulgence and a general lack of discretion.

 

[rnoldh]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

I was a snorter, but several in my circle were burning rocks during the disco era.

Originally Posted by Crane's

Ahhh, the pioneers of the day.
Real pacesetters. First I heard of "Free Basing" was when Richard Pryor had his "incident". I did my share of snorting in the early 1970s, but coke was most certainly known as a luxury drug. A reasonably priced manna from Heaven Disco drug was Rorer 714s! About 1971 I worked for an employer who provided some cocaine. But that was sporadic and I'm glad I never got into daily use. One of my Brooklyn GFs had a tiny scene in Saturday Night Fever with Travolta in a Brooklyn disco. If it is on Youtube, I will post it.

 

[lefty]

Awe. Some.

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lefty

 

[tagutcow]

John Travolta was so awesome, even up to the mid-'90s. What the hell happened? I blame Scientology.

Also: Were the Bee Gees really a disco band, or were they just top-notch songwriters whose songs just happend to have a disco beat under them?

 

[lefty]

Option B.

lefty

 

[Lord-Barrington]