Disco Demolition Night: 30 Years Later

[@deedonnerramone4757]

My dad (RIP) and me were watching the Tigers' game, as we did every night, and all hell broke lose. I had to explain to him the war on disco. We were out of Strohs' which made it more difficult.

[@motorcityquig]

Dee Donner Ramone i remember Al Kaline, the color commentator for the Tigers, was completely freaking out.

[@johnhenrysmithiii]

No Stroh's!? I guess you had to settle for something softer like Faygo, Vernor's or Towne Club

[@johnhenrysmithiii]

@@motorcityquig I know good ole' boy George Kell had never seen nothing like it in all HIS days!

[@robertmasina4610]

If your father was from another generation, can't blame him if he didn't know the war on disco.

[@guydreamr]

"Well the first thing I remember was, a Beach Boys record came flying by, and that wasn't even disco" LMAO

[@felixleiter9123]

and so much for this being a racist anti gay thing. leftist muppets...

[@chalkywhitelll8448]

@@felixleiter9123 ok

[@Dog-999i]

@@felixleiter9123 You're the muppet who repeats what Rupert Mudorch (Fox News) wants you to say. The people burning the records didn't even know what disco was. They burned Parliament and Marvin Gaye records, so it was obviously driven by race, among other reasons.

[@felixleiter9123]

@@Dog-999i first of all im british so i don't even recieve Fox news. So now who is jumping to race conclusions?

[@laurenhutton596]

Imagine if someone did a Lego depiction of the Disco Demolition Night as well as the 1974 Ten Cent Beer Night!!!

[@luisreyes1963]

Would a Minecraft version do? 😁

[@SupremeNerd]

Disco didn't die it evolved and ironically, Steve Dahl helped it happen even if he didn't mean it

[@johnhenrysmithiii]

I grew up in Detroit, and I watched this event live as it happened...absolutely unforgettable. On another note, I find it interesting these folks think they "killed" Disco. All disco was was dance music. Ask millionaire artists like "Daft Punk", "Black Eyed Peas", and "Deadmaus" if Disco Demolition night "killed" Disco

[@ronv6637]

Go ask Margret Trudeau at Studio 54 how disco's doing(hint she was too "busy" with Fidel in the dark)

[@rmartin7558]

A lot of good this did. Disco was still going strong in '79 and provided the soundtrack to the Pirates championship run. "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge and "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" by McFadden and Whitehead could be heard blasting nightly from the P.A. at Three Rivers.

[@Bacalao2929]

How could it be homophonic If most of people were gay David Bowie, Elton John , queen, andJudas priest

[@charlesw3594]

My Hero

[@1989NickyD]

How dare they class The Beach Boys as "disco"! Was no-one checking these records as the people were coming in?! 🤣

[@ronv6637]

We were bum rushing the gates,Andy Frain had no chance. Park was past standing room, almost 100,000 of us there.

[@richardcornell7290]

Good Times!

[@ThePumpin1]

This happened in the birthplace of House Music, Chicago. Imagine the irony!!!! Wonder what Dahl thinks of that? He didn't "kill" anything, he just made it move underground where it became more successful than ever!!!!!

[@pattyg.418]

Got THAT right! This jackass and his bunch killed NOTHING! Everything has its time and it was only time for it to transform into House! And House Music will NEVER go away! Take THAT you MORONS!

[@camarada6456]

John Prior Disco is the BEST MUSIC in my life you are a psycho

[@camarada6456]

Idiot people . Nosense. DISCO IS am amazing Music DISCO IS King and Will never die

[@camarada6456]

Disco never died only changed its name.. after 1979.... 1980....Last train to London by ELO, XANADU Olivia N J and ELO , Funkytown by lipps inc. TAKE your time by SOS, FAME BY IRENE CARA, super TROUPER by ABBA, Dnt stop the Music yarbrough and people and Many others. 1981....let's groove tinight...Earth, wind and fire; I'm in LOVE by Evelyn King, LADY...COMODORES, PHISYCAL O N J ; and Many others

[@tomstreet2859]

Wrong if it's underground it just means boring people are not listening to it.

[@lindenly22]

I was not there on that infamous night, but I do remember July 4 of that year around my neighborhood. The cherry bombs and other dangerous fireworks that happened on July 4 near my house spread to that infamous night on July 12...with Steve Dahl saying that he was doused with cherry bombs as well as beer as he made the grand entrance into the Comiskey Park ballfield after the 1st game between the Sox and the Tigers

[@Cheryl_Haydon]

I was in high school during the disco era. In my mind, disco will live on...what REALLY sucks is the crap they call music today, especially rap...

[@robertmasina4610]

I too was a teenager at that era. There was the rock and roll loving faction and the faction who liked disco.

[@INDLIS]

Dahl was fired from his job and this was his way of getting back at the world

[@tutty449]

The participants of this event were not trying to make a political statement. Steve Dahl, as he said, "tapped into" something. A week before Disco Demolition Steve Dahl and his band Teenage Radiation opened an all day rock and roll show in tiny Pecatonica ILL that featured Molly Hatchet, AC/DC and Cheap Trick on the Fourth of July, Many concert goers got on the disco sucks bandwagon and followed Steve Dahl all the way to Comiskey Park. Amazingly, no serious injuries. Thank God.

[@ronv6637]

I couldn't make it to Pecatonica (had to be a amazing show) but was at Comisky(couldn't get in-took Metra in and walked through Stateway Gardens to get there,huge crowd on train/walking is only way we survived). Don't forget live show from Chicagofest on Navy Pier,how anyone didn't get killed at either is amazing,the Who show in Cincinnati was tragic. I still have my Insane Coho Lips card and Loop98 t-shirt.

[@charlessmith263]

Steve Dahl did pay some consequences for the July 12, 1979 event. Chicagofest happened on August 1979, but the organizers put Dahl on a "no trespass list" on the event. He was banned from Chicagofest, but the station promoter for WLUP was allowed in and sell WLUP-related merc still at the fest.

[@katiemadonnalee7954]

Chicago House saved my life!! Frankie Knuckles!! Disco out lives macho rock music, house beats are everywhere!

[@TariqBusy]

Katie Madonna Lee true dat, disco jusy chsnged names

[@davidroberts7282]

What about punk and grunge music? If you think hard core rock bands hated your brand or genre of music, punk rockers or their fans saw you as more of their enemy then bloated, multi-millionaire "dinosaur" bands from the 1960s.

[@joseramos-gt8pq]

I used to listen to Frankie Knuckles here in New York city Back in the days he's still man with his Music 🎶

[@motorcityquig]

Beavis and Butthead would have approved

[@nbafreak41]

Rock on!

[@monkeyboy4746]

The hatred for disco music was bigger than baseball.

[@charlessmith263]

Did some very deep delving on this wild event now. I was 9 years old, and my first White Sox game was 1975. Heard a home run hit--and then I heard BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Aerial bomb fireworks from the scoreboard went off. So I got a taste of what they did on July 12, 1979--blast-wise. I was raised in a society that focused on strict conformity, and in the 1970s, my guesses on why Steve Dahl wanted the records involving anything disco explosively trashed at Comiskey were very, very lucid to me...... 1. Dahl hated the requirement that you have to do the traditional disco dance steps and the strict dress codes that are emplaced in all discotheques at that time. 2. He also hated what he feared disco would do---it could lead to the end of all rock music as we all know it--it could dismantle even the biggest rock bands at that time (like Judas Priest, KISS, Queen, and others)---and the biggest fear--it would lead to the end of societal decency standards that disco successfully allowed (thanks to the "Love to Loves You Baby" song with the NSFW "hump" sounds, etc.)

[@monkeyboy4746]

@@charlessmith263 It was not just a threat to rock music, but a threat to funk music as well.

[@remixchild]

if your gonna go out...GO OUT WITH A BANG!

[@WytZox1]

Still waiting for Rap Demolition ...

[@rockvilleraven]

How did they get those disco records? Unless there was a big shoplifting spree, they probably bought them actually helping disco by making them money. Like the Beatles once said "We don't care what people do with our records once they buy them" when some Christians burned some of them once they said "They were bigger than Jesus". I also heard they stole old records from their parents collection, if I were their father and found out I would have triple secret grounded them for life.

[@gilespeterson6832]

rockvilleraven Them buying the records is ironic altogether.

[@ronv6637]

They were donated and taken from station library (who got them free with a little payola and a baggie of coke). I even stopped my sister from burning my Kiss(Knights in Satans Service) and other records when she was reborn(for a while).

[@rockvilleraven]

@@ronv6637 I was reborn but now I’m on the progressive side of that religion and go to a United Church of Christ.

[@robertmasina7388]

The records were likely purchased at a record store for an affordable pocket money kind of price.

[@Milofchg]

WRONG!!!!! Disco did not die. It came back as Chicago House Music and it's a world wide music phenomenon. It's so ironic that the Cell hosts a few Chicago House Music nights for several years now.

[@ponraul1221]

I love both rock and disco… This was insanely stupid, just change the damn radio station and stay out of disco clubs if you don’t like disco.

[@jevolentinenunez4955]

Bunch of heartless pigs

[@motorcityquig]

Hey Beavis, that was cool

[@markmontgomery3097]

Thursday july 12th the best thing to happen to disco thanx Steve.

[@tomstreet2859]

Burning and blowing up things you don't like and then destroying a stadium...doesn't seem that funny to me.

[@kimsullivan5576]

The stadium was not destroyed.

[@ajrestivo]

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

[@MrTeatreeoil]

yeah your right!!!

[@martymcdonough1111]

Oh please! There's no homoracistphobia here. Dahl and many fans just hated disco. Period. If you did something similar with pop stars of today (like a "Blow Up Your Bieber" or something like that) very few people would have issue with it. It's just this new narrative of rewriting history through politically-correct glasses that makes this a group vs group issue. Get over it!

[@sapphireblue35]

Shut up. Just shut up yes it was. There records in that pile that wasn't even disco. Some reports saying that it was only black music. No white disco artists like the beegees were in there. And u know good and well a lot of gays loved disco. Steve and all those attendees were jealous of the black prominence of music and how rock and roll wasn't selling so shut up

[@oldteenagegirl]

Yes, there are some things worse than disco. Justin Bieber would be one of them.

[@revinaxatron]

Kinda fascinating that it took just 1 shock jock to push disco off the cliff. And it really isn't an exaggeration to say this was the watershed event. I read that back in June of that year, 5 of the top 10 singles were disco; by late September there were none. The cool thing is, nobody got hurt, and disco still lives!

[@Richie46071]

5:19. I know the guy on the right is Harry Caray but who is that guy with the microphone?

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

The Not-So-Great Moments in Sports by Stravinsky, John

[@felixleiter9123]

it was one of the greatest moments you muppet...

[@stargate121]

They should have a Hip Hop Demolition Night.

[@Du808-o8k]

stargate121 Lol y’all hating on hip hop but still big...

[@graffjay4570]

And if you like disco, then you like disco. If you hate it, then you hate it. Go your own way...not everyone is going to agree with you remember that.

[@markmontgomery3097]

ah shut up

[@concernedcitizen1382]

I was working that night as an Andy Frain (please don't laugh) usher and I high-tailed it out of there when things got crazy. But it was sad: everything black, latino, and gay was simply HATED that evening. Horrid.

[@generalbullmoose]

It's been 32 years...they aren't the least bit sorry. Screw them.

[@sebastienberube1157]

steve dahl, you are a hero, man. now, if only someone else had the fucking balls to do this with rap and pop records, at this point. not to mention the horrible half-breed of pop and metal known as BABYMETAL, those would be the first records on my list of things to burn, that night.

[@ShogunX11]

sebastien berube riiiiiiight

[@luisreyes1963]

Babymetal? Is that anything like K-pop? 😅

[@Godzie1]

Disco had it's short but sweet time from 76-79 & it made Travolta a star in Saturday night Fever. Donna Summers & the Bee Gee's were set for life on the money they made. Don't forget the nightclubs of today w/the lights & sounds were taken from what Disco started!

[@HHH-ye1ro]

Disco never died. It was renamed “dance music” and lives forever. Dahl was a wannabe radio star that quickly got stomped out by Stern.

[@southparkfan2717]

Fuck yeah.

[@felipehernandez-pedroza8288]

All this hatred towards disco because rock stations and fans felt threatened by it, but then rock died anyways on the hands of rap/hip hop and no one did anything to stop it. Disco evolved to dance and techno music. Rap/hip hop is still going strong after 40 years and rock music died a slow death.

[@jasonsmall5621]

Right. I like both rock and disco. I think when disco came out in the early to mid seventies- rock fans could take it leave it. However, when Saturday Night Fever( a great soundtrack and movie) sold millions of copies and by 1979, disco's popularity had surpassed even rock's popularity. Hard core rock fans had to get even.

[@davesal1386]

When disco died

[@camarada6456]

Disco never sucks. DISCO IS King I LOVE Disco Music because IS a good Music Don't like drugs like the rock fans

[@Momito99]

Adolfo Solano: Ever heard of Studio 54? That was the Mecca for Cocaine consumption in New York City and many copycat Clubs around the country and the world.

[@lordraven]

@marcol68 why

[@TimelordR]

That's how we should celebrate the 35th anniversary of Disco Demolition Night. And while were at it, throw in all those talentless tween singers & groups as well!

[@Ulyssestnt]

@MrBennetzen haha YES..please do an event doing this!

[@paulryan5611]

Why?

[@scottchambers7087]

I saw a G. I've seen it all. Dope describes my rhymes, making all you emcees cold drop like dimes. You know MCSC is back again, and battling me on the microphone is like committing a sin. MCSC the Chicago Seer Scott the California Seer

[@jamesbonnen]

They stopped calling it DISCO music and just called it dance music muted the synthesizers and nobody stop buying dance records

[@ShimonNetzarym]

2:49

[@Fockersnextdoor]

Back in the days when the SWEET LEAF was almost legal LOL

[@tomloft2000]

sure it wasn't for Quiet Riot?

[@dogcowrph]

The start of Burning Man.

[@camarada6456]

Artists and groups like The Bee Gees, ABBA, KC and the Sunshine Band, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Tina Charles, Kelly Marie, Michael Jackson, Cher, The Whispers, Dinasty, Shalamar, USA European Connection, Evelyn King, Earth, wind and fire, Kool and the Gang, Change, Gino Soccio, Telma Houston, Melba Moore, Hot Chocolate, SOS, Irene Cara, Madonna, Odissey, Spinners, D Train, the war, the commodores, peaches and herb, Blondie, ELO, Lionel Richie, Ritchie Family, Sister Sledge, Bananarama, Pet Shop Boys, ABC, Rick Astley,Sonia, Grace Jones, Aretha Franklyn, George Benson, Pointer Sisters, Bonnie Pointer, Alicia Bridges, Lipps inc, Leif Garret, Patrice Rshen, Patrick Cowley, Patrick Hernández, David Naughton, Unlimited Touched, Billy Océano, TEENA Marie, Rick James, Eraiser, and many others MAKE ME LOVE LOVE DISCO MUSIC DISCO NEVER DIED. IT CHANGED. DISCO ONLY CHANGES THROW THE YEARS

[@timelessmusicfamilymusic9175]

You left out my favorite disco group, CHIC🎸, Le Freak💿, Good Times💿, I Want Your Love💿, & Dance, dance, dance💿💃💖😀👌

[@remixchild]

If you’re good enough you’ll still be remembered, it you can adapt or evolve even better but if neither then 1979 was pretty much end point.

[@shadymercury]

Let's not kid ourselves, that whole "disco is dead" moment was rooted in racism and homophobia. Dahl was quoted from more than one interview, ranting and raving about the "shady culture" of disco, he made other statements & he tapped into the resentment of cis straight white men on a level far deeper than just liking a genre of music. But he did not succeed in his goal. Disco music simply evolved and was rebranded as dance music which still thrives today.

[@boataxe4605]

Yeah, it was racism and homophobia, that’s why us rock and roll fans back then bought and loved records by Jimi Hendrix (black),Chuck Berry(black),the band Living Color(black),Elton John (gay),Queen (gay singer), Judas priest (gay singer) David Bowie (bisexual), and Little Richard (black and gay).

[@ronv6637]

Shady Mercury as usual those with lowIQ,very low information, almost total lack of understanding, failure to grasp basics resort to ad hominem attacks (and can not do it properly). Disco was as homophobic and racist as could be,the real objection was to the corporate ultra materialistic,ultra conformist, antihuman push that tried to disinfranchise anyone who did not want what was being sold to those who could not/would not think a little. Let me encourage you to study and learn,expand your knowledge base(google lies/hides information) and learn to think critically and not accept what ever trendy narritive is being pushed for someone else's benefit. You may want to listen to "We didn't start the fire" and when you can understand the events described you may have a basic understanding of recent history that got us to this place.

[@southparkfan2717]

They angered the Sod Father.

[@TheDOLMET]

@MrBennetzen Im totally up for it, LETS DO IT.

[@KillenEMsoftly]

Today, rock and roll is dead. Disco has evolved to many different genres that dominate the world, and the White Sox are moving to Tennessee.

[@bob4analog]

Yup, I tend to agree! Seems like the rap/hip hop & techno are basically a modern day extension of disco.

[@discoinc]

@stargate121 they should have a regaeton demolition night.

[@nicanorrivera9414]

Rock is one culture. Disco was another. Rock for the headbangers while disco for the dancers. They are mutually exclusive. There must be no conflict. Some like rock exclusively. Others disco exclusively. Others like both. Thsy have both evolved to other forms today while maintaining their most important elements enhanced by modern technology. Steve was a looser who wanted to get even.well he didnt.he did not get his job back. Disco has lived and evolved. Steve should be ashamed of himself. He failed.Steve sucks! Its bad to say that but he must taste his own kind of medicine. All of these are in fhe past now.time to stop the hate. We are too old now to be radicals. Just live in peace, be content and thankful for past present and future, be friend to all, treat others with respect. Be happy. Its a choice.

[@trinidadsimpson395]

Amen to that.

[@markconnor4350]

Steve who? Meanwhile, disco lives on in today's dance music and no one can remember that idiotic DJ's name. The other idiotic thing is that people would have PAID for records they destroyed, giving more money to the recording companies and artists.

[@Satoshi9801]

A modern day parallel would be that lady on Tik Tok who bitched about Aunt Jemima, yet she bought a box of AJ to throw down her sink.

[@lolymartinez2339]

Larga vida al DISCO, yo no había nacido en los 70s, pero me encanta el sonido disco, me gusta el Rock pero hay temas Disco que superan a gran parte del Rock, esa gente eran perdedores homofobicos, que jamas hubieran podido ni bailar ni grabar una sola canción en toda su vida,

[@graffjay4570]

You guys are forgetting that people have different opinions and tastes in music. However, disco doesn't suck. It must of been that disco was getting in the way of rock and rock fans acted out with a demolition.

[@TariqBusy]

Graff Jay this was more than an opinion, it was action. Theres the problem.

[@351charlie7]

Oh, man . . . the disco era was a nightmare for those of us who liked good rock-n-roll back then, but thankfully, disco went away!

[@TariqBusy]

351 Charlie disco didnt go away, it just changed names

[@revinaxatron]

I agree, this guy Dahl was kind of a hypocrite; his only beef with disco was he indirectly lost his job because of it. Which I guess is reason enough.

[@ronv6637]

You haven't listened to his music,he was the exact demographic that disco dispised, we were not all beautiful, pretentious snobs

[@ir10031981]

Disco ruled in 1976 but then it got old and sucked in 1979.

[@sapphireblue35]

Please be quiet. Disco never sucked because we still love it. It just transformed into house

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

I always wanted to know how this came about. We need another event to destroy pop music like Beiber,Gaga,Miley,Kesha,Katy.

[@jamesbonnen]

Remember folks judge music on it's merits. The notes. The words. The beat. What good did this really do? Where is Rock and Roll on mainstream radio? It is dying off like Easy Listening.

[@LighthouseProductions2]

now lets blow up rap albums

[@markofly76]

Let's do a Lady GaGa Demolition Night, A Rap Demolition Night, A Miley Cyrus Demolition Night, A Beyonce Demolition Night, A Jay-Z Demolition Night, A Ryan Seacrest Demolition Night, An American Idol Demolition Night, An Oprah Demolition Night, etc., etc., etc., etc.!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jackyclaiborne2142]

We should have a "Rap Demolition Night"!!! For the past 28 years, rap has been taking my peers away from Rock N Roll! Also, I personally think that rap is extremely annoying to hear, and it really get on my nerves! If that''s not enough, the majority of the rap recorded over the past 28 years has contained lots of profanity, including heavy use of the F-word. Much of it also contains racial slurs, including the N-word. A great deal of it also contains graphic sexual connotations, and preaches hate, violence, joining gangs, and street level drug dealing. That's why I believe it has a bad influence on our society, and I think it's a contributing factor in all of this gun violence we've had in recent years. In sports venues, they blast that stuff on the PA during warmup, every time there's stoppage of play, and at halftime. Families bring their small children to sports events, and they have too be subjected to that stuff. Also, every time I hear someone booming their vehicle subwoofers, it infuriorates me!!!! That's because nine times out of ten, it's rap music. Seriously, I'd like to see rap music anniltated!!!

[@tomstreet2859]

I'm not that big of a rap fan...but I think rap exists...because white guys who liked rock and roll made a big production out of destroying Disco which is basically urban music. And I think rap and hip hop was a direct response to that stuff. Plus rock music wasn't perfect in that regard. There is lots of screaming and yelling in rock. The melodic period of rock was really in the 50's.

[@felipehernandez-pedroza8288]

I agree with what you said 100%. But unfortunately I don't see it happening. Rap/hip hop moves millions maybe billions of dollars. Plus concerts,tv shows, fashion. It is everywhere and it is still going strong, unfortunately after 40 years. I don't see the decline or death of that music anytime soon. It has already surpassed rock music in the numbers of years it has been popular. Rock music was popular from the 1950s to the 1980s. Four different decades. Rap/hip hop has taken over since the 1980s to the present for a total sum of five decades and apparently it's going to be around for a long time to come.

[@TimelordR]

How about we destroy all of Taylor Swift, One Direction & all that other tween bubblegum music as well?

[@luisreyes1963]

Well, maybe spare Taylor Swift. She HATES Drumpf! 😄

[@raamjames1]

Shows the real mentality of White Sox management and "fans."

[@JAJAJAX]

let's do a Reggaeton demolition night!

[@luisreyes1963]

After we destroy some Lee Greenwood CDs. 😆

[@Aristocles22]

We need to do this for "social justice." A SJW demolition night.

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

Hell motherfucking yes. But destroy the SJWs,not the devices.

[@Aristocles22]

Not sure what we'd destroy. I suppose we'd have to initiate it by deleting social justice movies and .pdfs from our devices. Anything by John Green comes to mind as a good start ("The Fault in Our Stars.") As to what would be actually destroyed, I don't want to burn books. Looks bad. Same thing with burning in effigy.

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

Nonamearisto Destroy anything linked to The View or shit like that.

[@Aristocles22]

"I don't want to burn books. Looks bad. Same thing with burning in effigy." God, you are strawmanning me like all hell here.

[@Aristocles22]

Not at all. I'm saying that we can express our disapproval of something. I'm not advocating for SJWs to be banned from college campuses or to have their websites taken offline, for example. I can demolish a CD (who still uses those?) at home without it being "censorship" of music.

[@MrTeatreeoil]

why don't they do a Rap Hip Hop Demolition Night because that ain't no real music IT REAL GARBAGE MUSIC

[@ShogunX11]

MrTeatreeoil hell nah

[@SupremeNerd]

For the same reason there was never a hair metal demolition

[@sneezabonk]

The anniversary should be hip hop demolition night

[@ShogunX11]

sneezabonk nope

[@stannousvortalux5655]

I love disco made by Chic, Kool and the Gang, etc. It was Chicago's LOOP 98 station that endorsed that movement, and burned enough music on vinyl at Comiskey Park, that they couldn't play baseball. I was eleven, and saw these culture burning. anti black events here in STL, and at Purdue University. If you watch this dumb documentary, you will notice that race wasn't mentioned once, but in south Chicago, it was very anti black culture. Don't believe the White Sox/The Loop 98 hype about this shameful debacle. This is race hate side of the baby boomer generation.

[@cartoonmusicandfilm]

@marcol68 LETS ALSO DO A (LATE 1990'S-PRESENT) POP MUSIC DEMOLITION NIGHT

[@RosaFlores-lt7ku]

Querer matar la música de los Bee Gees, sólo un loco desquiciado como Steve Dahl.

[@Aristocles22]

Steve Dahl should support GamerGate. If he's still around to do that. He restored American music, freeing it from the grip of the left wing. Now, we need to keep video games safe from the left wing as well.

[@jpbourdon2671]

I would cut this guy a little slack.He only had a vendetta against disco music,Not jazz,blues,R+B,soul,funk.Did he ever make any derogatory comments about non whites or gays?,Now I was 11 years old when this shit went down.Disco had started to run it's course and a lot of people were really starting to get sick of this plastic,elitist trend.Not everyone back then or now is into dancing around in goofy looking clothes or cares to be.Does that make someone a racist or homophobe?Sure if you don't like something don't watch or listen to it but disco had reached a point where it got overblown,annoying and impossible to get away from in all kinds of media.People can only take so much.Man imagine what the disco haters think of dance music now.I love old school metal,blues,some funk,a little classical and swing but I STILL THINK DISCO SUCKS!To those who have a MAJOR. issue with my personal opinion F.O.A.D(to the young uns who didn't understand that acronym google it.)

[@a999op]

The problem with this movement was that disco records weren't the only records burned that night. A lot of black peoples records were burned that night which affected a lot of black singers and, musicians. Black to this very day then and, now still think it was racially motivated. Pop stations wouldn't even play black music anymore for a long time. The only people pop stations were playing was Michael Jackson (That wasn't until probably 82) and, Prince. Radio stations did not want to touch black music for a long time unless it was a black radio station.

[@LarryTalbot_1313]

The entire problem with this incident is everyone judges the outcome by what they seen or heard on the news. I was there, in the flesh, in 1979. I can't vouch for the "smell in the stadium" because I lost my sense of smell in a hockey accident years before. What I can tell you is it was a peaceful and fun night. Until some people stormed the field and it really wasn't until the management tried to bully them, that the real shit started. In my opinion, I think a few people just wanted to take home a piece of history. After about 100 people hit the field, we did too. Not to cause havoc, I just wanted to be on the grass. I was one of the kids that ran around the bases, because I knew it would be the only time in my entire life I would ever get that chance. I stopped at the dugout (which was heavily fortified by then) and talked to the players. Security seen that I wasn't there to make trouble and I even got to shake a few hands. The ball players didn't seem to care either. No one was terrified like they claimed on the news. Or at least not yet. At that point it was like a party in someone's backyard. Than the riot squad showed up! They started beating people with nightsticks and all hell broke loose! I got beat with a night stick too, and I never did anything but walk on the field. I did manage to get a piece of one of the exploded records and had it for many years, until it was lost to time, somewhere along the way. That entire night would have ended differently, if the management would have just stayed calm about about 30 minutes, the entire thing would have been over and the game would have continued. Sometimes I think them management did that on purpose, because that incident was on the news constantly for the next few weeks. You can't buy that kind of PR. Think about it!!!

[@TariqBusy]

Jean-Paul Bourdon You shouldve just said disck sucks. You typed all of that to come across like you had some type of nuanced opinion.

[@cjones3710]

Orioles are tops. White Sox I.also enjoy!🐵🐻🤠⚾

[@VBaskin2010]

How about a Trump Demolition?

[@earthproductions101]

Vaughn Baskin yes

[@coreylevine3856]

we must remember at the time rock music was in decline we lost a lot of great rock stars in the 1970's who dies very young back then it won't be until the early 1980's with Mtv that rock will make a strong comeback disco came in the early 1970's a music popular with Blacks,latinos,gays,and later Italians American then white singers K C and the sunshine band the BEE GEE andABBA came alone and help made it mainstream into the home of white America .then the movies Saturday night fever came out in 1977 after that many radio stations begain to drop rock music and begain to play disco record sale for rock decline never mind the fact that other rock singers like heart ,kiss,and the rolling stones were doing well . saying the people in Chicago were racist and hated gays is the understatemit we look at popular culture in America at the time as well the state of baseball at the time bill veet saw baseball were in trouble to me it were a cry for help e h

[@coreylevine3856]

+Corey Levine if rock haven't lost some of the great rockers back then like jim morrism,jimi Hendrix,janis Joplin,brian jones,and elvis Presley .rock weren't feel the need to bash disco

[@coreylevine3856]

+Corey Levine and if baseball owners can see baseball were in trouble and loseing it popular the 1994 strike would never happien and veeck would never did disco demolition night

[@Borntu]

Why don't they do this to hip hop albums? Compared to hip hop, disco is fucking Mozart! It sucks way worse and revels in the bullshit that disco tried to disassociate itself with as a movement. Disco sucks but rap "music" has you fooled.

[@ShogunX11]

Borntu dafuq you talking about? hip hop is like several genres/subgenres. You can't just generalize it like that

[@xreddragonx]

@EddieRamon You can love funk but not disco.

[@UNOE213]

what kind of mayonnaise nonsense is this....

[@TPTGopher]

And I thought this was awesome BEFORE I knew how the freaks took it personally! One thing that is kinda weird: "Disco" (the correct pronunciation of the Ukrainian "Dyczko") could've easily been the ultimate tough Chicago ass-kicker name - but thankfully, by the time Michael Dyczko, Jr. arrived in the Windy City, the family name had been Anglicized to Ditka.

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

Reegaeton Demolition !

[@chickenray182]

Disco Still Sucks

[@BradleyJuby]

I hardly think of Obama as the "chauvinistic" type.

[@richardleewagner3939]

Donna Summer and the BeeGees, the worst thing that came out of 1970s culture.

[@chrisjohn7761]

Because they ruled the 70s. Something your favorite genre didn't aurvived