Good Afternoon, my beautiful people of mingle2. shouts out to my " Vocal Avengers" keeping my thing going from my music forums to my controversial "Hot Tea's", thank yaw very much, but lets keep it going. Okay, during the 60's rock n' roll songs had serious messages from drug usages to the Vietnam WAR. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, & John F. Kennedy was assassinated, broke the country's heart. Now its the 70's a cult phenomenal is here. First started in the gay clubs, then it trickle in the straight clubs. Disco scared the #$%^ out of middle America parents feared the drugs, the open sexual behaviors, & a music genre that not just blacks embraced but everybody loved. When you see disco documentaries about clubs like " Studio 54 , The Fever, & where ever else, just waiting outside to get in had its own atmosphere within itself. When you finally get in , what you saw blew your mind! America, my question to you is well, think back for a moment, remember you was young, its Friday night with the fellas or your girls. You wanted to hit up your local disco club. The DJ, spinning mega hits like Donna Summer, K.C. & The Sunshine Band, Rick Dees for all you parody Disco Ducks. Gloria Gainor and many others, you had to get in. Was disco in your eyes was a threat to American music? Did it had to die, it was too much for people to digest? Or Is it just as alive today as then it was in the 70's? Tell me where you stood with disco. Was you a partyer or you hated it? lets dialogue!

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EyeAmYourHost39,

I was a little tike when disco was out. I can remember how good it made people feel. If you research the history of disco it started in the gay clubs. Then once the phenomenon grew it then carried in the straight clubs. Disco, was unique, you can hear a lot of strings, a lot of violins, then the bass guitar, the drums I mean it blew my mind. As the 70's was moving disco was dominating the music scene. I can remember the stories on Studio 54, and the anticipation to get in was a culture within its self. when you got in , boy, oh boy, what was you in for. Even with the flamboyancy & the sexual behaviors and the drugs, it brought community of people together. You got to remember the Vietnam war & the cold war had ended, music was changing with the times. people was tired of the serious records and wanted to get loose.

I remember a radio station when I was a teen in the 70s. I can't for the life of me remember the call sign but the dial was 101.6 and it called itself the "Disco Destroyer", It might have been WROK or WROC or WROX?

Their theme was hard rock and would start a disco song just to scratch it off and fade into some heavy rock.
They used to say, "Anyone can dance to disco, It takes talent to dance to this..." then they would play some Rush or Nugent or AC/DC. The feature ticket contests to concerts and even sponsored some local bands in studio.

A few years after they shut down, Cleveland got the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

There was also a station in Cleveland (WMMS) 101 called "The Buzzard". It was strictly hard rock for awhile too.

I have a mix of bookmarks of radio stations. Some are still active and feature internet live radio.

http://www.aardvarkbluesfm.com/
http://www.kbul.com/
http://www.dve.com/main.html
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/
http://www.americanmusicchannel.com/
http://www.froggyfun.com/
http://www.garagepunk.com/
http://www.goodwinmusic.com/
http://www.hbr1.com/
http://www.khak.com/
http://www.kshe95.com/
http://www.live365.com/
http://www.maverick-country.com/
http://www.metalexpressradio.com/
http://www.mkoc.com/
http://www.musicrow.com/
http://www.scenemusic.net/
http://www.pandora.com/
http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/
http://psytrancemusic.blogspot.com/
http://www.internet-radio.org.uk/
http://www.purecountrymusic.com/
http://www.radiohof.org/
http://www.radio-locator.com/
http://www.shoutcast.com/
http://www.sonynashville.com/
http://www.sihope.com/
http://www.last.fm/
http://www.pbs.org/theblues/
http://www.pyx106.com/main.html
http://www.toastedrav.com/
http://www.kfdi.com/
http://www.twangzine.net/
http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/
http://www.wksu.org/
http://www.wmms.com/main.html
http://www.wncd.com/main.html
http://www.wncx.com/
http://www.wone.net/
http://www.wrct.org/
http://www.rrk.com/
http://www.quadphonic.com/
http://www.y-103.com/

While I now don't mind disco, when I was a teen it was taboo to my social group. "Man, That is so f'n queer!"

Tom4UHere,

I think I remember, see the rock artist back then put together a anti disco movement. remember how a rock dj went and put all the records in a box with dynamite and blew all the disco records up. the day after that was a bizzare eerie silence felt in the air. it was a lynching, a book burning, an assassination of disco. here's the kicker hip hop was born after disco. we would take old records put them on break beats which we call sampling now.

Yup, My late nephew had a dual turntable deck and did scratches for parties.

Trance based music is very popular world-wide. Y'know the music that plays at raves and clubs.
Trance has disco elements to it.

Here is a sample or two. What do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvpctgU_s8&list=RDQMXBzN8VmAKsQ

That's a random playlist under the search term trance.

Here is a specific video
Veracocha - Carte Blanche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6KFq8s2fgg
Do you sense the disco in there?

My nephew created mixes of trance using old rock, disco and even country songs.

In actuality, disco was a baseline to new forms of music not a threat to music...

Tom4UHere,

Yes it all sounds like my language of djing back in the day. I like to spin Deep House, European Hip hop, techno trance. its funny Disco was later to change its name to dance music today. Or some may call it house.