From: terrence grant (leftalive@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 23:18:06 CEST
Spoken like someone who truly does not know what they're talking about.
> Frankly, I'm surprised that anyone on this list would even mention most
> disco the viable musical choice of that era when there's TONS of great
> Hip-Hop (Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, Sugarhill gang,etc... you all know
> 'em) and Punk rock acts whose musical influence is still being felt 30 years
> later.
Two separate eras, my man. Disco was the soundtrack to the club revolution
of the SEVENTIES, and by the start of the eighties, was mostly a distant
memory. Hip hop was BORN in the early eighties, and born of (among other
things) DISCO. You gonna play "rappers delight" and then tell me that's not
disco? Good God in heaven, they stole an entire song from Chic!
> Who'd KC or Teena Marie ever inluence? Sure, it's not all bad, but
> most of it sucked ass and put musicians out of business. I ain't with that.
> Throwaway music is just that, no matter how old it is. If not, I've got a
> pile of Glen Miller and Pat Boone records I wanna sell you......
Put musicians out of business? What planet did you grow up on? Who do you
think played on all those disco records? I'll tell you who - the cream of
the crop of the studio scenes at the time. Heavyweight cats in NY and LA,
the same guys who played on a lot of records that you probably DO think its
cool to like.
You're exclusion of all but the most mainstream disco artists in your post,
leads me to believe that you never really bothered to look at what actually
went down back then. By your rational I could say that hip hop isn't any
good, because all I see on the charts is Nelly, and Trick Daddy, and that
awful f**king song by Khia. But I know better, and thank the Lord for
Blackalicious, the Roots, Dialated Peoples, and they whole philly scene.
And do not forget that whether you like it or not, disco was the mother and
father of modern dance music. Disco gave birth to house and techno, and so
on and so on. If you disagree, you are wrong. I'm sorry - thats just the way
it is.
Read a book called "last night a dj saved my life" by Bill Brewster and
Frank Broughton. Its been discussed many times on this list, and is an
exhaustive history of the DJ's rise to fame.
Lastly, I appologize in advance if my tone seems harsh. Its just that I have
a passion for groovy music that is rivaled only by my love of baseball, and
when I encounter someone who is as ill informed as you were, I take it upon
myself to set things straight.
-Peace and love.
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