<< 1977-1980 were the years I was in High School and I was the only guy from
my neighborhood who could/would dance at the High School Dances. I danced
because I like girls yet Disco was all the rage, it wasn't me but I would
light up whenever the DJ would play Mother's Finest "Baby Love", "Burnin'
Love", "Hard Rock Love" or I would go into a trance when they played Brick's
"Dazz" long version that is. >>
Sounds familiar. :-) I was in high school at the same time.
However, I was also a disco DJ -- but I differentiated between white bread
disco, and the funky stuff.
I would never play stuff like Village People, Donna Summer, or the thousands
of flash in the 12 inch pan bands.
I played Brick, The Bar Kays, the Commodores, the Brother's Johnson, Earth
Wind and Fire, Confunkshun, Parliament Funkadelic, Bootsy, Fatback, Mother's
Finest, Rick James, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, etc.
Was that disco?
Those that went to my high school all thought it was -- and it all got thrown
into the "disco sucks" vault by non-dancers. If it didn't have a screaming
guitar, and you could dance to it in the latter 70's -- people called it
disco.
To me -- this was the root of acid jazz. This was the stuff that got me
groovin', and gave me a taste for more. After disco died, and funk wilted --
there was only jazz fusion to keep me company. Thankfully, the rare grooves
of the 70's, and the jazz fusion found a way to get together in the 90's. .
.and it still keeps me young -- whatever you want to call it.
Scott
(The Jazz Evangelist - Atlanta)
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