Thursday, April 26, 2007
The Evil That Disco Wrought [Jonah Goldberg]
From a reader:
Hi Jonah,
Your reader who "grew up with an entire neighborhood of Tony Maneros" is
right on the money. There was a huge cultural backlash, at least in NYC, to
SNF and the "disco culture" in general. One of the biggest reasons, besides
the crappy music and the shallow materialism of the designer jeans crowd,
was that the rush to disco practically wiped out live music in small venues.
Once upon a time every bar and grill had a decent to excellent live band in
on Friday and Saturday nights. This disappeared overnight during the disco
craze. Why pay a band when you can get a guy with a sound system an a bunch
of disco records for 25% of the price?
04/26 10:56 AM
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