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jar1967 t1_jdq5v7b wrote

The event was also planned by the guy who thought 10 cent beer night would be a good idea. It did not end as well as you think

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gsoClarke t1_jdqpd52 wrote

Sounds like Bat Day at Yankee Stadium.

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jjvbravo t1_jds0lbx wrote

Except that their argument for bat day was, (New York accent) "Everybody gets a bat. It's a fair fight!"

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PN_Guin t1_jdqkm5n wrote

It probably ended quite as "well" as I think it did. With plenty of overtime for police, ambulances, hospitals, firefighters, judges and companies installing new window panels.

Just not as well as the organisers thought it would.

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Vorpishly t1_jdqw80y wrote

We had 10 cent beer night at our local AA stadium, but it was limited to 6 per. Crazy, but still was happening late 90s early 2000.

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Depression_spice t1_jdrjoto wrote

10 cent beer night is legendary though. This guy is a legend.

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jar1967 t1_jds5vk1 wrote

I have seen documentary on it They should make it into a movie

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GratefulPhish42024-7 t1_jdq1kly wrote

It's okay that disco left the mainstream because Frankie Knuckles just took out some of the lyrics at a place he DJ'd in Chicago called the wareHouse and people are to this day still listening to that type of music, it's known by the name House Music.

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WalterS0bchack t1_jdqjjck wrote

Yet another sad example of racism in America.

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Pherllerp t1_jdqs0u7 wrote

Yeah the whole anti-disco thing was mostly just an anti-black, anti-urban, and anti-gay reaction.

Disco never went a way though.

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Ok_Yoghurt_3338 t1_jds59de wrote

It was anti gay. I’m not sure how people in urban environments would be anti urban but I don’t think the anti disco movement was led in rural America. This particular event had racists at it because it was in a racist area when racism was prevalent in general, but they also owned the records ahead of time which does create some controversy in saying this was purely driven by racism or hate.

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garrethgobulcoque t1_jdqom0f wrote

This. I can't recall the details, but I remember that the "Disco Demolition" was first and foremost motivated by racism and not a "hate for disco music".

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JoshuaZ1 t1_jdrvwpy wrote

Disco was scene as affiliated with black people and white gay men. This is discussed in part in the article that OP linked to.

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Sv3den t1_jdr0hhp wrote

What the hell is the title trying to say?

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Skyhawk412 t1_jdqxvox wrote

Disco Demolition Night, 1979

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ZanyDelaney t1_jdryqdd wrote

I was an avid reader of Mad Magazine starting around 1980 and in it I often read about 'disco sucks' in the US. I really didn't get it at all. Australia definitely still had discos all through the 1980s. Some were famous and the hottest place to 'rage' *. They were called nightspot or nightclub by the late 1980s as the term disco sounded passe. But yeah, we didn't really seem to have a 'disco sucks' movement here. When I was a teen in the 1980s, the tough cool kids all went to discos. There were the popular 'Blue Light discos' for under 18 year olds. Popular mainstream clubs in Melbourne included The Underground and Inflation in King Street, plus Razor, Lasers, Chasers, Manhattan Stage 1, 21st Century Dance Club. My brothers-in-law were pretty standard Aussie type men. They went to discos and got drunk. That was where the girls were, but they also bopped to their fave tunes and had a blast.

I started going to discos in 1987. They were great. All the different subcultures mixed together and had a blast. Tracks like Blue Monday -- Male Stripper -- Boom Boom -- So Macho were huge. When Blue Monday started, the crowd roared. It was unreal.

One of my fave 1980s disco track was Savin' Myself.

Years later I started playing '1970s disco mixes' that had been uploaded to youtube. Many of the tracks I recalled as still being played in discos in the late 1980s were actually old 70s disco, eg Groove Me. So even in the 80s actual 70s disco was still being played too.

Here is a list of some 1980s club tracks:

* In 1987 ABC started a music video TV series named after our term for what you did at a disco - and in 2023 it is still running.

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Fast_Fee517 t1_jduy3qx wrote

Tigers TV announcer George Kell describing it, “these aren’t baseball fans “

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Big_Car5623 t1_jdvgucn wrote

I went to my first Sox game with my grandparents a few days later. They had sodded parts of the field there were huge mounds of dirt piled up along both base lines. It was a big mess. Shortly after I became a Steve and Garry fan.

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Buffalo95747 t1_jdsixq7 wrote

If this event helped end disco music, it was probably worth it.

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