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	Encyclopedia: Disco Demolition Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Disco Demolition Night was a promotional event which occurred on July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois during a scheduled twilight-night Major League Baseball doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers which eventually turned into mayhem.
		Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music (generally between 110 and 136 beats per minute) that originated in the early-1970s, a derivative of funk and soul music, popular with audiences in larger cities all over the world.
		Disco music diverged from the self-composed and performed rock of the 1960s, seeing a return (though not universally) to the influence of producers who hired session musicians to produce hits for different artists whose role was purely to sing and market the songs.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Disco-Demolition-Night (1641 words)

	Disco Music Was Gay Music
		One night probably late in 1974 or very early in 1975, the jukebox was turned off for a time at "the bar" and music began to play into the sound system from what we assumed were records elsewhere in the bar.
		Disco music was never meant to be listened to while staying at home stoned alone (or with friends) pondering the deeper meanings of the life; it never pretended to have insight into the meaning of life.
		Disco music was for dancing, disco was for having a good time, and gay people, who had been prevented from dancing together in virtually all the bars across the United States until the very late years of the 1960s (or in some cases in the 1970s), embraced it and were liberated by it.
	www.brumm.com /gaylib/disco (1913 words)

	Disco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Initially, most disco songs catered to a nightclub/dancing audience only, rather than general audiences such as radio listeners, but there are many aspects proving opposite tendencies as well; popular radio-hits were being played in discothèques, as long as they had an easy to follow rhythmic base-pattern close to 120 BPM (beats per minute).
		Disco music diverged from the rock of the 1960s, elevating music from the raw sound of 4-piece garage bands to refined music composed by producers who contracted local symphony and philharmonic orchestras and session musicians.
		The Disco vs. Rock dynamic was parodied in the 1999 film Detroit Rock City (set in 1978) when the main characters (all KISS fans) get into an altercation with some disco fans, who destroyed their KISS tapes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disco (1912 words)

	Disco Demolition Night: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was also known as "Anti-Disco Night", or by its indelicate "underground" title, "'Disco Sucks' Night".
		It would prove to be the most ill-conceived promotional idea since "Ten Cent Beer Night" in Cleveland (The largest city in Ohio; located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie; a major Great Lakes port) in 1974 (additional info and facts about 1974).
		This promotion apparently encouraged a lot of people to come to the park who were not "typical" baseball fans.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/disco_demolition_night.htm (442 words)

	DISCO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Disco music diverged from the self-composed and performed rock of the 1960s, seeing a return to the influence of producers who hired session musicians to produce hits for different artists whose role was purely to sing and market the songs.
		Generally, the difference between a disco, or any dance song, and a rock or popular song is that in dance music the bass hits "four to the floor", at least once a beat, while in rock the bass hits on one and three and lets the snare take the lead on two and four.
		Disco is further characterized by a sixteenth note division of the quarter notes established by the bass as shown in the second drum pattern below, after a typical rock drum pattern: image This sixteenth note pattern is often supported by other instruments, and may be implied rather than explicitly present, often involving syncopation.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/di/Disco.htm (1336 words)

	Disco Sucks in 1979, Disco Demolition Night
		While many remember the white teens shouting "disco sucks" at every available opportunity, often in racist and homophobic contexts, inner-city fls were similarly rejecting disco and disco-fied rock, soul and funk (which was virtually everything on the radio at the time).
		If disco had anything redeemable for urban audiences, however, it was the strong, eminently danceable beats, and hip hop rose to take advantage of the beats while providing a musical outlet for the masses that hated disco.
		From England's rabid Northern Soul scene to the birth of disco in New York, from the sound systems of Jamaica to the scratch wars of early hip-hop in the Bronx, from Chicago house to Detroit techno to London rave, DJs are responsible for most of the significant changes in music over the past forty years.
	www.jahsonic.com /DiscoSucks.html (1365 words)

	WHITESOXINTERACTIVE.COM. Totally Biased Coverage of the Chicago White Sox!
		New York, NY I was there on Disco Demolition night along with 50 other fellow 8-9 year old cub-scouts and chaperones.
		I was at Disco Demolition along with my sister, her husband and two of our friends.
		I recently bought a ticket stub from Disco Demolition on eBay; although it was not a proud moment in Pale Hose history it was certainly a memorable one...
	whitesoxinteractive.com /History&Glory/DiscoDemolition.htm (10118 words)

	ESPN.com: Page 3 - Disco demolition: Bell-bottoms be gone! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Cohos chanted "Disco sucks!" A crate of records was obliterated in centerfield.
		Disco Demolition Night hasn't prevented K.C. and the Sunshine Band from grooving on.
		Social critics have argued that the backlash against disco was implicitly macho and bigoted, an attack on a cultural aesthetic that was non-white and not necessarily heterosexual.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/page3/story?page=behrens/040809 (1358 words)

	Disco bloodbath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Disco Demolition Night \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Those fans who turned up late were surprised to find out that their records were no longer being taken for the demolition (quite enough had been collected), and throughout the opener those discs found their way onto field frisbee-style, along with beer, golf balls with “disco sucks” written on them, and the occasional fireworks.
		Local Chicago TV resumed the broadcast at that point, with color commentator Jimmy Piersall expressing his disgust at the mob, referring to Steve Dahl as “jerk” and stating that he hoped the station would not show what was happening on the field.
		Chaos was soon the order of the night, and fans in the outfield managed to get hold of the batting cage, which they moved into the middle of the outfield and started destroying.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/submit/Wright_S.R.1.stm (1175 words)

	Disco Demolition - Information - Backgrounder on Disco Demolition
		Leading the fans in a “Disco Sucks” chant, Dahl headed out to center field in military regalia to blow up the thousands of disco records that had been brought to the ball park for the rally.
		Dahl admits that the cultural phenomenon that sparked the end of the disco era began simply as his response to losing a job at a radio station that had turned to an all-disco format.
		The Disco Demolition and Steve Dahl became national news the next morning, and the event’s legacy survives to this day – disco bands including ABBA and K.C. and the Sunshine Band agree that the event was the beginning of the end for disco.
	www.discodemolition.com /disco.htm (295 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: D: Dance: Disco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Disco Demolition Night - Photos, news articles, and general description of the night of July 12, 1979 when Chicago rock DJ, Steve Dahl and baseball promoter, Mike Veeck organized a destruction of disco records at Comiskey Park.
		Disco Music Was Gay Music - An essay regarding the importance and influence of disco music for gay culture in the '70s.
		Disco Savvy - Biographies and discographies of singers and instrumentalists from the first wave ('70s and early '80s) and second wave (late '90s to today) of disco music.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Styles/D/Dance/Disco (848 words)

	BrothersJudd Blog: DATED MILLER, MARRIED BUD: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I remember that "Disco Demolition Night" was originally to be after a single game (like Friday night fireworks), and only became a double header to make up a rainout.
		Disco, which really hit the airwaves in 1975, actually was starting to fade out by early 1978, until it was revived by "Saturday Night Fever" and dominated the music charts in early 1979 with mostly mindless dreck attached to a thumpa-thumpa beat.
		That's what Veeck's anti-disco night promotion was reacting against (the disco backlash was still big enough a year later so that the gag in "Airplane!" of the jetliner knocking down the disco radio station's antenna received major laughs and applause in the theaters.
	www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/013981.html (853 words)

	A Small Victory: The Night That Disco Died: Open Discussion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Disco was born dead and died a million deaths afterward.
		Disco never pretended to be anything but junk food...fun, had a good beat, one can dance to it, and no-calories whatsoever.
		Disco was really a subgenre of funk, and GC put it pretty much spot-on: many disco songs could be funky when you took them one song at a time.
	asmallvictory.net /archives/007180.html (3401 words)

	Urban Dictionary: Disco
		The era of disco ended in 1979 when an event called Disco Demolition Night, which was held at the Chicago White Sox stadium, quickly became one of the worst sports disasters of the century when disgruntled rock fans wrecked the stadium while racing to get the disco records burned and blown up.
		Disco abruptly disappeared from public view and resurfaced in the 1980s in Chicago in the form of house music, which is still fairly popular today.
		Disco music is still heavily sampled in today's hip hop sounds.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Disco (387 words)

	The Pop View - from the archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Between 1973 and 1976, Disco was confined to Blacks, Puerto Ricans and gays, and it could be ignored.
		Disco ruled because that's all that was played on the radio or released to stores.
		During this same period, hip-hop was evolving on the streets; it would rise up in the Eighties and take over in the Nineties.
	www.thepopview.com /discoagain.html (521 words)

	Chicagoist: The Night Disco Died (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While some think disco slowly fizzled out, Chicagoans knows disco went out in a spectacular blaze of glory 25 years ago.
		Tonight marks the 25th anniversary of Disco Demolition Night at the old Comiskey Park.
		The brainchild of DJ Steve Dahl, the planned festivities were to blow up some disco record on the field between games of a double header against the Detroit Tigers.
	www.chicagoist.com /archives/2004/07/12/the_night_disco_diedprint.php (175 words)

	B12 Partners Solipsism: Death to Disco lives
		The "Disco Sucks" demonstration is widely credited for causing the official demise of disco, and 25 years later, Dahl, who hosts a daily radio show on Chicago's WCKG-FM, is still sending his message.
		Fans were encouraged to show up with an admission of 98 cents and a disco record that would be blown up by Dahl in center field between the games.
		The Saints allowed fans to bring disco records to the ballpark in exchange for one Saints buck, and the records were destroyed between innings of their game against Schaumburg.
	www.b12partners.net /2004/07/death-to-disco-lives.html (428 words)

	ESPN.com: MLB - Gimmickry runs in the family
		After the disaster that was Disco Demolition in 1979, Mike Veeck finally returned to the major leagues with Devil Rays in 1999.
		Unfortunately, when a mountain of disco records was detonated in the outfield between games of a doubleheader, fans began to riot, forcing the White Sox to forfeit the second game.
		The night of the game she had a sky blue gown on and we took her to home plate and she started to channel.
	espn.go.com /mlb/s/2001/0816/1240481.html (1190 words)

	25 Years Later: "Disco Still Sucks" (25th Anniversary of Disco Demolition Night) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fans were encouraged to show up with an admission of $0.98 and a disco record that would be blown up at center field between the games; chaos ensued when tens of thousands of baseball fans and listeners stormed the field, causing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit the second game.
		Disco was like everything else cultural, some folks jumped in with both feet, some went way over the top but most just took from it what they wanted and left the rest at the door.
		As with "hippies", whom most people who were not around at the time seem to think were everywhere, the concept of "disco" as being nothing but queers in hot pants or guidos in polyester is not accurate for more than a small sampling of the millions who checked it out in the mid seventies.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1167660/posts (2736 words)

	July 12,1979-Disco Demolition Night - Baseball Fever
		"Disco Demolition Night" was an idea concieved by Mike Veeck,the son of White Sox owner Bill Veeck.This would be a night for those people that hate the entire disco scene that was running rampant in the late 1970s.
		The disco records would then be placed in center field,and would be lit into a "bonfire" in between games of the doubleheader between these 2 also rans.
		The 1st game wwas interrupted several times as records were being used as frisbees and had been hurled onto the playing field.The Sox ended up losing the 1st game 4-1 to drop thier record to 40-47 in the AL West.
	baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=18600 (530 words)

	Willamette Week Online \| News \| INTERVIEW \| Q&A, Rhymes with Wreck (12/5/2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		That 1979 White Sox promotion, billed as a protest against the era's chart-topping disco sounds, degenerated into a drunken riot at Comiskey Park, "the most disgraceful night in the long history of major-league baseball in Chicago," in the words of one writer.
		And finally, I was sitting on my couch one night, watching VH-1, and Rolling Stone did some sort of documentary that used footage of Disco Demolition Night as a conclusion.
		Well, by the end of the night they were calling me anything but-however, it's still the record for night-game attendance for the White Sox.
	www.wweek.com /story.php?story=2235 (2234 words)

	Disco Style.com's News: Archives
		Disco Demolition night (An anti-disco event initiated by then radio host Steve Dahl to revive his career) was held at Comiskey Park 26 years ago, July 12th 1979.
		The Classic disco hit "We are family" will be used for a music video to promote tolerance and diversity to 61 000 elementary schools in the U.S. starting March 11th 2005 coinciding with the proposed "We are Family" day.
		Known for such hits as "Disco Nights/Rock Freak" and the Billy Stewart classic, "Sitting in the Park", GQ records were a staple at parties in the late 70’s and 80's.
	www.discostyle.com /disconews_old_archives.html (4851 words)

	another blog is possible » Blog Archive » Disco Demolition Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He suggested the infamous “Disco Demolition Night” as one of baseball’s more memorable moments.
		I don’t have the date, but what basically happened in that baseball owner, Bill Veck, who was known for his outlandish promotional stunts, organized a “Disco Demolition Night” that was to take place between games of a doubleheader in Chicago at Comiskey park.
		The highlight of “Disco Demolition Night” was the mid-field explosion of a huge pile of disco records.
	chuck.mahost.org /weblog?p=19 (264 words)

	Simon joins sorted list of baseball happenings - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Chicago White Sox president Bill Veeck held a "Disco demolition night" July 12, 1979, a promotion that ultimately blew up in his face at old Comiskey Park.
		The highlight of the night was supposed to come when the records were taken to a large box in center field and blown up between games of a twi-night doubleheader.
		Disco demolition night had players and spectators shake, shake, shakin' in their shoes.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/s_146687.html (1283 words)

	Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
		CHICAGO -- Mike Veeck figured the sight of a radio DJ blowing up disco records in the outfield might attract more people to Comiskey Park and a White Sox team that was going nowhere.
		They stormed -- thousands of them -- turning "Disco Demolition Night" into what a quarter century later remains the most infamous promotion in Major League history.
		Kessinger was worried enough he sent his 11-year-old son to sit in the press box rather than the stands.
	www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2004/07/11/news/local_illinois/636bba3bf0f143f186256ecd00614599.txt (776 words)

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