I ran across this today.   I am not sure if this has been posted already.

Wish that guy in the blue would get out of the way!   Thanks for posting

"The toast and the eggs just don't taste the same"? C'mon, man.

Disco??  With an Alembic?  What an abasement of a fine instrument........


Peter

QuoteWhat an abasement of a fine instrument........

i beg to differ, sir.  i started out playing in a top 40 band in 1975. disco payed the bills and nothing gets people out on the floor like it.  i never really considered it a good gig unless we we able to fill the dance floor.  i still have a soft spot for workin' at the car wash and funky town.  you haven't lived until you've played funky town on a series II.  it takes some stretching to reach a C octave on the B string in the verse.

imho of course, ymmv etc. & so forth...

I actually like it myself as well. I love playing 'Brick House' and 'Boogie Oogie oogie' to a packed dance floor.

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on June 02, 2021, 08:35:20 PM
Disco??  With an Alembic?  What an abasement of a fine instrument........


Peter

I consider that more teen (tween) pop than disco. Definitely cheesy.

As to disco while I wasn't a fan I liked that it brought the bass out front. It was also what got us the well paying corporate and wedding gigs since it got people out on the dance floor.

That bass looks awfully familiar.

Quote from: BeenDown139 on June 03, 2021, 08:16:53 AM

QuoteWhat an abasement of a fine instrument........

i beg to differ, sir.  i started out playing in a top 40 band in 1975. disco payed the bills and nothing gets people out on the floor like it.  i never really considered it a good gig unless we we able to fill the dance floor.  i still have a soft spot for workin' at the car wash and funky town.  you haven't lived until you've played funky town on a series II.  it takes some stretching to reach a C octave on the B string in the verse.

imho of course, ymmv etc. & so forth...

Disco was invented so club owners could charge a cover while only paying one fool to play records, instead of hiring a band. As I was making my living as a live sound engineer at the time, not only was the music fecal and the culture vile, it was a direct and intentional assault on my livelihood.  Yes, I worked for one cover band who played some of it, but I hated every second they were playing it.


I also worked for a number of bands who constantly filled the dance floor playing rock & blues - and filled it with dancers who could handle something more complex than a 72 bpm 4/4 backbeat drowning out everything else, so that shoots that excuse.  Not that drowning that drivel out was a bad thing, mind you.
Peter (who will confess to not minding how the disco girls dressed......)

yeah.....If I had to play that I'd want to hide behind something out of the lighting too! 

The bass player was Leif Paulsén. Couldn't find much else about him. Long shot, but in a few frames it could pass for this one. #77-617, close to my old Series I. On the right continental plate anyway. https://club.alembicguitars.net/index.php?topic=8440.0


Do Dragons migrate? 

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on June 03, 2021, 12:54:19 PM

Quote from: BeenDown139 on June 03, 2021, 08:16:53 AM

QuoteWhat an abasement of a fine instrument........

i beg to differ, sir.  i started out playing in a top 40 band in 1975. disco payed the bills and nothing gets people out on the floor like it.  i never really considered it a good gig unless we we able to fill the dance floor.  i still have a soft spot for workin' at the car wash and funky town.  you haven't lived until you've played funky town on a series II.  it takes some stretching to reach a C octave on the B string in the verse.

imho of course, ymmv etc. & so forth...

Disco was invented so club owners could charge a cover while only paying one fool to play records, instead of hiring a band. As I was making my living as a live sound engineer at the time, not only was the music fecal and the culture vile, it was a direct and intentional assault on my livelihood.  Yes, I worked for one cover band who played some of it, but I hated every second they were playing it.

I used to the feel the same way. Until I went to a GD show and as the opening chords of Shakedown Street rang out (before the album appeared, so it was brand new to my ears), some people in the balcony unfurled a huge banner "DISCO SUCKS!!!!!" It felt like a sellout, so I decided to take a break out in the hallway. All of a sudden I realized that there was an amazing jam going on and it was still the same song! That made me dig deeper and and I realized that disco was a fad in which there was some really good music, if you spent some time weeding through nonsense. Even Bootsy was playing some disco back then. Likely every era, there was a lot of crap. The video that is the subject of this thread strikes me no so much as disco but as pop music with a disco beat. IOW, meh, in my view. And it's a lip-sync, which is never that impressive.