I lived the disco life in university.
My friends and I were all in CITR, UBC radio and we were responsible for raising it up from a mere carrier current AM station heard only in dorms, to an FM cable station, and then those that came after us got it full on air FM status.
During all this a group of us ran a disco dance business.
With huge amps speakers and state of the art mixing board were tooled around the campus and the city of Vancouver putting on custom made disco parties.
In addition to the actual hardware equipment we lugged around plastic milk carton boxes loaded with vinyl LP albums.
The dough helped put us through university, and the lifestyle was weird, but unforgettable.
We literally lived Saturday Night Fever.
Without going into detail that might bore many people it was an experience I will never forget.
And none of us were actually disco music fanatics.
We just recognized how the crowds embraced the music and the culture for that brief time during the 1970s.
I actually will not try to watch this doc series because it will have nothing to teach me about the era.
But I hope other people do get something out of it and maybe learn something about an absorbing period of music history.


 

As an addicted CFNY listener in the mid to late 70s, I dismissed disco as crap.  All these years later, I appreciate disco music.  It was actually very well composed and performed.  Some truly classic tunes came out of that era, including many by the second-best composing pop group of all time, the Bee Gees.

This show has also turned up in the listings for the last place I expected: CHCH. 

They'll be showing part one (of three) on Friday, June 21st at 8 PM, in case you miss WNED's broadcast or don't get Channel 17 for some reason.