Disco Demolition Night became a fan riot set to Take Me Out to the Ball Game | The Worst
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- The 1979 White Sox wanted better attendance. Rock fans wanted disco to just go away. Mix the two, and you get explosions, arrests, players locking themselves in the clubhouse, two Chicago losses, and the worst fan promotion in sports history.
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Fun fact this radio station became a christian rock station. The last thing they played before giving up the reigns? Highway to Hell. Rest in peace 97.9
Highway to Hell
Number of the Beast
Shout at the Devil all played in succession up to the change over at midnight
Will always miss tuning into Mancow on the drive to work
Christian rock still sucks
Yea i rememeber when they changed it. I loved that station. I was on 294 going home.
So the second game was disco-ntinued.
Shut up and take your well deserved thumbs up like a boss!
👏👏👏👏👏
Thats actually .... awesome!
Seems as if the attendance record scratched too
The police cleared the field
Irony, this is the same year a team using a piece of disco music as their theme (The Pirates with "We are Family" by Sister Sledge) won the World Series.
"How dare these people have a different music taste than I!" Perfectly sums up this bullshit.
I mean it's not like disco had already more or less run its course anyway and was bound to be replaced by something else within the next few years. The funny thing is that a lot of the kids who partook in this jumped right onto the hair metal/butt rock bandwagon of the 80's, which subsequently went through its own "demolition night" period when grunge hit. What goes around comes around I guess.
Its like the rivalry between rap and country now. Like its just music… its not this serious
@@swavyypressure9417 well there was another similarity between rap and country... Disco was stereotypically black music while rock was stereotypically white, it is one reason why this got so out of hand. Good ole fashion 70s racism.
@@bradenculver7457 A lot of racism in the 70s. To the point where you get called racial slurs for listening to a type of music. But yeah “GOTTA LOVE THE 70s RIGHT!?” Lol i don’t understand why people care about what someone else listens to..
@@swavyypressure9417 There was also a butt-ton of homophobia involved - one of the biggest disco acts around, the Village People, was basically an assemblage of gay sex fantasies who could sing. And once straight white people figured that out, they were furious.
It wasn't just disco records that were destroyed, a lot of soul records were as well tragic!
exactly.
This Bacchanalia was tinged with more than a little racism. Steve Dahl seems like a combination of General MacArthur (minus the military nous) and Steve Bannon.
"At its core, the promotion worked." They made money, but they only lost it again, in repair bills and lawsuits.
All this did was pave the road for house music. Disco went underground, got creative with some b-sides by mixing them with drum machines, and house music was born. Then early hip hop used those same drum machines over soul, funk and rn'b and had their own revolution.
Yeah but house music was never as big as disco. Even Freestyle music which was dance music with a twist of Hip Hop in the late 80's never got as big as Disco. Disco was topping the charts. House and Freestyle didn't come close to doing those numbers.
@@hennylo68 house music was huge in the UK. But nobody really ever bought house records. That's why their sales numbers were never huge. People would go to a club or a rave to listen to it.
@@duffman18 Yup, same here in the U.S. People were going to the clubs and having fun but no one was really buying the albums. That's why no one really knew who the name of the artists unless you were a hardcore fan. But Disco artists like Donna Summer, Thelma Houston, Gloria Gayner, The Bee Gees, Chic. Were all house hold names and everyone knew who they were.
@@hennylo68 A few years ago almost every pop tune was someone singing over a house beat.
@@hennylo68 "House music was never as big as disco." Maybe not with straight people...
I knew it would be this or ten cent beer night in Cleveland
Bottlegate?
10 cent beer night was such a bad idea 😂 genius in theory but was anyone surprised at what happened? Lmao
The Jamaican Thunder Rohan Davey not a promotion, just Browns fans pissed
Alexander Gilles everyone was already wasted going in
The publicity team that did ten cent beer night also did this.
"Radio, America's number 1 source of new music..."
Your deadpan delivery is spot on Mr.Imhoff
' _Radio, America's number 1 source of new music_ ...'
Since when, and also when has itb been like that other than pop?
Kind weird that the video doesn't address some of the more cultural/racial discontentment in the anti-disco movement. Even at the time people were aware that this was about more than music, plenty of contemporary and modern critics and music historians have written about how the anti-disco sentiment was influenced by racial and cultural resentments towards a genre that wasn't dominated by white dudes (and a desire to hasten the departure/replacement of disco by rock & roll by the music execs sympathetic to the latter)
Great vid though, just wish it went even deeper!
I mean, that was definitely part of it for some people, but I believe the majority of people behind it were just really sick of disco and believed that it had overstayed it's welcome.
I think the video used the implication of cultural and racist resentment of the anti-disco movement ("and there are no other motives for our actions.")
People were sick of it. It was a fad ,like Grunge in the '90s.
Disco Duck killed Disco. Nothing racist about it's ending
There was nothing racist in hating disco. The music sucked.
@@spudskie3907, says you; it pretty much _was_ that, as well as being homophobic.
As someone else said, the video totally glossed over the racism and homophobia a lot of people exuded during this.
Also what’s hilarious, all of those people hated disco but bought a bunch of disco records to burn, so thanks for the free sales.
steve dahl wasnt a genius, still not a genius 😂
Steve Dawl looks like a guy straight from 4 Chan lol
The 70's---my childhood...i remember this like yesterday...our local news(Memphis)couldnt stop talking about it.
Google "Radio Garden" if you're no longer in Memphis. The music probably changed but you can get the local news on any of the news stations and there's Memphis Rap Radio if you want to have a Demolition night. I'm pretty sure that would draw a crowd and a nice "Peaceful Protest" too.
This is the decade that gave us easy listening, now that is truly something to be angry about.
1979: "yeah, this will show those disco lovers, disco will never be popular again!"
1982: Michael Jackson's Thriller album becomes the best selling album of all times
FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
Thiller wasnt a disco album tho.. i dont understand
Thriller was post disco
Disco =/= pop
@@kpetty5577 "Thriller' was not a disco album, true; but the underlying theme of the event was that disco music was equated with BLACK music, something that Dahl denies to this day but the thousands who were at Comiskey that night clearly didn't.
The Eagles Greatest Hits is the best selling album of all time. Thriller is second.
I’m a music lover and I like both rock and disco and this hurts me to watch a bunch of people destroying disco records
There lies the difference: you're a music lover with an open mind. These people are just terrible angry people.
I don't know what is better, the sarcasm in the video or the number of people that missed it in the comments.
Ah yes. Disco Demolition the totally not-at-all racially-fueled cleansing of the music charts. People who were there would really like you to believe they just didn't like Disco a lot and that there was no underlying resentment that black people were dominating the music world at the time and to not think that hard about it.
“Most surprising of all, they played the entire first game.
The least surprising of all, the White Sox lost.”
That had me dead
WE LIKE DISCO AND WE DONT CARE WHO KNOWS IT.
Bunch of burned out boomer leftover hippie losers.
Their time hey dey of the 1960's to mid 1970's rock music by the late 1970's had already past and they couldn't accept it. Funny thing is their type of rock music they were fighting for to bring back still eventually disappeared from most mainstream radio airwaves popularity by the late 1980's. The radio station promoting this event turned into a Christian music station.
Disco music is here to stay. It will never die!
@@BBQFanNo1 Disco is DEAD hahahaha!
I LIKE DISCO, CHEVY MONZAS AND GEO METROS AND I DONT CARE WHO KNOWS IT OR OPPOSES IT!!
@@BBQFanNo1 BOTH DISCO AND THE GEO METRO!!
And in the saddest twist of fate, that radio station (WLUP-The Loop) recently got sold and transformed into K-LOVE, a Christian music station.
Ah, I miss Comiskey. It always smelled of urine and Marijuwana. Those Ron Kittle roof shots were awesome though.
Bunch of cry babies, some people can't appreciate all good music, can't have it their way, so they pout ! Now we have Rap and it won't go away, 54,000 people hated Disco and millions liked it !
So true.
People’s disdain of disco was deeper than just musical a musical. They didn’t just hate the music, they hated what it represented. Disco was filled with, shall we say, more feminine men, which was quite antithetical to a lot of rock music (Alice Cooper excepted). And I’m not just referring to gay men, I also mean straight men who just enjoy dancing. It’s also worth noting that rock was almost entirely devoid of black people, which disco had plenty of. I’m not saying every rock fan felt threatened by this, but it was certainly widespread enough and easy enough to convince yourself that the music was the only driving force
@@mikerivera373 That was part of it, but there were more factors at play. Some people saw disco as a return to the big band/swing era of their parents generation and a big middle finger to artistry and creativity in music. Then there were people who just got sick of it since it ruled the charts for the previous 5 years (although those people wouldn't have caused an event like this). It just so happened that "Disco Sucks" united a very broad amount of people for very different reasons. The music snob didn't exactly dislike disco for the same reason a white supremacist did.
@@mistermackey638 Exactly. Every significant movement that I can think of attracts fringers with their own agenda.
I have to say thank you my friend. That was the most enjoyable and informative vid I have seen you in a long time... Keep it up!👊
I would've picked 10-Cent Beer Night
Same here. Extended family lives in Cleveland. That night lives in infamy up there. The vendors in the stadium sells 10-cent beer night t shirts lmao
I think the only reason why Disco Demolition was considered to be worse was because it was blamed for mostly killing an entire music genre (at least here in the U.S.).
the 10-cent beer was bad, but not bad enough that they stop doing it. They did it again the next year
@@suspence5832 with a TOTAL limit of 6 tho
COYG
Wow some crazy shits happened in the past. Unthinkable to have similar today... great video btw
One of the most fascinating moments in Chicago sports history.
Ah, Sarcasm. 😅
Man before people had youtube comments to express how much popular music is inferior to alternative genres things were insane.
If you thought that was bad, look at how well Ten Cent Beer Night worked out in Cleveland 5 years prior.
He mentions it in the video
There is a T shirt with the promo on it that Homage made years ago
Awwww hell yeah. This is the best worst show i watch on youtube
as a kid in 70s Chicago, this was a huge event that made me a Steve Dahl fan.
Also Doug DeMuro? (Geo Metro Basher)
that fat corny dude? you supported that dude? really? damn!
Well done video as we approach its 43rd anniversary. I opted out that night as my friends were there. Still not sure if I regret missing it lol
There has to be a wierd rules episode about Barbados and Grenada in the 1994 Caribbean Cup qualification in short one team had to defend both goals while the other had to score in either goal
"Least surprising of all? The white sox lost". Still relevant in 2019.
One of the greatest, if not the greatest events in baseball history
This is so awesome
Three American League Forfeits in the 1970s, Disco Demolition Night in Chicago Ten Cent beer night in Cleveland. And the last Washington Senators game at RFK
You didnt say "the year of our lord...."
YOU DIDNT SAY "THE YEAR OF OUR LORD..." ! I WANT A NEW NARRATOR NOW
_ Hans _ I hattttte when they say that sooooo so much
Basketball is my favorite sport. I like the way they dribble up and down the court.
You're back!
I remember hearing about this promotion in my advertising class😂😂
5:20 what would make you put Michael Jackson in with the "rock winners"
that EVH solo!!!
I remember Steve Dahl had a show in Detroit on WABX before he left to Chicago. He had a real fan base in Motown and when this Disco Demolition night was announced on the Detroit Tiger radio network, I knew it was time for a road trip down I-94 to Chitown. I don't remember much after i entered Comiskey Park.
"50,000 drunk Kung Lao's"
I want to see a movie about this event with Jack Black as Dahl.
Those White Sox uniforms should have been blown up along with the records :-)
I love this show.
The toilet seat cushion night was from my local Single-A, short season team! That's awesome!
Cleveland's Ten Cent Beer Night in 1974 has to be the second-worst. The ensuing drunken riot also caused a forfeit - in the bottom of the ninth inning, while Cleveland had the winning run on second.
The worst? THIS SOUNDS GREAT! 😂😂😂 🤟🤟🤟🎸🎸🎸
White Sox Jerseys lookin straight outa 1917 👀
Funny just yesterday I saw a documentary on house music where this incident was mentioned too. I had never heard about it in my life and now I see it two days in a row :D
Didn't you guys already do this one? Somebody did idk I seent it like 6 months ago.
Why collars on a jersey? Can you guys do the worst on uniforms/jerseys? It would be a Sox shorts set but why not.
The White Sox under Veeck were known for their many bizarre gimmicks. IIRC, those uniforms also had shorts. Veeck introduced them specifically because he thought they made his players look "classier." Turns out shorts aren't a great idea for baseball, a game where you slide into bases.
I love this story
I WISH YOU HAD CONSISTENCY WITH YOUR NARRATORS. This guy is not the voice for this. I love him on his other shows but the original guy (Dan Rubenstein) who voiced The Worst video series was great. For all who doubt me go watch the original ones.
Openingband did u just disrespect our lord and savior jon bois???
The writing for this is so casual and halfassed. Get it, quaaludes?? John Travota's junk, get it, cuz his pants are tight! Har har. You'd think it'd be not that hard to write a tight narration for an event as historic as Disco Demolition Night.. guess not!
He got laid off :(. Dan Rubenstein was his name
You sure it isn’t just because you’re used to the other voice?
I am sure. Dan Rubenstein was the man.
10 cent beer night was worse I think
Oh yea. Read about it on wiki. That was a mess. 10 cent beer. 6 per trip. NO MAX per person. Hundreds of fans stormed the field and everyone was going at it. Both teams had to fend off people and get to the dugout.
It was, the fights were crazy according to my dad's friend
There's a video telling about 10 cent beer night. I laughed my ass off listening to it.
This would be like if a team held a promotion where if you bring any type of Pokémon games, dvds, trading cards, toys, and merchandise,The team will BLOW them all up in a box after the game
That sounds like something a church would've done in the late 90s cause apparently most Christians thought Pokémon was satanic in the 1990s
Imagine being a season tickets holder who came just to watch the games, not whine about disco.
R.I.P. 97.9 The Loop
The only thing more glorious than this video is the beard at the end.
It's pretty cool that they had website domain names on T-shirts in 1979
Yikes. Those Sox untucked jerseys were not a good look
Yeah, and the Sox's logo back then was butt-ugly to boot.
If this event gets turned into a movie, Jack Black should portray Steve Dahl.
Now *that* is Rock n Roll
I can remember during my middle school yrs ppl would be divided over their musical interest....times change
It alway was funny to me hearing about how disco was hated and everything when so many decades later we have current artist sampling the sound of disco music.
The Power of Nostalgia!
Sounds like the most interesting baseball game EVER!
DISCO FOREVER
LOL! What a night! As a record collector, it hurt my heart to see those records being destroyed. I'm sure that sifting through all of those shitty Bee Gees, Donna Summer, and Sylvester records there were probably some real gems. I think a lot of people just took records that had anyone with an afro and just assumed it as disco (facepalm)!
I've heard that at least one guy brought in a Marvin Gaye record out of that racial mixup.
Exactly. The racial overtones of that night simply cannot be denied.
you called Bee Gees "shitty" ??
'-' >:(
The Bee Gees never officially attached themselves to the disco craze
Absolutely. This was nothing more than a display of racism, anti-Blackness and homophobia. But hey, what else is new in the midwest?
Do 10 cent beer night!
I'm interested to hear Jon Bois share his opinion about disco.....
Events like these allow you to isolate the troublemakers in one place, and then...
Several established rock acts released hit songs that were inspired by disco, like KISS’s “I Was Made For Loving You”, Rod Stewart’s “Da Ya Want To Be Sexy?”, Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick… Part 2”, ELO’s “Don’t Bring Me Down”, Blondie’s “Heart of Glass”, etc.
Great video and all but WHERE IS JON BOIS? Cmon man we want the Jon
This is the most south side thing to happen until the people in the projects across the highway from Comisky started shooting bullets into the stadium. Welcome to Chicago.
The projects are gone, now they just shoot 'em in the streets and in what used to be nice neighborhoods.
I don't know if I can agree on south side thing but a good portion of those at this event we're from the suburbs.
Ohhhhh... the 70’s
I’m going to the White Sox game today.... might rethink that
My hometown Hudson Valley Renegades did toilet seat cushion night.
Lol he didn’t say year of our lord but he implied it like he missed it last time
You gotta do The Worst Boxing Match Ever, And The Worst MMA Fight Ever.
Do 10 cent beer night too
What happened to Mike Imhoff? :(
This is pretty good ..
Well, they were acing like a bunch of adolescents having a drunk ritual. I love disco music.
I have that disco sucks t-shirt. I don't even know where it came from but it's pretty baller.
Rap music became first I think this summer. But good vid
WE LIKE SPORTS AND WE DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS
Kofie Why? FROM WIMBLEDON TO THE ASTRODOME
The only time the White Sox ever had a record breaking crowd
Dude from chicago here: 97.9 the loop shut down this year and was turned into a christian pop station :( Also my uncle was at disco demolition night
Say what you will, it did it's job: Disco is dead.
Rock (and metal) is pretty much dead too. It's a shame really. Ironically enough, it was disco that burned out, while rock practically faded away.
The Hylian Loach there still great bands out there
I know you generally like to stick to single events with these videos, but I think The Worst NFL Kicker Season would be interesting.
And now, neither rock nor disco is played on the radio... wait, what's a "radio"?
Disco did have its roots live on though. Shortly after this, hip hop started as an offshoot of disco. Plus, a lot of pop music in the 80s took inspiration from the disco guitar/synth production and married it to stronger bass and percussion lines. Given that pop and rap are the two dominant genres and rock is completely irrelevant, it tells you which genre really won.
i wanna try Quaaludes soooo bad rght now
Can you guess just give us a recent picture so we know John is good and well?
Now there should be a Pretty Good-Ten Cent Beer Night
Did anyone send ludes?
So wait, Jack black was in his tropic thunder character way back in '79?!
They should make a "Pretty Good" about Bill Veeck's managerial career
That was awesome what are you talking about?
Ugh How great this country would be if people put this same focus and energy into education and equality
That's March of Washington and La Riots situation.