Sunday, July 12, 2009
SULLY BASEBALL HONORS... The Thirtieth Anniversary of Disco Demolition Night
I remember watching the WBZ-4 coverage of this event when I was 7 years old.
I saw a riot in Comiskey Park and a fire on the field. I asked my dad "What caused that explosion?"
He replied, "They blew up a lot of records."
It almost seemed like a Non Sequitur. But being a second grader, I didn't know what Non Sequitur meant, so I nodded my head thinking when I got older, I'd understand.
I'm 30 years older and the events of July 12, 1979 still don't make a lick of sense.
As Dan Cronin, the brilliant Emmy winning writer for Conan O'Brien wrote to me "OK, we get it, you don't like disco. Put down the f-ckin dynamite!"
When stupidity reaches this level, it almost comes full circle to genius.
Almost... but not quite.
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Disco Demolition Night is easy to explain. If I had a paper and pencil, I'd do it as an algebraic equation, but I'll simplify it for typing:
ReplyDeleteMix together
1. Hippies
2. Generous portions of alcohol
3. A cause to unite around (disco being more popular than Judy Collins screeching through a folk song)
4. Explosives
5. The mindset of the White Sox fan (ask former K.C. Royal coach Tom Gamboa what I mean)
And you get Disco Demolition night. Makes sense to me.