Thanks for the Blackbyrd link!
Youāre saying that Deodatoās Also Spracht Zarathustra caused disco music to happen, eh? 
Yup, thatās roughly how I remembered it. And itās why I learned to hate that piece of music so much.
/Still hate the piece.
//I have no problem with reworking, rearranging music, even when on different instruments. See my comment about Carlosās Moog version of the Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 3. We donāt listen to Bach the same way since Glenn Gould got a hold of his music. Heck, often a reworked version is often more interesting that the original.
I was going to post that Phish covers this particular version but you beat me to it. Iāve probably seen them do it a couple dozen times but never heard the original Deodato version until now. Spectacular. For reference hereās Phish doing it live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfibVGyIeFY
Discoās fine for what itās intended for. And I happen to like bagpipes; I was delighted to find that one of my past apartments was at the end of the firemanās parade route and I could usually count on half an hour of concert as they played through the rest of their prepared material.
In other words: De gustibus. There are good and bad examples of anything, but that doesnāt necessarily mean theyāll be to your individual taste. And thatās fine, as long as thereās room to disagree.
Correlation is not proof of causation, lol.
Iāll stand by ādisco sucksā, because it lacked in originality - like most pop does. Those years were an auditory hell for all who loved the free-spirited period just before. You could console yourself with funk, but that was nearly it for a long, long, while there. If you wanted experimental synth, what was left - Jarre?
I get that disco has its fans - Iām around groups of hustle dancers. Tends to be people who spent their adolescence in the late 70ās - so, yeah. I get the nostalgia thing. (No snark - we all have our own, I suppose.) Problem is, disco just wonāt stand up musically. The tech used is far outdated now, the lack of musical complexity canāt be overcome and still remain disco, and nobody could possibly survive this long and still be doing blow all the time even if they still had enough hair left to perm, lol. It was just a weird time there for a while.
I like most celtic music, myself. Some of the fusion stuff is fun too - like Salsa Celtica. I got a chance last year to do a multi-instrument Latin percussion course with a grammy-holding artist. Had a blast. He does his own fusion stuff sometmes, too. That was also a thing back then - Latin artists were trying to figure out how to fuse jazz and disco for a while (usually pretty bad). But thereās a diff between what we might like and what holds up musically. Debussy = Respectable <> Like.
Dang it. Now we need a whole Ken Nordine Word Jazz thread.
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I will listen to most styles of music, though somewhere around commercial country and country/western I start feeling that if it isnāt great itās dreadful. Putting my jukebox on shuffle will jump from experimental synth to folk to world to spoken-word to classical to jazz to a capella to musicals to ā¦
I must admit that my contact with popular music has always been fairly minimal, though. There are a few aritsts who friends turned me on to, but if you wanted to stump me in a trivia contest thatās one of the areas you should aim for. (Popular media generally tends to stump me. Or sports, or alcohol.)
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I too heard this on Being There, but I bought the LP, and I still have it! Must have been about 1982 or so. Thanks for reminding me!
Groovy Baby.
Hear ya. Same here with C&W. While fam was in that biz, I was off working at a guitar store in metro LA and all about the after-hours and casual jams where musicians could play what they really liked, doing crazy mash-ups and off-the-wall fusion experiments. Stuff they played for a living and what they played on their own time were wayyyy not the same, lol. It wasā¦incredible, really. I got to hear things that never happened before and never will again, by people youād never suspect had it in them, lol. Wouldnāt trade that for anything.
And while disco was assaulting English-speaking pop audiences, people like Ruben Blades and Hector Lavoe were also experimenting with synth. But they already owned their market. And live performance and jamming rules there, so no possibility of death-by-cookie-cutter, even if they wanted to. (They sure caught their own fair share of criticism for messing with traditions, tho!)
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