disco demolition night

Steve Dahl started his
radio career in Detroit yes it was a great gag that got away from him.

With video: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0709-steve-dahljul09,0,5885817.column

I remember this as a young man of 11 years old who was living in Greater Chicagoland at the time. I was a huge rock fan even then and I remembered cheering on the crowd. Disco sucks.......good stuff!

I was there(25 years old), hated disco and I couldn't beleive what was happening. You got in for free or 99 cents(can't remember) if you brought in a disco album and there was one huge pile of albums, that went kaboom! Still today it's one of the higlights that I tell people "I was there" .......and then you get this blank stare like, "what to h are you talking about?"
Closest I've ever been to a real riot and it was really kind of scarey.
Disco does suck!
Jeff

I was 14 and my brother tried to get me to go with him. He and 4 of his "burnout" (a Chicago south-side term for a dope smokin' loser, at the time) friends went and ended up having to be picked up at the Police Station in Mt. Greenwood (103rd and Kedzie), which was near where we grew up, but a long way from Comminsky Park. Actually, that was pretty nice of the CPD to do that.

You can take the boys of out the SouthSide, but you can't take the Southside out of the boys!

Steve Dahl's finest moments though were his very twisted re-working of popular songs: Ayatolla (My Sharona), Another Kid in the Crawl (Another Brick in the Wall).