Well, he was right.
It is the American way.
And bringing it all back to "Disco"...
there would be no Disco without drugs.
One thing that "The Kids" today don't realize is how "60's" the "70's" were. Disco was a child of the free-wheeling hippies of the 1960's. It was very free love, good times, good drugs etc...
The Paradise Garage was a psychedelic experience. You took acid or mushrooms or something like that at the Garage and The Saint. (It wasn't until the 80's that coke and heroin came into it).
When people today hear something like KC & The Sunshine Band's "That's the way, Uh Huh Uh Huh I like it, Uh Huh Uh Huh" repeated over and over and over again they don't get that people were tripping when they danced to it. That kind of trippy repetition was the beginning of Acid House, Trance, Techno, Electro... all of the electronic sampled stuff we listen to today.
When I hear songs like KC played at a wedding or something I have to chuckle because to me, they will always be trippy songs. Not something someone's big fat aunt Mary shakes her big fat aunt Mary ass to. The Patrick Cowley (no "R") mix of "I Feel Love" still gives me flash backs.
Disco was fun, it was happy, it felt new and in the clubs it was "druggy".
Grace Jones at The paradise Garage.
