The hippies were too old to really be the backbone of the disco movement. They were different people. I distinctly remember hippies condescending to disco types and calling THEM the “Me Generation” (no, it wasn’t Gen X that got that pseudonym 1st) and giving themselves airs that they were the best generation ever, over their forebears AND their successors.
All I can say is thank God we were the children of “Silent” people who still had expectations of duty and class. Unlike the hippie shirkers of the ‘60s who screwed up everything.
“The hippies were too old to really be the backbone of the disco movement. They were different people.”
I don’t want to get anymore into the fuzzy math of generations. Suffice it to say that mostly they were different, and ten years or so is long enough, if not to be a new generation, at least to be at different poles of the generation. But I could imagine, perhaps, a 15 year-old in ‘69, old enough to appreciate the moon landing and Woodstock, just out of college at 23 in ‘77, cruising the clubs to the tune of Donna Summer.