“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.
Oh you’re correct. It’s just that it didn’t define them as much.
My sister, who has always been hip (to this day), was into discos at the formative age. She transitioned pretty well to ‘80s rad stuff as a post-college young adult, but it really isn’t her defining period.