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I didn't mean Springsteen sounded like disco. I said he was in the same category i.e. both sucked.

A friend of mine who I met in the late 80s used to own a club in Manhattan back in the 70s - he played disco for the reason you mention - it got the ladies in the joint. Of course the ladies got the men in and with that combo he sold a lot of drinks. But he'll quickly admit he was not a disco fan for musical enjoyment aspects. That being said Disco was an urban thing at first but it eventually changed all the clubs in the suburbs that used to have live rock bands. They all eventually switched to a DJ and dance music. I started going to clubs when I was 16 as I was big and had facial hair plus my friends were older and you only had to be 18 anyway. At least I got to experience the club scene before the switch was wide spread and finalized.

What did I listen to? Typical stuff - Stones, Zeppelin, Doors, Pink Floyd, Allman Brothers, etc. plus two bands that were big that got no radio play at all - Black Sabbath and Hot Tuna. Never got into most of late 70s bands at all - cheap trick, foreigner, van halen, etc. - they were almost as bad as Bruce ;^) Like I said to Mr. Mojo, it got to the point that I had to turn the radio dial every 3 song so I eventual gave up R&R. Hey man, it wasn't a point of trying to be cool, it was a natural reflexive reaction of my ears. Some sounds inspired me and others were like fingernails on a blackboard. Why do some guys like football and others baseball and others like both and some can't stand either? It's how we're hard wired - genetics that is. I react to color the same way I react to music. I'm sensitive to these things. Some aren't and so it goes....

What did I listen to? Typical stuff - Stones, Zeppelin, Doors, Pink Floyd, Allman Brothers

That's what I listened to mostly as well. .....and you can throw in Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Yes, Aerosmith (up until '78), Little Feat, CCR, Cream, Jeff Beck, Leon Russell, Hendrix......too many to mention, really.

But I also listened to a lot of jazz -- Mingus, Monk, Miles, Coltrane, Tatum, Ellington........

That being said Disco was an urban thing at first but it eventually changed all the clubs in the suburbs that used to have live rock bands. They all eventually switched to a DJ and dance music.

The cycle has repeated as live music and grunge were dumped in 1994 (there was a tremendous amount of growth in places willing to host live music up to then). My DJ friends don't like much of it (80s, house, hip-hop, basic 70s disco hits) but people just won't go see live bands these days (to the tune of 500 strong a night, every night).