CHIC is recognized as the best "real" band from the Disco Era. Nile Rodgers guitar rifts and Bernard's bass guitar are still legendary. You can imagine how the pentagon crowd was digging their music at the ball. The in-patients at our ball (over 150+) were digging them live, even dancing in wheelchairs, a real special evening.
I know that alot of people thought that disco sucked, but the music I danced to wasn't so much disco as it was funk. We did love the Bee Gees, but there was also Parliment, Cameo, Lakeside, Brick, Sugarhill Gang, Rick James, Barkays, Prince - just music that you couldn't stay sitting down, you had to get up and dance. I'm glad I was from that era.