Posted on 06/07/2013 9:55:37 PM PDT by TexGrill
Another epidemic of 'Saturday Night Fever' sweeps through the Bangkok Convention Hall Folks over 40 in their old-fashioned outfits flocked to the Bangkok Convention Hall at Central Lat Phrao last Saturday for the retro concert "Saturday Night Fever", a frantic evening of disco.
Before the show there was much reminiscing in the lobby, where everyone had their photo taken against nostalgic backdrops.
Screams and applause filled the hall once the Boogie Knights from Las Vegas came onstage with a set of old favourites such as "Get Down Tonight", "Let's Groove", "Super Freak" and "Bad Girl". It's a cover band, but handily delivered the fans back into the past in a proper party atmosphere.
The screams got louder when Burin Boonvisut joined the Knights for "Celebration" and "I Feel Good". He then left the Vegas boys to get on with "That's the Way I Like It", "Night Fever" and "YMCA".
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Thailand?
As is frequently the case with traumatic experiences, I have repressed most memories of the 1970s.
I try to forget them.
Anyhow, about disco music, I encountered that in Greece in some dive bar. The juke box still had songs like “Boogie Man” and “Freak Out” on it in the 1990s. There was also a very tired lady of the evening/ “Buy me drinkie” women who appeared to have been in the same bar since “Saturday Night Fever”. Yes, disco still rules in some places.
I missed them (thank God! ;) but actually they are alive and well. Electronic dance music is largely just modern disco and in Europe it never really died at all. See “Italo Disco” and French House”
only in Thailand...
Check for the Adam’s Apple...Check for the Adam’s Apple...
Or West Holywierd ;)
Bangkok is known as the San Francisco of Asia. When I first came to Asia in 2001, South Koreans asked where I would like to go for vacation. Being naive, I said Bangkok which caused everybody to laugh. I asked why and they just said, “Do you know about San Francisco?” So I canceled that trip and went to Malaysia. It was more fun than I expected.
I lived (still live) in the Chicagoland area.
I remember the ONE night, when ONE person, virtually killed disco overnight.
Steve Dahl and his Disco Demolition.
Yup. Ask Eddie Murphy..
Steve Dahl is a true American hero
Freak out! Long live Disco!
As is frequently the case with traumatic experiences, I have repressed most memories of the 1970s.Yea what were we thinking?
Compared to now where we can sit next to each other with "ear buds" listening to differnt music and talking(?) without saying a word by rubbing our thumbs over a 3x5 piece of glass...
My daughter is USAF. She went there for a couple days on assignment. she does not plan on going back unless REQUIRED ;)
There is a vid on youtube, a multi part documentary on the history of Disco/House music that portrayed that event as white racism over black music.
Amazing what people can omagine when their oxen are gored.
“Yea what were we thinking?
Getting dressed up for a night on the town ...”
In 4 in platform shoes.....on the men....
Yes, but wearing bell bottoms with a 3-piece suit and perhaps a Panama white hat, along with your sideburns. When looking at a mirror before painting the town red did you Disco folks really say, “I look groovy.”
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