Another Alembic Sighting

[dela217]

I ran across this today.   I am not sure if this has been posted already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zESKng3g188

[rv_bass]

Wish that guy in the blue would get out of the way!   Thanks for posting

[gtrguy]

"The toast and the eggs just don't taste the same"? C'mon, man.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Disco??  With an Alembic?  What an abasement of a fine instrument........


Peter

[BeenDown139]

What an abasement of a fine instrument........

i beg to differ, sir.  i started out playing in a top 40 band in 1975. disco payed the bills and nothing gets people out on the floor like it.  i never really considered it a good gig unless we we able to fill the dance floor.  i still have a soft spot for workin' at the car wash and funky town.  you haven't lived until you've played funky town on a series II.  it takes some stretching to reach a C octave on the B string in the verse.

imho of course, ymmv etc. & so forth...

[gtrguy]

I actually like it myself as well. I love playing 'Brick House' and 'Boogie Oogie oogie' to a packed dance floor.

[keith_h]

Disco??  With an Alembic?  What an abasement of a fine instrument........


Peter

I consider that more teen (tween) pop than disco. Definitely cheesy.

As to disco while I wasn't a fan I liked that it brought the bass out front. It was also what got us the well paying corporate and wedding gigs since it got people out on the dance floor.

[edwardofhuncote]

That bass looks awfully familiar.

[cozmik_cowboy]

What an abasement of a fine instrument........

i beg to differ, sir.  i started out playing in a top 40 band in 1975. disco payed the bills and nothing gets people out on the floor like it.  i never really considered it a good gig unless we we able to fill the dance floor.  i still have a soft spot for workin' at the car wash and funky town.  you haven't lived until you've played funky town on a series II.  it takes some stretching to reach a C octave on the B string in the verse.

imho of course, ymmv etc. & so forth...

Disco was invented so club owners could charge a cover while only paying one fool to play records, instead of hiring a band. As I was making my living as a live sound engineer at the time, not only was the music fecal and the culture vile, it was a direct and intentional assault on my livelihood.  Yes, I worked for one cover band who played some of it, but I hated every second they were playing it.


I also worked for a number of bands who constantly filled the dance floor playing rock & blues - and filled it with dancers who could handle something more complex than a 72 bpm 4/4 backbeat drowning out everything else, so that shoots that excuse.  Not that drowning that drivel out was a bad thing, mind you.
Peter (who will confess to not minding how the disco girls dressed......)

[garyhead]

yeah.....If I had to play that I'd want to hide behind something out of the lighting too! 

[edwardofhuncote]

The bass player was Leif Paulsén. Couldn't find much else about him. Long shot, but in a few frames it could pass for this one. #77-617, close to my old Series I. On the right continental plate anyway. https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8440.0


Do Dragons migrate? 

[edwin]

What an abasement of a fine instrument........

i beg to differ, sir.  i started out playing in a top 40 band in 1975. disco payed the bills and nothing gets people out on the floor like it.  i never really considered it a good gig unless we we able to fill the dance floor.  i still have a soft spot for workin' at the car wash and funky town.  you haven't lived until you've played funky town on a series II.  it takes some stretching to reach a C octave on the B string in the verse.

imho of course, ymmv etc. & so forth...

Disco was invented so club owners could charge a cover while only paying one fool to play records, instead of hiring a band. As I was making my living as a live sound engineer at the time, not only was the music fecal and the culture vile, it was a direct and intentional assault on my livelihood.  Yes, I worked for one cover band who played some of it, but I hated every second they were playing it.

I used to the feel the same way. Until I went to a GD show and as the opening chords of Shakedown Street rang out (before the album appeared, so it was brand new to my ears), some people in the balcony unfurled a huge banner "DISCO SUCKS!!!!!" It felt like a sellout, so I decided to take a break out in the hallway. All of a sudden I realized that there was an amazing jam going on and it was still the same song! That made me dig deeper and and I realized that disco was a fad in which there was some really good music, if you spent some time weeding through nonsense. Even Bootsy was playing some disco back then. Likely every era, there was a lot of crap. The video that is the subject of this thread strikes me no so much as disco but as pop music with a disco beat. IOW, meh, in my view. And it's a lip-sync, which is never that impressive.