Live from Allerton

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Power 100.

Big Little Stuntman, Henry Meyer.

Rick Lovett, last one on the list for today.

C .A.

Radiation.

And the absolute master of melody, the big star, who in itself, Mr.

D.

Goff.

Hello, hello.

Tomorrow's show, we did finally get you donuts though, right? Am I right? Are there donuts here? Okay, I suggest the ones with the powdered sugar on the outside.

You know what I'm saying? Wink, wink.

Okay? And then you won't even care that you didn't get anything else for breakfast.

Don't worry about it.

And I believe some coffee is on its way up here too.

We apologize, but we had some things going on last week, at the end of the week, that kind of took our attention away from this.

As a matter of fact, I'm real lucky to be standing here this morning.

There's a little touch and go for a while there.

What the hell did you do? I didn't do it.

I just blowed up the records.

You incited them to do it.

No, I didn't.

And for a while they were thinking that I went around to each chair, you know.

Now drink some more beer, okay? And smoke some more dope.

Now when I leave the field after the disco demolition, you run out and trash it, okay? What I just told him, I want you to do the same thing.

Like I went around the whole stadium and told everybody to do it, you know.

That's what my boss has done.

That's what everybody's done.

But I got out of it.

Hello? Hi, tickets? Okay, big rock bar.

What do you need? Where are you from? This place.

What do you do with your...

Please, save to the national anthem.

You don't want to dance.

You don't want to be a man.

What's going on around here? Some people call me scum.

Because I don't have a realistic set of values.

I keep it.

You keep it.

I always stuff a sock in.

It always makes the ladies start to talk in.

My shirt is open.

I never use the buttons.

Though I look hip, I work for EF -Hud.

Do you think I'm disco? Because I spend so much time blow drying out my hairs.

It's super.

Do you love it? Do you think I'm disco? Because I know the dance steps.

Learn to ball and Fred Astaire.

I don't have a realistic set of values.

And you know what? I begin to think those insane coho lips are right.

I'd like to do a little song that I wrote for Gary last night, Gary.

Special guy.

Let's go to the land of make believe.

I need to kick out a record disco.

Now coho lips hate disco.

The way your mom hates rock and roll.

We love to take them over.

The way Polots love to ball.

The disco tech was crowded.

When I took out my Kette -a -Mace.

I walked up to the DJ.

And sprayed him in the face.

Well I'm a coho.

Insane coho lips.

That's my trip.

Took a chainsaw to the records.

Put spray paint on the floor.

The crowd was green within me.

Oh was it from all those chains? Being caught inside a disco.

Was proof they had no brains.

We melted all their makeup.

Combs and platform shoes.

Zodiac medallions and nail charts.

Till the blow drives blew a fuse.

I'm a coho.

Insane coho lips.

Coho.

Insane coho lips.

This is the loop FM 98.

26 minutes after 7 o 'clock we're coming back in a couple.

You're beautiful.

I can't stop now.

I'm getting my teeth done.

Coho.

Coho.

Oh that felt good.

Was it good for you? Better than sex for being a rap swagger.

That blowed up real good.

This is the loop FM 98.

This is the C35 skid -off coming to coho.

What do we do? Security guards.

What do we do in security? We keep people from hurting themselves.

Good talk Danny.

Say something intelligent for a change.

We're Pat and Danny.

We work security for rock concerts.

The major difference between rock and roll and disco is that the reason for coming to the event is usually different.

The people that come to rock events usually come there to be part of the experience as far as the musical expression of the band that they're going to be seeing.

People who go to a disco are usually there to be part of the scene of disco.

They're there to find other people and socialize.

The music is kind of secondary in the respect that the event becomes one of a social event.

When they go to a rock show they're usually there to see the rock performer.

So the social life becomes a secondary thing to the event of the music itself.

The doll is the kind of disc jockey for rock and roll audiences that presents a cause to rally around.

In this time it's ten years after kids have had a cause of any kind to really rally around.

And there's a whole age group of kids that are locked out of certain social scenes.

Most predominantly the lounge scene that surrounds disco.

The anti -disco movement is first of all pretty good fun, but secondly I think it represents something a little bit deeper in that our society is, a lot of the superficiality in society today is represented by disco itself.

This isn't intended as a criticism of the people, but the whole plastic dress, the tone of the places that disco is performed in gives it kind of a plastic me generation overtone that is kind of being attacked here.

But Steve Dahl has taken the thing and turned it into an object of fun, in a sense an object of ridicule, but most of all an object of fun.

I don't think the anti -disco movement should be considered as a threat.

I think in a way it's kind of a return to solid values in its own bizarre and even tasteless manner.

It represents a deeper longing for solid values.

Am I supposed to say hi Ma? We're number one! We're number one! I don't know what to say.

Come on Bella.

Well, my dad brought us here because we all hate disco because it's just for people who like to show off and stuff.

So my dad brought us here so we could prove that we hate disco and to support Steve Dahl.

Let's take a look at Skylab.

That blowed up! Oh my, they're shaking their groupings.

This is wonderful.

Shootin' it, Skylab, Skylab, shootin' it, Skylab, Skylab, Skylab's breaking into fix.

You best be hiding where they is.

Shootin' it, Skylab, Skylab, shootin' it, Skylab, Skylab.

Oh, you can't forget the words.

They say it'll fall asleep, and it won't kill you or me.

Don't disco, Devo! Pants, I always stuff a socket.

It always makes my lady start to talk.

Go, go, go, go.

Ready for some blow -up real good? Yeah! You hate the village people? Yeah! Okay.

The piano bar here on the beautiful top tab.

The Allerton Hotel, overlooking beautiful downtown Chicago.

Hi, my name is Steve Dahl.

To my left.

Morevec, and I did a sculpture of Steve Dahl, because he's a heavy influence in my mornings.

And I'd like to show my appreciation for all his efforts towards the comedy and towards rock and roll, because I'm definitely a rock and roller.

And I don't care for disco, and what he's doing is all right by me, so I thought I'd show my appreciation.

Hey, can you see? Ready? Hit it! What's happening, baby? My name is Tony.

I get you to meet at the lotto.

What side are you? Hey, want to go on my 280Z and listen to it? It tracks.

Yeah, disco people still use eight tracks.

That works even more.

I'm disco, am I superficial? Look at it, it's my only goal.

Do you think I'm disco? Maybe it's a two -legged two -getter two -rock and roll.

Rock and roll! Go home.

Ten minutes after nine, the loop at 598, we'll be back, you're beautiful.

You don't know, I saw your son on TV.

Hey, yeah.

I'm the one who told him to drop out of high school.

I kicked him out of the house when he was 13, he would have never ended up in Chicago.

But we've made radio history, and certainly history in this city, and this breakfast club thing has just been wonderful.

A lot of people are into it, a lot of people are tuning into the station now, checking it out for the first time and enjoying it.

So thanks to you for supporting us and being our pals, because it really has been wonderful.

This three weeks here has been, and I've been doing this for radio for eight years.

Eight years? And this has really been the best three weeks of my career in terms of having the products.

To all the youth of Chicago and the Chicago Park District, take hands.

And this is the Department of Health, the International Year of the Child.

The Disco Derby at Kavisky Park of a week or so ago, it sees there's plenty of fans that still like the Brothers Gibb and of course the disco scene.

I might add there are still some ducats available for tonight's concert.

Shortly before airtime we were told there were some singles still available for $15.

Stadium, everyone has Bee Gees fever.

That story coming up on Eyewitness News.

These fans, music fans, entertainment fans, we rarely get out.

This is a big treat for us.

I mean maybe we go to the show twice, three times a year, and we just never get to go anywhere, so this is fun.

Jane, I understand that you dropped off Samantha to a babysitter right before you came over here.

That's right, that's right, we're a little bit late.

Boy, was there a lot of yelling too, because she now recognizes babysitters.

Or maybe she just wanted to come along and see the Bee Gees.

Thank you very much Governor Thompson, thank you Jane for being with us.

Well that's what's happening here over at the stadium.

Everyone really does have Bee Gees fever.

Back to you Terry.

Get to Friday!

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