If you've got an iPad and some patience (or an iPhone and a lot more patience), you do an awful lot of that on Garageband. An iPad and a decent microphone can be a recording studio.Anyone can go buy a cheap microphone, a sampler, a DAW, and any assortment of instruments, and make any type of music they want.
Ha! I lived through the 70's. You make it sound like you talked to a Civil War veteran or something. The person you talked to apparently didn't know how to turn the knob on the radio dial. Yes, there was a lot of disco. There was also a lot other music - here's just a handful from Rolling Stones' 500 Greatest Songs of all time (looking only at the 70's) - this is all stuff that was all around in the air in the 70's:Trust me, I’ve talked to people from previous generations. Genre saturation was a real problem then.
I recall talking to someone who lived through the mid to late 70s.
They told me that if you turned on the radio, it was nothing but disco. Went to the music store, nothing but disco. The Billboard charts? Flooded with disco.
Aerosmith ("Walk This Way"), Alice Cooper ("School's Out"), The Allman Brothers Band ("Whipping Post"), Black Sabbath ("Iron Man"), Blue Öyster Cult ("(Don't Fear) The Reaper"), Boston ("More Than a Feeling"), David Bowie ("Changes"), The Clash ("Train in Vain"), Deep Purple ("Smoke on the Water"), Derek and the Dominos ("Layla"), Eagles ("Hotel California"), Elton John ("Candle in the Wind"), Elvis Costello ("Watching The Detectives"), Fleetwood Mac ("Go Your Own Way"), Iggy Pop ("Lust For Life"), Janis Joplin ("Me And Bobby McGee"), Led Zeppelin ("Stairway to Heaven"), Pink Floyd ("Comfortably Numb"), Queen ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), Ramones ("I Wanna Be Sedated"), The Rolling Stones ("Brown Sugar"), Sex Pistols ("God Save the Queen"), The Who ("Won't Get Fooled Again").
Sure, you can find a few disco songs done by groups in that list - it was popular (hell, there was a disco version of the Star Wars theme). But there was a huge wide world of music outside of the disco. Go listen to Walk This Way, or Don't Fear The Reaper, or I Wanna Be Sedated, and tell me how much disco you hear.
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