Did the Comiskey Park thing signify anything, or did it just capture a moment in time?
I think that’s more what it was like. I happened to see, coming over on the plane, the Last Days of Disco which I hadn’t seen. There’s footage from the Comiskey Park thing, and really that was just a sort of acting out of a feeling that had always been in the air. Because Steve Dahl was a rock DJ anyway wasn’t he? Right. And there was always that feeling and resentment. Was it labelled as fag music around that time? To some extent, I mean I think that people weren’t that brazen, or obviously homophobic about it, but certainly that was the undercurrent. There was a definitely a level of resentment that this music had so much attention. Not just the music, but a real movement of people, and people really cared about it. It had just drawn in a lot of disparate elements, who all felt a common interest in this music. And the fact that a lot of them were gay didn’t make any difference to the people who were into the music, but from the outside it really became an issue, I think. I think it m
