Did The Doors "Peace Frog" influence Disco?

I wouldn't call it disco (but I like the song, thank you!)... Disco was basically funk w/ a steady bass drum beat, usually with funky bass riffs... And if you remove the distortion from Robby's guitar, it's exactly what guitarists in the late 70s would do, the slightly-muted rhythmic embellishments.

 

That god awful part near the beginning of Soft Parade (the song) is closer to disco than Peace Frog ever was.

 

That's another good example... Does anyone notice how the bass line at the end of "The Soft Parade" (song) seemed to be "borrowed" by Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"? I believe the bass player from Brothers Johnson was on record.

 

I've heard "The Changeling" be brought up as a possible influence on Disco.

I think it's just as ridiculous. No offense.

 

Maybe a good time to post Beatles 3000 again?

 

No

 

Dunno

It sure influenced the
heck out of Madchester!

 

Also, the steady 4/4 hi-hat pulse on certain funk tracks like this one from 1972:

The Fatback Band - "Goin' to See My Baby"

 

This is from 1968 and sounds like pure disco to me. Sly was incredible. And if Larry Graham’s bass line isn’t disco, I don’t know what is (maybe he invented it)?

 

"Peace Frog" has nothing to do with disco. The beat's too tricky, and that breakdown ("Indians gathered in dawn's highway bleeding...") would kill any dance party dead.

If anything prefigured disco in the Doors catalog, it MIGHT be "Texas Radio And The Big Beat", but even then, you've got that jazzy bit, and disco and jazz don't mix like that.

 

No.
This song did not influence disco
Disco originated from entirely different scene....
There’s lotsa information on its origins on the web, books, etc.

 

Peace Frog is a foot stompin hip swaying tune that's ahead of it's time.......but I don't think it had any influence on disco.

 

ha! The Doors - Peace Frog (CBS Blood in the Disco Edit)

 

Now I've heard it all

 

Sorry...
But this made me laugh

 

I'd love a discotheque if they played Rock!

 

Yeah, I’d love it too! To be dancing with the one you like and the dj suddenly puts on “Yellow Submarine”....

 

Still better than Disco....

 

two words...

thought.. filter

 

Better singers, musicians and writers helped a lot though they lacked the stripper up front

 

My Italian relatives dragged me to a discoteca when I visited them in 97.

The biggest crowd reaction of the night was near closing time when the DJ played the Beach Boys.

edit: I actually would have killed for them to play some 'disco' all they played was repetitive EDM most of the night, the only dancing that make me want to do is repeatedly bashing my head against the wall.

 

Finally, the Doors vs. the Partridge Family throwdown I've been craving!

 

No

 

We know Disco really came from Rutlan Orange Peel
THE BLACK ORIGINS OF RUTLE MUSIC