In March 1975, Peter Dwyer of the Insider filed this report:
Apparently the live music gig in some clubs isn’t doing too well. Several clubs in town are trying a disco format to cut costs and bring in the dancing crowd. Uncle Sam’s reportedly followed the lead of its national affiliates in changing to a complete disco program. They’ve imported a jive-slinger from Syracuse, New York, to get the crowd off their wallets.
[Mentions of discos at The Golden Fox, Red Eye Saloon, and Zelda’s] These clubs provide an interesting and varied alternative for the bar hopping crowd without really posing much of a threat to the gigs available to musicians, that is unless the trend continues to turn away from live music.
Yes and no.