Risking it all for a tag on a train. What an amazing experience it must have been. God bless all of the lost souls who tagged NYC during the 1970s. My favorite artist was CLIFF! I was able to track down some artists still alive today and asked them what happened to him. Only one replied. He died of AIDs during the 1980s epidemic. RIP Cliff.
I was one of them. Crews such as TPA, BYB, RTW, TC, & TOP were just starting out. Top to bottoms on subway cars was the norm and if the transit police caught you, they’d beat your a**! What an era!!😎
@@TRUYORK718 thanks for the update. Life is crazy and can take any turn but it’s dope they all had something in common which was the art and graffiti !!
yeah we good fam. My graf name was and is TEA from the UA crew and i was down with TATS and TKA and BYB crews. A rose grew from the dirty concrete and i would not change a thing. Peace bruh.
It's simply amazing to see those tags & pieces from this early age of Graffiti. They'll never able to kill it, it's a form of art & communication. Keep bombing!
This Documentary is like the Holy Grail of Graffiti! It's amazing to me that not a lot has changed in the sense of guidelines and codes. some of these original styles have left a permanent mark on Graffiti world wide. God Bless.
Back when Krylon was king 👑. Takes me back in time. The art actually got better in the 80’s and then the 90’s…it evolved. The old Videograf VHS 📼 tapes were the best. 👀 out for that 3rd rail. 💯
Taki 183 had already quit by 1976. That's how ahead of the game he was. Another fact is Ghost Ris hadn't spawned yet 🤔 Shoutout to JS in this video for inventing that J. Everyone claimed JOZ was the inventor of that J. B.S.
Great documentary, thanks for sharing. 1976, that's pretty early on and it's great to see the old writers and styles. I love hearing the mixed reactions, some regular citizens really understood and enjoyed what was happening. The older gentleman talking to Don was fascinated by his work and suggested that he should try to reach a broader audience because he thought it was great art.
Dooe watch .... Out of all the documentaries on RUclips these older flics are the most important and some of the best to say the least ... It's kinda sad how all this history has been washed away and covered up ... It would be a dope find to see a couple of old pieces from the 70-80's even early 90s in my city but I doubt I'd ever come across a gem like that ... Anyways bless up and keep writing
There a dozens of websites that have pics of most of these trains from the 70s and 80s.... Amazon has a bunch of great photography books from this era that were produced by a lot of these graffiti artists....
I seen Graff in 76 from "Welcome back kotter" show!!!! Big up Brooklyn . Love the old stuff!!!- Blade,Seen, Comet, P-Nut, Cliff up then!!! One dude said he'd been writing for 4 years that was in 72!!!! I do think writin on the statues was stupid though.
We kids could be in gangs, dealing drugs, killing people, raping people or robbing people . But we have the morality to paint instead. Think that over.
@@pearlmax pioneer legend - he was the first to start drawing letters on trains filling it in and then outlining it. him and RIFF170 are the fathers of aerosol stylewriting. wouldn't be what it is today without him.
Yeah.. I was with the TTG , BBB and on my own, but mostly did the tags and top to bottom on the A and 1 only cuz it was my route back home in Washington heights! I just hope this kid who got me into it when we were in the 7th grade got to be a famous painter. His tag was SASO my was REME or Mac5. He could draw some really really amazing Leonardo DaVinci’s drawing and painting with such an accuracy that’s just wow you from your feet! Back then, it was the only thrill we got to express our minds and spent time out cuz being at home was such a boring time with no techies stuff to replaced with! 😊 BTW, I did make it through college with BSEE and came out fine. Art, Science, Music and Math are the language of the Universe! Peace out bro 😎
New York was in style in the 1970s, especially using graffiti on the subway trains and other monuments. I rather see the graffiti in a new museum than on the monuments in the parks and gathering places. Great documentary! It is part of American and New York City history as well.
*wow.. this is previous to the great NYC Blackout that made the explosion of DJ's for the Hip Hop Culture!* . At the time (1976) in the Bronx only was 6 DJ's Crews: Kool Herc's Herculoids, Bambaataa's Zulu, Brothers Disco (DJ Breakout and DJ Barron), Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Four MCs, The L Brothers (Theodore, Mean Gene, Corde O) and Casanova Fly (Caz) & Disco Wiz. In Brooklyn they had Grandmaster Flowers, Plummer, Nu Sounds.
Some of your info is wrong. Looks like you took this from an article or another website. Bambaataa wasn't known in 1976. He came into prominence in 1977. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Four didn't exist yet. Melle Mel in his own words said he didn't start emceeing for Flash until late 1977. The Furious Four didn't form until 1978 when Scorpio joined. Cowboy (only) was down with Flash in 1976. Brothers Disco started in 1976. L Brothers might have started a little before them. Can't speak on Caz aka Casanova Fly & Disco Wiz. You left out DJ Smokey who was before a lot of them and was Herc's rival. Of course Disco King Mario, Kool DJ Dee and Tyrone the Mixologist, Pete DJ Jones who was pre-hip hop but inspired a lot of the Bronx DJ's, Lovebug Starski was another one
Gotta luv how ppl didn't saw that GIANT cigarettes brand billboard at 22:39 as defancing of their "lovely pretty buildings" but.. a kid raging against society with some cans? Sure is! xD Anyway, great post man!
13:35 shows an uptown view of the four Gateway Towers on West 178th Street in Washington Heights. Jumel Place and 168th street is there at 12:51. It's in Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan. I once lived on West 163rd street. The individuals speaking in the clip must be the last of the white residents left in the neighbourhood. It's overwhelmingly Dominican now. 6:08 is West 83rd Street in Manhattan. Don1, the King from Queens: The Life & Photos of a NYC Transit Graffiti Master: The Life and Photos of a NYC Transit Graffiti Master is available on Amazon.
@@xtndo64 Did you check the book Don1, the King from Queens: The Life & Photos of a NYC Transit Graffiti Master: The Life and Photos of a NYC Transit Graffiti Master
Don't think so man. U know, it was the early beginning: no one had really painted letters's shapes in wallz like that before. They had no models, no teacher, no influence inspirations. All created by the start. Then the spray, pressure of the bombz & the caps were shit at this time 2...
Rare one that finally made it out of someone's archives. Fair bit of this footage used as b-roll filler for the BBC doc 'Beat This'. Some good dialogue in this but the audio foley work is a bit ropey.
I agree! The only thing I didn't like was those building wreckages around 4:32.. guess that crack/smack & consequently AIDS, have destroyed most developed cities/countries in those times of war (like the 70s and 80s) and that soldiers didn't just brought back dead bodies inside those coffins, back then. Sad a.f that.. epidemic.
@@Moodboard39people like you were complaining about the civil rights movement and Stonewall riots back then. No gay people in 1970s New York, lol. Grow up
I don’t know if anyone noticed this but there was a cool name on a post as the train went by said “Blazer” financial services 23:00 it looked like a piece too!!!
A lot of people don't get the chance to know and see that there were a lot of White writers during the infancy of NYC graffiti. Colored lines were blurred when it came to the colors of paint
@ 12:46 Streets signs Jumel Place & 168th Street . I street viewed it on Google maps. The graffiti is gone , the buildings are gone. Well after some 44 years , should have known. (too much time on my hands with the pandemic lockdown. Now I'm gone, to hide back under my bed.)
Oh, man. The good old days. The nostalgia is so bittersweet.
Risking it all for a tag on a train. What an amazing experience it must have been. God bless all of the lost souls who tagged NYC during the 1970s.
My favorite artist was CLIFF! I was able to track down some artists still alive today and asked them what happened to him. Only one replied. He died of AIDs during the 1980s epidemic. RIP Cliff.
So many passed away due to Aids its so freakin sad ;(
Still on it 😅
Rip king ❤
@@ms_needle3502sex and drugs
I was one of them. Crews such as TPA, BYB, RTW, TC, & TOP were just starting out. Top to bottoms on subway cars was the norm and if the transit police caught you, they’d beat your a**! What an era!!😎
This was when black and white people lived side by side in the Bronx and east New York in brooklyn
They didn’t live side by side.
@@balle733 Yeah. Only those of us who were dirt poor. That's about it. Sometimes.
Amazing moment in time, 1970's New York looks busted and out of the dirt came all of this colour. Hope all the kids in this made it out ok.
A lot passed away :(
Alot on drugs some turned Gay some went to the Army some became dope dealers some turned Jehovas witness
@@TRUYORK718 thanks for the update. Life is crazy and can take any turn but it’s dope they all had something in common which was the art and graffiti !!
Hip Hop
yeah we good fam. My graf name was and is TEA from the UA crew and i was down with TATS and TKA and BYB crews. A rose grew from the dirty concrete and i would not change a thing. Peace bruh.
Earliest graff doc that i'm aware of. EVOLUTION OF GRAFFITI right here and very important early early development stages of the culture.
I agree ... A lot of these toys out here needa peep some of these flics and learn their roots and some respect
It's simply amazing to see those tags & pieces from this early age of Graffiti. They'll never able to kill it, it's a form of art & communication. Keep bombing!
This Documentary is like the Holy Grail of Graffiti! It's amazing to me that not a lot has changed in the sense of guidelines and codes. some of these original styles have left a permanent mark on Graffiti world wide. God Bless.
Back when Krylon was king 👑. Takes me back in time. The art actually got better in the 80’s and then the 90’s…it evolved. The old Videograf VHS 📼 tapes were the best. 👀 out for that 3rd rail. 💯
Yeaa man
Heard a lot about the legendary IN from older writers. Crazy to see him up on almost every train in this video. He was killing!
Wow, fascinating era, as Hip Hop was bubbling away and Disco was king! Some great analogies here. The message is revolution! ✊🏼
I finally found the location of that wall Don 1 was painting. The building was demolished though.
Taki 183 had already quit by 1976.
That's how ahead of the game he was.
Another fact is Ghost Ris hadn't spawned yet 🤔
Shoutout to JS in this video for inventing that J.
Everyone claimed JOZ was the inventor of that J.
B.S.
I was there..working a summer job in a mailroom down on Wall Street and partying at night while listening to Zeppelin,BOC,Floyd….great summer in NYC
Great documentary, thanks for sharing. 1976, that's pretty early on and it's great to see the old writers and styles. I love hearing the mixed reactions, some regular citizens really understood and enjoyed what was happening. The older gentleman talking to Don was fascinated by his work and suggested that he should try to reach a broader audience because he thought it was great art.
Need subtitles
I truly, miss the graffiti trains in NYC.
😂
Love graffiti, those were the good old days
Dooe watch .... Out of all the documentaries on RUclips these older flics are the most important and some of the best to say the least ... It's kinda sad how all this history has been washed away and covered up ... It would be a dope find to see a couple of old pieces from the 70-80's even early 90s in my city but I doubt I'd ever come across a gem like that ... Anyways bless up and keep writing
There are still some running, especially in Philly, which ironically is the birthplace of graff.
It's still on buildings and highways in NY
There a dozens of websites that have pics of most of these trains from the 70s and 80s.... Amazon has a bunch of great photography books from this era that were produced by a lot of these graffiti artists....
@@Seamo57 Even fewer know about Cornbread.
@@hereisayana8207 There are still some spots in NYC. Sadly we lost a lot of it when they demolished 5 Pointz.
rare classic. thanks
I seen Graff in 76 from "Welcome back kotter" show!!!! Big up Brooklyn . Love the old stuff!!!- Blade,Seen, Comet, P-Nut, Cliff up then!!! One dude said he'd been writing for 4 years that was in 72!!!! I do think writin on the statues was stupid though.
Haha 😂 I was only 1 year old when this came out ! Happy I had the opportunity to watch it
Thanks 🙏🏾
Look at that early seen piece wow 10:19
It blew me away when I saw it. Awesome.
Amazing
Richie is the man! Someone Toyed him with a gray -X-...MAD▪︎SEEN! -FUCKING LEGEND!
Don't forget-ZOOM(RIP)
What a duo!!
So sick he’s a legend
@Arnold Wilson East Bronx Bro I live there
Wow cool find! Thanks for the upload!
Thanks for sharing this piece of history, much appreciated!!!
Brilliant time capsule.
Thank You.
This is ancient and incredible!
Great documentary! Thanks for digging this one up!
Great content. I enjoy seeing these older videos.
Classic footage.... Stay up brothers!
This is gold, thx for sharing 🙏
PS: The subway's trains man. Wow' !
How they splashed & mashed zem'...
"Ça cartonne sa mère" !
Love this!!!!
Beautiful documentary
NYC was ruff in the 70's
thanks for the doc graffiti lives
underrated graffiti doc imo
I wanna see trains like that everywhere that’d be sick
Little interview with coco,don,and a seen piece can’t get a better documentary
We kids could be in gangs, dealing drugs, killing people, raping people or robbing people . But we have the morality to paint instead. Think that over.
Guess what, most of the writers around the world sell drugs on the side, lol
ONLY THE ONES THAT USE THEM
I can do all that before I paint my piece, ain't no stopping me I'll be a thug fo life !
@@hotrockbabes3850 ........ r/woooosh
@@hotrockbabes3850being a thug makes u special ? Lol
The legends, the original graffiti!
Dam I Miss The oldays .. everything a buff now . smh ..
TRAXSTAR T.F.C. C.W.B. 🍀🍀💯
🍀
whats tfc and cwb, some old crews from 70s or what? and whats with the green thing, irish crews?
I smell beef
@@andro8138 irish graff crews
What street is that where the garage can's at
The pioneers of the artform!...
Phase II at 12:47?! Wow. And Blaze, Blade. What a goldmine. Jumel and 168th looks a lot different these days. I miss my lawless NYC.
Hehe, what's Phase II?
Message alert tone at 12:47 too
@@pearlmax a graffiti artist
@@pearlmax pioneer legend - he was the first to start drawing letters on trains filling it in and then outlining it. him and RIFF170 are the fathers of aerosol stylewriting. wouldn't be what it is today without him.
@@javiersantiago8461 @nworb yfaol Apparently you guys haven't seen Beat Street.
Messi no money but a lot of humbleness I miss those good old days peace
Wows what a crazy video... Great to to see all this early Graffiti man some of them trains class
NYC wont be the same from that era. People did things. They were just out there . Unlike today!.
the trains have never looked as good as they did back in that era
it looks like life in the 70s in new York was pretty rough. garbage all in the streets and in those neighbourhoods, people didn't have much money.
New York, along with much of the rest for the country, was going through a lot of changes and economic chaos then.
They almost went bankrupt in 1977 and 1981 New York was absolutely destroyed especially in places like the Bronx
and out of it the biggest music genre was born
@@aussieaussie4848richer get richer and the poorer poorer. No other city was this bad ...
Yeah.. I was with the TTG , BBB and on my own, but mostly did the tags and top to bottom on the A and 1 only cuz it was my route back home in Washington heights! I just hope this kid who got me into it when we were in the 7th grade got to be a famous painter. His tag was SASO my was REME or Mac5. He could draw some really really amazing Leonardo DaVinci’s drawing and painting with such an accuracy that’s just wow you from your feet! Back then, it was the only thrill we got to express our minds and spent time out cuz being at home was such a boring time with no techies stuff to replaced with! 😊 BTW, I did make it through college with BSEE and came out fine. Art, Science, Music and Math are the language of the Universe! Peace out bro 😎
Dam they had sick styles
RIP SESK/TIE ONE SF KING
New York was in style in the 1970s, especially using graffiti on the subway trains and other monuments. I rather see the graffiti in a new museum than on the monuments in the parks and gathering places. Great documentary! It is part of American and New York City history as well.
absolutly great documentary !!! don1 the king from the queen !!!!!
Still the graff with the Most flavour in m y opinion
70s/80s graff was so much doper imo. Simple, playful, colourful. Pieces now are so technical and soulless. Love the old esthetic
@@kaycuz9402to many colors , stick with simple colors .
*wow.. this is previous to the great NYC Blackout that made the explosion of DJ's for the Hip Hop Culture!* . At the time (1976) in the Bronx only was 6 DJ's Crews: Kool Herc's Herculoids, Bambaataa's Zulu, Brothers Disco (DJ Breakout and DJ Barron), Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Four MCs, The L Brothers (Theodore, Mean Gene, Corde O) and Casanova Fly (Caz) & Disco Wiz.
In Brooklyn they had Grandmaster Flowers, Plummer, Nu Sounds.
And before all of them, should've been Disco King Mario & the Chuck Chuck City Crew
Some of your info is wrong. Looks like you took this from an article or another website.
Bambaataa wasn't known in 1976. He came into prominence in 1977. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Four didn't exist yet. Melle Mel in his own words said he didn't start emceeing for Flash until late 1977. The Furious Four didn't form until 1978 when Scorpio joined. Cowboy (only) was down with Flash in 1976. Brothers Disco started in 1976. L Brothers might have started a little before them. Can't speak on Caz aka Casanova Fly & Disco Wiz. You left out DJ Smokey who was before a lot of them and was Herc's rival. Of course Disco King Mario, Kool DJ Dee and Tyrone the Mixologist, Pete DJ Jones who was pre-hip hop but inspired a lot of the Bronx DJ's, Lovebug Starski was another one
@@bxdale83 right man...Who was first writer i NY?
filmed by the bbc in the uk,in 1975 for a programme called open university😊
damn this is dope.
CLIFF was all over this documentary.
the song is "killers lullaby" by Love Unlimited Orchestra on the Together Brothers OST.
It was sampled by O.C in the song "My world"... Never knew where it came from until now
One of the *thee* most underrated movies of that genre
I saw THE TOGETHER BROTHERS in the movie theater. I WAS A KID.
Gotta luv how ppl didn't saw that GIANT cigarettes brand billboard at 22:39 as defancing of their "lovely pretty buildings" but.. a kid raging against society with some cans? Sure is! xD Anyway, great post man!
Super raw ! This is mad..
FARTSONE AUSTRALIA
Farting bean agrees.
13:35 shows an uptown view of the four Gateway Towers on West 178th Street in Washington Heights. Jumel Place and 168th street is there at 12:51. It's in Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan. I once lived on West 163rd street. The individuals speaking in the clip must be the last of the white residents left in the neighbourhood. It's overwhelmingly Dominican now. 6:08 is West 83rd Street in Manhattan. Don1, the King from Queens: The Life & Photos of a NYC Transit Graffiti Master: The Life and Photos of a NYC Transit Graffiti Master is available on Amazon.
Do you happen to know what intersection the wall Don 1 was painting is at?
@@xtndo64 I don't know, sorry.
@@damianmcdonagh7908 No worries. Thanks.
@@xtndo64 Did you check the book Don1, the King from Queens: The Life & Photos of a NYC Transit Graffiti Master: The Life and Photos of a NYC Transit Graffiti Master
@@damianmcdonagh7908 Yeah I recently received the book it but it only says South Bronx. From the movie I can tell that it's a numbered one-way street.
Born 67 NEW YORK CITY 👍👍
The Good ole days !! Theres now a school on both sides of the street here now
This is a time machine
Lol ikr, going back in time
Graffiti was the least of their problems by the looks of it
Don't think so man. U know, it was the early beginning: no one had really painted letters's shapes in wallz like that before. They had no models, no teacher, no influence inspirations. All created by the start.
Then the spray, pressure of the bombz & the caps were shit at this time 2...
@@mrg.8754all in the mind . Innovation among few that have it ...not everyone's does
@ 3:41 dude looks so happy just to be interviewed.
Rare one that finally made it out of someone's archives. Fair bit of this footage used as b-roll filler for the BBC doc 'Beat This'. Some good dialogue in this but the audio foley work is a bit ropey.
I was born to late
and transmitted ONLY in the uk at that time of Christmas 76,peace.
sequence starting at 4:08 is so beautiful
I agree! The only thing I didn't like was those building wreckages around 4:32.. guess that crack/smack & consequently AIDS, have destroyed most developed cities/countries in those times of war (like the 70s and 80s) and that soldiers didn't just brought back dead bodies inside those coffins, back then. Sad a.f that.. epidemic.
love it but maybe dont do your Christmas wrapping while you film it
R.I.P. NIC 707 OTB..
144p? ballin!
I'm everywhere.
Those were the days.
Fr
I still can t believe Michael only became 49 i m already 12 years longer here iT s 9 days ik know iT still difficult 😇😇🙋🏻♀️💖dezie 💋💋
WOW-at 3:22-I had no idea WOODY ALLEN was a mad graffiti artist back in the 80s😮😮😂😂!!
respects to DON1, one of the legends.
DO YOU HAVE THIS IN BETTER QUALITY?
Wow
Love what the guy talking about in 11:09 to 11:55...
Mosalsalwadihslaakhira
Radouane Srhiouer
Kas, was the best graffiti artist. Forever Nasty With Rock.
piasano speaks at 14:00. wise man
People were way more happier back then.
No political correctness, no social media , no gays ,
@@Moodboard39people like you were complaining about the civil rights movement and Stonewall riots back then. No gay people in 1970s New York, lol. Grow up
Graffiti before Covid!!!
Check “Allcity taxi talk show” channel. Great interview with “Mike 171”, a real pioneer who started bombing trains in the late 60’s!
the guy 11:18 is like a prophet predicting the inevitable emergence of hiphop
Wonderfull! Is there still 1970s graffity left today in NYC? What is the oldest 1970s tag in existence today?
That now is deleted maybe some still exist today
Look it up at abandoned place in NYC. There may be some art.
@@Animalfarm6catsyea
Not sure I see graffiti many parts in Brooklyn . New , definitely like exploring it . I'm a photographer as well....start doing graffiti art
music from Together Brothers
🤘🏻!
SEEN!
What's the name of this documentary???
10:18 somebody straight dissed Seen..If only they knew..
10:15 seen!!
PRE STYLE WARS, THE FIRST TWO GENERATIONS OF WRITERS FROM THE 70S!!!!
RIP SESK/TIE ONE SF KING
06;25 He mentioned SOUL STONE BROTHERS ' RISE ONE SSB
Whats the track at 9.00 with the whistling?
Its from the *Together Brothers* soundtrack
I don’t know if anyone noticed this but there was a cool name on a post as the train went by said “Blazer” financial services 23:00 it looked like a piece too!!!
Post sign
A lot of people don't get the chance to know and see that there were a lot of White writers during the infancy of NYC graffiti. Colored lines were blurred when it came to the colors of paint
@ 12:46 Streets signs Jumel Place & 168th Street . I street viewed it on Google maps.
The graffiti is gone , the buildings are gone. Well after some 44 years , should have known.
(too much time on my hands with the pandemic lockdown. Now I'm gone, to hide
back under my bed.)
Did someone record this while sorting change and reading the newspaper?
no i was eating crisps sorry