No idea whatever happened to Michael, but I know Aaron went on to write Brat, and along with War Crew, became one of the style masters of Brisbane, alongside Jelos, Jury, and the next-gen War Crew boys - Revs, Pun and Naut. From what I hear Brat's been working on a book about the Brisbane scene for a few years now. I met him a few times back in the day and he always came across like a good bloke. Dude loves his beers and ciggies. ;)
a post i saved from years ago about these boys, (from 12oz if i remember correctly i found it to be a good read, forget what year it was posted but prob around 2002-5?) I have been lucky to know Jelous and be good mates with him over the years and although I no longer see him much we still talk on email every now and then. I've also been lucky to have painted with him on numerous occasions - both legal and illegal. I must tell him about this thread, he'll think it's hilarious. He was a really cool, quiet kind of guy but occasionally he'd just do random crazy shit. Some Brisbane toys (we all know who) started accusing him of being a legal whore - but he did no more amount of legals then the rest of us, and the funny thing is, the person who made those claims is now the biggest legal slut in Brisbane.
Here's a coupla stories for the board. Enjoy ;) This one time there was some of us (WAR, BWP, KOC) boys drinking at the Shamrock one night - Jelous went to the dunny- he came back out and told us that there was some old drunk dude passed out on the dunny floor. So he did the right thing and told the staff about him, when the bouncers carried him out of the toilets we all started pissing ourselves as there was a giant Jelos tag accross his forehead. Another time there was about 20 of us dudes from both THC and KOC plus Brat, Jury and Jelos - We all just did a paint break and had bags and bags of paint - so we all drove in 3 cars to an (unnamed inner city) yard :D Jelos and the War boys had their eye on a train that was further away from the lay up and in a darker spot - everybody else proceeded into the main lay up and started rocking panelz
Unfortunately after an hour or so some bogans started throwing bricks at train windows in another part of the yard - which alerted rail dogs and QR work bums - so we are basically minutes from completing a window down "We Always Rock" and "The Hunted Childs" 2 car whole car and we all get chased by transits in 2 4x4's. Everyone scatters. Jury ends up jumping in a creek and swimming upstream for half a mile. Myself Jelos and Brat and hiding in mangrove bushes for nearly an hour with mud up to our waists. Jelos lost both his shoes so he had to run in muddy socks once we split.
We eventually made it up and away from the yards, and we could now see sirens flashing and torch lights in the distance, amazingly no one got caught in the yard that night. Anyway the three of us were running up the road and we saw a cab so we hailed it. Now I was the only dude with any cash between us and it was probably only enough to get one of us back to Brat's flat - so the quick plan was to jump the cab. Jelos vouched to sit in the front seat while me and Brat sat in the back, the cabbie was a little Indian dude so we figured 3 against one wasn't going to be much of a problem. We told the cabbie that we all got rolled by a gang of abbo's and needed to get home - he agreed to take us. Jelous wouldn't shut up about all the paint we had to ditch and he was even more pissed because he lost a mad pair of Nike's :D
Yip I knew all those fellas ONCE shane ryan leader of THE CLAN from 1988 we were good mates who all went on to become armed robbers and jail buddies till I got deported but yeah hams and kiwi went on to bigger and better things with their art work then bill and Jamie the twin who were in the b boy all stars started their hype magazine we all used to meet at the coffee shop and look at each others pieces and id go to d j katches (garby) and listen to him mix so yeah it was over 20 years ago I got deported but those who read this will know who I am and peace out to BRIBE PCP padded cell productions Justin. ill give you a clue I was leader of RED 21 and we turned patches from a gay bar in the 1990s into every criminal in Brisbane hangout shane ryan, Jason ryan, glen clemments Joshua ski david griffin Russell henry(BLACK BELT) Jason verganzer(CYRUS) or better known as RISK who has one of the worst records for graffiti in queensland and had a write up RISK BY NAME RISK BY NATURE and was transit polices most wanted. CAN YOU GUESS WHO I AM.
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Aaron Reimer is truely an amazing artist... keep following your dreams and passion az.. :)
No idea whatever happened to Michael, but I know Aaron went on to write Brat, and along with War Crew, became one of the style masters of Brisbane, alongside Jelos, Jury, and the next-gen War Crew boys - Revs, Pun and Naut. From what I hear Brat's been working on a book about the Brisbane scene for a few years now. I met him a few times back in the day and he always came across like a good bloke. Dude loves his beers and ciggies. ;)
Trey, Michael is actually the lead singer in the band "Mamoth Mamoth", check them out
a post i saved from years ago about these boys,
(from 12oz if i remember correctly i found it to be a good read, forget what year it was posted but prob around 2002-5?)
I have been lucky to know Jelous and be good mates with him over the years and although I no longer see him much we still talk on email every now and then. I've also been lucky to have painted with him on numerous occasions - both legal and illegal. I must tell him about this thread, he'll think it's hilarious.
He was a really cool, quiet kind of guy but occasionally he'd just do random crazy shit. Some Brisbane toys (we all know who) started accusing him of being a legal whore - but he did no more amount of legals then the rest of us, and the funny thing is, the person who made those claims is now the biggest legal slut in Brisbane.
Here's a coupla stories for the board. Enjoy ;)
This one time there was some of us (WAR, BWP, KOC) boys drinking at the Shamrock one night - Jelous went to the dunny- he came back out and told us that there was some old drunk dude passed out on the dunny floor. So he did the right thing and told the staff about him, when the bouncers carried him out of the toilets we all started pissing ourselves as there was a giant Jelos tag accross his forehead.
Another time there was about 20 of us dudes from both THC and KOC plus Brat, Jury and Jelos - We all just did a paint break and had bags and bags of paint - so we all drove in 3 cars to an (unnamed inner city) yard :D Jelos and the War boys had their eye on a train that was further away from the lay up and in a darker spot - everybody else proceeded into the main lay up and started rocking panelz
Unfortunately after an hour or so some bogans started throwing bricks at train windows in another part of the yard - which alerted rail dogs and QR work bums - so we are basically minutes from completing a window down "We Always Rock" and "The Hunted Childs" 2 car whole car and we all get chased by transits in 2 4x4's. Everyone scatters. Jury ends up jumping in a creek and swimming upstream for half a mile. Myself Jelos and Brat and hiding in mangrove bushes for nearly an hour with mud up to our waists. Jelos lost both his shoes so he had to run in muddy socks once we split.
We eventually made it up and away from the yards, and we could now see sirens flashing and torch lights in the distance, amazingly no one got caught in the yard that night. Anyway the three of us were running up the road and we saw a cab so we hailed it. Now I was the only dude with any cash between us and it was probably only enough to get one of us back to Brat's flat - so the quick plan was to jump the cab. Jelos vouched to sit in the front seat while me and Brat sat in the back, the cabbie was a little Indian dude so we figured 3 against one wasn't going to be much of a problem. We told the cabbie that we all got rolled by a gang of abbo's and needed to get home - he agreed to take us. Jelous wouldn't shut up about all the paint we had to ditch and he was even more pissed because he lost a mad pair of Nike's :D
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Yip I knew all those fellas ONCE shane ryan leader of THE CLAN from 1988 we were good mates who all went on to become armed robbers and jail buddies till I got deported but yeah hams and kiwi went on to bigger and better things with their art work then bill and Jamie the twin who were in the b boy all stars started their hype magazine we all used to meet at the coffee shop and look at each others pieces and id go to d j katches (garby) and listen to him mix so yeah it was over 20 years ago I got deported but those who read this will know who I am and peace out to BRIBE PCP padded cell productions Justin. ill give you a clue I was leader of RED 21 and we turned patches from a gay bar in the 1990s into every criminal in Brisbane hangout shane ryan, Jason ryan, glen clemments Joshua ski david griffin Russell henry(BLACK BELT) Jason verganzer(CYRUS) or better known as RISK who has one of the worst records for graffiti in queensland and had a write up RISK BY NAME RISK BY NATURE and was transit polices most wanted. CAN YOU GUESS WHO I AM.
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