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.

@ms_needle3502

Жыл бұрын

So many passed away due to Aids its so freakin sad ;(

@titoalexis7884

Жыл бұрын

Still on it 😅

@ZELONER495

Жыл бұрын

Rip king ❤

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

​@@ms_needle3502sex and drugs

@MaceoRoker

8 ай бұрын

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!!😎

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.

@sarahhhx3

2 жыл бұрын

A lot passed away :(

@TRUYORK718

2 жыл бұрын

Alot on drugs some turned Gay some went to the Army some became dope dealers some turned Jehovas witness

@sarahhhx3

2 жыл бұрын

@@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 !!

@eddiesoto2677

2 жыл бұрын

Hip Hop

@phunkidruma

2 жыл бұрын

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.

This was when black and white people lived side by side in the Bronx and east New York in brooklyn

@balle733

2 ай бұрын

They didn’t live side by side.

@PhilAndersonOutside

3 сағат бұрын

@@balle733 Yeah. Only those of us who were dirt poor. That's about it. Sometimes.

Oh, man. The good old days. The nostalgia is so bittersweet.

Earliest graff doc that i'm aware of. EVOLUTION OF GRAFFITI right here and very important early early development stages of the culture.

@dpbreezy5699

7 жыл бұрын

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.

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!

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. 💯

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

Yeaa man

Wow, fascinating era, as Hip Hop was bubbling away and Disco was king! Some great analogies here. The message is revolution! ✊🏼

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.

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

Need subtitles

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.

Dooe watch .... Out of all the documentaries on KZread 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

@Seamo57

5 жыл бұрын

There are still some running, especially in Philly, which ironically is the birthplace of graff.

@hereisayana8207

4 жыл бұрын

It's still on buildings and highways in NY

@exorcist2000

4 жыл бұрын

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....

@emceeunderdogrising

2 жыл бұрын

@@Seamo57 Even fewer know about Cornbread.

@emceeunderdogrising

2 жыл бұрын

@@hereisayana8207 ​ There are still some spots in NYC. Sadly we lost a lot of it when they demolished 5 Pointz.

Love graffiti, those were the good old days

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

Haha 😂 I was only 1 year old when this came out ! Happy I had the opportunity to watch it Thanks 🙏🏾

rare classic. thanks

This is ancient and incredible!

Thanks for sharing this piece of history, much appreciated!!!

I truly, miss the graffiti trains in NYC.

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

😂

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.

Look at that early seen piece wow 10:19

@Joey.9

6 жыл бұрын

It blew me away when I saw it. Awesome.

@mr.nobody7959

5 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@pdubs7069

5 жыл бұрын

Richie is the man! Someone Toyed him with a gray -X-...MAD▪︎SEEN! -FUCKING LEGEND! Don't forget-ZOOM(RIP) What a duo!!

@pooch9068

4 жыл бұрын

So sick he’s a legend

@closedfornow2903

3 жыл бұрын

@Arnold Wilson East Bronx Bro I live there

underrated graffiti doc imo

This is gold, thx for sharing 🙏 PS: The subway's trains man. Wow' ! How they splashed & mashed zem'... "Ça cartonne sa mère" !

Brilliant time capsule. Thank You.

Classic footage.... Stay up brothers!

Messi no money but a lot of humbleness I miss those good old days peace

I wanna see trains like that everywhere that’d be sick

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.

The legends, the original graffiti!

Great content. I enjoy seeing these older videos.

Wow cool find! Thanks for the upload!

NYC wont be the same from that era. People did things. They were just out there . Unlike today!.

NYC was ruff in the 70's

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.

@Matt_Fields_29

6 жыл бұрын

New York, along with much of the rest for the country, was going through a lot of changes and economic chaos then.

@aussieaussie4848

5 жыл бұрын

They almost went bankrupt in 1977 and 1981 New York was absolutely destroyed especially in places like the Bronx

@kemurinine4272

3 жыл бұрын

and out of it the biggest music genre was born

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

​@@aussieaussie4848richer get richer and the poorer poorer. No other city was this bad ...

Great documentary! Thanks for digging this one up!

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 😎

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.

@atlemartoresonfjeldstad4557

3 жыл бұрын

Guess what, most of the writers around the world sell drugs on the side, lol

@rizzotto139

3 жыл бұрын

ONLY THE ONES THAT USE THEM

@hotrockbabes3850

2 жыл бұрын

I can do all that before I paint my piece, ain't no stopping me I'll be a thug fo life !

@frankcastle4715

2 жыл бұрын

@@hotrockbabes3850 ........ r/woooosh

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

​@@hotrockbabes3850being a thug makes u special ? Lol

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.

@pearlmax

4 жыл бұрын

Hehe, what's Phase II?

@70monkey

3 жыл бұрын

Message alert tone at 12:47 too

@javiersantiago8461

3 жыл бұрын

@@pearlmax a graffiti artist

@inquisitive1

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@pearlmax

2 жыл бұрын

@@javiersantiago8461 ​ @nworb yfaol Apparently you guys haven't seen Beat Street.

the trains have never looked as good as they did back in that era

Dam I Miss The oldays .. everything a buff now . smh .. TRAXSTAR T.F.C. C.W.B. 🍀🍀💯

@paddymaguire1703

5 жыл бұрын

🍀

@andro8138

3 жыл бұрын

whats tfc and cwb, some old crews from 70s or what? and whats with the green thing, irish crews?

@skateindys

3 жыл бұрын

I smell beef

@armydog7502

3 жыл бұрын

@@andro8138 irish graff crews

@Hborn

Жыл бұрын

What street is that where the garage can's at

Love this!!!!

Still the graff with the Most flavour in m y opinion

@kaycuz9402

4 жыл бұрын

70s/80s graff was so much doper imo. Simple, playful, colourful. Pieces now are so technical and soulless. Love the old esthetic

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

​@@kaycuz9402to many colors , stick with simple colors .

CLIFF was all over this documentary.

Dam they had sick styles RIP SESK/TIE ONE SF KING

Little interview with coco,don,and a seen piece can’t get a better documentary

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!

thanks for the doc graffiti lives

Born 67 NEW YORK CITY 👍👍

Beautiful documentary

filmed by the bbc in the uk,in 1975 for a programme called open university😊

Super raw ! This is mad.. FARTSONE AUSTRALIA

@ElFantasma13

2 жыл бұрын

Farting bean agrees.

the song is "killers lullaby" by Love Unlimited Orchestra on the Together Brothers OST.

@JBHen3

7 жыл бұрын

It was sampled by O.C in the song "My world"... Never knew where it came from until now

@ddave7026

5 жыл бұрын

One of the *thee* most underrated movies of that genre

@dragonone8778

4 жыл бұрын

I saw THE TOGETHER BROTHERS in the movie theater. I WAS A KID.

*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.

@kool-ki7739

2 жыл бұрын

And before all of them, should've been Disco King Mario & the Chuck Chuck City Crew

@bxdale83

Жыл бұрын

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

@erykkoziokowski8006

9 ай бұрын

@@bxdale83 right man...Who was first writer i NY?

damn this is dope.

Graffiti was the least of their problems by the looks of it

@mrg.8754

Жыл бұрын

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...

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

​@@mrg.8754all in the mind . Innovation among few that have it ...not everyone's does

The pioneers of the artform!...

This is a time machine

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

Lol ikr, going back in time

Wows what a crazy video... Great to to see all this early Graffiti man some of them trains class

love it but maybe dont do your Christmas wrapping while you film it

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

3 жыл бұрын

Do you happen to know what intersection the wall Don 1 was painting is at?

@damianmcdonagh7908

3 жыл бұрын

@@xtndo64 I don't know, sorry.

@xtndo64

3 жыл бұрын

@@damianmcdonagh7908 No worries. Thanks.

@damianmcdonagh7908

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

@xtndo64

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

I was born to late

R.I.P. NIC 707 OTB..

absolutly great documentary !!! don1 the king from the queen !!!!!

The Good ole days !! Theres now a school on both sides of the street here now

sequence starting at 4:08 is so beautiful

@F42355E

3 жыл бұрын

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.

I'm everywhere.

and transmitted ONLY in the uk at that time of Christmas 76,peace.

@ 3:41 dude looks so happy just to be interviewed.

Kas, was the best graffiti artist. Forever Nasty With Rock.

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.

Graffiti before Covid!!!

144p? ballin!

WOW-at 3:22-I had no idea WOODY ALLEN was a mad graffiti artist back in the 80s😮😮😂😂!!

Love what the guy talking about in 11:09 to 11:55...

@radouanesrhiouer9905

9 жыл бұрын

Mosalsalwadihslaakhira

@radouanesrhiouer9905

9 жыл бұрын

Radouane Srhiouer

piasano speaks at 14:00. wise man

the guy 11:18 is like a prophet predicting the inevitable emergence of hiphop

respects to DON1, one of the legends.

PRE STYLE WARS, THE FIRST TWO GENERATIONS OF WRITERS FROM THE 70S!!!!

Those were the days.

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

Fr

People were way more happier back then.

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

No political correctness, no social media , no gays ,

@yommish

9 ай бұрын

@@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 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

@ 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.)

06;25 He mentioned SOUL STONE BROTHERS ' RISE ONE SSB

10:18 somebody straight dissed Seen..If only they knew..

Check “Allcity taxi talk show” channel. Great interview with “Mike 171”, a real pioneer who started bombing trains in the late 60’s!

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

Hey, I can clear up the audio on this if someone sends me the video file.

@edski8536

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-ki8vi6sq5t 😂😅😹😅

RIP SESK/TIE ONE SF KING

Wonderfull! Is there still 1970s graffity left today in NYC? What is the oldest 1970s tag in existence today?

@darrel738

Жыл бұрын

That now is deleted maybe some still exist today

@Animalfarm6cats

11 ай бұрын

Look it up at abandoned place in NYC. There may be some art.

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

​@@Animalfarm6catsyea

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

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

DO YOU HAVE THIS IN BETTER QUALITY?

🤘🏻!

10:15 seen!!

SEEN!

Seen before he got nice Wicked Wicked Wicked 1 Wicked bx

What's with the background noise? Sounds like someone crumbling a bag of chips

@toastdee.

8 жыл бұрын

it's old school footage it's called crackling

@MW2OPSKID

6 жыл бұрын

Bruh I heard a phone too😭

@graffitizone

6 жыл бұрын

ShawnKingTV I’m totally sorry about that, I recorded the wrong source, so it’s got the sound of me in the gallery too. (Probably eating crisps)

@tripleaaa4409

6 жыл бұрын

pure evil gallery that’s actually really funny haha!!

@alondathomas293

6 жыл бұрын

Cool to see this----there are still graffiti artists in other places, like Detroit,for example, still doing their thing. Interesting to see how the scene was before it became a part of hip-hop. There's a 1981 indie doc called Stations of the Elevated which is a display of graffiti train art,too.

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!!!

@Moodboard39

10 ай бұрын

Post sign