I admired the work of zephyr as a teenager. I’m 56 now, and to me these guys were legends. To them they were just living life, having fun, and loving their craft. They were an interesting caricature of the urban youth of that era.
I’m proud My tag came out in Wild Style in the first opening of train scene peep the right top side, RO has a throw up on front door. Also I believe they were also filming Dreams Don’t Die. My DELK tag came out on top of King 65 piece Fresh pond rd M yard
Spring 2005, a friend and i parked at a mall north of Cincinnati (Tri County Mall) and walked some nearby tracks just to see if we saw any graffiti on the underpasses. And we sure did! This one wall had Naceo, Zephyr, and Saint TMR handstyles and more. We later learned it was Met TA's wall and was super close to the Tropicana spot. So people would sign the wall when he took them to paint the Tropicanas. It was just crazy cuz we only been into graffiti for like 18 months after getting Style Wars vhs from the library
Zephyr is much much too humble. First of all, most influential tag of all time. Hands down. Sure, he had his influences, but when they're put together, that is the first real deal modern style tag. Secondly, and more importantly to me, those RTW piecing styles are super hardcore new wave fonk! Those styles were so original, with the incomplete outlines and little bits running over between the letters and cool layers of color and thin outlines and less emphasis on the 3D. Such a timeless and cool look. Those pieces will always look so awesome. I actually think people today have forgotten a lot of the lessons of those styles, how you can do things like that. Anyway, RTW takes a back seat to no one and no crew. Some of the best graffiti ever. You can look at Zephyr and Revolt pieces for hours and hours, they are so great.
@@smiauu not when the dude says “let me interrupt you for a moment”, that’s not a delay, you’re correct about the delay but a lot of interviewers interrupt their guests outright.
Was the reason Zephyr used to slash out Sahara tags due to him borrowing Rasta's A? I think Sahara altered it, unless I am misremembering. It has been at least forty years since I have last seen a Sahara tag.
Starting from either 1975 or 1976 to either 1978 to 1979, I overheard lots and lots of kids talking about different acts of violence that the GO Club had committed and different ways that they were violent. I didn't know whether or not they were also a street gang. GO stood for Graffiti Outstanding. I told my mother about them and then she told me that she read in newspapers that a member of the GO Club stabbed to death a man who knew karate and that a fourteen-year-old member of the GO Club pulled a knife on a cop. I overheard a classmate say that he saw a guy in a store who had a switchblade that had "GO" written on it in yellow ink. It is interesting that members of the Rebels had to consider the possibility of getting attacked by the GO Club since the GO club were mostly all members of the Rebels and were friends. I think something like one out of every ten kids in Manhattan ages ten to seventeen had heard about the GO Club. I remember in 1977 or 1976, someone wrote "GO Club and Rebels, N-Words beware" on a brownstone. Piggy Team Mex Vane T.Boy Aztec (Crime, Think Aztec) Rebel Rea
I remember that Rasta wrote Omin. I swear I saw at least one of his Min tags even though there was just a tiny amount of them. In either 1981 or 1980, I asked a friend of mine, "Who writes Min? Rasta?" He said, "I'm pretty sure that's NE."
Andy is telling an incredible story about taking Richie Seen to Brooklyn to piece with and meet Dondi, something most people don't know about, and Carl (Mare) interrupts, plugs his brother Kel, and forces the conversation away from it's most fascinating moment to talk galleries. Annoying.
Kung fu sucks moose turds. Not counting wing chun. Choy Lee Fut looks like it would work in combat. Scratching people's faces with the tiger claw would work and poking people with the mantis claw would work. Chinese martial arts are the most ineffective. I figured that out as child because I took praying mantis kung fu and knew better not to try and use it. To win a fight using kung fu, you have to use boxing, wrestling, French savate or muay thai or something better as your base. I read that Bruce Lee said that the only Chinese martial art that can beat taekwondo is Choy Lee Fut, so I investigated it on RU-vid. It didn't look stupid, but a boxer would pick a guy using it apart.
