I could go and take some flix but most of his stuff is rare now, besides that the only hoods I seen his stuff is around Mile-End, Outremont, Parc Ex and like I said it's gettin rare
BUNCH OF OLD SHIT AT REDPATH [Broken External Image]:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/joshuapentel/REDPATH1.jpg PARC INTERCHANGE DABS 95 DABS AT REDPATH CASE FROM WHEN HE SATRTED PAINTING AGAIN, AND SAKE FROM 95
Fuck man Case had the whole city on lock with every thing man ...full color burners in heated areas....dope throws downtows and hiway spots... wild style pieces....Ill. Yah Sike From france had the shit in the city form as far back as i can rememeber...i used to bite that "S" so hard when i first started... WAY WAY back i would take teh 211 downtown....and i would climb up fire escapes to to flicks of Flow pieces....Dabs...Akira....and Seaz... i went up this one roof that t was on the corner or St catherines and some smaller street that was right in between st laurant and place des arts.. the fir escape was facing the street...so i started climbing it at about 11 am on tues... I got some nice pics of a Dabs and Flow that were facing each other on the roof.. But all i remember was some guy in a belle provence uniform taking a shit in the ally bellow...then walk out on to the street....i always wondered form that day why that guy didnt use the can at La belle just a block and a bit over..but hey As for VC last i saw of any of them was Castro serving me a piece of pie at Rocaberry's
[Broken External Image]:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/mewthree/33476.jpg 1984 by Ro-Z-x That pic was taken by Spek (dont know if he was in a crew.. but he used to paint @ redpath.. he had a tag on the suicide spot just next to Flow.. the spot that you reach by the secret room you have to climb up to)
[Broken External Image]:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/mewthree/33477.jpg 1995 Duluth street production, from left to right: P-chan caracter by Spek, Spek, Stack, Nabi, Croki. I dont know if it was this one.. This pic was also taken by spek
my cousin was down with spek but i havent heard any news from em lately i remember my cousin ''graffed'' back in 89, they started a crew called MountReal (MR) never got any ups but he and his friends had some great stories bout how they used to hit the metro back in the day with $0,59 cans of paint Damn that pic is nice (Ro-z-x) 21 yr old pic, nice! i was just a lil baby back then :lol:
Spek and Spark!!!! holy siht.. im never knew anybody that met them.. reminds me theeres some out of the way spots i rmember a spark graound up behind a school.. i want to se if still there.. they had a lot of tags and remeber there outlines (redpath etc.. i have some fickls from back then of theirs..
yeah I have a feeling Spek will show up in this thread at some point. untill then check out this cool sketch [Broken External Image]:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/mewthree/sparkman.jpg also this is a cool pic too (taken by spek) [Broken External Image]:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/mewthree/flowwork.jpg Spek has alot of oldschool redpath flicks along with some old TA wall pics of when you could still see the original concrete on the wall.
i didnt know that flow (presumably) knows him.. then again i didnt ask... dawm this got me exited .. maybe im a bit of a graff junkie but it feels so good to know there still around somewhere (whats up mew the last time i probly saw you was maybe at charlvoiux at nite talking by the entrance (maybe almost a year ago (dont say who am tho lol.. im not even a writer in this world kind of pulled my self out of it) but good lookin im surprised you knaow them... peace
[Broken External Image]:http://img23.exs.cx/img23/8974/HazeoRoller.jpg i did that hazeo roller back in 89.
ALRIGHT GUYS! I think it's well enough the time for me to show up, I'm SPEK, first started as SPARK in 1994, I retired in 1998 after an got in court incident with Stack, Nabi, and another french I don't remember. Since I keep close to the hip-hop world, partly by taking pictures of the hip-hop group Traumaturge ( Atach Tatuq) of different break-dancers and following DJs. I have all the pictures of the old school era of 1994-1998, Have the picture of first pieces of the following writters: Case, Jet, De Core, Save, Kram, Beam, Mush, Seaz, Flow, Timer, Nish, Zen, Quermit, Iatch, Swep, Aro, Res, and of course Spark and Spek. got picture of the whole Redpath, the first graf of the Ta-Wal and of the whole down town. If I can find the time to scan my many hundred of pictures I will post more and build a web site. First Whoa who is your cousin? second I think I have a penis in my eye as I took a Seaz & Mush picture in 1995 and at the time roller graf didn't exist, and there was nothing over it. Next CLose to the corner was an Zela alien caracter (very rare!!) Next post will be about the Montreal's graf history, from what I can remember, and the following ones about old school pics I took. Can pictures be posted without having an URL?
Here is the short Montreal graf history, from what I can remember. Political graffiti were alway present in Montreal, at least since paint and spray cans became commonly available at any hardware store. But around 1986, a man named himself "ZILON" started a new kind of art in the city something that use the the urban structures as a medium to show someone's art. Guys like Zilon and Roz-X painted their art illegaly on the wall of the Plateau and Downtown area. At the time police and people in general wasn't very much concerned about those activity, in fact nobody was aware of how big the game would become. Early 1990's thing started to move on. The hip-hop wave of New-york with all the subculture that comes with; Master of Ceremony (MC) Disk-jokey (DJ) with the break-dancers and the graffers, slowly started to grow in Montreal. At the time, Mersh, now better nowned as Dj STACK, and MAINK were making big graffiti all along the the main street of downtown, like Parc av, St-Laurent and along the CP railway in Rosemont. The art of Mersh and Maink was something never seen before in montreal, a work of letters and of fame. About at the same time in the western suburbs of Pierrefond and St-Pierre under the highway and along the CN rail way west of the Highway 15, more guys were starting to make graffiti production along the best concrete walls of the area. Guys like FLOW, SEAZER, KAS, primed for the first time the dry concrete walls of the west from 1993-1995. Back in those days graffers were more concerned about finding a good spot on a roof or in an old abandoned sugar Refinery like the Redpath than covering every centimeter of the downtown area with tags. A visual art bachelor named TIMER was doing only big master piece, his tags could be counted on the fingers of one hand. In 1994 a young man discovered the Redpath and started write SPARK, changing for SPEK not very long after as a four letter name is more versatile. That SPEK took many hundreds of pictures of the whole old school era; of what would be the golden age of the graffiti in Montreal. The tagging mania started around 1996 when the guys of Rosemont and Plateau area; STACK, ZECK, MAINK, SWARM, SIMO, FIUSER and specially CAST, "bombed" the all the alleys and mailbox, and phone box and street light and walls and..and... with tags and bubly letters.BAT standing for Bomb All Town, and JKR standing for Just Kusing Rocus, would be indeed causing lot problem to the city; grafftity was now for the first time becoming a threat for the city. In 1996 came the new idea of bigger is better. Before the huge SAIKO on the roof of the Canada Malting Plant, there was about no graf over there. The letters could be seen from miles away. A new category was born. Based on the work of COS and REV in New-York, people here started to make a new kind of graffiti, a style made with a paint roller and lots of guts to bend over a 10 story high building. CASE, SAKE, KOPS crew, painted all the last floor walls of the downtown buildings. Now things and people are crazy, there is too much people doing graffiti and too much doing it the wrong way. They focus on too much on the tags and not enough on the pieces and the quality. Back in the time the walls of Jenkins were of very poor quality compared to the TA-Wall and Redpath. Jenkins walls are not better now, but they are the only abandoned possibility. Lately Jenkins was almost fully demolished. Just like Jenkins, Canada Malting co. plant was a quite place to graf, now places like this are becoming quite rare. Today kids have very good pieces quality and make outstanding work thanks to the availability of the graffiti magazine in the specialised stores. They can completly copy the letters and the colors of somebody else and practice it on the wall. Sometimes it is almost like "copy-paste" SPEK 2005
that was done last year..... umm yea, that trackside is damn old. I was talking to Seaz about it. He was saying that was a sick spot back in the days. Post sum flicks if u can Spek. Peace.
oh and also i dunno if its really true but from a couple of guys i know i heard ...and i said heard that flow was guy youd get your nyfat caps and all that shit cuz hed be going to the state and come back with a big bag of it.....and repeat i heard
Haha, yes. I was the first person to sell 'graffiti supplies' in MTL. I used to sell NY fats & skinnies, German skinnies and Rusto fats. Carm used to always come by to get some, he usually came by with Tame.