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I know Ed but Gramps wanted to hear the story so...... Would like to hear more about the Graffiti Ed.

No apology needed Ed(won't call you Mr.as that could be seen as a mild insult,the horse and all)I have been the cat lately going off topic the most I think.Just saw the film "Kes"(1969) Was wondering if that was a film the Originals went to see.There are some cool clothes in it.

Thanks for the recommendation Ed.Found "If" def gonna check it out.I feel useful to this thread today.Hope a discussion of films will add to this story.Lasttye has started it.Never know what kind of tangent a simple question creates.Lasttye you posted a pic of you and your son.What does he think about you bein a skinhead and your skinhead youth?

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Originally Posted by Ed Vaughan 

Okay, kids, in the light of what superb, historical memories just enjoyed - and bearing in mind I'm just back from the 'battle-cruiser' (see, you southern chaps, Scotland is/was a great source of rhyming slang, too) can I raise the word: graffiti'?
Did you?
Where did you do it and, what was it?
I have tales, of a pal (RIP), who was prolific in proclaiming his love - not for a football team, nor a lifestyle - but for a bird, across south Manchester - in acrylic paint. And he really, really loved this dodgy boiler.
His actions - not just in having nicked the paint from garages, spares' shops and DIY shops (of which there were few, back in the day) - had me stabbed (seriously), bottled - still have the scar and feel it in cold weather - and a criminal record, through knocking about with him and 'rattling' (you know what I mean) her mother.
To us - just us? - it was probably (psychologists will concur, I reckon) like a dog/cat, beast of the field, just marking its' territory - and they may not be too far wrong in that hypothesis.
To us, it was (the graffiti)... saying, stay away. Everything you see - birds, pubs, clubs and territory - is 'ours'.
Unlike West Side Story, and even kids today who can't/won't cross borders.. we all did cross boundaries if there was the hint of a bit of - ladies, please forgive my crudeness... some 'flange'. to be had.
A bit of 'how's yer father' was, sometimes, worth the risk - no?
Can I pause here and later, tell you of my pal. Skinny Den (RIP), and how we woooed(!!!) - and kept - our girlies?

Indeed i did Ed, started off scratching me name in pebble dash/render etc, before moving on to a permanent marker, usualy leaving me name, other things would be a band name, what mob you knocked about with, football as mentioned, what you'd got up to with a girl, or a good old fashioned insult i.e name... is a bellend, but my fav was the comedy penis complete with vinegar effects.

Never bothered with a spray can, to bulky to carry around, expensieve and a waste if you were doing up a bike.

Heres some from up the road from me, those who've read pressure drop's book will know what it's about, theres not much of this left in Bristol now

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Originally Posted by Lasttye 


I remember Candy, What about Here we go around the Mulberry Bush,

Here we go round the mulberry bush was one of my favorites from back then, and yes I remember candy.  But seventeen i had forgotten all about that one.  That was very sexy for us 15 year olds back then.  i wonder if it was about on dvd?

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Originally Posted by Man-of-Mystery 


Where the M6 is cobbled and rainbows are in black-and-white, right?

Good one M.O.M.