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Ghost and Sash RIP / Bronx, New York, USA / 1983 Boo (Ghost) and PEAK / Queens, New York, USA / late 1981 GHOST / Bronx, New York, USA / circa 1984 / photo by WANE GHOST: I saw a few people painting spraycans so I had to try and paint my own Jiffoam cap. GHOST and Joey (STRIDER) / Manhattan, New York, USA / 1983 GHOST: Joey was hanging out and asked Strider to do an outline for him. Strider wound up doing the whole piece. LOST and GHOST / Brooklyn, New York, USA / 1983 GHOST / Brooklyn, New York, USA / 1987 GHOST: This was from an old 1984 sketch. I wanted to finally do it on a train but didn’t get to finish it. 14 15
Ghost, Lost and Saint / Queens, New York, USA / 1987 Rockin’ it Suckers Lost came up with the RIS crew in 1983. He came up with the name from a breakdance crew called Rock With Style. After some discussion we changed it to Rocking in Style. At the time I was a recruiter. We wanted to keep the crew small and consisting of writers that got up instead of having a crew filled with people that didn’t bomb. It was Lost, Neo, Dutch, Dasher, and I that started it off. Later on we added Ingy, Visa, and EA One, who were all also from Queens. After some time we realized we didn’t have much style so we changed the name of the crew to Rocking it Suckers. Since we had a lot of beef at the time, the word “suckers” represented anyone who was against us, whether cops, the MTA, or other writers. I never really looked at us as a gang or anything like that, it was just something that I wrote because it represented my attitude—that we are the RIS crew and you suck. Between 1985 and 1986 I slowed down considerably but in 1987 I met up with Saint and Cro who got me back into it since they were very active at the time. One night’s mission turned into another and so on. It just flowed; the timing was right. Eventually Neo introduced me to Ven, who asked me to paint with him at the Shuttle*. The first pieces I painted at the Shuttle sucked: it was too dark and they were ugly. So I came back again to do a better piece and that turned into more. Lost used to say that we would never be satisfied because we always wanted to do one more. One more led to another and that momentum lasted for over two years. Then it wasn’t just about doing it to catch pictures. ‘Cause all of a sudden we were at war with the MTA painting clean trains, at war with people on the streets—it was just non-stop. *Franklin Avenue Shuttle lay-up LOST / Manhattan, New York, USA / 1983 GHOST: Lost was the president of RIS. This block letter was done along with the ‘Ghost-Joey’ car. 20 21 “ I’ve never claimed to be king, I’m just a vandal doing my thing. ” <strong>ghost</strong>
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