Cotton Comes to Harlem, Coming to America, Uptown Saturday Night, Superfly, Shaft, Enter the Dragon, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Loverboy (1989), A Bronx Tale, Scareface, On Golden Pond, King of New York, Colors
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The guys I looked up to the most was R.E. Randy, who wrote his name with a RE symbol, like Rare Essence, the big Go-Go band, Sir Nose 84, Meatball, Hit Man Jr, Tonya-F & Friends, 88 Fingers Ed, Hi.9, Joe Bird, Big Chill, TKO and Man = as = Cujo.
COOL =DISCO= DAN's Details
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Capricorn
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Cool “Disco” Dan is a Washington, D.C., legend, a symbol of survival of the city’s most difficult years. It was a graffiti nickname, written in marker and spray paint throughout Washington, D.C., clear and legible, never fancy. Any resident of Washington, whether young or old, stick-up kid or congressman, couldn’t help but be intrigued by its omnipresence. Who was this Cool “Disco” Dan? Cool “Disco” Dan is an anomaly: He lived in the crack-ridden Washington, D.C., —yet he never took or sold drugs. He witnessed at short range the spiraling street violence of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s that earned D.C. the dubious title of America’s “Murder Capital.”
Graffiti was really where Dan wanted to make his mark. He saw his heroes writing their names—such as R.E. Randy and Sir Nose 84—and wanted to be among them. Gradually, he wrote his name enough to get their attention, and to meet these street legends himself. But Dan took it farther—much farther—than any of them.
By the early ‘90s, Cool “Disco” Dan was D.C.’s biggest underground celebrity after painting his moniker all over the city until it seemed as though no wall, rooftop or street sign had been forgotten. He wrote on every Metro bus, and took his name to every neighborhood, crossing socio-economic boundaries in a way that no other graffiti writer in the city had ever done. He was obsessed with making a name for himself with graffiti street fame.
The soundtrack to the story of Cool “Disco” Dan isn’t disco, but the Go-Go beat, a fusion of funk and hip-hop almost entirely unknown outside of the Beltway. With names like Chuck Brown, E.U., Rare Essence, Trouble Funk, and Dan’s favorites, Class and Ayre Rayde, these Go-Go bands were some of the biggest names in town, yet they stayed local. Their shows were a sweaty, continuous beat, and a place where the Washington, D.C., community came together, both in peace and violence.
Dan is as much a fixture of Washington, D.C., as anyone, and it’s his city. He knows the city like no one else: Even today, he has a better knowledge of D.C.’s streets and back alleys than any cab driver. And from the time he was 19 years old, he was homeless—a homeless legend so much a part of his city that his spray-painted name is on permanent display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
But most importantly, the legions of his peers who are dead, incarcerated, or utterly adrift show Cool “Disco” Dan for who he truly is: a survivor who made it out alive. And in the process, he became a legend.
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Who I'd like to meet: People who have stories or pictures that could help me out with THE COOL "DISCO" DAN STORY, which is a documentary I am helping produce. So far it features Chuck Brown, Marion Barry, and members of E.U., Rare Essence, Trouble Funk, and many more people. It is set to be released in the Fall of '09. Here is some more info about the documentary:
THE COOL "DISCO" DAN STORY:
"The true story of an urban phantom &the murder capital that raised him"
The eighties were a peculiar time in the history of the nation’s capital. Even before Mayor Marion Barry was caught on camera smoking crack, D.C. had acquired a nasty reputation as the most dysfunctional city in America. "The United States’ political headquarters is fast becoming the murder capital of the U.S., with more than one killing per day," London’s Daily Telegraph told readers in 1989, "It is infested with drugs the streets are patrolled by an army of beggars the city is corrupt, inefficient and extremely dangerous."
The D.C. of newspapers, however, was not always a version that residents recognized. In their new film, urban culture expert Roger Gastman and music video director Joseph Pattisall take on the loaded questions of how bad the nation’s capital really was and why. Blending exclusive interviews and archival footage, these Washington natives aim to offer the most comprehensive portrait to date on this critical decade. The development of Go-Go, D.C.’s distinctive style of urban music, racial tensions, sensationalist media, crack and corruption, will all be important pieces of this story.
Playing tour guide through the historical journey is one of the few people who knew every block of the city during this conflicted time: graffiti legend Cool Disco Dan. The urban phantom, as the Washington Post called him, silently ruled the district during the height of the crack epidemic. Along the sides of metro tunnels, across billboards and walls in every neighborhood, his distinctive tag announced D.C. was his city. Ironically, as intrigue around his identity grew, his illegal scrawl became a unifying force. At the peak of his reign, he drew the admiration of police officers, drug lords and sheltered suburbanites, alike.Thankfully, after years of hesitation, this extremely private character is ready to open up about his twisted path to stardom. From his unusual vantage point, he is able to slice through the layers of myth surrounding crews, Go-Go and cultural order on the streets. As the film follows him through mental institutions, warring neighborhoods and vibrant shows, he will help carry viewers straight to the heart of the real D.C.
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