Dirty Old 1970’s New York City
I’ve been following this page on facebook for what must be
about 12 months now with a healthy degree of interest and curiosity
My association with NYC is purely musical at this stage in
my life and sadly not physical having not visited, however much of what I
reference or trace back musically comes directly from The Big Apple and has
done so for over 30 years since I initially came into contact with Hip Hop and
BBoy culture as a teenager here in The UK
Having been raised on names such as Fab 5 Freddy, Double
Trouble, Rocksteady, The Roxy, Cold Crush ect ect it’s been fulfilling to begin
to see images associated with 1970’s New York that have come from source material that lives
outside of my direct musical references
Having followed Dirty Old 1970’s NYC and enjoyed receiving
regular pictorial updates through their facebook page, I’ve started creating a
visual picture in my mind of what the city looked and felt like at the time when
the early Hip Hop scene was building and also when the whole 70’s underground disco scene would have been gathering
steam
This non musical picture lends itself well to the thousands of images and
stories I’ve researched that are directly linked to the musical developments of
that time and for me at least has created a fuller understanding and
appreciation of that era that I would love to
share with you the readers of this blog
If like me you entered into things pre acid house here in this country or afterwards
but have an interest in the city’s musical past then this group is an excellent
place to start getting a wider feel for the time and space where it all began as far as modern day black dance music culture is concerned
