Punk Rock "Gangs"

Chi-Town street punk dudes...I've heard of them. Fence-sitter scum. They're the type of people that would get banned here. They used to have a website like 10 years ago, don't know about now. The tiger guys are a mystery. There used to be tons of punk gangs in the early 80's scene, kind of non-existent now...aside from certain HxC crews.

 

Was going to be in one when I was younger.
Not a gang though. just a group of "punks" to defend ourselves from any gangster or nazi's in the area that would harass us.
Never went through with it though. I was young, I was 14 Friends were 16/17.

 

i dont think they ever claim to be a gang
but it seems implied. (did i spell that right?)
Im sure the mentality is there when it comes to
fighting one anothers fights.
its probably more along the lines of a social club
meaning they hang out with eachother.
i've witnessed them to play around with racist and
sexist terms for the sake of shock value which i think is stupid but i dont need to get into that.
it seems to be a popular re-occuring theme among sub-culture.
i've had people tell me they are goons.
you know yer run of the mill thug.
its no surprise.
a group of people fucking up isn't news.
im sure there is an argument that
"punk" is dangerous and you're going to bump elbows with
un savory types. i think its lame but maybe not untrue..
atleast among certain groups. i

 

In san diego over in the east county theres a group called the "Low Lifes", dont really know what they're about partly because they follow a code of "everything we do is secret" but they're just petty thieves and system fuckers from what i can gather, which is all good. just dont let'em near you stuff...or for that matter your drugs or booze!

 

How big is the "punkrock gang" thing on your side of the atlantic ocean?

In Denmark there isn't really any of such - which is nice.. Haha..

 

It's basically nothing here too. Like I said, aside from some of the tough-guy HxC crews, it's pretty rare.

 

That's good... I just heard a bit about it and it's hard to know how bad it is from the other side of the pond...

I never understood the idea of gangs anyway... Luckily there's not much of it where I live... Or well, a bit - but it's pretty easy to avoid bumping into...

 

I've got some gnarly stories about the 77's haha
I don't seem them much around anymore though,
and when I do it's the same few people just hanging out a shows


FSU (Friends Stand United) the militant straight edge gang were on the TV show Gangland the other day

assholes.

 

Yeah I saw that too. They (FSU/Friends Stand United/Fuck Shit Up) stomp neo-nazis wherever they find them, but they did kill a dude at a 25 Ta Life show. Not that I care much for 25 Ta Life or their macho homophobic fans with gangster mentality, but murder was a bit of an overkill, pun intended.


I was in a crew in my skinhead days, but it was more of just a group of friends drinking beer and listening to music at each other's houses, and travelling to shows together. It consisted of a mix of a few skinheads, a couple crusties, and some other people into punk, hardcore and indie rock that had nobody else to hang out with in our semi-little town. That's the way i liked it, diverse and unified. No need to jump in on anybody else's fight unless it was to keep things fair.

 

Slackbastard gone done an interesting piece on FSU a while back, the comments are worth a read

 

what?
any link to this episode?

 

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUP17oqmM9A[/video]

 

low lifes!!!

 

I cannot share those stories as they were some pretty sketchy times,, I hope you understand.

But I do remember that groups of these dudes would walk the streets at night and beat up crusties or as they called them "dirty kids"

And here is a murder that one was involved in: http://www.chitowndailynews.org/Chicago ... wning,9838
The comments below the main article may shed some light on this group

Also I remember someone getting jumped:
"Someone called about their son being jumped and attacked after a party at 1446 N Artesian.
The father reported that the son said these were members of Chi-Town 77 and that they outnumbered him 5-1.
He also reported that they used chains and a pipe on him."

It takes a quick google search to get a bunch of these stories so try that

 

Sound like a bunch of moronic chaos punx, nothing "all good" about that bullshit.