Thanks to whoever found and published this. Brant was my college roommate and best friend for many important years and I was at this party and on this video. I've never seen it before but it means a lot that it exists.
Imagine all the people that didn't want to be on camera or thought it was stupid for Nelson to film. My point is, I don't think even Nelson realized how awesome it is that he filmed all this.
@Konga 5000 I think the couple were swingers and both bi. I also think that they got married so that she could have his wealth legally and easily. He died very near the time of Nelsons death. I think he knew he was sick. That's also why he retired.
@@Bill-cv1xu I'm the guy in the white sweater at approx 11:08 into the film . I knew Brant and Rhonda of course but had also met Sylvia and Brant and I went to college with Randy Jones who I had forgotten was also there that day . I'm so glad that people are still looking at Nelson's films after all these years .
Seeing Sylvia makes me chuckle. I still remember the video Nelson made at her Woodstock cottage. Her bipolar, manic, explosive behaviour was off the charts. 😂
Loving this video all these young gays living their lives even though it was the 80's. People were not very open to the gay culture. Glad to see this group was.
They were also a very artistic crowd of people. Sylvia Miles, Nelson himself, Rhonda was a muscician and she and Brant played together in a little hip band. Brant also worked for Rolling Stone magazine back when it was extremely popular and booming. There were all types of creative, artsy people on that yacht. 1985 in New York city was an amazing time and place to be. It was rockin the old New York before it became a crappy corporate gentrified Disneyland.
same here. I actually saw one he shot with the now explosion that was filmed the day I was born. I love that he was able to capture NYC on video in this way that I don't think anyone else has, atleast this extensively.
People were much more comfortable with each other back then, then they're now a days, I wish I was a young adult in 1985 best time ever to experience the fashion and more free spirited people and of course the amazing music
Juan Gomez actually, most weren't! Back then, ppl just kept their feelings in for the sake of looking appropriate. At a party like that, with the groom's relatives assuming he's Str8(as I've read from another commenter), I can clearly notice the "oil & water" vibe when the transvestites meet with the relatives boarding. Growing up ethnic, and knowing I was a lesbian as a child in the 80's, I remember these things all too well. Trust me, times are far better today!
I was born in 1990 and I came out as gay at age 18 in 2008 and now we've got full rights on our side which did not exist back then so I'm blessed and with that being said the fashion was way more expressive/hair and the music in the 1980's so I'd at least take that into the present if I could 😁 however I am grateful most of the 80's fashion has made a come back believe it or not with a modified modern touch still basically the same, so has the music but at a much slower pace 😎😆
The 80s were so much happier and peaceful aside from AIDS unfortunately but it was as you say much more warm and comfortable. Lots of fun. Another dimension really!
What an eclectic group. That seems to sum up 80s New York. Conservative types mixing with the alternative types. The conservatives trying to loosen up and mix with the artistically relevant people while the fringes of society who were previously anti establishment embraced mixing with the wealthier conservative types. It was an interesting time of different factions of society mixing together
I suspect the drugs had a lot to do with it lol... but I agree. I feel like the late '60s had a bit of a similar dynamic, too- the straight-laced mixing it up with the rebels. It went away in the comparatively dull '70s but made a big comeback in the '80s. Much more interesting times.
I always knew him as a columnist writer. And of course he would speak in musician biographies and shit in MTV I never thought I'd see his 80s life. Hes ok but when him and Albert are together they're fucking funny.
Jose Ramos that lady...Sylvia miles ;) check her out in midnight cowboy, heat, sex and the city, Wall Street. Some small scenes but huge performances :)
Lol yeah that's how alot of actors and actresses are. Shes absolutely an acquired taste but she was an amazing actress and she seems genuine although extremely rough around the edges. We all have a sylvia in our families lol.
@@SusieSynth Micheal Musto was never an Club Kid. He was much older than that crowd. He was and is an Journalist. He was invited to a lot of events, so he could write about them. Micheal would dress in drag when going to certain parties or events. If it wasn't drag, he was often dressed very flamboyantly.
@@imkorona6592 I love just going out on the boat in the game and jam to the 80s music and the crazy news casts. After some tough missions it helps me relax a little to try more or retry a failed mission
Roy Mustang I'm thinking he died of an illness because he left his prestigious job and moved out of New York about a year before he died. Probably AIDS because of the time period. A lot of people kept that a secret back then.
I wonder if there's any footage like this from the black gay males perspective in the 80s. These videos are so cool , i enjoy the atheistic of everything/everyone
Earl Brantley ``Brant' Mewborn, senior editor of Rolling Stone, died Wednesday May 2, 1990 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham. He was 38. Mewborn, a native of Greene County, was a resident of New York City and Woodstock, N.Y.Duke Medical Center spokeswoman Lisa Squires said it was against hospital policy to release Mewborn's cause of death.
@@Bill-cv1xu he worked at a music shop near Carnegie Hall and a cable company. He quit that job 3 days before his passing because he was about to debut his cable TV show featuring his clips.
I love Nelson Sullivan and what he’s done with his camera. With that said majority of these people have the personality of Michael Alig except they just didn’t go into a dark space. There is an entitlement there that one can definitely put their fingers on.
@Steve G Yugoslavia was a phantasy name for a lot of Balkan countries that were "united" first under a kingdom and than as a communist dictatorship. There are currently six successor states of Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia.
I just watched a documentary made in 1986 about the poor people in America and it was like a 3rd world country and now UA-cam algorithm is showing me this 1985 hatch party video. It’s like 2 different worlds in the same country. Rich partying while poor begging for bread to feed their children. 😮
from what I could look up she has remarried a man named John, lives in Kinderhook,and seems to live a more toned down life. She looks like a ordinary grandmother in her early 60s.
This is a video of hell. I’m not even religious but this has to be what hell is like. Like the end of the shining.. you’ve always been here jack. Creepy shit
Thanks to whoever found and published this. Brant was my college roommate and best friend for many important years and I was at this party and on this video. I've never seen it before but it means a lot that it exists.
Imagine all the people that didn't want to be on camera or thought it was stupid for Nelson to film. My point is, I don't think even Nelson realized how awesome it is that he filmed all this.
Which one are you?
@Konga 5000 I think the couple were swingers and both bi. I also think that they got married so that she could have his wealth legally and easily. He died very near the time of Nelsons death. I think he knew he was sick. That's also why he retired.
@@Bill-cv1xu I'm the guy in the white sweater at approx 11:08 into the film . I knew Brant and Rhonda of course but had also met Sylvia and Brant and I went to college with Randy Jones who I had forgotten was also there that day . I'm so glad that people are still looking at Nelson's films after all these years .
Aww this video is so amazing I’m glad you got to watch it. ❤
Seeing Sylvia makes me chuckle. I still remember the video Nelson made at her Woodstock cottage. Her bipolar, manic, explosive behaviour was off the charts. 😂
Watching these makes the cold weather look "warm."
All the great mullets, the crimped hair lady, no cell phones yet, just so fantastic to have this.
Loving this video all these young gays living their lives even though it was the 80's. People were not very open to the gay culture. Glad to see this group was.
They were also a very artistic crowd of people. Sylvia Miles, Nelson himself, Rhonda was a muscician and she and Brant played together in a little hip band. Brant also worked for Rolling Stone magazine back when it was extremely popular and booming. There were all types of creative, artsy people on that yacht. 1985 in New York city was an amazing time and place to be. It was rockin the old New York before it became a crappy corporate gentrified Disneyland.
It was more open then than now.
and these viseos keep coming amazing
This was the year I was born. It's great to see the world at this time, especially through Nelson's lens.
same here! I did a (very) short video in honor of Nelson on my channel.
same here. I actually saw one he shot with the now explosion that was filmed the day I was born. I love that he was able to capture NYC on video in this way that I don't think anyone else has, atleast this extensively.
Ikr? I was only one myself. It's cool to see what life was like around the time we were born.
I was born 8 years later.
I hope we see more archives like this from the early days of affordable video added to UA-cam.
People were much more comfortable with each other back then, then they're now a days, I wish I was a young adult in 1985 best time ever to experience the fashion and more free spirited people and of course the amazing music
Juan Gomez you were so lucky to be coming of age in those times! Coming of age in these times isn't the best....
.. Which times what?
Juan Gomez actually, most weren't! Back then, ppl just kept their feelings in for the sake of looking appropriate. At a party like that, with the groom's relatives assuming he's Str8(as I've read from another commenter), I can clearly notice the "oil & water" vibe when the transvestites meet with the relatives boarding. Growing up ethnic, and knowing I was a lesbian as a child in the 80's, I remember these things all too well. Trust me, times are far better today!
I was born in 1990 and I came out as gay at age 18 in 2008 and now we've got full rights on our side which did not exist back then so I'm blessed and with that being said the fashion was way more expressive/hair and the music in the 1980's so I'd at least take that into the present if I could 😁 however I am grateful most of the 80's fashion has made a come back believe it or not with a modified modern touch still basically the same, so has the music but at a much slower pace 😎😆
The 80s were so much happier and peaceful aside from AIDS unfortunately but it was as you say much more warm and comfortable. Lots of fun. Another dimension really!
Albert looks fabulous in that hat!
What an eclectic group. That seems to sum up 80s New York. Conservative types mixing with the alternative types. The conservatives trying to loosen up and mix with the artistically relevant people while the fringes of society who were previously anti establishment embraced mixing with the wealthier conservative types. It was an interesting time of different factions of society mixing together
I suspect the drugs had a lot to do with it lol... but I agree. I feel like the late '60s had a bit of a similar dynamic, too- the straight-laced mixing it up with the rebels. It went away in the comparatively dull '70s but made a big comeback in the '80s. Much more interesting times.
Michael Musto always comes across as such a poser in these videos.
Hugh Simon Probably because he was.
I hate the bastard
Always was a poser. Never believed for a minute he had an ounce of talent.
Konga 5000 🤣 I can always expect (when I see a video with Musto) there will ☝🏼 be a post regarding that hair
I always knew him as a columnist writer. And of course he would speak in musician biographies and shit in MTV I never thought I'd see his 80s life. Hes ok but when him and Albert are together they're fucking funny.
That lady that says am I sitting on the caps table is an actress she plays meryl Streep’s mother in she devil lol
Jose Ramos that lady...Sylvia miles ;) check her out in midnight cowboy, heat, sex and the city, Wall Street. Some small scenes but huge performances :)
Its Sylvia Miles and she's an irate woman. Very high strung nervous and mean most of the time.
Lol yeah that's how alot of actors and actresses are. Shes absolutely an acquired taste but she was an amazing actress and she seems genuine although extremely rough around the edges. We all have a sylvia in our families lol.
@@SusieSynth she’s not mean, you just need to know how to handle such woman 😂
@@fluffyhead6377 lolol it's a year late, but here's your award for most asinine comment
The sound of the shoes on the pavement is such ASMR to me. Idk why lol
Me too
Wow beautiful! Back then is much peaceful. And again here i was a cute little 1 year old bab
The captain never has to wait long for the queen to show up in a Nelson video,lol.
9:59 "Oh my god we're moving, we're moving ARFF-CHRUGG-FRSHH-CHUGGGA"
Is this not the most glam title for a video on youtube?
Pure opulence
Albert's hat was awesome!
n the 1980s, when Rolling Stone editor Brant Mewborn became sick with AIDS, Wenner paid for all of his hospital bills until Mewborn died in 1990.
Drag has come a long way since the 80s.
Lol musto isnt drag hes a club kid
@@SusieSynth Micheal Musto was never an Club Kid. He was much older than that crowd. He was and is an Journalist. He was invited to a lot of events, so he could write about them.
Micheal would dress in drag when going to certain parties or events. If it wasn't drag, he was often dressed very flamboyantly.
I was nearly 6 mos old when this was filmed...
Oh God it's albert and musto haha. Amazing footage as always.
I'm in the mood to play some GTA vice city now and chill on the boat
No gta 5
That was the very first thought that came to my mind too! I love that game 💚
@@imkorona6592 I love just going out on the boat in the game and jam to the 80s music and the crazy news casts. After some tough missions it helps me relax a little to try more or retry a failed mission
IMVU
9:27 Looks like Randy Jones aka Cowboy from the Village People. Handsome man!
I guess brant and Rhonda did quite well back then.
This is awesome! Does anyone know what Brant Mewborn died of? He died so young.
Brent Audi that's what I've been trying to find out! I have no idea what he died of and he was young!
Roy Mustang It's very hush-hush.
Hugh Simon I wonder why?
Roy Mustang I'm thinking he died of an illness because he left his prestigious job and moved out of New York about a year before he died. Probably AIDS because of the time period. A lot of people kept that a secret back then.
He died of aids in 1990. He married Rhonda to present as straight and for his family. This happened a lot back then in the professional world.
The man the myth the legend
No cell phones...they actually talked to each other.
I'd rather die!
Why dear why?
13yrs later, had my prom on a yacht there...
Same!
Wow
That was an Awesome Prom I bet!!
I would've went to mine if it was like this. 😆
Very cool.
Nelson passed in 1989, Brant in 1990, and I heard Rhonda passed in 1995. Not sure if that is true.
Is that Daniel Ash of Bauhaus at 6:45?
there is a book out there called sticky fingers. very interesing. they mention brant mewborn
No social distensing no face masks, You could smoke in doors and people actually spoke to each other. This Hurts So Much....Damn you 2020
Except for the smoking part I'm with you. Better times then.
Anyone know the Blonde is who is in the middle at 10:22-10:26 ? She's seen throughout the video.
She seems so fun and so sweet. Very pretty too.
She’s so Ute
I love Manhattan
You can almost smell all the cocaine on board in this video...
The guy at looks like Julian Lennon at 4:02
6:45 She looks like Celine Dion hahaha
9:28 is that Randy from the VP?
Who was that with Michael Musto in the fluffy white hat?
bigjohnjr04 That’s Albert Crudo. Friend of Musto and Nelson and a regular part of the gang. He’s still around.
I wonder if there's any footage like this from the black gay males perspective in the 80s. These videos are so cool , i enjoy the atheistic of everything/everyone
Russia paul is in many of these vids
That would be awesome if there was
Paris is unit was around the same time as this
Rhonda reminds me of Molly Ringwald a little
I'm totally in love with Liz 😍😍😍
!985 wow what a flash back now Back to the Future with no WTC.
What ever happened to Rhonda and brant?
maritza cardona Rhonda is still alive but we don't know what she's up to nowadays and brant died back in '89 I believe, the same year Nelson died.
He passed away in 1990.
+Ken George Jones That's sad to hear. How did Brant die?
I'm not sure.
Earl Brantley ``Brant' Mewborn, senior editor of Rolling Stone, died Wednesday May 2, 1990 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham. He was 38.
Mewborn, a native of Greene County, was a resident of New York City and Woodstock, N.Y.Duke Medical Center spokeswoman Lisa Squires said it was against hospital policy to release Mewborn's cause of death.
Isn't that just like the Circle Line tour boat?
Still exists
No fancier
the energy goes so DOWN when musto appears huh....
FASHION
Albert and michael are together in a lot of these nelson films. Were the friends or an item?
As far as I know, just friends. Everyone was always trying to be where it was "happening". LOL
Tony Tigre Friends. Albert was with Trade off and on, I believe.
@@phillgreenland2390 Trade? Really?? I had no idea about that. Learn something new every day.
@@alexziggyful very true. No social media meant actual human socializing. Which is truly much better.
What did Nelson do for a living?
He supposedly was a cabbie,and he worked for a music publisher? Not certain.
@@Bill-cv1xu he worked at a music shop near Carnegie Hall and a cable company. He quit that job 3 days before his passing because he was about to debut his cable TV show featuring his clips.
5:09 can you have a grander entrance?
Literally! They look like the ride and groom lol
I love Nelson Sullivan and what he’s done with his camera. With that said majority of these people have the personality of Michael Alig except they just didn’t go into a dark space.
There is an entitlement there that one can definitely put their fingers on.
I Just love Michael Musto. He's one of my favorites, hilarious.
And his Pac Man crossover bag is just great!
Nobody Beats The Wiz! 😆😆
11:07 A challenger appears.
PC Richard's bits the wiz )))
Good ole booz cruise ❤
Nelsons first camera had some funky color effects. :D
I would imagine it was probably the age of the tapes that started to get old and lose their color and quality
Nelson was a twinkle toes, right?
who's that pretty blond boy worth the photographer chick?
Where is Jann Wenner??
I was wondering the same thing. Jann was a great and loyal friend, secretly paid all of Brant Mewborn's medical bills as he was dying.
What ever happened to Rhonda granger
7:52 Owen Wilson
2:07 I wasn’t watching just listening and I swear I thought that was Joan Rivers talking 😂
I love seeing the world before rap music. Everyone was so polite.
Rhonda married a gay man? How does that work?
I was 6 then,and lived in communist Yugoslavia ,Im so happy they had their liberty in New York ,over here they would have been in prison or shot!
@Steve G Yugoslavia was a phantasy name for a lot of Balkan countries that were "united" first under a kingdom and than as a communist dictatorship. There are currently six successor states of Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia.
@Steve G You're welcome. Yes, she is.
I just watched a documentary made in 1986 about the poor people in America and it was like a 3rd world country and now UA-cam algorithm is showing me this 1985 hatch party video. It’s like 2 different worlds in the same country. Rich partying while poor begging for bread to feed their children. 😮
What happened to Rhonda
from what I could look up she has remarried a man named John, lives in Kinderhook,and seems to live a more toned down life. She looks like a ordinary grandmother in her early 60s.
Wow interesting tho smh smh
Musto was always an eyesore, no talent, looks or appeal whatsoever.
This is a video of hell. I’m not even religious but this has to be what hell is like. Like the end of the shining.. you’ve always been here jack. Creepy shit
nativenuggets76 Well brother...future liberals and Obama/clinton/Sanders voters
California is way way worse right now!
I think you in this video
9:27 the only black man on the ship and he looks very uncomfortable.
what's your point
Stop projecting
@@blobcity3591Yes, my point is he looks uncomfortable. Its not complicated.
@Steve G Thank you. but, I'm a her
@@cruiser_b9779 Its not called projecting. It's called observing. Obviously something you don't do.
9:28 Randy Jones of the Village People getting sun ☀️