Great vid for the younger kids. They tend to have a romanticized idea of what a greaser gang is. They think it's get into a few fist fights, have some smokes and that's it. They don't realize the dangers with other, non greaser gangs like bloods, crips, 18th street, etc they may come across with. Like you said, just keep it about the style, the music and the art.
You're absolutely right madman, car clubs and regular hangout clubs are the best. Even joining you're local bowling league is a blast I go out every Tuesday and Friday nights. Keep on with the great videos. -Crush
Kryptic Art I hope it never meet you. I was a Teddyboy in my teens a lot of my mates were gresser /rockes rockabilly. your head would be so far up your ass it will never see daylight. times were hard back then, life was hard. we made our own entertainment. unlike you, you have everything handed to you on a plate. you're are a bunch of poffs, you sit in front of a camera and you think your hard
Hard? You don't even know what hard is dude. I grew up in North Long Beach CA where people are gunned down for just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and gangs run the streets. Guess what I am still alive! Not one of my buddies had an easy life, not one! Maybe if you watch my videos and turn your hearing aids up grandpa you might learn a thing or two.
Perhaps your DIALysis on your hearing UNIT needs to be replaced as it is to cube like to rotate and pick up such easily heard and obvious frequencies. You and your hearing aid are just bad news for everybody.
I'm not any part of Greaser culture, I just like leather jackets. But my coworker is part of a legitimate greaser club of wops and micks (his words, not mine) from the 40's. He says the number one rule is "If it's a gang, it's not greaser. Gangs are for blacks." lol,
I grew up in Wilmington. We had or have Wilmas grease Hell cats Pedro grease Carson grease Dominguez boys Royal cats I joined the Dirty Devils 16 years ago. Still going strong. Shit has changed though. Most of the club's have matured I think. Back in the day it was just no talking it out. Good times
I live in Wilmington crazy i just moved here a year ago from the Valley and i had no idea until recently that Wilmington and South Bay area are deep like that
My uncle was a greaser in the late 50's and early 60's and was part of a gang in Detroit just west of downtown. My dad was a little younger and would tag along. Both had that typical fonzie look according to old pics I've seen ie leather jackets, t shirts, jeans, motorcycle boots, the pomps and duck tail hair do. Even when I was a little kid in the very early 70's you can tell they still had that swag. My mom came out of a middle class family and they didn't like him and called my dad white hoodlum trash. I've heard stories about how my uncle would beat people up either for the fun of it or on a bet. And both him and my dad carried straight razors and at times guns. My dad at 15 was packing heat and this was the early 60's and not even the modern gangsta era. And my uncle got himself shot when he was 17 thank god he survived, barely. My dad said they were like the real life west side story. I ended up a haedbanger/metalhead in the 80's and looking back I realize that I was just a modern version of a punk under class misfit like he was. I wore jeans, t's and rock t's of course, leather jacket really long hair etc. The only real difference was that my generation of rock was just heavier and our hair was a little longer without the grease. The parallels were there.
my grandfather was one too he was born in 1934 and i say a piture of him he was wearing a leather jacket with his his hair slicked back. he tells the stuff he did as a kid. he could have a story for every day of the year.
The hard truth about street gangs since the when they were first formed is that they aren't created. They are groups of boys that come together because they grow up in the same neighborhood, are usually friends, and stick together out of necessity and the desire to be recognized and known. Our gang, The Sinners, had some of the toughest guys around and we all had heart. We brothered with a local Puerto Rican gang and nobody messed with us. Now, the important thing to remember is that you don't *have* to be criminals. While it's true that there was some petty law breaking, we didn't sell drugs and we only fought when pushed. We would rather hang around the neighborhood park (our turf), drink cheap wine and make out with our girlfriends. So my advise to the little posers out there is that if you ain't the real deal. Don't try to be. You'll just look like an asshole.
Good point I hear about a lot of original era guys talk about their "social athletic club" from those times, and it always seemed to me the gangs from that era had more sense and honor about them self's than the gangs I grew up with. I knew of a Greaser gang one of the bigger ones at that time that would jump you just because you were a greaser and they were bored. Back in the day like you said groups of guys get together from the neighborhood and form gangs and stick together out of necessity. They cats I knew back in my teenage years didn't all come from the same neighborhood, there was beef sometimes for no good reason at all. A lot of beef had to do with ego vs a solid problem. My buddies and I stuck together, drank cheap beer in the park, ran around the streets, went to shows, and had a great time just hanging with one another.
The "social clubs" and street gangs were pretty much the same thing back in the day. Having a tough name didn't make a group any tougher. Many street gangs had no name at all. They were just known by the street or area that they were from. Like the Forsyth Street Boys. Gangs on the Lower East Side were practically a tradition going all the way back to the 1800's. My father was in one. It was the environment that created street gangs. The tenements were so full of kids right after WW II that we just naturally kept rubbing against each other and fighting for space. My neighborhood was mostly Irish and Puerto Rican, so you can imagine what that mixture was going to get you. Gang members now appear to be cradle to grave, where we were finished with that scene by the time we were 17 or 18, as we were getting drafted for Viet Nam or going out to work. Our parents just wouldn't put up with that stuff. You either worked and contributed to the rent, or out you went! I said "the hell with this" when two guys from another gang in a neighborhood nearby were shot by rival gang bangers. This was in about 1963, and the worm was starting to turn. When I got out of the service in '69 the whole neighborhood culture had changed. The teenaged gangs had mostly disappeared and we were starting to see "life member' types that dealt drugs and were going to be career criminals. When i got married we moved out of there and never looked back.
@@gunhawk01 hmm so kinda like me and my buddy Mel huh damn I'm the only greaser in OKC there's none at least no one I'm the only one there might be out there but not where I am. I'm 27 now tho so I keep it clean. As long as no one messes with me we're good, I do need a babe though lol
@@gunhawk01 me and my buddy have troubles more like housing or poverty stuff and life problems I feel that's a greasers way too I could be wrong but I see it as a lifestyle I just do this naturally now since I became one even if I got called a poser back in 2011 I still kept going Ignored them. Hey I found out half of em are quiting and im just like there probably doing it wrong cus this is for life and it is. It's my life style now so I believe there's no quitting. My hair Is falling off, so who knows I guess once it falls do I keep the legacy going maybe buy a hat or something keeping it gold till I can't no more
Thank you for putting this out there for the next gen. I was in South O.C. and saw plenty of bs with the "gangs" there and as a part of that scene, I agree with you completely.
My take on the greasers of the 1950's and early 60's, and I am old enough to remember the end of the era. Most greasers were just blowfish. They responded to the heavy social pressure and maintained the look. The pretended like they were tough but they weren't, and the few guys who were actually more physical pushed them around in a generally not very violent way. It was usually more display to establish dominance than real fighting. But the even the guys who were physically dominant on the block weren't really that tough in most cases, they were just pushing around guys whose physical capacities were essentially a one, two or a three on a ten scale. Then there was another type. In spite of the fact that the 1950's greasers were not really very tough, you do know, everywhere you go in the world and in every time, there are some pretty tough customers. The greasers had some too. There were a small number of guys who were seriously dangerous, and these often were a little on the mentally disturbed side. Some of them were seriously disturbed. These types sometimes ended up in prison. Some of them ended up dead at an early age, sometimes by their own hand. They used pills, reds and greenie, the greenies to speed on the reds to crash with. Or they drank and took reds to knock themselves out. I suspect some of them as they got older, into their late teens and early 20's, started having some kind of a secret life, and who knows what that involved. It oculd have been anything. I am here talking about male greasers. There were female greasers who got deep into it too, and who knows what happened to them. The women can speak to their own experiences and remembrances. I wasn't really that close to all of this, I was just in my early teens when this era started to draw to a close. But I do remember people pointing out to me some of the greaser "kings", powerful older guys who actually were living troubled lives, and telling me their names. I remember hearing of some of them later coming to a bad ends. It was not happy days back then. Rebel without a cause just about sums it up. The counterworld of the later hippie subculture could be a troubled place too, but that's another story.
Wear the fashion,, join the social club if you like, please listen to to this gentleman's advice and don't form a gang that gets you into the world of crime.
People don’t grab the concept that greasers were a gang and not just kids thinking they were elvis Greasers all had bad lives all probably got beat up by their dads and kicked out of the house all the time
Hey Madman, I just started the greaser style and since Tom left I didn't have much people to watch but , I found your channel and love your videos, Keep up the great videos cat.
Great video. I genuinely admire your stance on the whole thing. I'm wondering if maybe a lot of the comments about starting 'gangs' were simply wrongly worded by younger cats who actually did mean 'clubs' rather than 'gangs', but still, it was cool of you to clear it up.
Glad you said it. There was a group of kids in my neighborhood who started a greaser gang and they got very territorial and unfortunately they decided to try to steal a older mans car parts they got shot at and arrested all in one night
there are 2 major gangs i know over here in California. The "HellViperKings"....who i run into all the time, and the "Midnight Kats". i go to compton to visit all the time and theres alot of beef there
Salvador Martinez i had my own group a couple months ago, it was just trouble...we started to go to back yard shows and we eventually ran into the Viper Kings... My friend wanted to merge with them but I said hell no. that's why I left the Social Club and went on my own
Yeah gangs are no good. It doesn't matter if a greaser gang, biker gang, street gang or organized crime gang. Gangs are just no good. I never tried to start a greaser gang, where I live which is Albuquerque New Mexico. There are no greaser gangs here as far as I know. Although I have had trouble with street gangs, just because of my greaser look. They all assumed I was starting a gang. I've been jumped many times, I've knives pulled on me, I've been shot at a few times. Listen to Madman kids, stay away from gangs. If you join a gang, or start one it's going to end one of two ways. Behind bars, or in the ground.
Cheers from Chicago GayLords street gang. Chicago's 1st greaser gang in 1945 and now the last in 2018. Stakes are definitely high. Especially in the murder capital!
Good message. Glad I found this channel, you and Outlaw greaser and some of the other cats should do some collaborations. Also, he tossed around the idea of greasers from around the country gettin together for a meetup at some point. That should definitely happen at some point
my pops was in a grease gang in the 60s. we live in Oklahoma and the outsiders really was big. my pops was a lot like dally. he did get killed when we was 19 but his last name put me in. he was in and out of jail, got in a lot of fights, carried a switchblade everywhere. he kept a. Notebook of everything that went down and after reading it I realized I didn’t want to be a part of that game I don’t wanna be a part of the greasy but I was tied in already so that’s how I grew up and now I got to stay out because I have a lot of friends dead a lot of friends in jail because of everything. In my opinion stay out for your future for everything it’s not like it was back in the 50s and 60s but it still has that wrap of it was in the 50s and 60s still carry my knives guns jail stat out
It's the same thing if a group of metal heads are hanging out together in a parking lot,if they are harassing anyone it's unlawful assembly or inciting a riot,hence, gang activity.
Good advice. Things are bad enough without kids romanticizing about how things were back in the 50s and 60s. Joining a club or hanging out at events are the best way to meet other friends and just enjoy the culture. Being iin a gang, of any kind, is never the right thing to do.
Im 29 and my bf is 31 we both were into that life and we both regret it to this day. It makes your life harder when u want to settle down and have a better life. Its not worth it
A lot of MC clubs. SOC Clubs turn to Gangs. Not all but most of em start off that way. Learn your colors also. Black is mainly neutral but careful reguardless. Stay safe.
Chicago's Greasers fought the Collegiates (mods) and the longhairs. They came out of Cicero, Berwyn, Summit Argo, Oak Park, and Forest Park. Harlem Ave, Roosevelt Ave was their stomping ground.
I was from the far south side of Chicago's Avalon Park and south suburban Riverdale in the late 50's and 60's. I was a college bound kid that grew up with the greasers. In the mid-late 60's Greasers were dominant in my blue collar neighborhood. It was all about being a bad****** and intimidation. No real organized gangs. Nothing like the movie "Outsiders". Greasers like to fight so you stayed out of their way. Their look was the tight black slacks and pointed toe cuban heel shoes with metal cleats. ...which you could hear two blocks away. and a lot of spitting on the sidewalk. Cabretta black leather button jackets or denim jackets was the style with the Italians having the best greased ducktail hair. My cousins lived in West suburban Lyons and Brighton Park on Chicago's southwest side....grease neighborhoods. Many hung out at White Castles. Unlike being a greaser today (called Hoods in the 50's) (pronounced Hoouuds like ooh la la) .....Doo wop or rockabilly music was not even played on the radio after 1964 in Chicago. Nobody in white or black neighborhoods was "doo wopping" on street corners or listening to rockabilly at that time. Unlike my college friends, I identified with the 50's music Elvis, Gene Chandler Duke of earl etc. and the ducktail hair which I adopted for myself. I didn't like the racism, hate, and criminal behavior typical of many of the greasers from that time era the worst of which ended up dead or in jail. While never a tough guy myself, my DA hairstyle (which I still have today) generated a lot of conflicts with people at work and on the street. I had to develop a tough skin and hold my ground.
There used to be a Johnny Rockets restaurant where I live in Chino, Kryptic Art, until the goddamn city decided to get rid of it. So of a goddamn *love and roses*. By the way, I agree when you said that greaser gangs lead to trouble. My grandfather was in them from the late-1950ss to the 1960's. All that got him was trouble and jail-time.
I'm from Compton, I'm a psychobilly, I'm not going front like I wasn't a greaser at first, I know what gangs you talking bout, royal cats,montagues, and I think Wilmington grease? Correct me if I'm wrong
We use to go over to Compton for shows when the North town shows would get raided lol Most of my friends who became Psychos all started as greasers so I get you. Well you got two of them R and M ;)
Yup I got hassled by the fuzz anytime a rumble went down in north town. I would be on my way some where and they would pull me over saying "oh you and your boys were up at the park rumbling." Id say "nope wasn't me I have no clue about it" (which is true) then they would start in on how they have a description of me and could run me in and blah blah blah I knew they didn't have shit because when gang business was handled they would wear their gang jackets and I never had one.
Yeah thats a good Massage i Had this Kind of Gang Mantalitie too wehn i was Younger and Madman your absolutliy right you asking for Troubl and sone ore later you got Cut
Funny damn thing I live in Tennessee I couldn't start a greaser gang here if I wanted to because I'm the only greaser here.I ride motorcycles with bald old guys and pretty much stay by myself.I'm a hillbilly greaser but hillbilly is half the word rockabilly
Bradley Perez the biggest greaser gang in Wilmington is Wilmington Grease/ Wilmington Grasa/ Winos/ WxG its the same gang just different nicknames. Most of them are already out of high school from what I know so they might die out soon or get replaced
My uncle was a greaser in the late 50's to early 60's and he ran with a gang on the west side of Detroit called the butternut gang which was named after butternut street. Goofy name I know but I wouldn't laugh in their faces about it if I was back in say 1959 and on their street. Heard some nasty things about them.
Originally from the 213 and moved to the 619 in the early 90's and the Rebel n Greaser scene was pretty live...several Greaser squads were around until late 90s the scene got real ugly with rumbles every time different groups ran into each other at parties...many 213 Greasers mentioned above were coming out this way and that didn't help with the territorial sentiment in the scene. It was a fun but scary time...but damn it was rockin.
I just started a social club with my buddies. We call ourselves the Gadsden Snakes (after the Gadsden flag, the don't tread on me one). Pretty chill, just kinda hang out at school and the mall. Great video cat!
I own this street freind "gang" that essentially did an oath that if one of us gets into some sort of fight with anyone we all must defend them. So technically we are an alliance of wannabes that defen each other and we recently had to kick out on of our smaller person cuz he was being very rude and annoying persay . I just wanted to share this
I'm not a greaser but I love this channel and their isn't that much gangs where I live in WV but me and my group of friends call our group the outcasts but it really wasn't one Anyway love the channel.
People who want to start their greaser gangs or crews need to get the hell off of fantasy island. Gangs are nothing but trouble, like Kryptic Art stated. My grandfather was in similar gangs, and he ended up going to jail many times because of that.
He never really tells me about him being greaser gangs a lot. But I read his testimony. He started joining greaser gangs around the age of twelve back in the late-50's. His first time when he went to jail was in 1961 when he was caught stealing from a store with some of the gang that he was in. I would ask him about what greaser gangs he was in throughout most of his life, but I believe that doing so would be rude, Kryptic Art. And that is only my grandfather from my mother's side of my family.
My grandpa was a greaser in the 60s and would beat up hippies😂
Badass
Same
Good damn hippies always smoking wacky tobacco wanting peace and love
Weird flex but ok☺️
lol
There’s two types of gangs.
The “group of friends”
The “trouble makers”
Id rather be in the "group of friends"
The usual gangs
And then there is both
Great vid for the younger kids. They tend to have a romanticized idea of what a greaser gang is. They think it's get into a few fist fights, have some smokes and that's it. They don't realize the dangers with other, non greaser gangs like bloods, crips, 18th street, etc they may come across with. Like you said, just keep it about the style, the music and the art.
Yes exactly and cops are itchy these days as well no need to throw away a perfectly good life ;)
Would make a great movie. Greasers vs. Compton?
Don't be scared
No since 2015 kids have Been fire interested in rap music, anime and me obviously.
@@krypticart6306 and the fact that the Latin Kings were founded in 1954 Chicago.
You're absolutely right madman, car clubs and regular hangout clubs are the best. Even joining you're local bowling league is a blast I go out every Tuesday and Friday nights. Keep on with the great videos.
-Crush
Hell yeah man you get one shot at life make it fun!
Great message especially for some of the younger greasers
Thx dude!
Kryptic Art I hope it never meet you. I was a Teddyboy in my teens a lot of my mates were gresser /rockes rockabilly. your head would be so far up your ass it will never see daylight. times were hard back then, life was hard. we made our own entertainment. unlike you, you have everything handed to you on a plate. you're are a bunch of poffs, you sit in front of a camera and you think your hard
Hard? You don't even know what hard is dude. I grew up in North Long Beach CA where people are gunned down for just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and gangs run the streets. Guess what I am still alive! Not one of my buddies had an easy life, not one! Maybe if you watch my videos and turn your hearing aids up grandpa you might learn a thing or two.
Kryptic Art I lived in the same area for most my life.
Perhaps your DIALysis on your hearing UNIT needs to be replaced as it is to cube like to rotate and pick up such easily heard and obvious frequencies. You and your hearing aid are just bad news for everybody.
I'm not any part of Greaser culture, I just like leather jackets. But my coworker is part of a legitimate greaser club of wops and micks (his words, not mine) from the 40's. He says the number one rule is "If it's a gang, it's not greaser. Gangs are for blacks." lol,
bull shit there was lots of white gangs in the 40s and 50s
asian rockabillys are so much better than white ones
@@painfullyaware9246 Asian rockabilly's have small wieners
@@orlfane1622 eh. Still better than this
so we arent even trying to hide the racism anymore? that's kinda racist man
I’m a solo greaser cause nobody in my neighborhood is a greaser
Best way to be brother.
Same brother
Be a leader and not a follower
Right with ya brother
I grew up in Wilmington. We had or have
Wilmas grease
Hell cats
Pedro grease
Carson grease
Dominguez boys
Royal cats
I joined the Dirty Devils 16 years ago. Still going strong. Shit has changed though. Most of the club's have matured I think. Back in the day it was just no talking it out. Good times
I am familiar with some of those. We for sure have some stuff in common ;)
I live in Wilmington crazy i just moved here a year ago from the Valley and i had no idea until recently that Wilmington and South Bay area are deep like that
Do you know these any smaller crews like Sin Cats, Lucky Devils, Lucky Aces, Rock Boppin Queens?
and the Sick Boys from Wilmas, NorWalk, Huntington Park and OC
@@unknownwhywannaknow8071 I've only heard of the sin cats.
My uncle was a greaser in the late 50's and early 60's and was part of a gang in Detroit just west of downtown. My dad was a little younger and would tag along. Both had that typical fonzie look according to old pics I've seen ie leather jackets, t shirts, jeans, motorcycle boots, the pomps and duck tail hair do. Even when I was a little kid in the very early 70's you can tell they still had that swag. My mom came out of a middle class family and they didn't like him and called my dad white hoodlum trash. I've heard stories about how my uncle would beat people up either for the fun of it or on a bet. And both him and my dad carried straight razors and at times guns. My dad at 15 was packing heat and this was the early 60's and not even the modern gangsta era. And my uncle got himself shot when he was 17 thank god he survived, barely. My dad said they were like the real life west side story. I ended up a haedbanger/metalhead in the 80's and looking back I realize that I was just a modern version of a punk under class misfit like he was. I wore jeans, t's and rock t's of course, leather jacket really long hair etc. The only real difference was that my generation of rock was just heavier and our hair was a little longer without the grease. The parallels were there.
my grandfather was one too he was born in 1934 and i say a piture of him he was wearing a leather jacket with his his hair slicked back. he tells the stuff he did as a kid. he could have a story for every day of the year.
I know the one guy who was in it he runs a car show there now
In my uncles gang ? The Butternut Street gang ?
A gang is a gang. Nothing good comes out of them.
Kevin Ceniceros the gov is a gang, the police, and the feds. So you’re right.
@@Sarcastic17one Yea like the police never do good stuff, it's so mean when they catch pedophiles, rapists and killers, right? LOL
A gang is a family, it’s protection
@@patootie3529 all those factions have done horrible things and continue to do horrible things such as work side by side with drug cartels
@@oiitzME1266 You mean the small amount of dirty cops that real cops often catch.
Rule of thumb, *DON'T START A GANG*
The hard truth about street gangs since the when they were first formed is that they aren't created. They are groups of boys that come together because they grow up in the same neighborhood, are usually friends, and stick together out of necessity and the desire to be recognized and known. Our gang, The Sinners, had some of the toughest guys around and we all had heart. We brothered with a local Puerto Rican gang and nobody messed with us. Now, the important thing to remember is that you don't *have* to be criminals. While it's true that there was some petty law breaking, we didn't sell drugs and we only fought when pushed. We would rather hang around the neighborhood park (our turf), drink cheap wine and make out with our girlfriends. So my advise to the little posers out there is that if you ain't the real deal. Don't try to be. You'll just look like an asshole.
Good point I hear about a lot of original era guys talk about their "social athletic club" from those times, and it always seemed to me the gangs from that era had more sense and honor about them self's than the gangs I grew up with. I knew of a Greaser gang one of the bigger ones at that time that would jump you just because you were a greaser and they were bored. Back in the day like you said groups of guys get together from the neighborhood and form gangs and stick together out of necessity. They cats I knew back in my teenage years didn't all come from the same neighborhood, there was beef sometimes for no good reason at all. A lot of beef had to do with ego vs a solid problem. My buddies and I stuck together, drank cheap beer in the park, ran around the streets, went to shows, and had a great time just hanging with one another.
The "social clubs" and street gangs were pretty much the same thing back in the day. Having a tough name didn't make a group any tougher. Many street gangs had no name at all. They were just known by the street or area that they were from. Like the Forsyth Street Boys. Gangs on the Lower East Side were practically a tradition going all the way back to the 1800's. My father was in one. It was the environment that created street gangs. The tenements were so full of kids right after WW II that we just naturally kept rubbing against each other and fighting for space. My neighborhood was mostly Irish and Puerto Rican, so you can imagine what that mixture was going to get you. Gang members now appear to be cradle to grave, where we were finished with that scene by the time we were 17 or 18, as we were getting drafted for Viet Nam or going out to work. Our parents just wouldn't put up with that stuff. You either worked and contributed to the rent, or out you went! I said "the hell with this" when two guys from another gang in a neighborhood nearby were shot by rival gang bangers. This was in about 1963, and the worm was starting to turn. When I got out of the service in '69 the whole neighborhood culture had changed. The teenaged gangs had mostly disappeared and we were starting to see "life member' types that dealt drugs and were going to be career criminals. When i got married we moved out of there and never looked back.
@@gunhawk01 hmm so kinda like me and my buddy Mel huh damn I'm the only greaser in OKC there's none at least no one I'm the only one there might be out there but not where I am. I'm 27 now tho so I keep it clean. As long as no one messes with me we're good, I do need a babe though lol
@@gunhawk01 me and my buddy have troubles more like housing or poverty stuff and life problems I feel that's a greasers way too I could be wrong but I see it as a lifestyle I just do this naturally now since I became one even if I got called a poser back in 2011 I still kept going Ignored them. Hey I found out half of em are quiting and im just like there probably doing it wrong cus this is for life and it is. It's my life style now so I believe there's no quitting. My hair Is falling off, so who knows I guess once it falls do I keep the legacy going maybe buy a hat or something keeping it gold till I can't no more
Dude the Greasers and Social clubs that sounds like The Outsiders lol
Thank you for putting this out there for the next gen. I was in South O.C. and saw plenty of bs with the "gangs" there and as a part of that scene, I agree with you completely.
You're an honest dude. Subscribed.
My take on the greasers of the 1950's and early 60's, and I am old enough to remember the end of the era. Most greasers were just blowfish. They responded to the heavy social pressure and maintained the look. The pretended like they were tough but they weren't, and the few guys who were actually more physical pushed them around in a generally not very violent way. It was usually more display to establish dominance than real fighting. But the even the guys who were physically dominant on the block weren't really that tough in most cases, they were just pushing around guys whose physical capacities were essentially a one, two or a three on a ten scale.
Then there was another type. In spite of the fact that the 1950's greasers were not really very tough, you do know, everywhere you go in the world and in every time, there are some pretty tough customers. The greasers had some too. There were a small number of guys who were seriously dangerous, and these often were a little on the mentally disturbed side. Some of them were seriously disturbed. These types sometimes ended up in prison. Some of them ended up dead at an early age, sometimes by their own hand. They used pills, reds and greenie, the greenies to speed on the reds to crash with. Or they drank and took reds to knock themselves out. I suspect some of them as they got older, into their late teens and early 20's, started having some kind of a secret life, and who knows what that involved. It oculd have been anything.
I am here talking about male greasers. There were female greasers who got deep into it too, and who knows what happened to them. The women can speak to their own experiences and remembrances. I wasn't really that close to all of this, I was just in my early teens when this era started to draw to a close. But I do remember people pointing out to me some of the greaser "kings", powerful older guys who actually were living troubled lives, and telling me their names. I remember hearing of some of them later coming to a bad ends.
It was not happy days back then. Rebel without a cause just about sums it up. The counterworld of the later hippie subculture could be a troubled place too, but that's another story.
Interesting history lesson, thanks.
Wear the fashion,, join the social club if you like, please listen to to this gentleman's advice and don't form a gang that gets you into the world of crime.
Who else thought he had a joint on the thumbnail?
People don’t grab the concept that greasers were a gang and not just kids thinking they were elvis
Greasers all had bad lives all probably got beat up by their dads and kicked out of the house all the time
Hey Madman, I just started the greaser style and since Tom left I didn't have much people to watch but , I found your channel and love your videos, Keep up the great videos cat.
Thx cat welcome!
Wish I still had hair. Used to love to comb it when it was greased up either Tres Flores or Murray's hard wax
Great video. I genuinely admire your stance on the whole thing. I'm wondering if maybe a lot of the comments about starting 'gangs' were simply wrongly worded by younger cats who actually did mean 'clubs' rather than 'gangs', but still, it was cool of you to clear it up.
Glad you said it. There was a group of kids in my neighborhood who started a greaser gang and they got very territorial and unfortunately they decided to try to steal a older mans car parts they got shot at and arrested all in one night
you have a good attitude man you didnt give the tough love bs you were very informative about it explained it throuroughly
I remember a few greasers cliques in OC California back in 95,96,97,98 with names like, The Wanderers, The Brandos, and OutKast
there are 2 major gangs i know over here in California. The "HellViperKings"....who i run into all the time, and the "Midnight Kats". i go to compton to visit all the time and theres alot of beef there
Nathan yep I know some guys from WilmingtonGrease in Wilmington CA too the so cal gangs are the most vicious.
And WilmingtonGrease (initials are WxG) chills with TheHellViperKings (initials HVK I can't remember if they put an x in between the letters)
Salvador Martinez yea they hang around with royal cats too. there very vicious.
Nathan im not planning on joining WilmingtonGrease but I know and hang out with some of then But I plan on starting a social club.
Salvador Martinez i had my own group a couple months ago, it was just trouble...we started to go to back yard shows and we eventually ran into the Viper Kings... My friend wanted to merge with them but I said hell no. that's why I left the Social Club and went on my own
These videos have taught me so much! I just dig the greaser look, and I have a butterfly knife and a switch, I just love being a greaser!!!!!🖤
Yeah gangs are no good. It doesn't matter if a greaser gang, biker gang, street gang or organized crime gang. Gangs are just no good. I never tried to start a greaser gang, where I live which is Albuquerque New Mexico. There are no greaser gangs here as far as I know. Although I have had trouble with street gangs, just because of my greaser look. They all assumed I was starting a gang. I've been jumped many times, I've knives pulled on me, I've been shot at a few times. Listen to Madman kids, stay away from gangs. If you join a gang, or start one it's going to end one of two ways. Behind bars, or in the ground.
TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!!!!
No one in a gang truly wants to have that lifestyle, even if they don't know it themselves
Cheers from Chicago GayLords street gang. Chicago's 1st greaser gang in 1945 and now the last in 2018. Stakes are definitely high. Especially in the murder capital!
The Gaylords are well known.
Those old Chicago gangs are sick
Thanks man. Your right. I wasn't phrasing it quite right. I wanna start a social club. Not a gang. Thanks again. The vid was freaking A man!
Tell this to the Pomp King! That kid needs to hear this
Hey man
I'm from Wilmington
Class of 2007
You're telling the truth
Tough times brotha
The “gang” in my school was just a friend group for the most part, there was some violence, fistfights but nothing more than that really.
Good message. Glad I found this channel, you and Outlaw greaser and some of the other cats should do some collaborations. Also, he tossed around the idea of greasers from around the country gettin together for a meetup at some point. That should definitely happen at some point
where my parents are from the scorpion is symbolic of their state.
Eric Ortega orale mi abuela es Duranguesa
sage advice Madman! greaser is an attitude, a code morals, no need for gangs.
I Think being a greaser is cool and I'm 14!
Awesome dude!
thanks :)
Same
Thomas Rivers they’re real gangs bro
Thomas Rivers stop bro ur gonna be an adult virgin
my pops was in a grease gang in the 60s. we live in Oklahoma and the outsiders really was big. my pops was a lot like dally. he did get killed when we was 19 but his last name put me in. he was in and out of jail, got in a lot of fights, carried a switchblade everywhere. he kept a. Notebook of everything that went down and after reading it I realized I didn’t want to be a part of that game I don’t wanna be a part of the greasy but I was tied in already so that’s how I grew up and now I got to stay out because I have a lot of friends dead a lot of friends in jail because of everything. In my opinion stay out for your future for everything it’s not like it was back in the 50s and 60s but it still has that wrap of it was in the 50s and 60s still carry my knives guns jail stat out
It's the same thing if a group of metal heads are hanging out together in a parking lot,if they are harassing anyone it's unlawful assembly or inciting a riot,hence, gang activity.
Its surreal watching this video from when you only had a few hundred subs years later now that you have 20k
Good advice. Things are bad enough without kids romanticizing about how things were back in the 50s and 60s. Joining a club or hanging out at events are the best way to meet other friends and just enjoy the culture. Being iin a gang, of any kind, is never the right thing to do.
im a loner and would like to keep it that way. im not a people person.
Yeah I hear ya on that!
Long Beach Motagues Est. 95
Im from southern cali as well i was the only greaser for a while at my school but i remeber those days man
My form of a greaser gang is 5 or 6 kids that grew up with each other and has each other's backs
Thats sounds more like a club than a gang but hey it sounds like fun
Im 29 and my bf is 31 we both were into that life and we both regret it to this day. It makes your life harder when u want to settle down and have a better life. Its not worth it
Hey was up madman. I’m from north Long Beach can I ask what high school and middle schools you went too
A lot of MC clubs. SOC Clubs turn to Gangs. Not all but most of em start off that way. Learn your colors also. Black is mainly neutral but careful reguardless. Stay safe.
I used to be from a greaser crew in middle school in 95 called "Dark Angeles" it was fun at the time
it would be cool if greasers listened to 90s underground rap and had the mentality like that of the Latin Kingz
My pa was a greaserbin german 59s. They beat up all theycsaw rouge life. I was one in early 80s same thing but in sweden.
Thank you slick I’m doing my research in the greaser culture since I’m becoming one with the greasers (hopefully)
Dude, didn’t know there were any greasers around today
It's been around a long time
Chicago's Greasers fought the Collegiates (mods) and the longhairs. They came out of Cicero, Berwyn, Summit Argo, Oak Park, and Forest Park. Harlem Ave, Roosevelt Ave was their stomping ground.
I was from the far south side of Chicago's Avalon Park and south suburban Riverdale in the late 50's and 60's. I was a college bound kid that grew up with the greasers. In the mid-late 60's Greasers were dominant in my blue collar neighborhood. It was all about being a bad****** and intimidation. No real organized gangs. Nothing like the movie "Outsiders". Greasers like to fight so you stayed out of their way. Their look was the tight black slacks and pointed toe cuban heel shoes with metal cleats. ...which you could hear two blocks away. and a lot of spitting on the sidewalk. Cabretta black leather button jackets or denim jackets was the style with the Italians having the best greased ducktail hair. My cousins lived in West suburban Lyons and Brighton Park on Chicago's southwest side....grease neighborhoods. Many hung out at White Castles. Unlike being a greaser today (called Hoods in the 50's) (pronounced Hoouuds like ooh la la) .....Doo wop or rockabilly music was not even played on the radio after 1964 in Chicago. Nobody in white or black neighborhoods was "doo wopping" on street corners or listening to rockabilly at that time. Unlike my college friends, I identified with the 50's music Elvis, Gene Chandler Duke of earl etc. and the ducktail hair which I adopted for myself. I didn't like the racism, hate, and criminal behavior typical of many of the greasers from that time era the worst of which ended up dead or in jail. While never a tough guy myself, my DA hairstyle (which I still have today) generated a lot of conflicts with people at work and on the street. I had to develop a tough skin and hold my ground.
What ethnicities were they mostly?
I know it's unrelated, but are clubmaster sunglasses good for the greaser style?
Yes those look great!
I have seen it all , as a survivor it wasn't peaches and cream the nightmares never go away!
If your a greaser and get busted who do you click up with in jail
I live in Santa Ana CA I'm thinking of starting a greaser club
Hell yeah dude! Roll out to shows with the homies and have some kicks!
Kryptic Art Yeah we be going to Dairy Queen or Johnny rockets
Fuckin A dude I remember Johnny rockets there was one down town LBC not sure if it's still there. We went to dales, georges, and johnny rockets.
There used to be a Johnny Rockets restaurant where I live in Chino, Kryptic Art, until the goddamn city decided to get rid of it. So of a goddamn *love and roses*. By the way, I agree when you said that greaser gangs lead to trouble. My grandfather was in them from the late-1950ss to the 1960's. All that got him was trouble and jail-time.
Bryan Vargas hey i live in Santa Ana too
I remember in high school we had PartyCrews Greasers ,Dogs ,Obn Redzone ,Aylsum ,etc
I'm from Compton, I'm a psychobilly, I'm not going front like I wasn't a greaser at first, I know what gangs you talking bout, royal cats,montagues, and I think Wilmington grease? Correct me if I'm wrong
We use to go over to Compton for shows when the North town shows would get raided lol Most of my friends who became Psychos all started as greasers so I get you. Well you got two of them R and M ;)
I might have seen u at show in Compton as a little kid then, and yea dude I heard stories, fucking ledgit rumbles at the park next to Jordan crazy asf
Yup I got hassled by the fuzz anytime a rumble went down in north town. I would be on my way some where and they would pull me over saying "oh you and your boys were up at the park rumbling." Id say "nope wasn't me I have no clue about it" (which is true) then they would start in on how they have a description of me and could run me in and blah blah blah I knew they didn't have shit because when gang business was handled they would wear their gang jackets and I never had one.
I was born in long beach but grew up in ol Oroville
Yeah thats a good Massage i Had this Kind of Gang Mantalitie too wehn i was Younger and Madman your absolutliy right you asking for Troubl and sone ore later you got Cut
Funny damn thing I live in Tennessee I couldn't start a greaser gang here if I wanted to because I'm the only greaser here.I ride motorcycles with bald old guys and pretty much stay by myself.I'm a hillbilly greaser but hillbilly is half the word rockabilly
Great video man
Amen man and I totally agree with the message at the end
Thx dude!
Hey Madman do you know other greaser hairstyles to do with your hair?
I do but my hair being short on the sides and back prevent those other styles from looking legit.
The best way is a group of friends who respect the greaser culture and adopt it
My buddy was in career criminals back in the day. They were pretty gangster.
What about a group of greasers like 4 or 5 people?
Amen to this whole video cat
hallelujah!
I have a question did the greasers ever fight any maifa? And in highschool did you ever fight jocks like greasers vs jocks?
I only know one gang around long beach which I live in Compton and Wilmington which are the Royal Cats
lol I feel your pain!
Kryptic Art there is not that much greasers in Wilmington and Compton so I hardly see some gangs
Bradley Perez the biggest greaser gang in Wilmington is Wilmington Grease/ Wilmington Grasa/ Winos/ WxG its the same gang just different nicknames. Most of them are already out of high school from what I know so they might die out soon or get replaced
Salvador Martinez i know sal
royal cats? LB Montagues Grasa since 95
have you ever dealt with bloods or crips?
My uncle was a greaser in the late 50's to early 60's and he ran with a gang on the west side of Detroit called the butternut gang which was named after butternut street. Goofy name I know but I wouldn't laugh in their faces about it if I was back in say 1959 and on their street. Heard some nasty things about them.
Originally from the 213 and moved to the 619 in the early 90's and the Rebel n Greaser scene was pretty live...several Greaser squads were around until late 90s the scene got real ugly with rumbles every time different groups ran into each other at parties...many 213 Greasers mentioned above were coming out this way and that didn't help with the territorial sentiment in the scene. It was a fun but scary time...but damn it was rockin.
how you identify those greaser gangs?
lone greaser backpatches, shirts with their gang or car club , motorcycle club, social club or they're walking with eachother all the time.
lol Oh you don't have to worry about identifying them. They will find you and let you know who they are ;)
thnks salvador martinez for the info stay grease! brotha
kryptic art lol tht savage but now ik
this is the older brother figure we all need.
Greasers love revolvers and .45s
@@SlickJohnny ok, Hollywood
I just started a social club with my buddies. We call ourselves the Gadsden Snakes (after the Gadsden flag, the don't tread on me one). Pretty chill, just kinda hang out at school and the mall. Great video cat!
What's the point without a turf war
Thank you for the help I decided to only from a group
You'll be at 500 subs in no time, man.
I know I can't wait! Got a Q & A coming when that happens!
Does this involve bike club/gangs
Greasers lol...thats high school shit I remember the rebel scene in the 90s
There are no greasers where i live, is it OK then
Is what ok?
So basically the social clubs are kick it crews
This dude is one bad cat man he seems chill i think greasers are awesome and this generation wouldnt be the same without em
They still have greaser gangs?
You know your stuff, dude! 👍🏼
Hey guys i am from Greece and i have a question what is a greaser rockers maybe but that i think it meens(and if you ask iam a big rock music fan).
I own this street freind "gang" that essentially did an oath that if one of us gets into some sort of fight with anyone we all must defend them. So technically we are an alliance of wannabes that defen each other and we recently had to kick out on of our smaller person cuz he was being very rude and annoying persay . I just wanted to share this
What gangs were enemy’s of rockabilly greaser ? Besides the well known socials
Other greasers and jocks and hippies
The fucking techno rebels who listened to deep house
if your from Southern California it’s the thing to do.
I'm not a greaser but I love this channel and their isn't that much gangs where I live in WV but me and my group of friends call our group the outcasts but it really wasn't one
Anyway love the channel.
Was fun in 80s in sweden. Fougt drack hadxfun cars etc
I run a greaser club and it's a lot more fun than my old gang
People who want to start their greaser gangs or crews need to get the hell off of fantasy island. Gangs are nothing but trouble, like Kryptic Art stated. My grandfather was in similar gangs, and he ended up going to jail many times because of that.
Yes agreed! Been there done that nothing good came of it.
He never really tells me about him being greaser gangs a lot. But I read his testimony. He started joining greaser gangs around the age of twelve back in the late-50's. His first time when he went to jail was in 1961 when he was caught stealing from a store with some of the gang that he was in. I would ask him about what greaser gangs he was in throughout most of his life, but I believe that doing so would be rude, Kryptic Art. And that is only my grandfather from my mother's side of my family.
Anybody that wants to start a gang should study LA in the 90’s real good then think again.
I grew in highland park and cypress park I've seen plenty stuff