Junkyard Band: "19th and M", the early days (1985)
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2020
- Short music documentary featuring the Junkyard Band (JYB), a Washington DC based GoGo band who began by playing music on plastic buckets. I produced this video 35 years ago with Randi Barros, & wrote about the experience (www.vivisjewishadventures.com...) of that night in 1985. Almost out of nowhere, hundreds showed up to turn a busy DC sidewalk into a full on concert/street party.
I do not own the music in this video.
This is before gentrification and people complaining about the kids banging on drums. This was culture that everyone loved to enjoy. Like watching Chuck Brown EVERYONE LOVED CHUCK
yeah. now they got thirty-year-old white guys with dreads banging on drums - and they're TERRIBLE at it.
U from D.C momma?
@@Ken-iu2zp Born & Raised 😊 Although I rolled out a few years ago
@@Lovableandgorgeous ok 👌. Have you ever heard of a diner called the Florida Ave grill in D.C.?
@@Ken-iu2zp Indeed I used to be the one to pick up my coworkers orders on Sunday Morning back in the day 😂😂
D.C. back in the day. Notice that everybody is hanging with everyone else and having a good time. I love D.C.
You're right. Almost like "bizarro DC"
That's THE CHOCOLATE CITY, I remember! ☺😌😉💝
Then Regan let that rock hit the city smh
This looks like a scene from Wonder Woman 1984 movie. Lol!😂😂 Being that movie had Washington. D.C. as background city, no mention of JYB. They showed a breakdance crew in movie.
This was a treat to see JYB having people dancing in the streets. Seeing the buckets and how they first started back in early 1980's, historic.
Love seeing old footage and seeing how long this band been together. What a blessing.
JYB are still Cranking 'till this day. RIP Heavy One!
Whole time! 💯
Heavy One the reason why I like the drums
And pop
Wow. Thanks for posting this. People don't know what a huge "underground" music scheme both DC and Baltimore had in the late 70s through 80s. You could see this show, then go a mile down the street and there'd be a full Cuban band dance happening going on, then somewhere else, some of the best raw Punk ever. Birthplace of US Punk culture. DC used to be such a vibrant place on so many levels. Baltimore was very similar, at the time.
Man that sounds so great. My city is a quiet one, nobody plays music out here like this. I want to get a small band together and start doing some live stuff down town. It Feels like such a different world though.
@@justmayo6097 It's an entirely different world now.
Notice how people from all different ethnicities, backgrounds are here jamming. Good music brings people together.
They had to go in a white neighborhood the white people wouldn’t come to Barry farms to enjoy this music
This was definitely a whole vibe !!!!
Legendary footage 📽️.. JYB are legends
JYB was the first Go-Go band I ever heard as a kid. Man I miss these days.
Wow! Taking me back to when they used to play at the "vending mall", with no real instruments, with someone walking around with a bucket collecting donations from the spectators, in front of Hechts between 7th and 9th with the blind man on the corner singing with the cigar box. What y'all know about that? Lol
You said “Hechts”. My Grandmother loved that store.
THE SHOPPS
You took it wayyyy back.. i forgot all about Hechts!
I miss the go-go days. That's what really go-go back in the day.
The good old DC daze JYB played all over the city, still Rollin today 2021 #SE4LIFE
I miss living in the DMV.
I been living in DC 53 years. I recall when these guys were performing downtown, NW, DC. As you can see this was and is a predominantly White part of the City. But these SE part of the City guys, Junkyard had the white folks attention, that's impressive because DC White aren't absolutely friendly, but that's another issue. They represented and are still around today. Also, the money they collected got them equipment... Awesome 👍
i would watch them when they played in Georgetown in front of the bank building. I got all my white friends from the burbs to come down and see them. They had and still have a huge White following. When music is great and you see it from the beginning, that's all that matters
Them horns remind me of that ole Cavalier commercial they did back in the day
My birthplace... My city... My favorite style of music... #GoGoForeva 💜🖤💜🖤
Used to see Gil Scott Heron in the crowd many times
That Go Go culture is fly and uniquely different. (Excuse the spelling of uniquely) LOL.
I remember bands using buckets. It was still a party.
Yo they was rocking back then. Respect to one of the great gogo bands in the dmv
I couldn’t love this anymore! Thank you for posting. I’m so lucky to be from DC and to have known go-go my whole life!
So glad! I'm so happy you enjoyed it so much and it brings back great memories. :)
Loooove it. I grew up a white guy in Barry Farms. This is a little wonderful piece of history that is undiscovered!
I remember 19th and M. Right in Front of the Flippers.... We used we walk there from Adams Morgan every weekend to see them.
I REMEMBER this. They played in the alley of 16th and E streets in SE WAAAAYYY back in the day hitting buckets. My 1st of many junkyard Live concerts lol. Wow where did the years go?!
We used to come out of the bars at night and there would be all these kids playing on buckets. They were extremely talented and everybody stopped to watch.
@amyaaron7141 Chile, "I wish those days could come back once more. Why did those days ha-ad to go?!" I love DC culture and my family, friends and neighbors were all family. Just once the wht supremacist released guns and Crack into the city, they really chased us out. I HATED leaving dc. I was born there, at GWU. Gave birth at GWU. DCGH was CHOCOLATE CITY'S hospital ran by us for us. I can write a BOOK about how much I love DC present and past. You remember DC scorpio and Red and the boys? The Big chair on Good hope road. How many of us turned on the fire hydrant 😆. Man, I'm getting homesick just at the thought of my DC memories.
@@q.t.gamingfamily also ayre Ryde
@@terencebuie4810 you're making me homesick and timesick lol. Absolutely
@@q.t.gamingfamily don't feel bad homie go go makes us feel old cuz its not youthful but its all good did you see the snoop dog go-go video with essence
What a beautiful post and showing the beginning of the legendary Washington DC own Go-Go group junkyard band 🤜🏽🎶🤛🏽
AMAZING!
I remember thinking that Buggs was a younger kid like most of the band back in 85. Turns out that he was 18 or 19 here, a year older than me.
He wasn't that old here. I went to Ballou HS with Buggs in SE DC. He was one class in front of me. He came out in 88, and me in 89. He was 15 at the most here.
OMG thank you so much for posting this!! I was 3 years old but I still remember these days partying with our local bands just walking down the street!
GOD IS AWESOME EVERYDAY ❤
I love this. There's a certain unity present.
best UA-cam video I've ever seen
Went to junior high school with Buggs, when they started... They’ve come a long way... 💯
I love this 🔥🔥🔥
🀄🙏🏽WE WASHINGTON D. C... GO BLESS AMERICA THE NATION'S CAPITOL🇺🇲
I remember those days. Priceless times
Beautiful 😩😩😩😩🥰🥰🥰🥰 the little kids singing 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 got me shook up
Damn jyb been together that long 😮
Longer than that. I saw them back in 1982. Back then, the drummer didn't even have cymbols and I think his bass drum was a box with a mic inside it. Back then, nobody would dance to them because we were all amazed they could make music with what they had. Everybody would just stand around them and watch.
When kids wanted to be outside n learn bout making it thru life
This bring back memories... Barry Farms
Oh, I remember the good old Junkyard band being down G'town...crankin'
The greatest GoGo band every.
JYB for life!!!!!!! I’m a Junk Yard Junkie, baby!!!!
How cool is THIS!! Awesome, vibrant, harmonious piece of history right here! I LOVE the scenes of people dancing, enjoying, and participating from the various walks of life! Short-shorts and knee-hi socks were cool back then!! lol! Thanks for sharing this!! I'm gonna check out your site as well! Shalom!
Thank you! I appreciate your great feedback and hope you enjoy my other writings and music. :)
All I can say is thanks to the Go-Go Godz for this one with all my heart I love y'all junkyard
When I seen this, it brought back so many good times, and brewery farms and watching them play is a little boy took me all the way back to the old Scott house
I’m from DC, BORN and RAISED! LUV IT 🥰
where it all started🎼🎼🎼🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎤💋💜💜💜
So cool! Reallt captures the cities and the band's energy!
This brings back the best decade of my life...The city & time when color didn't matter because we all were to busy groovin ( . )
Man oh man, I wish I could see the whole show
Yeeeaaahhh!!! Good ol days!
I worked on Northwest corner of this intersection from 2011 to 2020, and hung out there on and off from 1985 on. I recognize "Guisti's" and "Rumor's" both gone now. There was also a nice "KB" movie theater just west of intersection. What a great little time capsule! Thanks.
Wow, this is cool - as a teenaged hippie I hung out on M Street throughout my high school years! Loved the Balloon Man!!
Iam from PG my folks from southeast Congress park been on gogo since we was youngins love were iam frum slim❤❤💯💯💯💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Nobody couldn't say it better thank you for posting this video. it brought back a lot of childhood memories and just to see them here and looking forward now today this is what you call history in the making.
Incredible - thank you very much for sharing this.
Thanks for posting this
Go-go and punk rock use to be together
TRUTH..I remember that well
This is classic 💯
DC was the greatest city in the 1980s . Melting pot of all cultures and good vibes . Well , there were a few shootings , but for the most part , Awesome!
Awesome! TY for sharing!!!
Unbelievable
I Was Born And Raised In Washington DC In 1987 And I'm Still There But Damn I Envy Those That Got A Chance To Experience GoGo Like This Back In The Day. The Bands Even Had Dance Choreography Back Then. They Had Diversity
THE BEST JUNYARD BAND! HEY PRATT~
Absolutely magnificent
The crank continues....I need that Kids World video from the Monument.
My high school soundtrack, DC Go-Go.
RIP Shorty Pop, I think he was still heavy in the streets even while in the band back in 1985 signed to Def Jam
And the crazy part he was a stone cold killer at that young age.
@@brogaming950 and he had kid at that time to just was living too fast
Pops was always into street stuff because of his uncle who was in the game. By around 1987 I think Pops had already caught his first body. When you say RIP I'm not so sure. Shorty Pop caught numerous bodies, one apparently being Lil Derek of the JYB. Pop killed him out of jealousy, apparently
Wich one is he??
He had to be 11 years old in this video cuz in a up to date video saying he killed somebody in 1989 and he was 15
damn!!!! STRIGHT OFF THE FARM , R.I.P. SHORTY POP, HEAVY ONE !!!!
Legends
Yeah come with it, this was back in the day!!!! Love it and miss it!!!!
BORN AND RAISED IN SOUTH EAST D.C
Does anyone know where all these kids are today in 2024? This is FANTASTIC!
facebook.com/therealjyb! Check them out on Facebook. They still perform!!
instagram.com/therealjyb/?hl=en and on Instagram
I remember these days.
Went through in 90. I was fighting. And they got me too!!!!!
Wow. As a youngster, I always went to 19th and M to see my JYB!
My introduction to JYB
❤❤❤
AWESOME.. LONG LIVE GOGO
Good work!!! Das wassup! Dat joint is bumpin and kinda thumpin...🎶🎸
Wow I remember those days!!!!
Nice one! 🎶
How many people were looking out for "Shorty Pop"?
Looks so fun,carefree and happy
Oh wow!!
Omg 😲 😱 love it
THE GOOD OLD JUNK!!!💯
HI- HELLO- WHAT'S UP!!
WHO REMEMBER THE CAVILER COMMERCIAL?
Classic
DMV Love💛💛💛💛
Miss the old old DC.
Baby boys rocking that shit.. BACKYARD b...like ...thanks YARD... and YARD BE LIKE....THANKS GODFATHER CHUCK BROWN..AND WE ALL SAY THANK YOU MAYOR OF DC..MAYOR MARION BARRY
Yes ' I remember when.
I was there. Georgetown was not used to
GOGO back then. Love it
I was there too! Right in front of the Bank building i believe. They had the crowds movin' and grovin' If it wasnt for us White people and our money and support that we gave very generously to them,they would have never made it. THAT'S THE DAMN TRUTH!!
So cool!!
Anyone remember when they played at RFK after games
So iconic
We use to bring da soul and funk up in da day
The GREAT ole days...no race BS just folks having fun
That's bc it was Chocolate City back then.
Nardwuar and Ian MacKaye from Fugazi ... got me to find this!! awesome!!!
🙏🏾 RIP UNCLE Rodney!!❤️❤️
I remember this set.... 😂
Rip heavy one all my se homies went to school and live in the hood with these dude's lil Mike pop bud baker Dave Pratt wink lil Derrick Rip