NEON Shares 40 Years Of SF Graffiti History & Photos

Neon is one of the most respected graffiti writers from San Francisco. He came up inspired by the masterpieces of the 1980s and started pushing his own new wave style. Neon is a founding member of BA crew, and built bridges between Bay Area locals and writers from around the world. He is responsible for building the original Montana spray paint brand and was its first US distributor. This is a great conversation with dozens of photos from Neon's personal conversation.

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00:00 Growing up in SF

07:29 Intro to graff

16:13 Cholo writing

18:47 First tags

25:27 Late 80s graffiti

41:09 First pieces

57:08 Fights, chases, & racking

1:01:18 Painting around the Bay

1:09:38 BA Crew

1:22:09 Converse commercial

1:26:18 Misk & Apex

1:37:31 Distributing MTN paint 

1:53:57 Splitting with MTN