Sharpies Scarred 4 Life 🎶

[@Gezza1967]

First time I went to see the Tatts was when I was 17 yo, they played an outdoor gig at Caulfield or Swinburne University to memory, a mate told me it’s a free gig for the students. We didn’t expect free keg beer on tap when we arrived an hour early, no crowd there yet in fact we were the 1st there. We coyly went up to the makeshift table bar with a couple of students behind the bar, expecting them to tell us to piss off. Surprisingly they were only too pleased to serve us umpteen times before the Tatts come on that early evening. Funny thing was when I finished work that day about 4pm I was walking home along Lygon St and I saw Angry sitting in the University Cafe coffee shop, 3 hours before the gig. Great night that👍

[@brandonlee1330]

Universitys pretty causal places in those days gezza ,got all bands ,most bands had first gigs university s , Monash University much same thing ,they even had a who smoke biggest bong comps in early 80s professors and other high rarky just watching on ,think something about the fuss not allowed on University grounds in those days ,had be federal poilce only ,crown land , something like that ,so old hippy was informing us ,we become regulars ,hear of a band that had made it back show there appreshasion,see why old hippies still at uni in there 30s ,that's something didn't see every day angry in cafe in Carlton ,far out bet wish had ya Camara with ya dam cool story gezza ,one tell the grand kids ,😜😳😂🤣👍on ya gezza thanks for repeating old memories I had long forgotten about,good stuff ,love hear more ya moments days gone by ,taxi etc , growing up Carlton ,

[@Gezza1967]

@@brandonlee1330 haha you’re a terrific story teller⭐️👍 We you to the Melb Uni cinema inside Union house, free entry via a side building window. 😜

[@kangaroogroundboy]

I remember Angry/Rose Tattoo coming up to play at Mt Buller in the mid seventies, awesome, introduced my 22 year old son to Scarred for life, Angry has got another fan

[@perpetualgrin5804]

The youth want to belong, as you age solitude becomes so important.

[@Myob8]

I’ve been scared for life since technology started namely the iPhone. Life will never ever be as it was once. Naturally enjoyed with enthusiasm, passion and joy

[@Gezza1967]

Thanks everyone for your interesting and kind channel comments, I haven’t got around to answering in the last few weeks but will get around to it shortly, cheers Gezza🤗👍

[@Wandafulofit]

I was born in 1960 Melbourne Sharpies and skinheads were both to be feared.... They were bullies and could be very violent but mainly fought with each other rather than us daggy hippy types

[@autobahn1974]

I grew up in St.Kilda and having many good memories of those days. Hard to believe it's fifty years ago. Thanks for creating this video Gezza!

[@williambroadstreet3353]

I was a "Sandy Boy" and very very young at the time of 84. I used to do a paper afternoon run and would come across a bloke who was old school "EastSide Sharps", and for some reason he took a liking to me and we used to talk, I really liked him and he educated me into this world he lived. Come the early mid 80's the younger brothers of the 70's Sharps became Sandy Boys, Broady Boys, Oakleigh Wogs, there were others like 'Melbourne Sharps' but we used to sit as a massive group on the steps Flinders St and we owned Melbourne. Anyone seen the nicknames 'RAFFLES' 'TUBBY' 'SPIC' ZOLTAN'? that was us, we were like celebs, we got invited to all the private girls school parties as girls DO like bad boys, the number of chicks I went through, we ALL went through well there is a saying -c if you can remember the 80/s you were not there. True to some extent. But boy I remember heaps, and then again not so much. THANKS SO MUCH for this. So Darrell Gosling, if you're out there....you sure had a MASSIVE influence on my life as did Shane Pockney aka the biggest star in Melbourne as his name was everywhere....."RAFFLES"..and by the way NO ONE had knives back then...."The Butcher And Fast Eddy"....

[@brandonlee1330]

I think saying is if ya can remember 60,s weren't there ,

[@suicidebysasquatch4873]

Used to see those names tagged all along the train lines.

[@brandonlee1330]

@@suicidebysasquatch4873 so did I mate but done house paint , remember seeing one names walking line in 83 do peice on rosalla wall Richmond tubby old sharp Springvale in 85 mainly just same heads hanging Flinders hang sit city sqare couch's had there i meet dude put up fish in house paint brush years later but they painted years before gye man fish tubby I did peices over there paint brush work first peices zone peice and PESKI Pete Blackie on left just before Richmond still see the rosalla soup wall ORINGANAL paint back factory ,,worm Saipan Kako and cash KIC JFK could not hope on train with out Carrige bombed worm at one stage good days ,got pics original peices classic wall ,

[@brandonlee1330]

@@suicidebysasquatch4873 and butch another one no butcher this guy not them tell that I no butch lived Winsor flats butch ,tubby older than me be 58 years old not hard unearth people ,get lot people claiming they certain people when comes to graf , Dennis dr death house one right next to rosalla wall ,cut through his yard get up on tracks ,

[@maddyg3208]

Tubby and Zoltan, what a prolific pair of juvenile delinquents, I remember those names well. Now, could you please ask those fifty-somethings to find the last of their graffiti along the Sandringham Line and clean it off ...

[@mattzurbo6890]

So good! From hippies to rockers, mods, to disco, to homies, trance and techno heads, SHARPIES were the one cultural movement where us Aussies weren't just sheepishly following trends from overseas. Sharpies were our invention. They were us. They were ours.

[@60indio]

I thought Skinheads .. were an England sub culture that the aussie young ones picked up and copied

[@suskaklapp6641]

England had them first, we followed.

[@mattzurbo6890]

Sharpies weren't skinheads. Different music, clothes, and ethos.

[@djizzah]

sharpies were taken from a clockwork orange with a melbourne fashion twist

[@dreqqa3235]

Rose Tattoo were very Heavy, even on their ballads.

[@andyrob3259]

Jesus where do get these. Love it. Michelle and Ferret 4 eva

[@beaksofeagles]

From 'Sharpies' - A film by Greg Macainsh. He's uploaded it before.

[@wayneJS1958]

Loved the "Tatts" Best show was Stage door tavern at Central Sydney in early 80's. The place was like a cheech & chong set. We had few sharpies around the 70's. Town Hall sharps were the main group I remember.

[@katherinekoza6536]

A few ? Skinheads and Sharpie days ,started in the early 1970's . They were every where back then .

[@brandonlee1330]

Best music best cloths meanest haircut Bowie cut ,skinhead tales ,hard believe sharpies as way back as 60,s but it's the tail end it late 70s up til about 82 loved me flags kiaks westcost jumper two white bands on arms ,they shrink wash ,good me I only young ended up with all ORINGANAL gear older cousins wore wasnt into those treads like car tyre for shoe ,at pubs older blokes didn't fancy the skinhead tales look all went with it , remember few dramas no father wanted daughter's goin' out with a SHARPIE ,😂🤣I was mascot 13years old ,thought I was ten foot Bullitt proof ,lucky enough see the coloured balls at such young age ,, remember mid 70s young went Flinders st with uncle original sharp late 60,s older cousins ,,sharpies from everywhere ,some roughest heads ,scaired phocopaths I ever seen ,coppers shit scared of sharpies as was rest of society,just perfect look and on bloodnut phocopath ,no hiding behind the look , unearthed all or nothing from what I can remember ,always amazed me amount money my Sharpie relo,s had ,none them worked 🤔😜💡🎱

[@tragedykatt]

Just got turned on tonight by a Facebook friend…I grew up In Philadelphia Pennsylvania in the 70s…I dig this..I love learning about all expression art from all over the world during the 60s and 70s.. 💙🎵🎵🎵✌️💎🎵🎵🎵💙

[@Allan-BestofMelbourneMusic]

Really good Video, captures the moments of the era!!

[@ernesto9180]

Formidable! And a formidably underrated tune.

[@pisstinpete4700]

They’re all grandparents with wonky hips now

[@kangaroogroundboy]

oi' my hips are still just as good, well almost....

[@aussiebloke8781]

Still skulln cans of XXXX though.😁

[@michaelneville2915]

And limited hair choices

[@kendokunti]

WG'sAF?

[@grahamwatts8836]

Still dance the same lol

[@gailpattenden3821]

Love this iconic, now historic, piece of Aussie "mullet" tribal music culture in the 1970's. Go Sharps!!

[@o8thman812]

Being a croweater we never had Sharpies in SA. We had the Rockers with their black ripple soul desert boots. Visiting relos in Melbourne I seen my 1st Sharps dancing. Are they really doing this on their own free will. I thought it all hysterical!

[@paulduffield2102]

We did have skinheads though, I still wear ripples🤪

[@o8thman812]

@@paulduffield2102 hey. What do they slug you for ripples nowadays. Are they still a thing in SA?Still mates with one time Hindley St rocker. Wild days...

[@paulduffield2102]

@@o8thman812 about @150.00 still made in Adelaide until this year as the Rossi boot factory just went into receiverships.. another SA business gone

[@glenndavis479]

@@paulduffield2102 No fucking wonder $150 for ripples...silly cunts.

[@MysticOblong]

Yep, ripples and those black cardigans with the red stripe. Lot of Elvis fans amongst them I seem to remember. Probably about the most uncool gang ever but I guess it was Adelaide

[@danrobinson572]

I wonder how many of these blokes went through Turana?

[@swishswish386]

Gezza, excellent vid and soundtrack...Legend !!!!!!!!!!

[@gmb1934]

Damn, that brings back memories!

[@leopoldonotarianni8663]

Gezza Your posts are brilliant

[@andrewgoldbergs4474]

Bloody great to see the original street toughs of Melbourne. And they embraced multiculturalism in the gangs too

[@paulgerard4503]

Yeah and hated everyone else. Origanal street toughs, No

[@maddyg3208]

They weren't much fun to be around, what with their inferiority complexes

[@dwillbecancelledsoon4086]

yeah ok jevv. You're saying they supported whyte replacement because you saw an 0riental in the clip? There's a big difference between having a couple of some swarthy mates when we still had our own homeland, and supporting govt policy to completely eradicate our Aussie identity

[@BG-id2cv]

In our neck of the woods they were also referred to as Droogs (from "A Clockwork Orange"). Not the brightest lot and they were definitely in the minority in most suburbs of Melbourne. Most of my normal teenage friends steered well clear of them. Always looking for a fight; they were mostly guys, but as you can see, there were a few female hangers on as well. I reckon 1973/4 they were at their height. Characteristic hair-cut, Conti cardigans, Miller shirts and Acropolis boots. This song by Rose Tattoo is about 8-9 years too late. Should be a song by Buster Brown, whose lead singer also happened to be a pre Rose Tattoo, Angry Anderson. Remember seeing them as a 15 year old at the Lower Heidelberg Town Hall in mid-1974; their main song happened to have the imaginative title of "Buster Brown" whose lyrics comprised of "Buster Brown is my name, rock and roll is my game". Must have taken a them ages to think up that line. BTW: they were terrible! But I suppose they were memories that I will never forget.

[@paulgerard4503]

Spot on.

[@djizzah]

skyhooks, lobby Lloyd and Slade were the bands I remember from that time as a sharpie and I remember some of the sharpie girls were tougher than the blokes

[@vinorob]

Thomastown Sharps. Bringing a lot back there Gezza

[@nicksandalis3265]

I got bashed by the Thomastown Sharpies as a kid in a pizza shop. Never been so proud and honoured.

[@rayoflight9709]

Believe it or not these people weren't on ice.

[@garyhopkins6337]

That was a fun time in my life I was a north Blackburn sharp and we were teamed up with the box hill shaps and I don't know why but we used to blue with south blacky shaps whenever we crossed paths but yeah we used to travel to St Kilda Carlton and even up the hills Mt Donabuang looking for a fight Myer music bowl was another haunt. Fuck we had fun. Lobby Loyed and Thorpe play at Box Hill town hall and local pubs every weekend did I mention we had a lot of fucking fun.

[@ALF782]

I remember i was 11 and was told at some point i had to choose between being a surfie a bikie or a sharpie. Well i couldn't surf and i couldn't ride a motorbike but a sharpie only needed a haircut so a sharpie it was.

[@brendanengland8385]

That's gold...thanks again mate

[@johnpage7735]

Got misty watching. (Glenroy ANA sharp.)

[@nicholaspatton5455]

Bloody Great! 💖

[@russellparratt9859]

I remember in the early 70's there was tension and fights between longhairs and skinheads. As for the early 1980's, I saw Rose Tattoo four times, at their best. It was a great, rich guitar sound, thanks to Pete Wells. Angry Anderson wanted people to be responsible, and respect each other. That message may have been a bit lost on some of the audience members.

[@jewelsvictoria8418]

I was only young back in the 70's but I do know the sharpies scared me and you wouldn't want to stare at the girls, they were just as tough.

[@katewilkinson7435]

Nice Pano!!! Awesome music clip!

[@booky65]

Blacky south sharps. GOLD

[@Rocstoneau]

Lobby Lloyd and the coloured balls. Kew Club.

[@kangaroogroundboy]

Live ended up in South London for a while in the late seventies with sax player Paul Dixon also from Melb, good guys to jam with

[@kangaroogroundboy]

Lobs...not live....predictive text

[@56music64]

Say Lobby at one of his final concerts at The Commercial, Fortitude Valley Brisbane along with the Purple Hearts, some years back.

[@aussiebloke8781]

Great clip Gezza1967. You could go to other Tatts gigs, and us bogans & bikies were everywhere. We all luved em 🇦🇺🎸🍻.

[@leopoldonotarianni8663]

Excellent work there Gezza

[@smf1248]

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[@mishakolomoicev9701]

They trained me up good at Jordanville south state school in early 60’s. Later I become a right proper Jordy boy. Anyone remember Graeme Dubois? Doowie.

[@mjames4709]

Doowie! Yeah, sure do.

[@brandonlee1330]

Remember playing jordenville footy kid rough heads , Sasha be about best fighter come out Jordy ,if he heard ya bit toughy turn up knock on door ask out front ,have scrap ,all area,s nutcase lovable one ,he kicked big Tim neaven of platform on tracks homesglen station ,that sight see ,

[@debgail5588]

@@brandonlee1330 omfg lol

[@brandonlee1330]

@@debgail5588 like that one

[@paulgerard4503]

Tough guy called Tommy.

[@taxingtime]

Strange how the Sharpies dance never made a come back

[@gailpattenden3821]

I've often thought that too Betty Badda Bing ! Especially, given the resurgence in the classic "mullet" haircuts parading around these days.# Original Mullet Rockers Rock!!

[@gustavobro2484]

Times were better back then…………

[@whatwouldiknow1759]

Eh? Better?

[@waynecarrol3415]

I remember those gigs at Caulfield later had a bit to do with the Tatts ( especially Ian Rilen X) got rock n roll outlaw with snake & rose (Ian approved it & he wrote the song) ! Great memories of 70s & 80s Melbourne always had a tougher edge music wise than Sydney)!

[@johnbehrman6617]

I've never seen so many genetic absurdities in my life after watching this video. Now I can say I am scared for life.

[@32juddy]

well done Gezza

[@MrButtonpresser]

3:27 Blackburn Sth Sharps! Our local boys! You didn't hang around when they hit the shop.

[@SteveSmith-zz4ih]

i use to hang around Skeggs and Townies, never had any trouble from either group, the townies were actually nicer blokes than the Skeggs, surfers had tickets on them-selves, vain as farq. Townies either liked you or they told you to farq off, but when the 2 groups met in town there was always a blue. Great days - better than now but we only have memories and these great clips.

[@brandonlee1330]

Go lobby Loyd

[@kendokunti]

Awesome!

[@whatwouldiknow1759]

What a crazy era! Was the inherited from the poms!

[@harrisfrankou2368]

Axl's Blueprint for GnR right in this song.

[@lilyloveslife2737]

@Gezza1967 love this compilation! THANKYOU! I am now in 2 videos. (Original was The Sunnyboys) At 2:33 and 2:42 that's ME with my sharpie haircut in Melbourne city square with some skinhead dood we met in the city. Big shout out to my bestie Cheryl Thompson. (That's me and her at 2:45) They were such fun days..... even if my hair was horrible! Lol! Ah, it was THE 80's! 😁 I'm 55 now..... and yes I grew my hair out long ago! Lol! 🤣🤣 The reason this footage exists it because the 80's band The Sunnyboys filmed their film clip "you need a friend" in Melbourne and I'll never forget, it was that clip that got us busted for smoking by our parents! What a way to get caught.😧

[@Gezza1967]

G’day Lily, thanks for sharing your story, I’ve always loved watching this Sunnyboys music video and listening to their music. I really appreciate when I read comments on people highlighting they were in the footage as well, you’re in the tight black jumper sleeves up above your wrist right?. I like your black moccos 🤗I had a pair of course, I’m 55 this year, so a year younger, I used to hang out in the city, great days. Lucky you in there video, kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnvWqJZrlKxsqrM I originally recorded the video off Nightshift one night in the 1980s. I’ll find the other link to the shorter version as well if you like, all the best cheers Gezza

[@Gezza1967]

Here’s an edit of the clip with Melbourne footage only…. fb.watch/aorFGO6OpC/

[@lilyloveslife2737]

@@Gezza1967 shit hot! Thankyou!

[@lilyloveslife2737]

@@Gezza1967 hey Gezza, yeah, that's me at ripe age of 14 in the black pinstriped jumper (coogee)🤔 which was classic sharpie attire. And mocs! My girlfriend cheryl wore the blue connie which was the little waist length cardigan! It'd be like impossible to find any of those tops now. Perhaps an OP shop. They're 40 years old if they exist. Wish I still had mine. And you too hung out in the city square? We'd go there most weekends to meet guys etc.. 🙄 aah to to young again. So you edited all these clips together yourself? Great work! Time consuming I'm sure but it's had lots of exposure on Facebook too cos my hubby found your clip there and showed to me and I hunted you down to thankyou for the work. Many of us Melbourne and Sydney folk of our age group will really appreciate this stroll down memory lane. It's even better in the black and white you've done it in now. ☺ great find.

[@Gezza1967]

Yes Lily I remember the pin striped jumpers, great fashion😄I had a hand me down connie cardigan like Cheryl’s, same colour about 1980 to memory. The editing software available these days makes doing videos fairly easy, even I can do it😅Cheers Gezza

[@glennleigh5679]

The jumpers they use to wear that looked like they shrunk in the wash we’re called “connies”!

[@aybee63]

All those sharpies are now either in public service, running banks, multinational corporations, accounting firms or have passed away!

[@ripoffrecords]

parents now / grand parents even . xD

[@mediamike693]

+++++++MIGHT ??? BE SHARPIES 4 LIFE+++++++BUT THIS WAY ???+++++++A ROCKER 4 LIFE+++++++

[@fourscoreand9884]

So good

[@mish4164]

Thanks … brilliant

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

Can't recall seeing any chubby sharpies . Notwithstanding Magda Szubanski (?) doubt if many sharpie sheilas were lezzos also

[@djizzah]

But i seem to remember the sharpie chicks were tougher than the blokes

[@JohnnyCocksnott]

Fakkin ACE !!! Me fave band of all time !!

[@ipsofacto6864]

The beginnings of bogan.

[@sonshi12nsp]

Most would have passed on with various health issues or car accidents. A phase in young life.

[@johnjones.3427]

I grew up 70,s 80,s these days,quite violent, excessive amount,s of alcohol, smoking pot,a acid tab out we,d go,few mushroom,s.g They couldn't dance like ppl can now,that was for the very few,imagine disco ducking in this lot.

[@djizzah]

jordanville had some roughnuts

[@peterharris4386]

Does anybody remember the conflict between the Melbourne Sharps and the Victorian Sharps?

[@grahamwatts8836]

Very stylish hair cuts they look like they cut each others hair with a blow torch? they were the forerunners to 1980’s bogans. “thick as a brick dumb as a bum” I wonder what they are up to now? .

[@prl.5108]

That silly dance is pure Python. Who the hell came up with that?

[@markwaters3050]

The most embarrassing period of society in Victoria was that of the '70-'80 "Sharpie" and "Skin-head" era. Who needed the importation of the Pommie punk to add to the disfunction?

[@Gezza1967]

Sharps were before the Punks…

[@davidmartin1015]

I am not seeing any reference to Paisley or the colour maroon ? Part of the sharpie uniform. Davox.

[@darneyoung537]

In the 60s when their were sharpies and rockers the boys wore pin striped pants and maroon jumpers the girls wore pleated skirts or dresses pearl earrings and pearl necklace we were well dressed that was the real sharpie not the 70s

[@romandybala]

@@darneyoung537 Thats right. Not seeing that late 60s sharpies stuff mentioned here. The good Flags had 22 in. cuffs. You could take em off without removing your shoes.Also they had what was called windowpane check Flags. They looked fantastic . Dark chocolate brown with orange check pattern.Definitely maroon tops. Skinhead haircut and no rattails then.

[@Nightowl76]

Are these all the Australian Prime Ministers ?

[@trentbell5931]

Were there any Sharpies in Sydney at that time? If so, what area?

[@lestki]

Can't believe I looked good back then. lol

[@ginogaddi]

from Adelaide I was a Mansfield park rocker, skin tight jeans which if drunk I slept in, to dam hard to get off, ripple sole shoe's and of course fish net t shirt underneath, our greatest nemesis where kilburn, Croydon, and Hindley street rockers, we also teamed up with the semaphore boys.

[@euanthorburn8135]

♡

[@wizard2755]

No fat people there

[@paulgerard4503]

Lost and lonely of Melbourne.

[@kangaroogroundboy]

We looked pretty good, except maybe the shoes? I grew a mullet during iso!

[@vinorob]

ex Diamond Creek bloke here. How ya doin?

[@kangaroogroundboy]

@@vinorob good mate, been in pommieland a while...gezza's videos cheer me up. Sometimes strange to think I used to catch the train from Eltham to Hurstbridge in the '70's when it was a single double ended carriage...that can't have been 50 years ago?

[@vinorob]

@@kangaroogroundboy Snap. I am stuck in UK too. I loved the red rattlers on our line back then. Did you know the Biecher family in K'ground back in the 70's/80's?

[@kangaroogroundboy]

I was down Dawson's Road but headed up to Mt Buller in late '74 so might have met them at At Andrews at the weekends. I married a Pom (who has terrible views about Oz, they might be correct but she's not supposed to say) and here for a while.

[@vinorob]

@@kangaroogroundboy Gotcha. I got a Pomme girl pregnant twenty years ago and she does not want to live in Aus. Too hot and too many snakes etc. Same old whingy pom stuff. I had a mate, Bill Biecher, used to live on the K'ground -Wattle Glen Road. He used to own the old grain store in Greensborough. Anyway, been stuck here on and off for a long while. With Covid there is 'eff all chance of getting home anytime soon. Good luck.

[@darrincassidy9045]

Where did the sharpies start.

[@samjamieson1183]

Never new what bad taste was till I discovered sharpies

[@djizzah]

Thumping tum, sebastians, tfm ballroom predated all this ans was hardcore

[@romandybala]

You forgot Catcher, and Whitehorse in Footscray.

[@GoodMrDawes]

Classic Stuff

[@patkelly6349]

I’m from that era. Looking back how stupid.

[@621retsamz]

You think you were cool? You were never cool. These kids were cool!

[@grahamwatts8836]

Like a tribe of bogan apes 😫😫😫🤪🤪🤪

[@davidrixon3549]

Ask them their pronouns😅😅

[@Nightowl76]

Wtf