GO-GO
GRAFFITI.
A research trail through writers, names, crews and the visual environment around the music.
Go-Go had a visual street language too.
This thread follows graffiti writers, crew/name culture, flyers and the visual environment surrounding 1980s Washington, D.C. Go-Go.
Research leads now being separated
A name appearing in Go-Go history is not automatically treated as proof that the person was a graffiti writer.
Confirmed writer
Requires direct graffiti evidence, documentary identification, photographed work, interview testimony or another source that clearly identifies the person as a writer.
Go-Go connection
Tracked separately: clubs, crews, bands, flyers, neighborhoods or firsthand accounts connecting the writer to Go-Go culture.
Name / crew lead
Preserved when a name appears in research but the exact role still needs verification.
Visual evidence
Photographs, walls, tags, handbills, film frames and other artifacts should be connected to dates and places where possible.
The Legend of Cool “Disco” Dan
The official documentary site is used as a starting source because the film explicitly places graffiti, Go-Go, crews and 1980s Washington inside the same cultural portrait.