Club Kids: How The Mafia And Drugs Came To Dominate Manhattan And Miami Nightlife In The 90's.

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Club Kids: How The Mafia And Drugs Came To Dominate Manhattan And Miami Nightlife In The 90's.

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In the 1990's, Manhattan's booming dance club scene was hit by two massive trends: Ecstasy and Techno. With the eye-patch wearing Canadian nightlife impresario Peter Gatien standing watch, massive clubs like limelight and Sound Factory became debaucherous drug dens ruled over by the ever-weirder club kids. Soon enough, though, a techno pioneer who would later go on to be involved with Wu Tang Clan saw the potential for massive profits and brought in roughneck junior mafia farm teams from south Brooklyn and Staten Island and things starting getting dark, quick. An infamous tabloid murder, a massive mafia bust and a lurid drug kingpin trial followed, but not before some of the major players relocated to Miami for a bit and made a name for themselves there. Once some former associates started talking, however, it all came crashing down, not just for Chris Paciello, but for the top level five family bosses he testified against.
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@yourfavoritevillain 4 ай бұрын

I wish I could go back to this time of my life. Some of the best times of my life

@yourfavoritevillain 4 ай бұрын

Also binger’s name is pronounced pach-ello

@user-bt4ws3zu5d 3 ай бұрын

Why is the party monster and history of nyc nightlife so intriguing ?! I’m addicted to these stories. I’ve been clubbing in nyc since early 2000’s. Never made it to Tunnel, sound factory, palidium or limelight. I’ve attended pacha, Latin quarters, webster hall, and all the bk clubs

@djronniebruno 2 ай бұрын

@@MbisonBalrog no it was pretty fun scene until Alig took it too far.

@RockerfellerRothchild1776 2 ай бұрын

So what clubbing is there now? Lol btw at that time the Rave scene was killing the club scene . Club kids were kept out of raves

@MR1977. Ай бұрын

Club kids were lame as hell but I don’t think they were banned from raves they just never left the tunnel and limelight. The rave scene wasn’t about that look at me nonsense and our lives didn’t revolve around Manhattan. We traveled all over the place for raves and if there was nothing going on we would go to the clubs in Manhattan and roll our eyes at those idiots in their stupid costumes. They were just drug addicted attention whores. Look at how NYC I am. 🤮

@BASE5NYC 2 ай бұрын

Amazing times. Me & my friends used to pay Gatien (not directly obviously) to deal out of the phone booths near the entrance. If you bought amazing blue & whites E-gels or half moons in the early 90s at Limelight or Tunnel, they were from that crew. Flown in weekly from Holland 25,000 at a time via DHL.(not by me of course) 200 bottles of real deal Ketaset a week from a Vet hookup. Crazy shit went down in those places.

@justindchaney Жыл бұрын

The whole Club kids thing has got to be up there with one of the most bizarre parts of American history

@davidmiller4758 Жыл бұрын

I would have agreed with you a few years ago, but with the rise of the whole pronoun movement and men thinking they can get pregnant and be women I don't find it that crazy anymore

@tooth8551 6 ай бұрын

It was a CIA construct. All of it. Ask James Alifantis. Funny how these kids all lived and worked together throughout all this programming and no one noticed. And how many became famous in Hollywood. Aliq bragged about being a chicken hawk. He was a used tampon in the anti human cog funded by the worlds financing controllers.

@josemendez-fd5qz 4 ай бұрын

Ironically the club kids are the original LGTB community. Openly accepting everyone with all kinks and not. My uncle told me when he was growing up the club kids where like the main people repressing the community openly and willing

@tooth8551 4 ай бұрын

@@josemendez-fd5qz He killed a person and cut up the body. Micheal and his family were part of something deeper and darker then you could probably understand. He openly bragged about being a chicken hawk and raping younger youths in the club laughing about it. The entire lgbtq thing is to make it legal for these kind of crimes upon children. Want better insight, look up Paul Bonnaci and the Franklin Files. They use youths that partake in this in snuff films. It's too much for me to think about. But, Micheal was not a good person, or roll model. He was obviously taken out like Alifantis. Be careful. It's not something to celebrate, especially right now. From a mom ❤️

@j-mac7401 2 ай бұрын

The club kid scene is the love child born from the type of drugs popular in that point in history and the synthetic/electronic/ repetitive beats that were created by the DJs at the time and then played in the big clubs all over the country back then .

@Mooooty 2 ай бұрын

The Limelight was one of kind club, the best times of my life.

@robertbuchanan9234 24 күн бұрын

Extremely B&T but to each his own.

@XanderShiller Жыл бұрын

One night at Limelight, I stumbled into another club via staircases. It was the Spider Club and Nine inch Nails was having a record release party.

@andrewmichaels6298 5 ай бұрын

Shut Up! NIN Was Playing At A Small Room At LimeLight??? Jesus I Wish I Was Only 10 Years Older So I Coulda Caught Atleast The End Of That Era

@XanderShiller 5 ай бұрын

@@andrewmichaels6298 they weren't playing (at least not during the brief period I got in), it was their record release party so the dj was playing, they were more partying

@techny1549 2 ай бұрын

@@andrewmichaels6298 Heavy Era the BEST! Remember Cafe Con Leche? Even the 30 deep after the sun came up at Wo Hop. These kids missed out.

@dustinparks9157 2 ай бұрын

You should do one on the rave scene in Phoenix Arizona in the mid and late 90s . There was such a big scene involving Sammy the bull, Mexican gangbangers and a dude from the UK (Sean Atwood). Plus so much other things went down. I mostly remember all the fun I had back then. Best of times.

@jacknjill3000 2 ай бұрын

I remember even this one record store in Chelsea area was rumored to be owned by the mob. The store no longer open and had closed years ago.

@j-mac7401 2 ай бұрын

Detroit is responsible for getting the house music movement rolling. 10-15 years before the rave scene jumped off....

@techny1549 11 ай бұрын

Grew Up in Bensonhurst Brooklyn those LEGENDARY CLUB DAYS were thE BEST of times. Especially the Stockbroker Era everybody watched the movies we lived it. Friday nights in Manhattan turned into Sunday Mornings. Until the Yuppies Ruined the NYC Scene

@carminemg 2 ай бұрын

Hahaha soon as you mention kids hustling in high school, I thought about the guys who hurts cds and sold them 🤣🤣🤣 9:40 This whole segment was so relatable

@IguanaMassacre Ай бұрын

must've been the biggest vibe to be in the clubs at that time...

@Benjamin_Gellman 13 күн бұрын

The music was pretty lame comparitavely

@springrain9438 9 ай бұрын

Very cool channel.. subbed!

@user-ib2kt4oo7i 5 ай бұрын

If you like this topic then read the book called “Club Land” by Frank Owen

@reddwing4368 Жыл бұрын

Party monster was the bio pic Starring McCauley Caulking The home alone kid all grown up plays Micheal alig

@andrewmichaels6298 5 ай бұрын

Check out "Party Monster; The Shockumentary" It's less HollyWood and IS an ACTUAL Documentary So yeah... I'd check that our first... Then Watch the Macaulay Culkin "Caulkin" as you so eloquently MisSpelled it... Thanks Google! Anyway yeah.... EDIT: Sorry.... "Caulking" Come on now

@thehairyclevage1645 3 ай бұрын

It was HIGHLY exaggerated. Lot of straight up fiction in there

@XanderShiller Жыл бұрын

When I turned 18 I went to apply for a promoter job at Limelight (Avalon) and I've never been to a club before. NYC was booming. I can't find anything close. It's heartbreaking.

@djronniebruno 9 ай бұрын

I was one of Brooke H's Dallas DJs (along w Robert Taylor, Cle, Red Eye) every time she flew the club kids to town, 4404 Main, Emergency Room w Richie Rich, King & Queen of the Dallas Scene, Agenda were a few parties Brooke threw back then 1992-1996.

@djronniebruno 2 ай бұрын

@@MbisonBalrog they were mostly young artists that liked to dress up and go out to clubs. They became known in NYC first then it seemed like their were club kids in every city. It really exploded when Geraldo had them on his show in 1991. Michael Alig, Rupaul, Richie Rich and Amanda Lepore were all guests and the audience was made up of mostly nightlife people. In a nutshell a club kid was a nightlife personality.

@jacknjill3000 2 ай бұрын

One time when Richie Rich was still in SF in the late 80’s, he came up to me and a friend and introduced himself. He said he’s always wanted to me the city of us. I think he was in the SF club scene for only about a year or 2 and trying to build still image still. Then he moved to NYC and continued being a part of the club scene.

@joeyfrakes5455 Жыл бұрын

Not Sure if you guys know, but one of the Main Bath Avenue Boys is on KZfaq. His Nime is Jimmy Calandra. He was number #2-#3 in the tattoo sequence I think. More Mafia related but covers The Bath Ave Boys Extensively :)

@hf75.54 24 күн бұрын

Techno started in Detroit.. Ecstasy started in Starck club in Dallas ….

@rubytuesday5446 Жыл бұрын

South beach was great 1990s

@guilhermefonseca7481 27 күн бұрын

i was work at Red zone ,see everything !

@devinellis5871 Ай бұрын

Party Monster was a movie about the Alig Murder

@NEWARK767 2 ай бұрын

My Era, The Rest of You Guys missed out! #WeAreGenX 💯

@thebaysesh 9 күн бұрын

The movie Party Monster is about this.

@woowaptibam5253 9 ай бұрын

The Nicholas Cage gone in sixty seconds was a remake of the 1974 original! So it definitely wasn't about an 80's -90's car theft ring out New York.

@ScamLikely9327 2 ай бұрын

I had my club kid era and I still miss just bopping to the bass tripping balls. Chicago scene is more drugs than sex though lmao. Like I did all the drugs I ever had interest in other than Peyote/mescalin. I feel like if you ain’t getting down in your 20’s you kinda miss your window to be a crazy person and it’s kinda accepted lmao.

@thebaysesh 9 күн бұрын

The real night club mob or Chelsea was the velvet mafia

@johnsheetz6639 2 ай бұрын

I don't know I thought it was cool when they would be an impromptu party when it was set up nice. Like a meet-up rave we have to know a guy and a good sound system

@Joey.Alvarado 10 ай бұрын

Sound Factory was not his. Palladium yes

@carson3811 Жыл бұрын

The sound factory heard that mentioned famous people had a few wild nights.. new York bodybuilder's would go to party .. Dorian Yates out his face dancing in the middle of the dancefloor..guy remembered the song shinny disco balls Dorian Yates Mr Olympia out his box grabbing the confetti

@springrain9438 9 ай бұрын

They play both sides. Good cop bad cop routine.

@davidburnell3517 Жыл бұрын

They didn't link the survey?

@VHS0025 8 ай бұрын

There's a movie based on Aligs murder of 'Angel', it mite be called 'Club Kids' but ya check that out !! @The Underworld Podcast

@XanderShiller 5 ай бұрын

Party Monster was great too. Macaulay Culkin, Manson.. 👍

@thehairyclevage1645 3 ай бұрын

It was HIGHLY exaggerated. Lot of straight up fiction in there

@XanderShiller 3 ай бұрын

@@thehairyclevage1645 can you provide some examples?

@hereforthebanter8392 Жыл бұрын

Too many adverts starting too put me off the podcast

@CW95981 Жыл бұрын

Yup

@breakingdragon22 3 ай бұрын

When the clubs went Techno, bridge and tunnel crowd infested the nightlife and chemical drugs came in, the real NYC club heads went super underground. Soulful house was pushed out for garbage. The Midwest gay club kids ruined the night world of NYC and it has never recovered.

@jacknjill3000 2 ай бұрын

Same with what happened in San Francisco.

@breakingdragon22 2 ай бұрын

@@jacknjill3000 Das Club, (1015 Folsom),City Nights, Club X, Townsend, DV8, The Covered Wagon, Don’t sit on the furniture (roving party), the Palladium and so many more in the Bay Area. I went to U.C. Berkeley in the late 80’s, as a kid from NYC it felt like I never left my native city. I went back to visit some friends, I enjoyed them but I was underwhelmed with the current cultural situation. I’m glad I moved overseas.

@robertbuchanan9234 24 күн бұрын

Very true, people went from "rock" fans to techno heads overnight. They had no idea of soul/r&b/disco/reggae etc. Similar happened in London with small clubs with varied music, especially Latin Jazz disappearing cos all of a sudden rave was everywhere with little room for other great music.