Ducky Boys Gang Origins - Book: Lost Boys of the Bronx: the Oral History of the Ducky Boys Gang

My book Lost Boys of the Bronx: The Oral History of the Ducky Boys Gang was originally intended to be a video documentary. The book was a much better project, but I had a LOT of footage from the video shoots, so I figure I'd put it up on Youtube so that it wouldn't go to waste!




Ducky Boys band frontman Mark Lind gives an interview and Legendary NYC radio DJ Pat St. John makes an appearance to read a passage from Lost Boys of the Bronx (which is also available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and signed books are available on http://Lantern-Media.com/signedbooks

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[VMA225]

The Ducky Boys; Enough Already !!! I can't get rid of you guys. Your always on the Bronxboard. Honestly, nobody cares. Grow up and get a job.

[bennoach]

@bennoach Apparently they weren't any more or less tough than rival gangs in real life, but I guess they gave outsiders a creepy vibe, deserved or not. So their rep lived on long enough that Kaufman (or David Price the author of The Wanderers, though I haven't read the book) chose them to be boogeymen of the story.

[bennoach]

@bennoach Think of those three scenes in The Wanderers with the Duckies coming out of nowhere from different places in alarming numbers; and compare that with the similar action seen with the alien clones in Body Snatchers. Yep, that's the highly fictionalized, but creepy version of the Duckies. But that portayal sticks with you more than than the other gangs because they were so mysterious.

[bennoach]

Phil Kaufam's otherworldly portrayal of the Duckies is the main thing that inspired the interest in these gangs, I think, seeing as how they're the first featured in the oral history. He pointed out in his commentary on the DVD a small theme of sorts - rabbles of silent, soulless figures whose stone-faced demeanor gives you the willies; and like a dormant hornet's nest, if one is messed with the entire swarm is stirred up and chasing you. This was repeated in his remake of the Body Snatchers.