The New York music scene in the mid-’80s had some hard lines defining it. In the clubs and lofts of downtown Manhattan, you had New Wave blooming in a crush of oversized blazers and fishnets. In midtown, you have high-end clubs and bars where mega-rich yuppies were listening to the last dregs of disco and the first inklings of techno. And on the streets, you had thrash and hardcore causing blue-collar mayhem. But New York is essentially the world’s biggest small town, and these cultures couldn’t help but crash up against one another, as evidenced by this recently unearthed video of Slayer fans losing their shit outside of Manhattan club Studio 54.Originally posted in 2013 but re-discovered by CVLT Nation, the footage shows fans outside what one assumes is the infamou...
