Ok... so maybe the old school shit in hartford was not "wack", it just didn't have the same flair as NY Graff in my opinion... but my point is there were people painting Hartford before the mentioned 1994 stuff... that's all. There was 80's graff in New Haven, Bridgeport and Danbury as well... Most people just don't seem to remember the early days of CT.
I would say that Gaze, Cycle and Emit along with Eroc and IMOK crew put CT on the map by painting all over Boston, DC and all areas of NY... No one knew about CT with the small amount of pieces under bridges and behind buildings. We had to wake people up and say "CT mutha fuckers"