Sunday, May 31, 2009

SLP VHS

My parent's would occasionally come up on a 3+1 blank VHS pack. Those things were costly back then at five to six dollars each. They would be generous and give me one of tapes for my own personal use. You had three recording speeds to choose from; SP,LP or SLP (short play/long play/super long play). In these days the VCR was always set to SLP. That gave you six whole hours of Skate TV excerpts, new wave & punk videos from 120 Minutes, dubbed skate videos your friends or Blockbuster would have and maybe even some crap footage of yourself trying to poorly ollie a garbage can.
This demo was either June 1989 or 1990. It might have been one of the last demos at Danny's Ride Away that had obstacles. I was there with my friend Cal (who worshipped Jeremy Klein) and my friend Brian Kushner.
This is a 2nd or 3rd generation dub of a tape shot by Mrs. Bruhl, the mother of some of our skate crew, The Bruhl Clan (Danny, Critter & Dave). They rocked rat tails. I think she did an excellent job for a mom with a VHS camera at a skate demo.
I remember Cal was scared to talk to Jeremy Klein who was sitting all alone on his board so I went and talked to him. He was nice to me and I found out he had a severed nerve in his arm from falling through a window fucking around (not skating). A foreshadowing of a Klein we would discover much later when he was lipsliding barns on fire and driving a van down the El Toro stairs. Someone also robbed his board after the demo and he was bummed cause he had new Swiss bearings. It was probably BSA.
This may have been the demo Rodney Mullen was rude to John Oswald at. I know the old school Bay Shore cats were there cause we knew who they were from skating Babylon and I saw Ron from the city in the crowd. I think The Ronz and Gino were there but I didn't know who they were until later on a bit at Skateboard Madness...

SLP VHS from Peabody on Vimeo.


Thursday, May 28, 2009

PHEO WITH HAIR aka SNAP PANTS

Pheo told me he digitized this footage. I have a dv tape somewhere, too. Some of this made it to The Fun Game Massive Movie. I snapped a few stills, too. Here's the pics in the meantime while I try and find that dv tape...Late 90's...still pre-Y2K. The amount of stills & video I have of Hessian to be unearthed.

PHEO WITH HAIR-BRYAN DAVIS NBS

Pheo with hair/Bryan Davis NBS
HESSIAN-BS NOSEGRIND
Hessian BS nosegrind
HESSIAN-NOT QUITE A HIPPY JUMP
Hessian. Not quite a hippy jump.

POSER OF THE MONTH SUBMISSION
Bryan Davis 'Poser of the Month' Submission

Thursday, May 21, 2009

New Skool Demos Part 2

New Skool was good. As Pheo said there was often good demos. There was a 3 foot indoor mini & they used to let us take all the flat bars & boxes out behind the building whenever we wanted to. Some of the familiar faces that worked there over the years were; Jon Pierre Vargas, Anthony Pappalardo, Mike Lent and I think Steve Fletch. Keith Denley & Quinn Sherman were the resident groms.
I don't remember the A-Team demo. I don't think Pheo remembers this demo. I have some very dusty stills from a Firm demo. This was back when Frank Gerwer was in their gang. 5boro showed up in a beater Mercedes station wagon (I think) with vanity plates that said '5boro'. I think Tato ollied off a flat bank ramp over a folding table standing up. Something like that. These facts could be very blurred. I never even did drugs I'm just burnt...I also have a Shorty's demo on video I will find at some time and post....
Frank Gerwer-Krooked Grind
Frank Gerwer- Krooked Grind
Ray Barbee-stylish backside ollie
Ray Barbee-style king of the week
Ray Barbee-smiling
Ray Barbee-Smiling
Neil Morgan- front smith
Neil Morgan-Back Smith
Steve Rodriguez-big Indy
Steve Rodriguez-Funbox indy air
The Firm- New Skool, Sayville NY-1990's

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

NEW SKOOL SKATE DEMOS

LOOKING THROUGH THE TAPE PILE I FOUND THE " A TEAM DEMO " .. REMEMBER THE "A TEAM " WHO DID THESES GUYS THINK THEY WERE CALLING THEM SELF THE " ATEAM' . YEah MULLENS THE BEST AND M.J IS PRETTY DOPE THEN THERES GERSHON MOSELY .... OK THERE WERE ALL FUCKING AT THE TOP OF THERE GAME , BUT I WOULD OF BEEN MORE SIKED TO SEE MR.T POP OUT THE VAN AND DO A HARD FLIP THEN DAVE MAYHEW ... THERES NO HATE FOR DAVE I JUST RATHER SEE MR.T ..

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ALSO ON THE TAPE WAS THE SHORTY'S DEMO . I THINK THIS IS THE LAST TIME ANYONE SEEN ARON SHINDER {SP].. I WOULD HAVE RATHER OF SEEN ROSA LIKE EVERY OTHER MAN CHILD AT THAT TIME ..
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THE NEW SKOOL DEMOS WERE FUN . THEY ACTUALLY HAD REAL RAMPS FOR THE EVERYONE TO SKATE , AND THEY WOULD HAVE THE DEMO THEN HAVE ALL THE KIDS JOIN IN THE SESSION TO SKATE WITH THE PRO'S , IT WAS GOOD TIMES THEN . NOW NOONE HAS DEMOS FOR REAL LOOK AT ALL THE TOURS EVERYONE DOES THESES DAYS . THERES NEVER ANY LONG ISLAND DATES ON THEM.


OH AND MJ I STILL THINK YOU SHAVE YOUR LEGS .....