sunvalleylaw
December 19th, 2006, 11:34 AM
Ok, this post is to discuss Dogtown and Z Boys, the really excellent sound-track, pre-punk leading up to punk rebel skater rock and roll music, and skating. Below is my crossover post from Tone's thread in Strats where we started discussing it because I commented on an '62 re-issue strat in pool bottom aqua, which started the discussion of pool-riding, which is what the Dogtown skaters are known for.
Tone had asked me if I was a skateboarder. MY QUOTE FROM OTHER POST: Ok, this is way off topic, I'll PM, or start a new Open Mic thread. But the short answer is yes, I read the Dogtown articles, built a board in woodshop out of oak (Logan Earth Ski rip-off), mounted some tracker mid-trucks and blue Kryptonics and side walk surfed all over the place. (still have that old board, put some new big blue Kryptos on it so I can ride it over to the P.O. Box and on errands around town. ) No empty pools in Tacoma so no vert riding, just "bert" turns on hills and cruising, jumping off curbs etc. Rolled my ankle trying to learn some roll ins to the local skate park a year or two ago. Not giving up yet, but that is a tale for another thread. Also, I owned an Alfa as Peralta is portrayed as owning in the fictional Dogtown movie!
EDIT: LMAOROF, you got me with that Avatar!! (Tone's avatar is now a Dogtown graphic) END QUOTE
Yeah Tone, I have ridden my old board, with the original wheels and trucks, ever since I built it in about 6th or 7th grade. Only to surf around, at University of Washington campus, parking garages, to and from law school classes, now on errands around town, or whenever. After watching the Dogtown documentary repeatedly, I bought a new board (a big lib tech), some independent trucks and some Spitfire big head softies to try to learn some vert (we have a couple really nice skateparks around here), and rolled my ankle right away. :p There are some oldies that do it at lunch or on Sunday ams, and as I have time, I try it a little. Less now that I got into guitar.
The dogtown articles were fascinating to me as a kid in Tacoma. The music Peralta, Alva, and etc. listened to, was not discussed in the articles so much, but back then, I was listening to Nugent, Zeppelin, Boston, VH, etc.
The really good Dogtown soundtrack (the one playing in the documentary, not the one sold in stores) is mostly music a little before that and is mostly less popular cuts (ie, Zeppelin, Achilles Last Revenge rather than Stairway to Heaven). It has Hendrix, Blue Oyster Cult, Devo, Iggy Pop, T.Rex, Black Sabbath, Floyd, Bowie, Buzzcocks, Nazareth, Foghat, Rise against the machine, a Neil Young track and a lot of others. I spent a bunch of time putting a full soundtrack together off of iTunes and buying CDs from Amazon. Anyone else really get into that movie and the music? Any other skaters out there, old school or otherwise?!
Tone had asked me if I was a skateboarder. MY QUOTE FROM OTHER POST: Ok, this is way off topic, I'll PM, or start a new Open Mic thread. But the short answer is yes, I read the Dogtown articles, built a board in woodshop out of oak (Logan Earth Ski rip-off), mounted some tracker mid-trucks and blue Kryptonics and side walk surfed all over the place. (still have that old board, put some new big blue Kryptos on it so I can ride it over to the P.O. Box and on errands around town. ) No empty pools in Tacoma so no vert riding, just "bert" turns on hills and cruising, jumping off curbs etc. Rolled my ankle trying to learn some roll ins to the local skate park a year or two ago. Not giving up yet, but that is a tale for another thread. Also, I owned an Alfa as Peralta is portrayed as owning in the fictional Dogtown movie!
EDIT: LMAOROF, you got me with that Avatar!! (Tone's avatar is now a Dogtown graphic) END QUOTE
Yeah Tone, I have ridden my old board, with the original wheels and trucks, ever since I built it in about 6th or 7th grade. Only to surf around, at University of Washington campus, parking garages, to and from law school classes, now on errands around town, or whenever. After watching the Dogtown documentary repeatedly, I bought a new board (a big lib tech), some independent trucks and some Spitfire big head softies to try to learn some vert (we have a couple really nice skateparks around here), and rolled my ankle right away. :p There are some oldies that do it at lunch or on Sunday ams, and as I have time, I try it a little. Less now that I got into guitar.
The dogtown articles were fascinating to me as a kid in Tacoma. The music Peralta, Alva, and etc. listened to, was not discussed in the articles so much, but back then, I was listening to Nugent, Zeppelin, Boston, VH, etc.
The really good Dogtown soundtrack (the one playing in the documentary, not the one sold in stores) is mostly music a little before that and is mostly less popular cuts (ie, Zeppelin, Achilles Last Revenge rather than Stairway to Heaven). It has Hendrix, Blue Oyster Cult, Devo, Iggy Pop, T.Rex, Black Sabbath, Floyd, Bowie, Buzzcocks, Nazareth, Foghat, Rise against the machine, a Neil Young track and a lot of others. I spent a bunch of time putting a full soundtrack together off of iTunes and buying CDs from Amazon. Anyone else really get into that movie and the music? Any other skaters out there, old school or otherwise?!