AND FURTHERMORE...!!
The
Making
of
A Skate
Video
Lance launches downtown while cameras roll.
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n a side street in Alhambra, California, a professional Hollywood
video cameraman lay in the gutter bleeding. Standing next to him
laughing were the ever so guilty looking Lance Mountain, Steve
Caballero and Mike McGill. The inspiring tale of just why Lance had cho-
sen to rock'n'roll curb slide into the lens, through the camera and off the
videoman's face would take too long to relate here. Suffice it to say he
was the wrong man for the job and he had just been given notice,
streetstyle. The professional resigned from the crew moments after
Stacy Peralta fired him. Also now absent from our scenario was
moment Peralta ut-
"Soundo," the bleeding pro's ace assistant. At this moment P
tered those now famous words, "you guys aren't making this any
easier," trashed the Hollywood crews pristine professional video take
and promoted Lance to director. From then on nothing else was ever
the same. People took turns being camera man. There was much
speculation
now its old
o you want to make a skate video hey kid? This is the story of
some lads who did. They simply begged, borrowed, rented and
regarding Mr. Mountains' marital status. By
7 news...did she really have triplets?
grant, rented a recording studio and did some of their own music, man-
gled a few autos, wore it all a little thin, escaped the police and man-
aged to produce a highly watchable thirty or so minutes of skate-video
verité. You could learn by their mistakes but it would be more fun to
make the same ones yourself. In the interest of historical clarification
it should be noted that the Bones Brigade video show II is the most ex.
tensive documentation of the skate scene produced by skaters for skat-
ers yet. Now go get your camera, point, shoot and the rest is up to you.
Why watch television when you can make your own.