SPASH
The untimely demise of Skatepark Del H. debated art and cultural lineage, produc
Mar caused an abundance of odd behaving what many felt were the greatest quotes
fors. Todd Swank and an associate got to
it last and also practiced boxing with an un
named cretin. Dave Andrecht was seen rip-
ping it the night before, while Rodney and
Rocco were seen crying there the day after
Even Henry Hester joined in the dirge.
Numerous anonymous-for-a-reason skaters
pledge revenge upon the multi-million dollar
hotel complex that will eventually replace
the park Virtually everyone in the region
came by to deal with the tragedy in his/her
own manner. Perhaps most unique was the
method of tribute chosen by G.S.D. It seems
that Mr. Davis captured many of Del Mar's
trademark blue mini-tiles and included
samples in the latest issue of Skate Fate
Further odd homage was paid by Powell
Peralta, who has apparently issued a series
of shirts listing deceased skate spots. Infor
mants report that the shirts, which include
Del Mar's name, are already a hot commo-
dity Curiously, the shirts Peralta gave out
in Savannah, GA, didn't include the name,
while the ones Powell gave out in Santa
Barbara did.
TALKING SAVANNAH SLAMMA.
While many hot types like Underhill
chose to attend the Reno, Nevada, contest
(possibly due to the close proximity of
legends like Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Fats
Domino, et al), others sought out the street
type contest held in Savannah's Martin
Luther King Jr Convention Center. This con
test was held on Elvis Presley's ten-year
deathday as well as the 100th anniversary
of the founding of the first independent
black town in Amerika. Add the coming of
the new Mayan world and the harmonic con-
vergence of all planets as well as the first
arena street contest and what do you get?
The Ku Klux Klan was so stoked that they
marched right outside the auditorium. Local
governmental officials appealed to the:
populace to stay indoors. However, lusty
skate types avoided all of the above and
came in droves to the SLAMMA. Here they
saw it all presented as never before. Once-
in-a-lifetime street skate ramps were con
structed by unlikely persons such as High
Tide Tim, Maria K., Denike. Thatcher,
Peralta, T.K., Mr. Lance, James Muir, Mr.
Vitello, Jimmy Fitzpatrick and a host of
others Steve Rocco astounded all with his
brash predictions of a Natas/Rocco/Vallely
Gonz takeover of the new Mayan world (the
quartet's UCLA team uniforms inspired
much comment). The Fabulous Skipper
boy coached and called b.s. on Bobby D.
for hiding his credit card. (While Engblom
walked, Denike rode in the splendor of a
Lincoln Town Car.) Stacy P. and Christian
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of the week (Peralta's "Well, I'm a Mex
ican" and Hosol's "So what, I'm a Jew
The man who once was credited with
destroying the sport of surfing (by tube
sliding while wearing an iron cross-
emblazoned nazi helmet, as photographed
in Surfer Magazine), Jimmy Fitzpatrick.
showed up with an oddly disoriented video
crew. Perhaps coincidentally, Dennis
Dragon, known to be a member of the
notorious Surf Punks, was a cameraman on
the aforementioned crew. The alphabet
boys, O and Moto, offered critical encour
agement regarding the availability of sex
change operations to pastel clad KKK
marchers Tracker Larry came and was
apparently being coached by Bill Danforth.
Roskopp blew out his latest knee in an ag
gro practice routine Natas got injured
before he even arrived. Vallely's arm was
so tweaked that he went to the hospital
Chris Baucom articulately blazed but got
9th, missing the money by a point or so
Jesse Martinez captured the burn of the
contest award by inexplicably not making
the cut. Lucero demonstrated his polished,
light-years-ahead maneuvering McGill
rode strong and hard. Hawk was so on fire
in his first run that he nearly barled Fingers
Murray was himself, which was more than
good enough. John Thomas was fully ex
tended. Raggety Reategul and Cooksie
played search and destroy, Sam Cunning
ham was esoterically unique O'Brien flew
balls-out once more Gary Davia was con-
frontationally resolute Welinder skated:
cerebral. Others did more than can be:
related in words (besides, this ain't no con-
test report) Money boys were Hosol,
Caballero, Dressen, Gonz, Kendall, Guer
rero, Mountain and Danforth. (Their pro-
formances alone constituted a primer in the:
possibilities of street etiquette.) Someone
wrote GOLF IS NOT GOOD" on one of the
ramps, which pretty much sums it up. The
after-party was the high water mark of
decato splendor and Southern hospitality.
FURTHER ON DOWN THE ROAD DEPT.
In an unrelated development the follow
ing were busted in the South's cleanest
greasy dive blues bar around the time of the
contest Mr. Brian Ware of Deluxe/Beware
Records seemed to be in charge as J.F. (the
man who killed surfing) and C.R. (the boy
called Stecyk) video-recorded the perfor
mance of legendary blues ace Roy Dunn.
Ken McGuire blew backup blues harp,
while Fausto and Peralta chanted obscure
field chants and arhoolies. T-ed was there,
apparently a lifelong friend of Mr. Dunn from
back in his old Delta days. Former/future
rockabilly boy, Denike Bobby, gave Rob
Rascopf (the world's most mispelled
name), a discourse on Cajun soles (the type
that come on shoes). Later, Dragon, a noted
musical engineer, Ware and Stecyk were
plotting the possible release of a Roy Dunn
stereo 78 Thatcher may conceivably do
liner notes for this epic endeavor
FURTHER MUSICAL NOTES
The Drunk Injune are recording their first
album. Rumor has it that Eric Swenson is
a surrogate engineer on the project in a
more curious development, Swenson was
busted buying a fare, vintage 1938 National
wood resonator dobro guitar, which he
promptly loaned to Kevin "Tumbleweed/
Panda Ancell. Is a Swenson/Panda/Ware
pict-o-disc in the offing? No further word yet
as to the status of the Ancell-edited skate
comic reportedly in the works.
Johnny Ray is reportedly now passing as
Stevie Ray's brother. His credentials are so
in order that when Vaughan may or may not
have sessioned secretly with Stevie
Wonder, Johnny Ray was the first to know.
Additionally, Johnny Ray's been commut-
ing to San Francisco for his terribly secret
liasons with a certain comely miss. Is
Johnny Ray's family pack an indication of
impending marriage?
Meanwhile, Dead Kennedy leader Jello
Blatra is still fighting obscenity charges over
a poster depicting genitalia in the D.K. Lp
Frankenchrist. Ironically, similar genitalia
appears on the famous statue David, but the
clear-thinking magistrates in this case have
failed to arrest Michaelangelo
And from our Why Are They There
Now?" file. Steve Hawk, who when last
heard from was asked by a stewardess to
join the Mile High Club some place over
Tasmania, has created another journalistic
masterpiece. In a recent piece, Steve Hawk
probed the circumstances surrounding the
tragic 1986 freeway shooting of Corona's
first female police officer by one Harold
Harvey Hawks Hawks, now 27, a man with
no prior criminal record, no history of
violence, and no known psychological prob
lems, has been sentenced to a minimum of
17 years in prison. Mr. Hawks is also
rumored to have been a prominent pro vert-
ical stylist in the 70s. Think about it.
SHORTS
Steve Caballero has just chopped his
ramp into a smaller format. And if you doubt
that small ramps are the rage, Lance Moun-
tain is building one in Peralta's backyard.
(Lance's last ramp is in Canada at Kevin
Harris' skatepark, where business has
dramatically increased.) Meanwhile, Gotcha
has reportedly obtained the services of one
Tim Payne to
build a mega-
ramp The 100
foot wide Raging
Waters ramp in
SJ is reportedly
alive Also unte
lafed is the fact
that Mike McGil
held a shop demo
Session for the
multitudes atop a
cutdown portion
and
of the legendary
Chin Ramp
Rocco
Natas have been
watching Peral
ta's new house
recently (Perhaps
due to the prox
imity of the afore
mentioned mini-
ramp.) Sheet
changing is not
the norm. Natas has signed Rocco to the
Santa Monica Airlines stable. Rumor has it
that Rocco's new graphics were created
clandestinely in the Jimmy Z art room while
Mr. G. was out to lunch. Also, Rocco and
Natas have scheduled an ever-so-secret
meet between two other ultra streetsters and
SMA management.
Tommy Guerrero at a young, tender age.
BUST OF MONTH-Vicki Vickers is now
a body builder in Venice, CA
TREND OF MONTH-Keeping up with Larry,
Georgy, Bradley and Dick, et al, Tracker
Peggy joins the ranks of car-phoned skate
exec
QUESTION OF MONTH-Will all future skate
industry business now be conducted park
ing lot to parking lot and phone to phone?
Is this more evidence of the emergence of
the street aesthetic? Will Newton call collect?
The recent Oceanside contest had 800
streetstyle entrants. This dwarts the record
for competitors in any other skate event.
Natas (whurt ankle hangin') was out to watch
the young upstarts in the "highest ollie" con-
test George Wilson seems to be putting
the new Z-am team together (Is this the year
of nostalgic comebacks, or what?) Boards
were breaking, regardless of the NHS Cell
Block Ill. Oh well! Additionally, recent shop
demos have been drawing approximately
2,000 viewers (such as the Brigade's
Philadelphia, PA, demo at Spikes or the demo
at Cheapskates in Doylestown, PA.) It is in-
teresting to note that these extremely stok-
ed spectator counts rival or exceed the head
count from many recent highly-touted con-
tests.
Along with the
results of the
heated sponsored
am street division
the CASL admin-
istrators sent their
monthly newslet
ter which contain
ed a stern mema
to the N.S.A from
the Oceanside
Rec Dept The
memo announc
ed that the city
was pulling the
NSA's permit for
a street event
scheduled on
September 12th
and 13th and
blamed extensive
damage to sur-
rounding build-
ings, shrubbery
and the general
area on the CASL event. The city described
the event as nothing short of an "unruly
mob scene. CAS director, Sonja Catalano's,
comment was Stop skate harrassment!"
and she urges all members of NSA/CASL
to write a nice letter to Ray Duncan, Aquatics
Supe, 350 N. Ditmar St. Oceanside, CA
92054 Let them know how stoked you are.
ON BOARD
COMING EVENTS
C.A.S.L. Series
California Am Skateboard League
November 7 Anaheim, CA Anaheim
Family Fun Center. Freestyle and cross
country. "Double Point Contest
For further information call the NSA Hotline
(714) 882-3406 or write CAS.L. PO. Box 3004,
San Bernardino, CA 92413.
N.S.A Amateur Vertical Series
October 31 Phoenix, AZ West Region
December 6 Dallas, TX Central Region
Register through NSA office. For more info
write to NSA, PO. Box 3645, San Bernar-
dino, CA 92404.
1987 NSA Pro Tour
October 24 Phoenix, AZ Barecover pro
ramp.
For more info write to NSA, PO. Box
3645, San Bernardino, CA 92404. NSA
Hotline: (714) 882-3406.
THE WALL PRO RAMP JAM
October 17 Modesto, CA City Skates
Modesto presents a pro contest and live
music from 12-5 p.m. Free admission.
For more information contact City
THRASH-A-THON '87
Top riderfroller Spidey is now reportedly
head style raven in the West Coast glam Skates: (209) 5-S-K-A-T-E-S.
scene. The ever-dressed-to-the-nines Spide
is now being touted as the style setter to the
stars Spi has also been recently sited about
town with the equally decorous Lucero, John
Lucero was seen chasing the Bangles bass
player, Michelle Steel, around Beverly Hills
club, Cathouse. The same night there was
a private party affair for Faster Pussycat..
Those in attendance were Vince Neil and
Tommy Lee of Motley with their Harleys,
Gene Simmons of Kiss, Nicholas Cage,
Old Ghost Grigley and big-time producer
Rick Rubin. We wonder if movie contracts
can be far off,
Once again, Neil Blender has confounded
all critics with the release of his latest black-
on-black graphic decks.
That ever-so-innovative, creative guy, Mike
Rector, has scored again. Not content to
sit on his sure-to-win Skateboarder Maga-
zine's "Advertiser of the Year award laurels
(for the too hip Psycho ad series), Mike is
rumored to be coming out with a radical new
product. Said to be in the works are a new
velcro waist adjustable pant/short. Rumor
has it this revolutionary product may be called
Mikey Z. No wonder he drives a black 911
and wears a gold Rolex.
4th Annual "Skate to Combat Cancer"
October 21-24 San Louis Obispo, CA
Annual Cal Poly marathon skate to raise
money for the American Heart Associa-
tion. For more information contact: Lee
Sehon, Chairman Thrash-A-Thon Com-
mittee '87, 83 Del Oro Court, San Luis
Obispo, CA 93401.
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