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kids with nice equipment, contests and endless
fashion shows.
Punk rock hit America around 1977. Well, it hit
Texas too, Bubbat One of our skate buddies started.
getting shorter and shorter hair. He told us about
this place called Raul's and, times being what they
were, we went. That skater was Biscuit, or Randy
Turner. Chris Gates and I both played guitar. One
day, while skating at the now defunct Pflugerville
ditch, we decided that we would start a band and
maybe even play Raul's. A coin was tossed to see
who would play bass and who would play guitar.
Biscuit was the natural choice for singer since we
all knew how well he could sing (plus he was a wild-
man). Another skater, Steve Collier, was a drum-
mer, and that was the beginning of the Big Boys.
Our first show was in November, 1979, at the Vault
Far Left: Biscuit, man of a thousand costumes, points the
finger. Left: Hardcore transparent guitar wailing by Tim
Kerr. Below: (L to R) Tim, Chris, Biscuit and Fred.
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So you want to know about the Big Boys? Well...remember (literally a fur vault). For all of you trivia collectors
out there, Steve couldn't make it, so another skater
Cadillac wheels? Around 1974, a group of friends were skating
named Kevin Tubb drummed for us that first time.
in Austin, Texas, and generally creating their own Dogtown type We didn't get together to be a "skate band." We
scene. We were the group that was too loud and crazy and got together to play Raul's once and anything after that
were just four skaters who started a band. We got
thrown out of parks for not following the rules. (Rules in skate-
boarding? Give me a break-or at least get out of the way.) Some
of us had skated when wheels were steel and clay, the oldest
school-fifteen toes and Hobies. The places to skate were ditches
and pools, but all Skateboarder magazine showed was parks,
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Big Boys played any type of music we wanted
to play-funk, thrash, whatever. There were no rules
on how the music, your dress, conduct, or anything
else was supposed to be at that time. It wasn't until
later, during the "hardcore" period, that a set of
rules started to be laid down in stone. It's sad, but
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