Bones Brigade Experience Q&A - Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Stacy Peralta
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2023
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Imagine The Avengers were real and decades after defeating Thanos they got together for a charity Q&A.
That was the vibe in the air last weekend at the Vans Skatepark for the Bones Brigade Experience, at least for me, I was beyond thrilled. The Bones Brigade skateboard team defined skateboarding in the 80’s.
The videos, combined with Powell Peralta’s iconic graphics and advertising was the perfect multimedia manifesto to kids across the globe to repurpose their local town, big or small, into their own personal skateparks.
They taught you how to make the mundane suburban life we were presented with exciting. How to adapt, be creative and never forget about having fun. Abandoned buildings, urine stenched loading docks and any formation of concrete with a hint of a incline became a portal to the smoothed paved paradise’s of California and beyond.
Their individual personalities and styles, combined with genre defining graphics, seemingly superhuman skateboarding abilities turned a group of upstart skaters into icons that still shine and inspire today.
They say “don’t meet your heroes”, I think you should just pick them better. Thank you Stacy Peralta, George Powell, Steve Caballero, Rodney Mullen, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Tony Hawk, Tommy Guerrero & (bonus) Christian Hosoi for the immeasurable joy and inspiration you continue to give.
Enjoy the full Q&A on our RUclips channel and hit the store for a full range of classic Powell Peralta gear. And never stop searching!
Thanks to Steve Van Doran, Mike McGill and everyone involved for such an amazing day.
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When I was a kid these guys were my heroes, I’m glad to see that they’re all positive good people
I am 59 and they are still my heroes but I understand what you mean.
52 and I remember when Animal Chin came out. 9 kids at my house because we had a vcr.
@@SeanCrowley-ks1muWe literally wore the tape out from watching it so much!
McGill- “If anyone could find Animal Chin, you could Johnny”.
McRad-“You God damn right Mike!”. 😂
@SeanCrowley-ks1mu we had about 10 kids in the skate shop....our minds were blown lol
49 years old and tried to pick up skating again 3 yrs ago and quickly changed my mind when I fell and it took a week for the pain to go away. Now I just collect reissues that I couldn't afford as a kid. Cab is king
Dude just get a long board to cruise and carve. Laid back cool style. Know what I’m saying
Love that they are all still homies. Bones Brigade forever. 💯
I’m 43 and just started back up. Falls hurt more than I remember and I do roll but I am going to keep going. I never stopped seeing the world through a skaters eyes. Every object is a skate obstacle.
I was just thinking that myself. Even when in a bus or car I was looking out of the window imagining that I was skating over the railings and banks that I saw. The happiest days of my life.
@@leonskum.5682 yup. That’s how every car ride for the last 20 years has been.
I don’t get star struck but I think meeting Rodney would get me there lol
I was there with Tony Hawk, I mean star struck not this q and a lol
Rodney would get me too.
As a 47 year old skater Powell Peralta and G&S is what I still gravitate towards. This is why.
G & S has the 70’s reissue’s out now. If only they were more affordable but I can’t wait to get one right now.
@@Juan-yq3fb I bought the team rider reissue Fibreflex as well as I am restoring one my fire found at an estate sale. Just eating in the machine eto complete the kingpin for the HPG Gullwing split axle truck.
It took me a long time to pull the trigger on the Fibreflex due to he Brice but new I would regret it if I didn't. No kidding 2 days later my wife found the original.
Videos coming soon on it.
The cleanest skate team of all time! We are pushing our skate age.
There is no other panel that can claim this kind of expertise. Simply riveting.
I had the privilege of meeting Rodney in Santa Monica in 1991, together with Guenter Mokulys. We skateboarded in a schoolyard in the evening. He gave me a new board and a t-shirt in his company wom skateboards manufactures. I am very grateful for these great memories.
All the legends of 80s skateboarding :')
I grew up watching the Bones Brigade and they are the reason that I got into skating full time. Always watched a video to get pumped up before me and my friends would head out to the spot of the day.
I can still watch ALL the videos! Animal Chin was my favorite of all time!
The exact same here ! The level of stokeness after having watched a video was dope.
Recently picked up surfing aged 49, bc i miss skating but don't want to risk the injuries anymore.
Surfing afterall is the mother of skating and i hope my past life as a skater will help me out on the waves...
@@alainvosselman9960 Thats really cool to hear that, I have never surfed before because of me living on the East Coast and in PA. I Wish you the best of luck in your endeavor!
They even got George to come down. This is a beautiful thing.
Rodney being majestic as always.
The whole gang, fantastic!
Stacy and Crew --- I'm 58 years old and I grew up skateboarding since I was 5 yrs old my first skateboard was a Black Knight wood board with clay wheels I bought at Sav-On drug store.
I grew up in Westchester /Playa Del Rey and worked my way from that first board to a plastic GT board with urethane wheels then a Baihn with Cadillac Wheels and Excalibur trucks. Then a couple other boards and then a Logan Earth Ski.
Then my friends and I heard about the Runway Skatepark and Skateboard World, Skatetopia, Concrete Wave, but the best thing that could have ever happened was the building of Marina Skatepark with the Dog Bowl, Big Keyhole, etc... that park was in my backyard. I was one of the first kids to get a membership. I went to school and became very good friends with Pat Ngoho and his brother Mark. I also knew Jay Adams pretty well. I would follow around the Dogtown boys and hope we didn't get caught. I skated Kenter, etc..., and I knew Jim Muir, Red Dog, my good friend was the original drummer for Suicidal.
I want to thank you Stacy for the first Dogtown Zboyz film. I had moved from Playa Del Rey to San Jose of all places and knew no one up North. I was 30 yrs old and had never been to a movie alone before and your movie was playing so I went alone and watched your film and it was so weird because it was literally my life, growing up in the same neighborhoods and knowing Jay, and having been around all you guys but 2 or 3 years younger and skating at Marina with Shogo and Polar Bear, and having Christian Hosoi and his dad skating when Christ was about 7 or 8 yrs old. Having Pat Ngoho as one of my very good friends we had kept skating when no one was skating anymore. Then the new era guys started up, Scott Oster, lived just a few blocks away from my house in Westchester so did Aaron Murray and we would skate ramps and that's when Christ and Tony started battling it out and we were skating at night on Sundays in Westwood at MCO highrise parking structure and it was a secret at that time Hosoi, Ngoho, Oster, Murray, Dressen, myself, my roommate Tom and our friend Teeny, and we had so much fun. We were nightclubbing almost nightly and college during the day.
Ngoho gave me a new Zboard and Christian gave me some Rockets and a pair of prototype Independent Trucks that were red anodized and shaved axle body and I was just turning 24 and had the day off and went to skate a half pipe some kids built and I dropped in the first run on a brand new board and I broke my leg. 13 days in the hospital, pins and rods and screws in my leg. It was a bummer.
But again, watching the first film almost brought me to tears and I had no one with me to tell how every place shown in that film was my childhood. You and Alva were legends, Jay was also but I knew Jay and partied with Jay and he was a legend but just a cat from the neighborhood and because of Ngoho and Hosoi and Oster and Murray but mainly Pat Ngoho kept skating alive within our friends and we never stopped skating when it died in the early '80s. We became the old guys in Westchester who were crazy at 18 yrs old still skating.
Skateboarding was such a huge part if my life and was so fortunate to be living where I lived during those years. I remember getting mad at my mom because she didn't want to pay $25 for a pair of Nikes and said I had to start wearing Vans. That's when Vans was a cheap $6 tennis shoe and when we got to Vans store on Washington the original store the wife said they were doing a new style deck shoe for skateboarding and we could pick out what color canvas we wanted as long as it was gold and blue or blue and red. She said the new waffle sole would grip the grip tape really well and so I was one of the first kids to wear Vans when they weren't trendy yet. I thought I would get teased. I was in 7th grade. But, they caught on and then look at them now.
I have had a great life. I work in film and tv and have Oscars and Emmys and wouldn't change a thing.
Thanks
Great personal story/history! So much to remember and talk about... I'm 55 and I also have so many experiences and skating history (especially concerning Powell-Peralta & Bones Brigade) in my past.
Again, great post!
@@anthonythomas4683 --- thanks. It's just me telling the truth. There is so much more I could write/talk about from growing up when and where and with whom. Great times, great friends, great heroes to look up to. Being able to actually be present and aware during all the progressions and transitions that skateboarding has been through, from bottom of a rollerskate with metal wheels screwed into a piece of wood that my older neighbors were riding to clay wheels and open bearings with actual trucks to plastic boards and fiberglass and aluminum decks, then urethane wheels, then sealed bearings. Then finding any place that had banks to skate. My street had driveways that went up from the sidewalk to garages and you could skate down the street going up each driveway like a wave and and back down make the turn onto the sidewalk and to the next driveway.
Lots of schools were built on hills as you see in Dogtown Z Boyz they had to make the playground and classrooms level so there were banks that we could ride built into the playground with smooth blacktop except some cracks from earthquakes and just moving soil.
Sitting poolside watching Alva, Peralta, Adams, Mountain, etc... pulling off hitting tile, then hitting coping as they turned at the top of the pool just getting a wheel on it was amazing at that time. Then grinding your trucks on the coping, then getting air, just a simple board grab between your legs keeping the board under your feet was Godlike. Alva was a rock star. A centerfold in Skateboarder Magazine of him getting air (about a foot at most), out of a pool that he or someone had poured lighter fluid on the coping and that photo was insane for that time. I remember going to the Converse warehouse with Ngoho, he was sponsored by Converse forever and I got to pick out some shoes and I found a one off pair of low top black Chuck Taylors but they were black suede instead of canvas. They were so bad ass. Everyone would ask how I kept them so black, because canvas always faded and I'd show them they were suede and people would trip out, how did you get those? Etc....
Who would have thought skateboarding would change the world the way it has? Amazing. Just a bunch of beach kids wanting to surf when it was flat and I was just a couple years behind those guys in the same neighborhoods trying to be like them. Amazing
Great post, Kenneth. I'm 51 and grew up skating in the Inglewood/Mar Vista/Playa Del Rey/Westchester area as well as out in the valley where I went to middle and high school (Canoga Park & Reseda). My buddies and I loved watching the VHS videos of the Bones Brigade videos (Especially "The Search for Animal Chin"). I have so many great memories of skating from sunup to sundown all over town. I had the pleasure of running into the Alva guys at Venice Beach in the late 80's. The great thing about being a skater in Southern California is all the pros I got to run into randomly (Jesse Martinez, Chris Cook, Jeff Hartsel, Bill Danforth, Rocco, Eric Dressen, etc). I thank God I got the opportunity to skate in the 80's and a little bit of the early 90's. So many awesome memories. Good Times.
I grew up watching the original-Bones-Brigade videos, Police Academy 4, and, of course, Gleaming the Cube.
Over and over and over.
I had the pleasure of watching Mike MC gill do a MC twist back in the late 80s and it blew me away. Unforgettable man!
Stacy looks like one of the guys, and he was their father figure/manager back in the day. He looks really good for his age.
People are closer in age than we think. When you are 16 and your team manager is 21 it seems like you are a kid and they are an adult. That gap feels massive. Later on you are 53 and they are 58 and it feels like you're the same age.
Nice to see Tommy get his props.
That was me! :)
I got to chat one on one later that day and got to gush up close. He was very humble yet appreciative. He ALWAYS defined cool.
The Avengers of Skateboarding!! Truly amazing Q&A thank you for everything George & Stacy and the boys!! Powell Peralta for life!
I am so glad everybody is still healthy And still cool as fuck Legends.
Aww. great to see them all!!! I had the pleasure of actually seeing Mike, Steve and Nicky in England in '89!!!!(Still have the photos) Pity Lance and Tony didn't come.
All the cool tricks that these guys invented and made popular came after I quit the sport and started college 48 years ago. I returned to cruising during the pandemic 2 years ago at age 64, and I'm enjoying the sport all over again. And, the "Bones Brigade" movie only inspired me more to jump back into this beautiful, athletic, creative and artistic sport and community.
Seeing this in my lifetime and being a part of skateboardings first century or what ever is so amazing. We can actually see in person the creators of tricks. So incredible.
Mom and Dad bought me an Executioner in 1985. I used it on my hands and knees until I saw my first Bones VHS at my first friend's house I made after we moved in 88'. I ride a long board now that I'm in my mid 40's but if it wasn't for that video thats cover wrapped in scotch tape becauseit was watchedso many times, I would have never learned to stand up, create my personal style, and learn the importance of being around people better than me. If it wasn't for that, I would have never met my good friend Nick, who left us way too soon who was our local ripper. Thank you, Bones Brigade! You meant more than you know for a lot of small town kids back then.
As a fellow former small town kid... hell yes!
Stacy Bones and George Brigade, legends!
Lance and Tommy’s laughter is still so infectious. Thank you for posting this. ♥️
That was awesome...wish I had been there to see these guys all in one place.
@23:00 hell yeah to the Gonz praise and tony giving him props on his awesome youtube channel. Gonz every day
Thanks George for having the technology brains to make things happen into new products of today. No doubt talent from Rodney Tony and McGill and really each one of them created the art of possible. The artists and Stacy gave a brand to this phenomenal team. So happy each one of them contributed in their own way.
The spirit of Animal Chin was palpable in the room even though he could no longer be with us.
Thank you for posting this. I got to hear it on the Bones Brigade Audio Show podcast, and I was really hoping to be able to SEE it as well. Cheers!
I loved everything about the Q'&As. I loved hearing Christain Hosoi story at end. POWELL&PERALTA should make a VC graphic Hosoi the pro model that never was until now. It would sell amazingly well.
That would be sick.
What a bunch ! Never seen a group of people besides the Beatles or the Rollingstones.. affecting so many generations of people, having given so much direction to people who might have been going nowhere if it wasn't for their influence. They were shifting cultural tectonic plates along the way as a side thing.
My upmost respect !
Word!
This is one of those times where meeting you heroes was all that it could be and more! And if you get the opportunity to visit McGill's skate shop please do, it's an awesome place!
True legends
You are the Salt of the earth...🙏
I always thought Lance had an excellent McTwist. For as much as he said it tested him to learn it, he really dialed it. He was always totally upside down. Totally legit twist
He had a cool up and down corkscrew one.
I hope all young skaters take the time to look at Rodney's unparalleled contribution to street skating, he created most of the tricks you see in the Berrics game of skate competitions.
Except for shoves. The tricks he invented that kids actually do are:
kickflips, varial kickflips, heelflips, varial heelflips, 360 flips...
He didn't invent flatground ollies, contrary to popular belief. The fact people talk about his "unparalleled contribution to street skating" when Tommy Guerrero and Lance Mountain are sitting right there is nauseating. Lance Mountain was acid dropping off 8 ft. roofs the same year Mullen had his Thrasher cover doing a trick everybody and their little brother were already doing by that time.
@@morgellon7877 what do you mean he "didn't invent flatground ollies"? Like, sure technically someone else probably did it first somewhere else in a garage 5 months before anyone saw Rodney do it. But if everyone and their little brother was doing flatground ollies at the time why didn't they get the credit? If you're going to make bold claims you need to provide some sort of evidence beyond "I remember it".
@@morgellon7877 I usually don't comment but seeing this and having skated for over 40+ years I can say with authority your list is way, way too short and horribly inaccurate, He invented way, way more than that, way more. The late 90's/into 2000's tech-street style would probably not exist if not for Rodney, period. I don't really consider someone rolling off a roof an "unparalleled contribution". We can't ignore Tommy as he was probably single handedly responsible for "everybody and their little brother" riding launch ramps a different way and for his other contributions, between him and Gonz and Natas street skating might have been a lot different if not for them but your dismissive post is so misinformed and so ridiculous, not to mention even Tommy said his biggest influence was Rodney when I asked them on VIP night who were the skaters they looked up to, they were sitting next to each other and he immediately pointed to Rodney and said "this guy". Have you not seen the Daewon vs. Rodney videos? Have you ever watched Rodney's contest runs? When you watch Killian Martin or Andy Anderson is Tommy or Lance the first skater that pops into your head? I don't see why Rodney getting his due credit would be "nauseating" to anyone, he's worked harder than most skaters ever will when it comes to skateboarding, name one modern skater that spends 8-10+ hours a day by themselves inventing and perfecting tricks nowadays? I for one am glad I got to meet him, got to talk to him, he is such a humble and brilliant person, it's really too bad him getting the credit he deserves makes you sick.
@@morgellon7877wrong. Just wrong. You forgot late flips and a bunch of under flip tricks and tons of freestyle stuff and all the things the other two said. Rodney revolutionized street skating twice. First by inventing the entire family of pop tricks. He definitely got the ollie independent of anyone else and popularized it FIRST. That opened up all of modern street skating. Then after becoming a street skater himself he revolutionized it again by being the driving force in tec skating. Him and Daewon birthed the era of video game IRL tricks.
@@randallflat2010I’m and so jealous. Did you ask Rodney any interesting questions. I know the line was long. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for posting this!
Thankyou so much for posting this, I' would have loved to been there.
It was the best Tom. I hope to catch you one day to give you the details. I remember you rocking Hawk set ups pretty hard early days.
Yea I’m a big fan , I had a few Hawks couple of Caballeros and Mountains , my brother rode McGills ha ha ha.
bones brigade tv series? hell yes... hope it's good
Thanks for posting!
Cab channeling his inner Freddie Krueger with that sweater
Thank you so much for this!!!!
This so the cool to putting together one group of the senior citizen type people for making skateboard competition team!
My first deck was an Alva which was too heavy. Then a Gonzales followed by a Welinder street style. Tracker 6 track ultralight, Swiss bearings and either my OJ2's or slimeball wheels. Man I miss the 80's and watching these guys in their primes !
was waiting for someone to mention Gonz, happens at 22:53
Shalom howdy morning everyone. It makes my heart feel good, seeing them stick together all these years.
Am very pleased Stacy and George patched things up.
Everyone of you are pioneer mavericks of the sport in my opinion!!
I love you all
Shalom
Wow. Long live and love the BONES BRIGADE, that’s all I’m gonna say.
good to hear stacey shout out McGill as the only dude who does McTwists properly! No one inverts them, so its just.a 540 but they still get calle McTwists. Pet Peeve lol.
I'm born in 1966. Riding at 10 in NY with a Bahne and Bennett Pros, at 11 riding vert in Fort Lee NJ... Skateboarder Mag was a bible. We memorized everything...Friedman came to our ramp and took pix 🙌
Legends
Great stuff. Do good to see these guys together in the one place after all these years.
Respect!
It was incredible to see. That covered my ticket value alone, just to see them all together.
Your our godz thank you. lance inspires me most
Rodney has always been my favourite skater . The man is a genius , period
Rodney is a god among men.
Powell Peralta alumni skate zone baby here respect to our hero's
Jealous. Always dreamed of skating there.
Glad i found this tube channel! Radness
Cheers Linc!
The question that no one asked, but should have: "Bones Brigade Video I...that song "Mystery" by The Nudes when Lance was night skating...best track in any Powell video....who the hell was that band, and why was that song not included on the audio album!?!"
Sorry I wasted my question not asking this. ;)
Damn this is sick! How did i miss it!
The craziest thing I heard in this video was a jump ramp. We always called them launch ramps.
these guys are legends, I went to see the bones brigade in 88 in brisbane australia, tony signed my hawk deck and a vans hat, and lance did a mctwist on this crappy vert ramp that was about 10ft high and 4ft wide, a spectator got hit in the head with lances board and scored his skateboard.
Bones Brigade for life foo! ☠️🏴☠️
This is awesome ! thanks for doing this
12:53 Wolf. 🐺
Also, I love how they are in office chairs. Mike rocking in that chair like my boss calling me in for a chat.
This is f*ing awesome 😭
I see Mullen i click.
I love all of them but he is like a unicorn.
These guys are proof that diamonds in the rough are real. I started skating in 1986. I wasn't viewed as a talented athlete full of potential. I was treated like a vagrant and a criminal. Skateboarding has gone from being seen as vandalism to be an Olympic sport because of these men playing around on their called "useless wooden toys".
Thanks for posting. Was looking for this
I figured you would be! Cheers.
Thank you for uploading this!
Our pleasure!
Really, Nobody ever considered Mullen a actual part of the Bones Brigade in the 80s…I think most skaters didn’t care about freestyle AT ALL in the 80s..
I actually considered everyone on Powell on the Bones Brigade. The 5 Chin searchers were just the top shelf. Rodney's true importance was only realised in after the 80's when his elite moves of the 80's became street standards in the 90's.
And yet Rodney had the most influence on skateboarding to this day
Good times
I like the thumbnail. Looks like Mullen is working on a rubix cube
Anybody else notice Rodney in the background when George is talking at around 44:30? Looked like he was casting a spell lmao
Wow. I knew Rodney was on the spectrum but I didn't know he was THAT on the spectrum.
Thanks for the stoke!
Yeah!
Nice
Steve Steadham with the tribal face paint.
Such great discussions. The scene now versus back then is so starkly different.....not as cool. BUT having said that I'm an older curmudgeon now but DAMN 80's and 90's were the days! Thanx BB! \m/
ALL KING'S 👑👑👑👑👑👑
It’s sad there’s a skatepark I drive by almost everyday at different times. I haven’t seen a single kid out there tearing it up. None on the ball field either.
Have you seen him?
Bring back the BB T-shirts from this era
People don't give VCJ nearly enough credit. If their graphics were lame they would have just been a group of good skaters and would've been relegated to history the moment they fell off. Instead they are absolute icons 35 years later. Look at the biggest rock bands and they almost all had the artwork. Stones, ACDC, Iron Mainden, Metallica, Judas Priest, and manh more, they all had amazing and memorable artwork.
Cheers for posting - rad to hear the stories and thoughts- hosoi is good ending story.. I'm same age, lived through it, always been a big fan but I gotta say, tv series is bad idea. Hope they don't do that. Very much looking forward to cabs book and doc!
Even if it's terrible it will be fascinating to watch.
Great!
Animal Chin 2, electric boogaloo, when?
Actually they should absolutely do it, use this generation of the brigade tracking down the originals
@@user-fl9ps8xf2y With the money skaters make 2day vs the 80's...they could make a Top Tier, high budget version, that would bring new skaters to the sport.
This would be more than a skate video imo. They have the budget to pay for great effects, top notch actors (Jack Black must be in it) and actually make a 2 hour feature film about skateboarding.
It's simply a must.
I mean FFS there are like SIX "Expendables" movies.
AC2 is simply necessary.
❤
@@user-fl9ps8xf2y Love that concept of tracking down the OGs btw. 👍🏼
Quality shout out from Stacey to Stacey but I think it's legit. Things may have fizzled.
Its the youtube show some more now
i love how much mullen glows. he always looks happy
Hey man! lol
Tony’s wearing Lakais? What happened to Vans?
Contract didn't get renewed so he went back to wearing Riley's. Which I think is really cool.
Hosoi segment: 1:11:55
45:35 min in MuLLen adding Sk-8=BonesBrigade!!!
Have you seen Animal Chin?
No matter how much Rodney you get, it always feels like it's not enough lol
I wonder if Stacey still drives a Volvo.
Do a beer fest now on venice beach skatepark
How did they get Rodney out though
Like they always do…$$$
My question. Did Steve Caballero ever get with that cute girl who said Cab was gorgeous in Future Primitive? Just wondering. 🤷🏻♂️
Skated with Rodney at Sensation Basin in Gainesville and Allen Gelfand in S. Florida many many times. Great times with innovation in moves that are now routine. Gelfand's Ollie was never meant to be a flatland move.
Wow. That's insane.