My recollection is that this was one of a small series of videos produced by Lol Creme under the name “Videola”. This was a skateboard one, but others were more music-based. Lol’s son, Lalo (?) was the skate connection, I think.
There was some very snotty comments floating around at the time about clippings from Peralta’s cutting room floor, but I had my usual “everything’s for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds” glasses on, and I liked it. No taste, obviously.
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Tim Simenon and Stacy Peralta team up for Attack
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Adverts &Issue 82 December 1989 timlb 01 Jun 2006 9 Comments
rogue responded on 01 Jun 2006 at 8:43 pm #
i remember buying this video with my hard earned paper round money or birthday money? whatever… i can remember i felt so ripped of afterwards when i watched it! probably today it would be collectable? i dunno
chiselbird responded on 02 Jun 2006 at 12:51 pm #
never saw it but for some reason I ended up with a some inlays for this – maybe they overprinted & then used them as flyers?
Backsidenocomply responded on 03 Jun 2006 at 8:30 pm #
I really liked Attack, probably because it was a mate who spent the tenner on a measly 12 minutes worth of skating!!
For me this video filled a gap between Public Domain, Shakle Me Not and Ban This (please correct me if my memory fails me!!) and any skate exposure in the 90′s was welcome.
I think this video also gave us our first video look at Hawk skating his bowl addition (again, correct me if I’m wrong) – front side slide around the corner – rad.
rogue responded on 04 Jun 2006 at 8:53 pm #
after watching a copy of animal chin today i agree with backsidenocomply yeah it was a good way to fill in the gap between getting s new skate vid..still thought it was a rip of for a tenner and 12mins tho!
SgtPartridge responded on 06 Jun 2006 at 12:01 pm #
I’ve still got this. I loved it, but then my video collection only consisted of Streets of Fire and Shackle Me Not. I’d previously seen Public Domain and saw this as an extension of their higher-production-values visual style…. Ahh, that’s bollocks! What I really mean was that, as a kid, any flashy american skating was literally mesmerising to me. Hawk was simply astonishing in it.
Chris responded on 11 Nov 2008 at 2:45 am #
Attack was great- For me to skate towards my first pro (Ray Barbee) deck and enabled the study of the no-comply and shov it realm of the day! I’m still wearing vision suede shell toe hi tops for the love. Can’t beat the Barbee intro on gutarrrrrrr. Inspiring Bom t Bass
timlb responded on 15 Nov 2008 at 6:10 pm #
I’m fascinated to see how ‘Attack’ seems to have struck a chord for quite a few people, even if there was a strange feeling about it when it came out.
Si Lock responded on 23 Aug 2010 at 11:07 am #
I viewed this as more a Pop music Video…….I must admit to being a big Bomb the Bass fan (and lets face it they did feature Meanwhile in their Beat Dis vid) so it was all good.
I think it may have been a bit of a culture shock to your average Skate grom with its slick editing and fast cuts.
I bought my copy from HMV in Manchester (which felt weird at the time) and still have it although I havent viewed it in years.
timlb responded on 23 Aug 2010 at 11:14 am #
In yet another curious “Attack” twist, I discovered that the bloke who has the allotment next to mine was the stills photographer on that shoot. What a very small world this is…