Paul Davidson at Bloblands (Norwood Park), just up the hill from the sad quarter pipe on the cover of Rollin’ Through the Decades and just down the road from where I sit writing this.
Now stop for just a moment. Go back again and read that lot. It’s no more true than the first piece. There’s an inifite number of choices — and you don’t even have to choose one. Just skate. Remember the last words of the Old Man of the Mountains:
“Nothing is true,
Everything is permitted.”
And that’s another theme which underlies the whole history of R.a.D. The quotation is from Nic Roeg and Donald Cammell’s film “Performance” — there were plenty more scattered through R.a.D over the years. I’d sneak them in whenever I could.
4 responses to “Whose Line is it Anyway (Part 6)”
when the magazine came out each month there was aways some kind of myghical comment put in and when you were about 15 or so you didnt know what they meant but you would repeat them at school or think that they were really smart or cool to say quote…. know i know why so many people laughed at me in school! sorry to keep fillin up your comments page but i keep having all these questions come into my head about the magazine. how did you manage to get the interview with hawk at his house all them years ago? that was really something for an english magainze that. cheers mate
Those were very different days. Although Tony Hawk was hugely important within the skateboard world, at that point skateboarding was still a relatively small, closed world.
So, for example, on a Powell tour the minibus would be under siege at a skateboard park to the extent that the Police would turn up and tell them to move on because they were causing too much of a fuss. But they only had to drive down the road and they would be just a bunch of ‘kids with skateboards’ themselves.
It was a much, much smaller world and the barriers of large-scale celebrity did not exist. The interview itself was done by telephone, I think, though I had visited Hawk’s house earlier just as Fish was finishing work on the bowl.
ah rip grip
I had a stage of being hooked on that stuff, almost completely plastered my nose and inside of the rails. I think I must’ve spent more on RipGrip than on the actual deck (a Powell Nicky Guerro Mask mini if I remember correctly) ha ha
Loving this site, bringin back so many awesome memories
You’ve reminded me of Nick Philip’s Filofax, completely transformed with with Rip Grip encrustations.