Back around 2004ish, I bought a stack of old mags off of someone in Nottingham/Derby area, can’t quite remember who it was, but it was someone who was somewhat known and mentioned in the mag a few times at the very least, as I recognised the name.
Anyway, folded up inside the stack of magazines was two things… a list of home phone and pager numbers for various people (yourself and many American pros/industry heads included) and what I assumed was a photocopy of the artwork for Harry’s board. It was across a couple of taped up A4 pages. and had lots of white out on it in various places. Now I am thinking about it, why would you whiteout a photocopy?
Anyway… I somehow managed to lose it along the way due to moving houses/countries/alcohol intake etc.
Mad. I remember that the Harry graphic was drawn by one of his friends called Browning who’d recently been in jail. He had been a skater though so the Lee Ralph reference will have been deliberate.
Glad you are enjoying this series, as i am, it bring me back, Gregor was massive influence when i arrived into the US in 1984 he was on the same mission as myself, to skate and turn pro. We both had skaters we knew inside and out and that of coarse was Bod and Lee Ralph, i am so stoked that Gregor gets the respect he deserves i have never met a person that truly didn’t give 2 fucks, he go line was “WHO CARES” he truly did’nt. I am lucky i still get to work with Bod every day and Gregor is our distributor for indo and he lives in Bali Where UK legend Mark Baker Lives) back to the skate camp, Lee one night said he could ollie revert it, no one laughed…Legend can’t wait for #8
Never really knew much about Lee Ralph. All I ever heard was the crazy stuff that didn’t do him justice. Maybe they glossed over some of it in that series. Either way, he sounds like a sort of Penny character for vert riding in the 80s. Respect due.
