Wasn’t aware of MM allegations until tonight
I know skateboarding is in a really good place due to the lack of gatekeeping these days, but could we please reinstate just a little bit of it around coloured wheels please.
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Gets a mention in this. (34:30ish).
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The switch fs shuv at 0:33 wtf.gif?!
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It’s like they went to do a switch shuv heel and then couldn’t be arsed half way through popping it.
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The plug!!!
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Would they have become the band they turned into without having those tunes in Questionable? That video got so many more people into them.
I bet Les Claypool appreciates it.
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Likewise, I imagine 20 Shot turned a lot of people on to Wu-Tang.
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SST Records and Streets on Fire.
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I went straight out and bought Sonic Youth Sister LP after hearing Catholic Block on Wheels of Fire.
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Bit of self confessional over here…
Searching for skate video soundtracks in an analogue age
20 Shot Sequence had no music credits because companies just didn’t give a fuck about music rights. The early Nineties were a golden age of copyright infringement in skateboarding mainly for Steve Rocco who collected Cease and Desist letters on the regular. To avoid extra grief, music soundtracks were usually left out of videos from the World camp. This meant finding the tunes from your favourite video could be tricky at times.
Anyway, here’s a quick personal anecdote about 20 Shot Sequence: I had already found a few of the tracks featured in the video because I recognised the artists (Method Man, Redman, Keith Murray…) but the track I really wanted was the one used for the 101 section. For some reason I mistook Juice Crew’s Kool G Rap for Scarface of the Geto Boys and ended up using my pocket money to buy the Houston rapper’s album, The Diary, by mistake. The Diary isn’t a bad album but it didn’t feature Kool G Rap and DJ Polo rapping about running from the mob. I was pretty bummed by this error on my behalf.
Nowadays, music rights are no laughing matter. Companies and riders either pay top dollar for classic hits or see their videos pulled from distribution. To play it safe, it’s down to the skaters pulling favours with bands or hiring artists to compose the score which is a hit or miss affair to be honest. Fail that, the skaters make the music themselves. (c.f. The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Skateboarding)
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Menace section was method man.
First was Gino in snuff skating to the song method man.
We all knew them by 20 shot.
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New Deal’s Whatever has a decent soundtrack, albeit a bit short - Above the Law, Dre, Lord Finesse, Diamond D and KMD. But yeah, by the time 20 Shot came out I’d been listening to Hip Hop for a few years (I feel really old…). Kool G Rap is one of the greats. Whatever.
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Bought ‘Soul on Ice’ by Ras Kas on the back of the shared Carroll/Howard part in Penal Code. Cost like 25 quid as it was an import and aside from that one track it was utter utter shite and can you tell I am still bitter about it nearly 30 years later
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Westwood was there from the jump, it was like a countdown to that album coming out.
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Souls of Mischief in 411 issue two was new to me, I think. Wonder where they’d have got without that part.
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I spent ages tracking down the Beatnuts’ Intoxicated Demons EP on the back of Mike Carroll’s part in Virtual Reality. I played it once and was so put off by the lyrics I never listened to it again. Ended up giving it to Russell ‘Vincent Carducci’ Waterman.
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They’d have done well in Hip Hop regardless. Excellent, notable debut amongst many other reasons.
Where did we first hear of Del?
I remember having the first album but I can’t remember how it came about.
