Dylan gravis part
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Was Dylan’s Gravis part the first online released, big budget solo part? That’s a huge precedent to lay down if so. Certainly the earliest one I can remember.
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I think P-Rod was first (Me, myself and I) but his was through iTunes that you had to buy and soon after Shane O’Neill had one with the same deal (through the Berrics too?).
That was how they were trying to push the future of solo parts. That failed and Dylan’s was released free on YouTube and here we are now.
iirc could be wrong on a few things.
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Glad EE3 finally got mentioned, as this one
I’d say A Visual Sound and Tincan Folklore definitely brought something new to the table too. So did 20 Shot Sequence in a way (or at least the MNC Tech section) but I’m probably showing my age here.
Europa definitely put Europe on the map. Big game changer right there.
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I don’t think there’s really ever been anything like the Mike Ternasky videos in terms of inlfuencing the progression of skateboarding. Shackle Me Not, Hokus Pokus, A Soldier’s Story, Now’N’Later, Next Generation, Questionable, Lick, Virtual Realty.
Those videos basically took skateboarding from the stone age into the modern age and a lot of the stuff still holds up today.
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Wasn’t that the video with Hstreet flexing team size to the max?
Don’t think so. It’s just a later H-Street vid. I absolutely love those vids they are a goldmine for mini ramp and curb tricks.
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A golden egg
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Yer pretty sure you are right about Prod, that part was mad. Felt at the time he had to release it as he got shackled by everyone else on Plan B at the time. You had to pay for this one 100%
Is this the Shane one you mean?
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Yeah that’s the Shane part.
Fully Flared dragged me back into skating after a few years off. DVD from Mischief for Xmas. So that was a game changer for me personally. But it was Questionable that I remember watching with loads of other people in someone’s front room and it took us nearly two hours cos we kept rewinding it to work out what the fuck we’d just witnessed. It proper felt like a big jump forwards at the time.
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I like subjective threads like this - nice one @MaxFacePalmer
I’m going to ruminate on this one a bit.
Plus OG Speed Freaks isn’t on YouTube any more 
Re statement above and contention that Speed Freaks was a game changing piece of media: this behind-the-scenes from Blender’s Speed Freaks part is so resonant for me.
Plus, Tony Roberts (aka TR aka Real Skate Stories on YouTube) possibly invents fish eye follow filming right here at Sadlands, with Neil Blender.
Just wish I could post the section too with ‘Let it Ride’ by Dinosaur Jr but alas not.
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Hmm…This was just an Anti Hero version of Tobaccoland/Fruit of the Vine/Northwest and some of those other Charnoski/Coan films. TC wouldn’t exist without those so…maybe those are more important than TC? I dunno…
Visual Sound is a good one.
I’m glad someone mentioned the pay-per-view Shane part.
Although I’m not 100% it was a game changer. More of a failed experiment. Because video parts are free, still.
I was watching some Epicly Later’d thing years ago - I forget who, but it was an O’Dell “When this guy came along, he changed the game…” type of intro - when my partner at the time, on overhearing said to me “How comes every skate documentary adds another ‘game changing legend’ to the list. How many times has skateboarding actually changed across the whole game?”
Apply that here and we basically are left with Bones Briggade Video Show. Which bored me.
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I think that’s why the kind of Mondo-influenced montage videos of the late 80s and early 90s had so much effect on me @Londonskater Precisely because those videos - Schlossbach’s stuff, H-Street early vids, Speed Wheels series etc made no claim to being anything. They were just a collection of footage signposting the future with none of the hubris of some of the other more sales-minded ‘company’ shit.
[SkateCamp rap excluded from the prosecution]
Anyway, cool thread
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If funny how often Unless Wooden Toys gets referenced still these days, especially the cover being ripped off but hasn’t got a mention yet(right?) or any New Deal video? Odd Numbers are still touring purely because of that video!
“I never had a skateboard!”
“Why?”
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Yeah, I should’ve added all New Deal’s output to my post re ‘montage videos’. 1281 in particular has some never-repeated tricks and great music.
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Tim and Henry’s was ahead of its time in terms of the structure
Dunno what else….
Sick Boys ?
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I think most of the early 90s stuff flew by me as it was being released. I was a kid into lots of stuff and only saw what my cousin bought…I kinda knew about 4 videos and then fuck all until Second Hand Smoke.
From that point, I was all in…but given that, this is probably why Fucktards and the Cow video spoke so much to me.
For the same reasons you have said above. Mondo-influence.
Because SHS, W2H, Mouse, etc. all had this similar set-structure.
And then those early Anti Hero videos came along and kinda like the old “Not The New H-Street” video (Which would have been my most seen video until SHS) just gave me certain ‘feels’.
Cow and Fucktards videos felt like going skating with my mates. As did Not The New…And sure, we weren’t doing anything close to the maddest Cards or Bob shit…but we felt like we were.
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Agree with both. I distinctly remember everyone in Nottingham (or the Square scene at least) go from dressing like Jim Thiebaud in Speed Freaks to cut-off lumberjack shirts and baggy jeans over a month when Tim & Henry’s came out. And that was in a gloomy East Midlands city in 1992. Global ripples off Sanch skating to Sabbath were intense.
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