A little while back, Zac from Caught in the Crossfire sent me the 2009 release Deluxe version of Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid'. It had the OG album, a disc of bonus tracks (Pretty good, too - although the Instrumentals are kind of a waste of time). Best of all, it has the original Quadrophonic mix on a DVD, not released since the 70's. Trippy Sabbath from four speakers.
Last week he followed through and posted me out Deluxe Edition copies of Black Sabbath and Master of Reality. Stoked.
I used to have those two albums on loop in my Austin Maestro sometime in the mid-nineties. Sitting in the car, in the woods, while the rain came down listening to the opener of the first album. The Four Horsemen didn't have shit on us. And it was a 1.3 litre, too.
Different takes of various songs seem to reinforce their decisions as to what made the cut on the second discs and best of all, "Weevil Woman '71", an original line up song I'd never heard before...
Which re-release will the Blue Suede Shoes cover surface on?
Cheers Zac. You rule.
I need to find homes for my old, old CD copies now.
Actually...Fuck it. I'll get this out fo the way now.
Street Qualifiers:
Vert Qualifiers:
Street Semis:
Blueprint and Mob Grip Best Trick comps:
Vert Finals:
Street Finals:
Last weekend was mental. Sam Beckett is a wizard. Throwing 720's into runs and Kickflip Liens. Is he pulling forward from his forenamesake who seems to be stuck on the 540 variations? No diss to Bosworth. You can't knock a fourteen year old doing seven foot high airwalk 540's. Beckett's bag of lip tricks and flip tricks seems to work out for him, though. I'd still love to see the X Games footage where Bosworth won.
As for Street - Grove got done out of the big money. I say that as a judge - and it was way harder than last year. Cast your mind back and think about Chris Oliver's run. Not one person would have doubted him at the top of the podium. This year, though, the guesses we're all over the place from the crowd. Ross won it, fair and square, though. Everything he did was a joke - clean and comfortable. I'm actually looking at the scores now - and up until eighth place it is all so close. Grove was only a couple of points below Wileman - but a £700 drop in prize money is harsh. I'm sure he doesn't give a fuck, though - He killed the Blueprint Best Trick comp (As did BP's other ex, Flynn Trotman) and walked away with an entire warehouse backing him.
Grove is on form - Ross and Sam may have taken the loot, but it was his weekend, undoubtedly.
Oh - Check Daryll in the finals. Dude's we're feeling ballsy kickflipping that driveway when he came along and ruined the show for them.
Special mention to Vaughn Baker and Neil Smith. Vaughn was clearly having a right laugh and Neil was creating lines in a park for which they don't really exist.
In order of appearance: Dave Chesson, Tom Crowe, Mark Brewster, Ed Harper, Nick Biagoni (Rav), Nick Jensen, Pete King, Luke Hunt, Simon Skipp, Matt Cotton, Tom Ball, Clive.
I think this clip was put together purely becuase I had some new editing equipment/software. Maybe. It'd explain the reverse footage and the crappy mosaic fade out at the end. This edit is from about 1997. I found it on a CD-Rom when I last moved house.
The tower blocks at the start are the Thamesmead Estate in South East London. They appeared a couple of years later in the Aphex Twin Come to Daddy video. Thamesmead is quite possibly of of the worst places, ever. The old police station was burnt out had then been moved into an adjoining port-a-cabin. In turn, this had been burnt out so they'd just moved to another next door.
On a Dave Chesson hot tip, we went out relatively early to skate there on a weekday, thinking that all the smackheads would be asleep. It was the right plan. Simon Skipp's Backside 360 flip to bow legged run out was filmed there, too. I'll have to find the other Chesson/Skipp tricks from that session and get them up soon.
This clip has got a few Chesson treats, actually...I can't think of seeing him do many Backside Nosegrinds, and that Frontboard on the now defunct Bexley Heath rail was great. Brewster's Zoo Yorked out Frontboard near Southbank is really of its time. Black Shell pants. Yo.
Ed Harper is the guy doing the Frontside Half Cab Flip. He used to knock about Playstation Skatepark until the boss gave him a job. He's now in a pretty successful band called White Rose Movement. Matt Cotton is in there too with a Switch Heelflip Varial. I think this was the day he came out with the "If I don't get sponsored this summer, I am going to quit skating" line. Ha. I saw him a year or so ago. I think he actually did quit for some time. Clever.
Rav is in there skating my old secondary school. He once had a sequence in Sidewalk skating the middle of the A12 link to the M11 about 200 meters from where I now live. I saw him in a pub last night, too. I think thats the main reason I uploaded this clip today. Rad guy. Shame he doesn't skate anymore, but I think he fucked his knee so many times he had to stop as he was missing a lot of time off of work.
There a little Nick Jensen in there, too - both in terms of the one trick appearance and his size. He used to be part of the OG crew at Playstation. He was there every single day only disappearing off to Southbank at weekends, although he'd return for the evening session. True rat.
Simon Skipp has the one foot roll away from the Fakie Backlip on a bench which is now the local hang out in Romford for a bunch of Emo kids who carry their boards by their trucks and have yet to figure out that they could skate the benches as opposed to just sit on them smoking Marlboro Reds...
Tom Ball is in there with the Nick Jensen WFTW Double set stair ollie amongst other things. Tom was stoked Nick did that in his video part (Nick did it in a line a few years after). Chris Ault returned and killed those stairs for a HTL edit a couple of years ago. Tom also has probably the first footage of Skipps Ditch, way before we cut back the bushes, fixed the ledges and concreted it up...
