I was so ignorant and just tripping. I got to Queensland and I went to the skate shop. Were you getting paid to do the movie? I blew it all on alcohol of course. It happens. How did you end up at Skatopia with Remy? Skatopia is a trip. That was funny. That night I took mushrooms.
I was probably 17 or I was covered in dirt. I went up there and found my board and started rolling around. Then Bill Danforth comes in. How can you make that up? The first time I was there I was so out of it.
They told me I smashed a bottle in the bowl when everyone was sessioning. I had to get in there and sweep it up while everyone was shouting at me. The next night Brewce got me in the car, going full speed up the mountain.
He shut me in the car with him and kicked out the window and started just freewheeling through the jungle. How was that coming from Katoomba? It was crazy. It was my second flight ever and I was by myself. I was waiting in the airport for six hours for someone to pick me up. I freaked out and got so hammered. We all went back to J. I was just having the hugest anxiety attack when I got to Hawaii, and then nobody picked me up for six hours. I just kept calling people in Australia, but the time difference was messed up.
Eventually, the Volcom rep in Hawaii picked me up and took me up to the house. Later on, we picked up Remy, Alan Petersen, Bam and this guy named Brad that used to sell weed to Reynolds and the barrio crew.
Hayes told Greco and Andrew about me in Hawaii because we had so much fun. We took acid and went up to the volcano and had a blast. I have to get you over to the house. What happened? Eventually, I made my way over there and Jim and Andrew loved me, and that other kid kind of got thrown away. It was like 12 sets of wheels. I had never seen so many wheels in my life. I was playing with them and making pyramids and shit.
I ended up having to sell half of them because I had no money. Then I get a call from Reynolds. Tyson is out of here. Was that the Warner house? Barrio was before Warner. I just ended up staying there all the time. Andrew was chill. Then he picked me up and took me to a bar. Then he took me back to his house and he screwed some chick at his house with the bedroom door open.
We got along like a house on fire after that. So you rode for Spitfire, but not Antihero? Julien thought I was too weird or something, so I rode for Stereo. That was right when Stereo was kind of getting whack. I was psyched. He kicked me out and I ended up going to Tampa Pro just to hang out. I met up with Gerwer and he said I could move into their house in S. Then what happened? Well, my visa seemed all good because they kept extending it and then I flew back to Australia, but I forgot to hand in my departure card, so I screwed myself completely.
Then I went to the visa interview and I lied. Come back when your story is straight. I just stayed in Australia. Those four years were when I filmed my best parts. I was the first one to make it in another country, without being in California. How did you get on Baker from Stereo? Stereo went out of business and Andrew was making Baker Bootleg while I was there. That was a huge success.
It was during the time of The Storm. Tell me about The Storm. It was all fresh bullshit skating. They were really serious and…. We released Baker Bootleg at the same time, which was just completely gnarly good skating and anarchy. Do you think the fun came across? The kids really ate it up.
Everyone started dressing like punks because Jim and Ali were dressing like punks. What about Ali [Boulala]? We were friends. It was great. After I went back to Australia, Ali came out and visited me a couple times. He got deported before I left because he was crossing a road with an open container underage.
He got put in jail for two weeks before he got sent back to Sweden. So you got trapped in Australia for four years. No one was at my level back there, at that point. I was skating terrain that no one else was skating because I had seen what people do in the States. I ended up getting the last part in the Baker 2G video, and it just went from there. What was your part like? What happened next? Andrew quit Birdhouse to put all of us shitbag skaters on a new company called Baker.
We started a revolution in a way. We started skating to be different. It was the way it was in the beginning, I think. It reset time in a way. I felt like it changed everything. It changed a lot. I was way better off going to second-hand stores and buying black button ups. So that changed a lot. Were you guys psyched on changing things? I loved it. I loved seeing kids punk again. It was awesome. I used to tell people that I invented emo because I came out with the first pair of red stretch pants.
I was more goth at that time. I was going to goth fests and snorting speed for days. And skating. I had to go out skating at four in the morning. I want to know about this. You like to skate drunk. Do you think it takes away the fear? I went to a NorCal contest a few years back and all the cats were skating, but there were three dudes throwing down, in my opinion. Whatever that means. To me, it means everything.
It was you, Corey Duffel and Nesser. Everybody else was doing whatever they were doing, but you three cats were flying from the take off onto the rail. I remember that day. I had just gotten off the first King of the Road with Volcom. I tried to help edit the video and I was so frantic from the tour and so hungover.
I just knew that I had to set up a board and go to that contest because it was a best trick contest. I ended up going there with a bottle of Jaeger. I drank half of it and then I ended up going to the bathroom with Kingman and snorted three lines of cocaine. You won it. What about your mom? How psyched is she? Oh, yeah. I had plenty of fun. I was going to Barcelona after a tour and just staying at a nice hotel and getting drunk every day.
I was just living and skating. I remember my girlfriend flew over after I had been there for a month, just piling out. She flew over and this guy touched her up on the plane while she was asleep.
It was messed up. I sent her home by herself and ended up going on some tour. Waking up drunk is the best feeling in the world. Do you have any memorable hangover hammers that come to mind? Probably all of them, especially all of them on tour.
Let me ask you about the legendary Jaeger clip where you were taking shot after shot. That was crazy. That was the same night I did the noseslide through double kink to fakie.
We saw that rail outside of the bar in Colorado. I think [Jim] Greco actually had the idea in the first place. He used to go see The Stitches play in Huntington and there was this spot with a bar and it had a double set. I think it was just stuck in my head. I wanted to do something Jim wanted to do but never got around to it. I actually had to do at least six shots before I got that one. We edited it so it looked like that but I definitely did take at least five or six shots before I stuck it.
I think I tried to switch crook a 13 after that and I hurt my knee a bit the same night. I think a lot of people handle alcoholism differently. A lot of people do need rehab. They do need AA, but you are pretty anti and rather vocal about those things. Why is that?
The only way to escape from them is to hide in a place where other people are battling the same disease. Of course alcoholism is a disease. Of course it kills everything in your body. I guess shit drunks are shit drunks. With the AA thing, whatever works for people, you know? But maybe take it easier on that because some people really need it.
My opinion is my fucking opinion too. How does that dynamic go over at Baker Boys? We still do. All the kids on Baker drink. Andrew is not pissed off about that. The drunk partying was out of control. Skateboarding was at its peak of fucking drugs. That shit was fucking cocaine, strippers, bars at the trade show, full on drinks. Parties for days. I mean, we were out of control.
Do you think it could happen in the skate industry again? The poor guy has to hide in his own mansion to have parties. The relatability? Do kids love me so much? When we were on the Vans tour through the Midwest people were bringing guitars for you to break and sign. They love you. It was definitely the funnest times of my life, that Piss Drunx era. I was only really with the whole crew for two years. When I got back to The States, everyone was sober basically.
There was the fresh skaters and then there was the punk skaters. Does anyone want to support drinking? Do you have any regrets over the years? No, not really. Hellz Yeah. Do you wanna touch by Joan Jett, cole in new blood. Under my thumb, greg lutzka, our life untouchable, ryan sheckler, our life dave bachinskey, our life.
Phil Trotters song from the pharmacy vid, I cant find the name of the song though!!!!!!!!!!!! I forgot who but it was in a Zero video. My favorite song is the one used in Louie Barletta's part in Bag of suck. I don't know the name of it but its something like. The Beast and Dragon, Adored- Spoon. It was in Chicago's Finest Uprise shop video.
The Oakley video had a amazing soundtrack.
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