The Bones Brigade Audio Show

Welcome back to the show! Today, we are sitting down with our good friend Kurt Crucial from 80’s Life to discuss all the details of his upcoming Thrashin’ 40th anniversary extravaganza and art show, which will be taking place on Saturday, August 29th at the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in Simi Valley, California. We get into the weeds on the special guests, the art exhibits, the Q&A’s, the joust...

Our SK8-TV adventures are nearing an end as we roll coper-first into the deep end with our good friend, Timothy Olson- better known to the world at large as Bail Gun Gary- for an in-depth review of the inimitable episode 10 of this legendary slab of skateboarding cinematography. Additionally, Tim also has the honor of being our first-ever SK8-TV guest to have been on the episode we're reviewin...

Welcome back to the show! This week we are sitting down with friend of the show Dan Sawkins- founder of Unsettled Scores Records (the label behind the recently-released McRad “Weakness b/w McShred 7”)- for another installment of our fan-favorite Video Tunes series, this time discussing the soundtrack to the inimitable classic, Future Primitive! We’re going track by track and band by band for the m...

It’s time for another foray into the exciting world of SK8-TV here at the BBAS studios! Joining us for this in-depth review of Episode 9 is none other than Kevin Marks, the mastermind documentarian behind the venerable  Look Back Library , skateboarding’s incredible global preservation network for print media. With appearances from then up and comers like Ed Templeton to transition stalwarts like...

Today, we’re celebrating the milestone 100th episode of The Bones Brigade Audio Show, and in the studio to commemorate the occasion is our good friend Sean Mortimer, here for a long-awaited Intelligence Report! Keen-eared listeners will know Sean not just from his legendary exploits as a Powell Peralta sponsored skateboarder, author, magazine editor and former Tony Hawk housemate- but as our first...

Greetings, Brigadiers! We’re partying like it’s episode 99 here at BBASHQ with a review of the 2012 Stacy Peralta documentary,  Bones Brigade: An Autobiography . Highly anticipated upon its release- arriving late in the wake of 2001’s pivotal  Dogtown and Z-Boys - the film follows not just the revolutionary impact arc the “big six” had on skateboarding in the 1980’s- from massive bowl contests to...

Welcome, friends, to season four of The Bones Brigade Audio Show! To kick things off in style, we are welcoming to the show the one and only Aaron Meza- legendary Bay Area skate filmmaker, former Girl visual media manager, and even former editor of Skateboarder Magazine - to discuss a topic near and dear to all our hearts: Future Primitive!  Or, to be more specific, Powell Peralta’s 2012 *Special...

Season’s greetings, curb-whackers! For this festive fourth installment of our annual Holiday Special, we’re welcoming two esteemed guests back to the studio: Skateboarding Hall of Famer, off-the-nose kickflipper and friend of the show, Anita Tessensohn, along with our inimitable graphic artist and terrible-tumbler Ed McKirdy! Come along as we open gifts, recap this year’s episodes, engage in a rou...

Today on the Bones Brigade Audio Show, the big fat ollie one-foots are being thrown down with reckless abandon as we welcome back the one and only Frankie Hill- along with skateboarding legend Nate Sherwood- to discuss the 2011  Frankie Hill Documentary ! Before the world knew the likes of Pat Duffy, Andrew Reynolds or John Cardiel, Frankie Hill was hurling himself down giant stair sets and massiv...

Welcome back, carnivores and amphibians! It’s time for yet another delve into the mysterious world of the SK8-TV Files, this time with the oddly themed Episode 8- better known as “the animal show”. Heavily Powell-centric, this offering contains interviews with Tommy Guerrero, Salman Agah at the short-lived outdoor Skate Zone, one of the greatest Lance Mountain interviews ever committed to tape, an...

Hot on the heels of our last episode, today we welcome back to the studio the inimitable Kurt Crucial and Rich Wilson for the thrilling conclusion of our two-part series on Kurt’s comprehensive The Search For Animal Chin Filming Locations video! From here, the BBAS crew ventures to the site of a fictional Las Vegas nightclub (located inside what is essentially an enclosed Southern California patio...

Welcome back Brigadiers! As you know, we here at The Bones Brigade Audio Show have a borderline-unhealthy obsession with uncovering the smallest bits of minutiae available for anything and everything to do with the Bones Brigade videos. So on today's show, we are joined by Kurt Crucial and Rich Wilson to discuss Kurt's new The Search For Animal Chin filming locations video. Kurt and Rich b...

Today we are honored to welcome legendary Powell Peralta pro Kilian Martin back to the venerable BBAS studios for an in-depth Intelligence Report! From his early years surfing in Spain to finding skateboarding, discovering freestyle, creating his massively popular video series with Brett Novak, moving to the US, starring in an Apple Watch commercial and ultimately getting sponsored by three of his...

Welcome back to the show! Today, we are honored to once again welcome skateboarding legend, actor, brewery owner, and all-around nice guy Jordan Hoffart to the show to discuss the landmark 2011 Bones Wheels video, aptly titled “The Bones Video” (see what they did there?). With a heavy lineup consisting of Chad Bartie, Taylor Bingaman, David Gravette, Ryan Decenzo, and many more- including a heavy...

When the Deep End beckons, the BBAS crew is here to answer the call! Today we’re digging down into another episode of SK8-TV- this time the (mostly) long-lost Episode 7. Joining us in the studio for this videographical dissection is none other than Matt B, ripping skateboarder and host of  The Nostalgic Neighborhood ! This one is packed with forgotten footage, including long-since unseen interview...

In the beginning... A man named Johnny Rad donned a tuxedo jacket and sunglasses, and opened skateboarding's first night club, the Blue Tile Lounge. He crooned. Fans followed, and a musical revolution was born. But one day, dark forces began to invade the skateworld. The Blue Tile Lounge was forced to shut its doors- its whereabouts lost, seemingly forever. Hardcore skaters mourned its absence...

Rejoice, fellow Brigadiers; for today on The Bones Brigade Audio Show we’re honored to bring you the long-awaited, highly anticipated and stratospherically overdue *surprise* reunion of Anita Tessensohn Sanford and Leaf Treinen! Known far and wide for their famous Powell Peralta “Some Girls Play With Dolls, Real Women Skate” ad- perhaps one of the most well-remembered and influential advertisement...

Welcome back, curb-whackers! For this episode of TBBAS we are joined once again by acclaimed SK8FACE filmmaker, previous “Axe Rated” special guest, and bona fide skate nerd Matt Bass to dissect the incredible, underrated Bones Brigade Video Show: Special Edition! This re-cut version of the film is an entire video unto itself; packed with tons of deleted scenes, outtakes, new angles and unseen foot...

Are you experienced? In this episode of The Bones Brigade Audio Show, Matt and Larry are joined in the studio once again by the legend himself, Mr. Jim Fitzpatrick, for a beginning-to-end recap of his trip to NYC for the epic second installment of the Bones Brigade Experience!  Whether you were there at the event in person or catching it from afar, this episode brings the stoke straight to your ea...

This week, for the 17th installment of our venerable Intelligence Report series, we are honored to be joined in the BBAS studio by the legend himself- the one, the only Mike Vallely! In this episode, we sit down with Mike for an in-depth conversation that dives into the roots and evolution of his legendary career, from the profound impact of the first three Powell Peralta videos to his deeply pers...

In this episode of The Bones Brigade Audio Show, we’re throwing it back to 2009 to dig into what is—hard to believe—still the last full-length Powell video ever released:  FUN! We're joined in the BBAS studio by none other than the legendary Jordan Hoffart, Powell team manager Deville Nunes, and filmer extraordinaire Terry Larue to help us break it all down. From brutal slams to massive rails,...

Welcome to another installment of the famed BBAS SK8-TV Files! This week, Larry and Matt are cannonballing straight into the Deep End of Episode 6- and as you know, this pool hasn’t been filled in within two years. Yes, friends- in addition to the usual dissection of skate sequences and awkward interviews from skateboarding luminaries such as Mike McGill, Dave Hackett, Jeff Kendall and Jesse Roach...

Welcome back to the show! This week we are once again joined in the studio by our good friend, the legendary Adrian Demain, for the highly anticipated second installment of our “Public Demain” series! This time around, we are delving into the behind-the-scenes history of the infamous Bakersfield ramp scene in “The Search For Animal Chin”, which took place in Chris Borst’s backyard sometime in the...

Did you ever rent a skate video from a video store back in the day? Chances are, you did- and likely, multiple times over. Well, today we are honored to be joined in the BBAS studio by the man responsible for that: NSI Video’s own Gerard Ravel! Gerard might not be a name you know at first glance, but you are definitely familiar with his work. In addition to pioneering what would become the distrib...

Welcome back, curb-whackers, to another thrilling installment of the BBAS! This week, we are really putting the “audio” in “audio show”, as we delve deep into the mystifying world of The Bones Brigade Video Show soundtrack! This one has it all in the music department- from punk rock staples to surf-inspired instrumentals, Dennis Dragon originals, harmonicas, horn sections, and tracks that are so r...