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THE BAND THAT GOT BANNED IN D.C.

Washington, D.C., 1979. Four Black musicians fuse hyper speed punk with dub reggae, and the clubs shut their doors.

1. 1976 to 1979. Four D.C. musicians start as Mind Power, a jazz fusion band. Sid McCray turns them onto punk. They become Bad Brains, and H.R. moves from guitar to lead vocals.
2. The Sound. Hardcore punk at unprecedented speed, fused with dub reggae and Rastafari spirituality. Precision chaos no one had heard before.
3. 1979. Their explosive shows whip crowds into a frenzy. D.C. area clubs blacklist them. The ban is later immortalized in the anthem Banned in D.C.
4. The Move. Around 1980, they relocate to New York City, becoming CBGB regulars and a catalyst for the burgeoning hardcore scene of the city.

The ban that made them legends.

Sources. Wikipedia, Bad Brains. Louder Sound, The chaotic rise, fall and rise of Bad Brains. Ghost Cult Magazine, Bad Brains Are You Ready feature. Photo via Aquarium Drunkard.

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Ethan Loy putting in work over More Expensive Than Cocaine by Athalias. The song is on all platforms, use it in your next edit and save it to your playlist.

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What are you filming this week?

Ethan Loy gliding through neon paint for the morning cut. Full screen skating, full screen color, cut straight to the action.

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Which clip hits hardest?

Today's pro skater highlight is Jamie Thomas, The Chief.

Jamie was born October 11, 1974 in Dothan, Alabama and started skateboarding at age 11. He turned pro in the early 90s, rode for Toy Machine, and put down one of the most iconic parts ever filmed in Welcome to Hell (1996). In 1997 he attempted the Leap of Faith at Point Loma High School in San Diego, and that stunt became legend. In 1996 he founded Zero Skateboards, building it from a small clothing company into one of the most respected skater owned brands out there, later adding Fallen Footwear, Mystery Skateboards, and Black Box Distribution. Technical precision, big street spots, heavy impact, no fear. That is The Chief.

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What is the gnarliest Jamie Thomas clip you have ever seen?

One of my favorite skaters, Jeremy Leabres, putting down a clean line while we cut it to Russian Flow by Athalias.

These paint and skate edits are how we show off new label music. If you film, paint, or make music and want to collab, the door is open. That is what this community is for.

What song should we cut to a skate line next?

#of6brooksMag u/Parking_Hippo8684 is a 19 year old classically trained pianist and songwriter looking to grow their circle of music friends. Fourteen years of classical piano, already wrote a full album called The Fire and the Flames (took first place with the title track in a pageant), and now working on a brand new album leaning pop punk, rock, and indie.

They can sing, play piano, and help with lyrics, and they would love help with drums, guitar, and production. Collab is not required, just good people to bounce ideas off and trade honest feedback with.

If this sounds like your lane, reach out to u/Parking_Hippo8684 directly. And if you are a producer or vocalist looking for real placements, hit up Blackoutinc, we connect producers with our team of vocalists who record on your beats.

What would you build on top of 14 years of classical piano training?

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In 1989, Santa Cruz put out a video called Streets on Fire. The part everyone remembers belongs to Natas Kaupas, a Santa Monica kid who grew up in the Dogtown area. In it, he ollies up onto a fire hydrant on the Venice boardwalk and spins a full 720 on top of it, then rides away.

That trick became known as the Natas Spin. According to skate historians at Skate and Annoy, that clip is the only time he ever rode away from it.

Natas was already a street skating pioneer before that. In the mid-80s he was riding up walls with no hands, and a Craig Stecyk photo of him doing a wallride made the cover of Thrasher in September 1984. He was one of the first real street skaters, alongside Mark Gonzales.

He also helped change the business side. In 1987, Etnies gave him a pro model shoe, which was a brand new idea in skating back then. In 1991 he started 101 Skateboards with World Industries founder Steve Rocco.

The big legacy is the mindset. After the hydrant spin, anything made of concrete or metal on the street became something you could skate, if you had the imagination. Later he moved into art and design, working as a graphic director and VP of marketing at Quiksilver.

Sources: Wikipedia, "Natas Kaupas" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natas\_Kaupas); Skate and Annoy, "Streets on Fire - Santa Cruz - 1989" (https://skateandannoy.com/blog/2006/11/streets-on-fire-santa-cruz-1989/); Boing Boing (https://boingboing.net/2022/10/14/watch-natas-kaupas-tear-it-up-in-1984s-skateboarding-classic-streets-of-fire.html)

In the 1960s, skateboard wheels were made of clay or steel. They were loud and slippery, they grabbed every pebble, and they could wear out in about seven or eight hours of riding. Skating nearly died out.

In the summer of 1970, a young skater named Frank Nasworthy was home in Virginia. He visited Creative Urethanes, a plastics factory in Purcellville owned by a friend's dad. The factory had been making polyurethane wheels for rental skates at roller rinks.

Frank saw what they could do for skateboards. He took $500 he'd saved from restaurant work, bought about 1,000 wheels, and brought them back to California. He called his company Cadillac Wheels because they rode so smoothly.

It worked. Urethane wheels were grippy, quiet and fast, and skaters could finally control their boards on smooth ground and in pools. By 1975, Cadillac was selling around 300,000 sets a year, and skateboarding was booming again.

The twist is that Frank didn't stay in skating. He earned an engineering degree from UC San Diego in 1984 and later worked at Hewlett-Packard on inkjet printers. Almost every wheel you've ridden goes back to his summer visit to that factory.

Sources: Wikipedia, "Frank Nasworthy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank\_Nasworthy); Smithsonian Lemelson Center, "How Frank 'Captain Cadillac' Nasworthy Re-invented the Wheel" (https://invention.si.edu/how-frank-captain-cadillac-nasworthy-re-invented-wheel)

CHRIS CHAPUT, "THE WONDERBOY"

Born: April 11, 1961, Long Beach, California
Hometown: Long Beach, CA
Nickname: "The Wonderboy," given to him by his manager Bill Reardon
Career highlights: Started competing in 1975 at age 14. Won the 1976 World Freestyle Championship in Long Beach on September 22, 1976, then took 3rd at the World Championships in Carlsbad. Famous for inverted freestyle: headstands, handstands, handstand kickflips, headstand spinners, parallel board handstands, and English handstands. Faced Robin Alaway Lerum on the 1976 CBS special "Challenge of the Sexes." At the Oasis skatepark in 1980/81 he went up against a 14 year old Rodney Mullen and took 3rd. Still racing slalom decades later.
Peak sponsors: Logan Earth Ski (with Tony Alva, Brad Logan, Torger Johnson, Laura Thornhill), then Tunnel Skateboards via Steve Rocco and Doug Schneider
Entrepreneur ventures: Owner of ABEC 11 skateboard products
Style: 70s freestyle pioneer, inverted maneuvers and balance tricks
Current status: Running ABEC 11, still skating and racing

Sources: Tunnel Skateboards team interview, https://www.tunnelskateboards.com/team/chris\_chaput.html | Alchetron, https://alchetron.com/Chris-Chaput | Sara Drennan on Robin Alaway Lerum, https://saradrennan.art/robin-alaway | Juice Magazine 2005 Outlaw Series results, https://juicemagazine.com/home/february-2005-news/ | Photo: vintageskateboard.co.uk forum archive

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🛹 Thrasher Covers — Issue 08: August 1981.

Cover: Roger Hickey and John Hutson tearing down Laguna Seca on downhill boards, shot by Caselli. This issue covers "controlled insanity" at the Baldy Pipeline (Chris Strople, Steve Olson), plus real ramp-building advice and the League of Wimpy Skaters. Tony Hawk shows up inside too. Downhill racing was still a major, serious part of skateboarding in 1981, not the niche it'd become.

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The full SkateTribune 2024 Recap is live, all ten pages. Nine stories that defined the year in skateboarding, from SLS Paris kicking off the Olympic year in February, to Yuto Horigome repeating at Tampa Pro, the Paris Olympics, and Jamie Foy taking his second Skater of the Year in December. Which one hit you hardest?

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Big Brother Covers, Issue 01: 1992.

Before Big Brother became the most notorious magazine in skateboarding, it was this, a rough DIY test copy that Steve Rocco declared "a total failure" and gave away for free.

Cover: Shiloh Greathouse, shot by Spike Jonze. Years before the Oscar, Jonze was Big Brother's staff photographer, and the cover lines are pure anti-hype: "No Kris Markovich interview," "No bothersome page numbers," "Printed entirely on paper!"

The whole thing existed because TransWorld refused to run a Rocco ad, so Rocco's answer was to start a magazine with no rules. Stained scans, scribbled captions, "This Space Intentionally Left Blank," and the first article drops "fuck" 25 times in 165 words. The staff list reads like a Jackass credits roll: Sean Cliver, Jeff Tremaine, Marc McKee.

Twelve years later it was gone, but its fingerprints are on everything.

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By spring 1981 the vert/pool scene had a real hierarchy forming, and Duane Peters — the reigning "Master of Disaster" — sat at the top of it. This issue's cover line says it plainly: D.P. swept the Whittier Pro-Am. Also inside: a look at the street scene ("A Day in the Streets, A Night on the Town") and international competition coverage from Sweden, Florida, and Texas — proof skateboarding was already going global just four issues into Thrasher's life.

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🎸 Just 3 issues in, Rolling Stone had already put The Beatles on the cover twice — days before Magical Mystery Tour's BBC broadcast became their first real critical misfire back home. Dec 1967.

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