The 10 Crudest Skateboard Interviews of All Time

To be fair, the late Big Brother should probably have all ten. In simpler times, interviewing sponsored skaters meant that you would be hearing the true voices of some of the most incredible and downright raw people on the face of our planet. People wonder why interviews are so easy these days. The answer is simple money. Nobody wants to shake the boar when they score six-figure digits every tax season. Either way, in an ode to real skateboard journalism pumped to the wall, here are ten of the crudest interviews skaters have given us in the last 30 years.

TONY ALVA SKATEBOARD 1978

Tony had just won Skateboarder’s Skateboarder Of The Year ’77 award when he was named for an unprecedented second interview in the magazine. This time, Tony did his best. His musings on sleeping with groupies, smoking marijuana and his party lifestyle were so stark for the first time that they garnered one of the first resignations from the magazine’s editors.

COREY DUFFEL BIG BROTHER 2001

Poor Corey was just sixteen when Chris Nieratko took the infamous atomic bomb out of him on a date. While Stevie Williams’ “garbage” reference cost Corey many of his backers initially, most attributed it to Corey being young and ignorant of the fact that Big Brother would print every recorded word. With the waterhole under the bridge, Corey and Stevie now find themselves partners in crime at Venture and CCS, where Stevie helped Corey join the team.

ADAM MCNATT TRANSWORLD SKATING 1997

This one interview turned into the collection of fake kids’ pages on how to go “all in” during their Pro Spotlight. McNatt, a great starter and innovator to Powell Peralta, 101, and then Evol and Osiris, essentially spoke incredible shit in every nook, cranny, and secret that the skateboarding industry had dragged him through during his career. Some might argue that this single The interview forever changed his curse within the industry.

FABIANO ALOMAR BIG BROTHER 1997

Sometimes an interview can be crude because of what is said in your question and answer session. Other times, skateboard journalism is just crude based on who you’re putting on the pages. The opening photo of Fabian Alomar breaking an ollie surrounded by gang-affiliated East Los Angeles family members is terrifying enough to earn him a single spot on this list. His descriptions of a life surrounded by a gang lifestyle and anecdotes involving guns, beatings, mushrooms, and prison time make him an absolute shoo-in.

ALEX OLSON SKATING TRANSWORLD 2007

These days, as I tried to explain in the intro, it’s getting harder and harder to get real words out of real skaters in a real magazine. Spanky didn’t have those problems with Olson. Protected by his close friendship with this subject, it still amazes me that Spanky got Alex to bravely cough up heart gems like, “Who has a nasty image? Terry {Kennedy} is a bit mean. Me” I’m all over that ice cream thing. “. Damn.

DUANE PETERS SKATEBOARD 2003

I’m just going to make a quote. “I was shooting myself, living in a ditch, and these three Mexicans rushed me. They stabbed me seven times in the knee and three times in the back. I was swinging my board with these damn things and the funniest thing was I was running so hard for the coke that I couldn’t Get out of this four foot ditch I finally took these guys off and was running down the street covered in blood when the police came.

ANDY ROY BIG BROTHER 1996 AND 1998

This award applies to his two interviews with Big Brother. It’s scary enough to read Andy’s stories about being nicknamed “cuddle on the butt” while serving time, yet when Roy confessed to Dave Carnie that he wanted to get “the aids” to spread it to as many people as possible, it’s You may just be sitting on one of the crudest statements ever printed in a magazine.

GATOR TRANSMUNDO SKATING 1988

This issue is pretty much my first skate magazine and it was pretty much the first interview I ever read, but when Gator chimed in in his introduction with, “First of all I’m gay, I cry beyond my arms.” I clearly remember the feelings of utter confusion I felt and immediately wondered if this was the normal kind of thing pro skaters talked about.

JOSH SWINDLE BIG BROTHER 1993

Before leaving for good after breaking a brick on the head of a gay man and killing him, Josh Swindle was arrested on the Mexican border with some guns in his car. Earl Parker met with Josh for an interview while he was serving his sentence in a Tijuana penitentiary. Drugs, broomstick legs, prostitutes, bribery of guards, and beating a guy for trying to steal his shoes all get detailed reports.

JAON JESSEE TRANSWORLD SKATING 1997

You don’t always have to embrace racism, kill someone, or go to jail to rack up some interesting thoughts for an interview. Anyone who has enjoyed his straw story in the Gator documentary knows that when Jason says things like, “I’m no stranger to pain, especially the pain of waking up in the morning and the pain of realizing it,” there is no script. . text message that your agent thought might help your dashboard sales.

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