Yes, wall-jammers and tail-whackers, The Bones Brigade Audio Show is rolling out another new series-within-a-series for your aural enjoyment. Welcome to Volume 1 of Public Demain! We'll be sitting down with our good friend Adrian Demain from time to time to discuss any and all things, well, Adrian Demain. Tour tales, video memories, stories from the road- we'll get into it all. To kick off this hot new chapter of BBAS history, Adrian- along with Episode 71 special guest Miki Vuckovich- are...

Welcome back to the show! Today, Larry and Matt are joined in the studio by two legends of the sport- Adrian Demain and Miki Vuckovich- to dissect the 1980 oddball odyssey, Skateboard Madness! While there’s no real way for anyone to pinpoint what this meandering film aspires to be- part skateboarding documentary and part road-trip comedy with roller skating, stop-motion, claymation and animated sequences thrown in- what cannot be disputed is the obvious and undeniable groundwork it helped to...

Welcome back to the show! For this, our 70th episode, we’re absolutely honored to be joined by none other than legendary photographer, artist, and author Glen E. Friedman to discuss the genre-defining 2001 film Dogtown and Z-Boys! Chronicling the rise of the fabled Zephyr Team in the 1970’s, this Stacy Peralta-directed documentary brought the roots of modern skateboarding- along with names like Tony Alva, Jay Adams, and Shogo Kubo- into the cultural mainstream, while paving the way for a slew...

Welcome back, Brigadeers! Today, we're in the studio to dig deep into Mike Vallely's Y2K documentary, Sponsored- and joining us once again is Mike's former Black Label and Street Plant teammate, good friend, and touring partner Kristian Svitak! At just over 30 minutes, Sponsored is an embryonic foray into the world of skate documentaries that covers Mike's life in skating up to that point- a mere blip on the radar of the career we know today- and shows us some of the earliest glimpses of...

Larry and Matt are back in the deep end to bring you another thrilling installment of The Bones Brigade Audio Show’s Sk8 TV Files! This time around we are joined in the studio by our good friend (and returning guest) Skate Talk Bob to discuss Episode 4 of everyone’s favorite Nickelodeon classic- “the only skateboarding show made by skaters, for skaters”, as it was known. This one is packed to the proverbial gills with the good stuff, including interviews with Powell stalwarts Ray Barbee and...

The BBAS crew, along with our good friend Jim Fitzpatrick, are back in the studio this week to delve headfirst into the short, sweet and mostly unknown Powell Peralta video, Camp Motherhood! Developed primarily as a tradeshow video- promotional material to support Powell’s 1989 sales and marketing initiatives- Camp Motherhood is an interesting time capsule, inadvertently bridging the gap between where Public Domain left off and Ban This started, and marking an infamous era for the ‘Brigade...

Welcome back to the show! We’re here at Episode 66, bringing you issue #14 of the much-celebrated BBAS Intelligence Report, and joining us in the studio for the occasion is none other than Florida vertical legend and Bones Brigade alum, Mike Frazier- along with special guest host Nick Halkias of Strangelove Skateboards! Join us as we get deep into the weeds with Mike on his early days skating in Clearwater, his time with Zorlac and subsequently turning pro for Powell Peralta, filming his...

Here we are, ringing in 40 years of the McTwist; perhaps the first trick in skateboarding history to achieve “household name” status. With the possible exception of the 900, is there a single skateboarding trick more legendary? A single maneuver that has been requested more by crowds of delirious, sunburnt demo-goers? We don’t think so- and joining us here in the BBAS studio to back up this inarguable claim is renowned skate historian, author, artist, and Berlin Skateboard Museum...

Greetings, skateboard cultists, and welcome back to Issue #13 of the Intelligence Report! To say we’re excited for this one is an understatement, because joining us in the BBAS studio for an epic chat is none other than Eric Sanderson himself! An iconic member of the Bones Brigade during their 80’s heyday, Eric was prominently featured in nearly all of the most revered Powell Peralta videos, participated in innumerable summer tours, and is of course one of the four riders that made up Public...

If you’ve listened this far, you surely know by now that 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 Powell Peralta videos. We assumed we were alone in this sickness, wandering the wastelands in search of forgotten parking lots and slabs of concrete once boardslid by the Rib Bones of giants. So, imagine our surprise when we came across the...

We interrupt this regularly scheduled two-week break to bring you a surprise episode of The Bones Brigade Audio Show! This past weekend, Powell Peralta unleashed Andy Anderson’s brand new “Crazy Wisdom” onto the world to great (and well-deserved) fanfare. So insane were the contents of this video that we decided to stop what we were doing, hop into the studio, and put our thoughts on tape! Come along as we discuss Andy’s incredible contributions to the world of creative skateboarding and our...

Welcome back to the show! For this, the 12th issue of the BBAS Intelligence Report, we’re absolutely honored to be joined in the studio by none other than the legendary Sean Cliver! Picked out of a pool of more than 600 applicants to answer a 1988 Powell Peralta “artist wanted” ad, Sean packed his bags for a one-way trip to California where he spent three years creating some of the most revered graphics in the company’s history, ably filling the impossibly large shoes of the recently-retired...

The BBAS crew headed west for an epic couple of days late last month to attend the Skateboarding Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Vans HQ in Costa Mesa, and in the process zig-zagged across Southern California to pack in a visit to the Powell Peralta factory, a full tour of Madrid Skateboards HQ, a stop at the Pink Motel, a tour of the SHOF Museum and wrapped it up in Venice at the Artful Dodgers art show, which featured the works of Stacy Peralta, Craig Stecyk and more. Come along as we...

Interested in getting started with this whole skateboarding thing, but not sure where to begin? We’ve all been there. Luckily, the days of trying to figure it all out on your own ended long ago, thanks to the advent of skating’s most notable entertainment underdog, the often-overlooked instructional video! Today, Larry and Matt are back in the BBAS studio to delve into the belly of the beast, as we discuss Powell Skateboards’ year-2000 export, Basic Training. Indeed, by the time you’re done...

Take your seats, kids- the bell has rang. You’re going to want to pay attention, because today’s lesson will be on the 1999 Bones Bearings team video, Class of 2000! Settle down, settle down. As you can see, we have a special guest instructor joining us today, all the way from Plan B University- Mr. Jeremy Wray. Everyone, eyes up front- please, save your questions until after the presentation. We will be discussing and dissecting some rapid-fire skateboarding parts by Steve Caballero, Moses...

“By skaters, for skaters”-as it was then, so it is now at The Bones Brigade Audio Show! Welcome back to another cannonball straight into the Deep End of Nickelodeon’s most notorious contribution to early nineties subculture, SK8-TV! Joining us in the studio for a part-by-part analysis of its fabled Episode 3 is none other than our good friend and returning special guest, the one and only Anthony Pappalardo. From Jim Thiebaud getting pummeled mid-interview by a bucket of water courtesy of...

We know what you’re thinking- what the hell is “Matcha Rules?" Indeed, The Bones Brigade Audio Show has not been shy about shining light onto some of the more obscure and unknown videos from the farthest corners of the ‘Brigade universe- but this one might just take the cake. What we have here, friends, is a half hour long, professionally produced, stacked and soundtracked 1999 Powell Skateboards Japan tour video featuring Steve Caballero, Jon Comer and Moses Itkonen… that no one has ever...

Roads? For this episode of The Bones Brigade Audio Show, we don’t need roads. This week, the BBAS crew invite you to travel back in time to 1985 for the most complete and painstaking Back to the Future skateboarding retrospective ever assembled in one place! For many, this film- however unintentionally- marked the jumping off point, when skating entered the mainstream collective consciousness of legions of action-starved kids around the globe and helped kickstart the mid-80’s skate boom to...

Welcome back to the show! For this- our eleventh installment of the Intelligence Report series- we are honored to be joined in the studio by the legendary Sophie Bourgeois! Aside from being known far and wide in the Bones Brigade universe for her short but memorable interview and freestyle segment alongside Anita Tessensohn and Lori Rigsby in 1988’s Public Domain, Sophie has a long and fascinating tale that is deeply rooted in skateboarding history. From her early days as one of Canada’s top...

“Powell magic”- a topic of much discussion here at the BBAS from the very beginning. Faithful listeners have endured countless tales of spliced-in sound effects, bails cut into makes, Frankie Hill’s famous “foot POV” handrail, Robert Kittila’s experimental camera creations… the list of Powell’s magic moments goes on and on. Yet, there’s one considerably important bit of Powell Magic yet to be delved into- the 1998 video of the same name! Yes, Brigadiers, today we’ll be digging deep into Bones...

The staff at the Pink Motel are working overtime this week as the BBAS crew once again descends on their doorstep for our third installment of the much-anticipated SK8-TV Files! This time- with the help of our good friend, returning special guest and skate artist extraordinaire Ed Syder- we will be tackling the monumental, Powell-heavy Episode 2 of this storied series. With assists from Lance Mountain and producer Mark Hunt, we get to the bottom of the location of the fabled, recurring “in...

It’s time to delve, once again, into that strange and enchanted era known as the late nineties with a play-by-play review of the often-overlooked Powell Skateboards ’97 summer tour documentary, Strip Mall Heroes- and joining us for the occasion is none other than ripping skateboarder and thrift_store_paintings Instagram content creator, Rich Wilson! Much like Chaos and 8 before it, Strip Mall Heroes is a tale of a video in two forms: the officially-released version, and the lesser-known...

The fiftieth episode of The Bones Brigade Audio Show is roaring into your eardrums, and with it, the 10th installment of our vaunted Intelligence Report interview series! Joining us to celebrate the occasion is the one and only Colin McKay, who sat down with us in the studio for an incredible retrospective discussion on his formative career with Powell Peralta. We get into his origins of skateboarding in the Great White North, the various incarnations of the legendary Richmond Skate Ranch,...

Welcome, wall-jammers, to season three of The Bones Brigade Audio Show! We are kicking off 2024 with a bang as we welcome to the studio none other than the legendary Tony Hawk- to get into the weeds on his newest (and final) video part, Tapes You Leave Behind! This nearly five-minute banger is dripping with tributes to Tony’s Powell Peralta past, with classic 'Brigade cameos and a soundtrack straight out of Skateboarding in the 80’s framing what is unsurprisingly one of the most progressive...