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Juice Magazine 20 Year Photo Retrospective

Juice Magazine 20 Year Photo Retrospective… Since 1993, Juice Magazine has strived to bring you anarchy, dissidence and rampant individuality. Here are a few of our favorite moments from the last 20 years captured in photos with a few quotes by the icons of our time. Welcome to the Juice Magazine 20 Year Photo Retrospective. We hope you enjoy it.

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Photos L to R: Juice Magazine #1: (1) The Ramp House R.I.P. The Wainwright brothers consistently blew minds all over the park with their old school power and flow in the bowl. Photo: Gibber. (2) Mark Hunt blasts through the lip and slides his tail around on this fun Masonboro wall. Photo: Gibber. (3) Wainwright ruled the Ramp House. Much respect to Jim Rees for doing his part to keep bowl riding alive and well through the early ‘90s in NC. Photo: Gibber (4) Rick Porter slaying M-boro 1993. (5) Art by Chet Childress circa 1993. (6) The Ramones with dressing room requirements for a show circa ‘93.

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Photos L to R: (1) Daniel Hill. Misty morning. Photo: Gibber. (2) Jahmal Williams – Turtles is a playground and lots of times, skaters get kicked out, but they let their kids ride their bikes and slam all over the place, yet the skaters are still the ones getting chased out. Jahmal on the run circa ‘94. Photo: Gibber   Photos L to R: (1) Bailey Webb toasts two great tastes that taste great together. Leinenkugel beer and Swinson Skatepark. Photo: Gibber (2) Woody. Photo: Gibber (3) The Beastie Boys rock the house. Photo:  Kiplyn Lewis (4) R.I.P. Swinson by Keith Byers
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Photos L to R: (1) Mike Carroll. Skater of the Year 1994, ollies the street gap with ease. Photo: Gibber (2) Brian Drake does the madonna proper. Photo: Chris Feasel. (3) Chet Childress kickflips a bump as a young lady steps in to balance out the composition. Photo: Gibber (4) Tim Brauch at Rad Lands. 1995. Photo courtesy of Jeff Kendall. Photos L to R: (1) Jeron Wilson – demo days. Photo: Chris Feasel (2) Brent. I don’t think we have to say anything. This is what it’s all about. Photo: Chris Feasel (3) Stoney skills. Photo: Pete Thompson
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Photos L to R: (1) Chris Senn McTwist without a hair out of place. Photo: Gibber (2) Skatepark Ad featuring Ross Stevens. Photo: Gibber.  Photo (R): Remy Stratton had been kicked off the ramp twice before he stuck this eggplant on Jason Ellis’ head, much to the dislike of the contest authorities circa 1995. Photo: Gibber
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Photos L to R: (1) Freedle backyard cruising. Photo: Gibber (2) Cane Faircloth ruins the lip at Holden Beach. ‘95 Photo: Robbie Johnson. Photo (R): Science aka Dave Maxwell underwear carving on a swallowtail at the Bro Bowl. 1995. Photo: Gibber

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Photos L to R: (1) Tony Hawk captured mid-flight at MASSS 1996. Photo: Ben Knight (2) L.E.S. Stitches at Five and Alive at Riverside 108 Skatepark, NYC. ‘98. Photo: John Engle (3) Strubing tweak. (4) Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock at Tibetan Freedom Concert ‘97. Photo: Liza Leeds (5) Fugazi sets the standard. Photo: Travis Mackesler (6) Mark Nardelli tweaking a backside grab to fakie at The Rink in NJ. ‘97 Photo: Bryan Ince. Photos L to R: (1) Gordon – Eskimo Zero at Burnside 1996. Photo: J. Garrett  (2) Scott Bourne pivot to fakie at Casino Skatepark, Asbury, NJ. 2000. Photo: Freitas (3) Frank Gerwer. Photo: J. Garrett (4) Phil Anselmo of Pantera. Photo: Liza Leeds  (5) KRS-1 at Tibetan Freedom Concert ‘98 Photo: Lisa Hill (6) Loren Hunt slays hurricane surf. Photo: Gibber (7) Nesto, Harold Hunter and Alex Corporan at Coney Island High ‘98. Photo: Chris Dewolf

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Photos L to R: (1) The Descendents. Photo: Jason Zampino (2) Mike Ness at Vans Warped Tour ‘97. Photo: Jason Zampino (3) The Misfits ‘98. Photo: Liza Leeds (4) Rick Charnoski – pick the nose grind. (5) Jim Murphy channel plant at Jones Bowl, NJ. Photo: Kelly Ryan (6) Dimebag Darrell of Pantera. Photo: Jason Zampino (7) Lars Frederiksen of Rancid. Photo: Liza Leeds (8) Ben Harper live at Roseland 1998. Photo: Lisa Walters (9) Matt Hensley and Flogging Molly. Photo: Bryan Stahel  (10) Black Sabbath. Photo: Liza Leeds. Photos L to R: (1) Rich Lopez at Warped Tour ‘98. Photo: Mark Sullivan (2) H.R. [Bad Brains]. Photo: Brian Lentini  (3) Brian Anderson at Five and Alive at Riverside ‘98. Photo: Daniel Begun (4) Evan Becker – frontside method between brushstrokes. Photo: Ivory Serra (5) Brad Jezek gets to 9:30 in a backwoods pipe – frontside over vert carve  Edgewood, MD, Photo: Todd Gray (6) Agnostic Front Photo: Brian Lentini (7) Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine Photo: Lisa Hill

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Photos L to R: (1) FDR. Mike Manzoori frontside brick slide. Photo: Adam Wallacavage  (2) Juice 40 Oz. Issue by Jim Houser and Adam Wallacavage. Tim and Yogi at sundown at FDR. Aug 1998 #40 (3) FDR. Dave Turtzo – Frontside Pivot in super steep pocket of the bunker. Photo: Adam Wallacavage  (4) Ryan Sheckler – “I like vert. It’s way more fun.” The sky is the limit for Ryan. Downtown Ollie – May 1999 Photo: Dean Randall. Photos L to R: (1) Tino Razo. After he grabs some tall at Evans’s loft, he skates the quarter the pipes and smokes da kine. Photo: Alex Zavialoff #41 (2) The Damned. Photo: Olivia Biddle (3) Father of Hell Skull, Brewce Martin, blasts a backside fastplant in his own backyard bowl at Skatopia. Photo: Adam Wallacavage. (4) Rocket From the Crypt. Photo: Jason Zampino (5) Reverend Horton Heat. Photo: Olivia Biddle

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Photos L to R: (1) Off da roof. Photo: Adam Wallacavage  (2) Flying cow – Dave Lockwood. Photo: Brian Tucker (3) Jim Houser frontside to sore hip at Space 1026 Philadelphia 1998. Photo: Adam Wallacavage. (4) Unknown at Pipeline.  Clean board, clean wave. 2000 Photo: DJ Farley (5) Frank Atwater. Nollie to pivot on the edge of the earth. Photo: Pat Myers (6) Steve Hernandez frontside bluntslide. Photos L to R: (1) Texas Dan throws a huge frontside air that would make Craig Johnson proud. Photo: Rhino (2) T.S.O.L. Photo: DJ Farley (3) Straight out of Pasadena, TX, John “Tex” Gibson could shred backyard pools with style. Don’t fuck with Texas. Photo: J. Grant Brittain. (4) Tony Farmer – snaps over the shallow end stairs of the Palmetto Pool. Photo: Rhino (5) Mix Master Mike. Photo: Ivory Serra

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Photos L to R: (1) Jeff Grosso stalls your basic invert on his way to victory at the Basic Bowl 1999. Photo: Rhino #45  (2) The Orangewood was built by the Blue Haven Pool Company, smooth trannys, perfect pool coping, death box and optional slide. The locals are cool and the house is abandoned. Perfect. Salba clocks in a slob over the slide, compliments of Orange County. Photo: Rhino (3) George Wilson (4) Torey Pudwill. Age 9 circa 2000. Small man. Big air. Photo: Pat Myers. Photo (R): Juice cover #45 – Duane Peters at U.S. Bombs video shoot 1999. Photo: Scott Perryman

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Photos L to R: (1) William “Uhuru” Hightower pulls the roof gap at last skate session at Venice Pavilion circa 2000. Photo: Pat Myers (2) Tyco killing the hip. Photo: Rhino (3) Dan Levy snuck out of work to hit the last session at the Venice Pavilion and ollied from flat over the can. Photo: Pat Myers (4) Steve Hernandez bluntslides the infamous ledges in Venice. Photo: Pat Myers (5) Suicidal Tendencies 1998. Photo: Angela Boatwright. (6) Texas Dan. Photo: Charlie Middleton. Photo: Juice #47 cover – Dave Reul has been riding the Baldy pipe for a long time now and his experience shows with this backside ollie clickout in the Badlands. All hail the Reuler. Photo: Pat Myers

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Photos L to R: (1) Jay Adams. Kenter Banks 1969 from Jay Adams personal collection of photos. (2) Dane Kealoha Photo courtesy of Maui Times Magazine. Photos L to R: (1) Bob Biniak – “The Z Boys started a revolution that still lives in the soul of men. They rode outlawed pools and pipes that most only dreamed of and inspired generations to skate for life. Biniak’s pipe dreams come true at Pipeline.” Photo: C.R. Stecyk III

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Photos L to R: (1) Paul Constantineau finds it and grinds it in a backyard paradise. Photo courtesy of Paul Constantineau archives. (2) Jeff Ho going left at the T’s at P.O.P. in 1973. Photo: C.R. Stecyk III. Photos L to R: (1) Herbie Fletcher skates The Pool barefoot 1963. Photo: Courtesy of the Fletcher family archives. (2) Miki Dora on the nose – Malibu – Sept 24, 1961. Photo: LeRoy Grannis

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Photo: Dave Hackett does the first ollie to pipe transfer. Camp Pendleton ‘77. Photo: Wynn Miller. Photos L to R: (1) Bruce Irons driving down the line. Photo: Herbie Fletcher (2) Tom Groholski. Cedar Crest was the haven for those that wanted to skate hard and fast over the smooth metal layer. Tom always skated it with style with tricks like this Indy over the channel. Photo: J. Grant Brittain

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Photos L to R: (1) Cab and Hosoi  – doing double rocket airs at a demo back in the day. Photo: Bryce Kanights (2) Cherie Currie in her corset in the ‘70s. Photo courtesy: Cherie Currie (3) Hank 3 at the Roxy. Boston, MA 2007. Photo: Nicole Tammaro. Photos L to R: (1) Tony Alva. “I think the low-slung hardcore Z Boys style was the beginning of radical skateboarding.” #55 Photo: Wynn Miller (2) Christian Hosoi spent a lot of time in the islands of Hawaii at this little gem called the Bridge Bowl. #57 Photo: Pat Myers.

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Photo: Daewon Song pays homage to art with this stylish kickflip fakie. Photo: Anthony Acosta. Photo: Anthony Van Engelen – Vagabond. Have you ever turned on a black light in a shitty hotel room? Eeeeeeewwwww! Vagabond in a Vagabond. Photo courtesy: AVE.

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Photo: Waldo Autry. Feb ‘76. This is the most published skateboard photo in the history of the sport and they’re still publishing it. The first past vert to flat transfer at Mt. Baldy. Photo: James O’Mahoney. Photos L to R: (1) Jason Jessee 100% Skateboarder grinds for life at the Strawberry 2001. Photo: Ted Terrebonne (2) Craig Johnson Bridge Bowl from the deathbox. 1986. Photo courtesy of Craig Johnson.

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Photos L to R: (1) Makua Rothman “Biggest Wave ridden 2002” Photo: Tom Servais (2)  Shaggy. Photo: POD. Photo: #56 Jesse Martinez – pride of Venice, the “Mess” Z-Cult – until the bitter end. at Sepulveda Dam. Circa 2002. Photo: Ted Terrebonne.

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Photo: Juice Magazine #57 Peter Hewitt can destroy anything with a transition. Frontside tail grab at the legendary Burnside creation. Photo: Joe Hammeke. Photos L to R: (1) Evan Slater. Africa. Photo: DJ Struntz  (2) Willy Akers makes a rugged pole jam. Photo: Zoli.

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Photos L to R: (1) Aerial Assault – Christian Fletcher. Indy 1990. Photo: Tom Servais (2) The New York City streets breed style, hunger and passion for skateboarders from around the world to throw down in the 24-7 rate race. Brazilian born Harry Jumonji throws down a rush hour slash at one of the rotting yellow cabs of NYC. Photo: Ivory Serra. Photos L to R: (1) Jerry Valdez. The Turning Point Ramp was a mind-blowing concept back in the day and Jerry was one of the skaters who stepped up to show the world how to ride the thing. Jerry takes a frontside overhead carve to 10:30 on the clear plexi palette of the capsule end. The ‘70s were a trip. Photo: Boyd Harnell (2) Wayne Kramer and the MC5 at Mt. Saint Clemens. 1969. Photo courtesy of Wayne Kramer. Photo: Leni Sinclair

JUICE MAGAZINE NOTABLE QUOTABLES:

“I never missed a day of high school in four years, although I was uncooperative… very uncooperative.” – JOHNNY RAMONE of THE RAMONES – Nov 1993 Juice Magazine #1 by Scott Daniel Ellison

“In politics and dealing with the media, the government, whatever, you have to understand that it’s the system we have to fight. The men behind the system are just that: human beings that suffer the same short comings of everyone else. It is the laws and the system that we have to mentally and spiritually prepare ourselves to overcome. We have to probe the minds of the enemy and understand them to conquer them. The youth are ready! Rise up! The time has come for a revolution!” – BAD BRAINS  – Nov 1993 Juice Magazine #1 by Alecia Mitchell

“We’re not a political act, we don’t try to beat anybody over the head with how we feel about certain things. We like to put out slammin’ records and dope tracks. We don’t devote whole songs to a social problem; we just mention it little by little, drop a little bit of bait and a little bit of candy. That gives us a mystique.” – TRIBE CALLED QUEST – Dec 1993 Juice Magazine #2 by Mark Duong

“We make boards for size of wave and not for where they break, as waves vary at each break of the world, going faster at low tide, slower at high tide. Each wave of every set is different, so our boards are made the same for a 2-foot wave on the East or West Coast as well as Hawaii.” – GARY LINDEN – Dec 1993 Juice Magazine #2 by Roy Turner

“Be true to yourself and don’t limit yourself. Eat at Cheddar’s. Props to East Coast pros and remember where you’re from.” – JAHMAL WILLIAMS – Jan 1994 Juice Magazine #3 by Pat Noonan

“It’s not that we believe in ourselves… We just don’t believe in anyone else.” – Maynard Keenan, TOOL – Feb 1994 Juice Magazine #4 by Alecia Mitchell

“I want peace, but I’m also prepared for war. Don’t just philosophize about stopping violence. Stop it. I’m not non-violent, then again I’m not violent. I am intelligent.” – KRS-1 – Feb 1994 Juice Magazine #5 by Michael Lawton

“If you love something, it can’t be taken from you. Whether it’s a person, object or anything you do. As far as the industry goes, we’re running it. We’re the kids, you know. What you buy into, you buy into and what you don’t, you don’t. Cause we’re running shit and it’s not an industry, so stop blaming the industry and get off your ass and make a difference.” – SCOTT BOURNE – Feb ‘94 Juice Magazine #5 by Chris Feasel

“Music, quite simply, is sex.” – DICK DALE – Apr. 1994 Juice Magazine #6 by Alecia Mitchell

“The only thing I want to intoxicate me is life.” – JOHN JOSEPH – THE CRO-MAGS – Nov 1994 Juice Magazine #13 by John Cowell

“All you bitches out there who want to be hard and listen to rap music and shit all the time, you should go out and buy a Cranberries tape… fuckin’ punks.” – CHET CHILDRESS – Apr 1994 Juice Magazine #6 by Chris Feasel

“If you’re a true surfer, you ride the waves, the ocean doesn’t lie, you paddle out and you confront the waves. There’s a truth there that’s misguided because people are so caught up in the images they see in the media. People need to get back into the brotherhood. The spirit. And let your surfing do the talking!” – BILL CURRY – Apr 1994 Juice Magazine #6 by Armando

“I just refuse to give anyone else power. There is no one who can make my life better or worse, and that’s the bottom line. If you think there is someone who can control your life, then you better evaluate yourself.” – MIKE MUIR – May 1994 Juice Magazine #7 by Alecia Mitchell

“Surfing is a very individual sport. You can go out and still be very graceful and have very radical maneuvers included in your session, or you can just go out there and totally try to kill everything in sight. Surfing is just what you want it to be. You can be an individual in a very crowded world.” – WILL ALLISON – Jun 1994 Juice Magazine #8 by Walker Golder

“I’m the type of motherfucker who will go to your house, smoke your pot, eat your chicken and borrow twenty dollars from you. I do that shit a lot of the time.” – GEORGE CLINTON – July 1994 Juice Magazine #9 by Michael Lawton

“I have this paranoid delusion that one day we are going to get a visit from some guy in a dark suit and sunglasses, who is going to tell us that we have gone too far.” – BIOHAZARD – July 1994 Juice Magazine #9 by Alecia Mitchell

“We were in the movie Skateboarding.” I had to teach Leif Garrett how to skate. He didn’t like me. He thought I was a low-life. I thought he was a Tiger Beat star and a candy ass and he thought he was the shit.” – TONY ALVA – July 1994 Juice Magazine #9 by Robbie Rhyne

“I’m not going to fight the system at all. I ignore them. They don’t exist – a bunch of blowhard, do-nothing turd factories.” – THE MEAT PUPPETS – Sept 1994 Juice Magazine #11 – by Alecia Mitchell

“We want to get people to think and to listen to the lyrics. I take pride in writing lyrics that don’t just say, ‘Baby, I love you,’ all the time.” – STEEL PULSE – Oct 1994 Juice Magazine #12 by Tony Jenzano

“It’s up to us to get past the stigmas that have been placed on our generation. Our generation has been plagued with the dilemma of having the cost of living so far exceeding the limit anyone can make, regardless of their degree or knowledge of a craft. We are so limited. The gap between our ways and means is more separated than it ever has been in the whole history of American culture. So you have to go out there and do what makes you happy. You aren’t truly free if you don’t do what you love with your life.” – BEN HARPER – Nov 1994 Juice Magazine #13 by Alecia Mitchell

“I got started in the industry by accident. Skip who does S.M.A., Santa Monica Airlines, showed me where to get boards made one day and that was about it. I started making boards, but I never thought I’d have a company.” – STEVE ROCCO – Nov 1994  Juice Magazine #13 by Chris Feasel

“Hardcore is about dignity and honor. It’s not bubblegum tunes about chicks.” – DOWNSET – Dec 1994 Juice Magazine #14 by John Healy

“They want to preach up a storm about how everything is terrible now: i.e. rock music is destroying our children, thus we exist. I am everything they could hate just to spite them. But at the same time, my point is, “Why is your way the right way? Why isn’t mine the right way?” – MARILYN MANSON – Dec 1994 Juice Magazine #14 by Alecia Mitchell

“Courtney [Love] just said that the first time she ever took coke, it was with me. But it wasn’t: it was Pepsi. Anyway, it wasn’t true. It just shows you where some people are at.” – MICK JONES – Feb 1995 Juice Magazine #15 by Alecia Mitchell

“It’s like every four or five years, hardcore goes through a cleansing, a dull period, and that’s what happened a couple of years ago. Now the bands are starting to get good again and they’re revitalizing the scene, making kids wanna come out to the shows.” – CIV – Mar 1995 Juice Magazine #16 by John Cowell

“Sid Abruzzi is God!”- Gail Greenwood – BELLY – Mar 1995 Juice Magazine #16 by Alecia Mitchell

“If you can make billions of dollars, you deserve to keep that and you shouldn’t have to share it with everybody else that doesn’t get their ass out of bed every fuckin’ morning. Period.” – LEE VING of FEAR – Mar 1995 Juice Magazine #16 by Jeff Jobes

“I admire people who instinctually stand up for what they believe in. That’s a powerful quality.” – QUICKSAND – Apr 1995 Juice Magazine #17 by Alecia Mitchell

“There’s an element of absurdity in what we do. I just think that humanity is pretty entertaining, so the lyrics are satirical, not condescending, but definitely vague. I mean, they are pretty substantial. It’s just never really clear as to what I am talking about, but that’s only because I don’t know myself.” – CLUTCH – June 1995 Juice Magazine #18 by Alecia Mitchell

“I think it’s funny to be called the Grandfathers of Grunge. I’m actually still too young to be a grandfather. But there are people at our shows that I could potentially be their father.” – MARK ARM of MUDHONEY – July 1995 Juice Magazine #19 by Alecia Mitchell

“After this Saturday, we’re going to jump into a bus with some other bands and cruise around the country on this skateboard thing, which I think is called Warped or some shit like that.” – BRAD HOWELL of SUBLIME – July 1995 Juice Magazine #19 by Fishbowl Dave

“Taylor Steele pretty much made us what we are today. Having our songs on the Momentum II video really helped us.” – FLETCHER of PENNYWISE – July 1995 #19 by Keith Byers

“Records are way different from CDs. We put extra songs on vinyl that aren’t on the tape or cassette. CDs are stupid, they cost half as much to make and cost twice as much to buy, Our covers are very retro and very thrown back. They look like they’ve fallen off a shelf at a thrift store. I do all of the art. Support vinyl!” – O of FLUF Aug 1995 Juice Magazine #20 by Lynn Bowman

“We just like to enjoy ourselves, in general, whether it’s music or artwork or watching The Simpsons.” – LES CLAYPOOL of PRIMUS – Oct 1995 Juice Magazine #21 by Kassi Day and Alecia Mitchell

“What good is being a Vegan if you’re an asshole?” – RAY CAPPO of SHELTER – Oct ‘95 Juice Magazine #21 by John Cowell

“We absolutely refused to play the stupid high school popularity games and a lot of our early songs comment on that. I guess our earliest ambition was to annoy the hell out of all the people in school who treated us like shit.” – MILO AUKERMAN of  THE DESCENDENTS – Oct 1995 Juice Magazine #21 by Charles Glover

“There weren’t that many rights that day. I guess I wanted to go right really bad, so I just got all crazy and went in the air. That was a miller flip.” – BEN BOURGEOIS – Oct 1995 Juice Magazine #21 by Mark and Gibber

“I’ve always felt like an outsider my whole fuckin’ life, except when I got into the punk scene. It’s like a batch full of freaks, so I fit in pretty good.” – MAT FREEMAN of RANCID – Dec 1995 Juice Magazine #22 by Spike

“The Clash did a lot of stuff on foreign policy, but to be honest with you I was just like every other person that was sedated with a blanket over their eyes and I was like that for a long time until I got out of high school. I was in the same boat as a lot of kids who really didn’t realize how fucked up things were. I didn’t know there were people out there with different ideas and views.” – BRAD WILK of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE – Mar 1996 Juice Magazine #24 by Ed Calhoun

“Puppets don’t have ears.” – RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE – Mar 1996 Juice Magazine #24 by Ed Calhoun

“Piece together the perfect skater? Jason Lee and Gonz for style. Wade Speyer for his energy, and Chad Muska and Danny Way just because.” – CHET CHILDRESS – May 1996 Juice Magazine #25

“When I was younger, I just never was really satisfied. I always wanted to do more and more. No matter how far I got I always wanted to try and push it some more.” – TONY HAWK – June ‘96 Juice Magazine #26 by Gibber

“Music has the power to heal. It’s almost a type of therapy for people.” – ANGELO MOORE of FISHBONE – Aug 1996 Juice Magazine #27 by Alex Stewart

“We’re not just singing about girls and cars and our penis and our hot dog, so this is just another way of making people understand what’s happening.” – JESSE MALIN of D GENERATION – Oct 1996 Juice Magazine #29 by Robin Miller

“It’s the underground and I think we should learn to respect each other’s opinions and tastes.” – DARYL TABERSKI of SNAPCASE – Oct 1996 Juice Magazine #29 by John Zawadzinski

“Bringing people together who feel the same is cool, but the real unity is bringing people together who might not think or act the same together.” – RICK HEALY of 25 TA LIFE – Oct 1996 Juice Magazine #29 by John Zawadzinski

“Collectively, one band we all agree on 100% is Fugazi. We could listen to them over and over and over again.” – CHRISTOPHER DALY of TEXAS IS THE REASON – Oct 1996 Juice Magazine #29 by John Zawadzinski

“I turned around and asked a friend, “Who would be stupid enough to join a surf band?” – LAIKA AND THE COSMONAUTS – Oct 1996 Juice Magazine #29 by Tim Donnelly

“I never went to bed with the system and I’ve been playing since ‘55 and I’m still surviving.” – DICK DALE – Oct 1996 Juice Magazine #29 by Gretchen Dunaway

“Some people fear that hip hop is turning for the worst, but I feel hip hop has always emulated life. It’s just that, life is deteriorating, and family values and morals are just deteriorating too. That’s the reason why hip hop is looking like it’s messed up, but there are a few conscious people who are gonna be die-hards like us, The Fugees, Roots or the Boogie Down Productions, Public Enemy and Chuck D… diehards to the end.” –  ALI of A TRIBE CALLED QUEST – Nov 1996 Juice Magazine #30 by John Zawadzinski

“Is one lethal weapon more lethal than another lethal weapon?” – MAN OR ASTROMAN – Nov 1996 Juice Magazine #30 by Charles Glover

“Punk rock or grunge or what have you obscures the fact that it’s just rock n roll. It’s an idiom that started in America and took over the world.” – KARL ALVAREZ of THE DESCENDENTS – Feb 1997 Juice Magazine #31 by Charles Glover

“Unity is the most important thing. If you’re just going to destroy your own scene, you’re missing the message.” – ROGER MIRET of AGNOSTIC FRONT –  Aug 1997 Juice Magazine #34 by Chris Bors

“Burnside is one of my favorites. Not only the park itself, but the whole concept that a bunch of skaters came together to build it..” – REGGIE BARNES ‘ – Aug 1997 Juice Magazine #34 by Mark Griffiths

“We don’t pretend that we are anything more than we were when we started. It’s a high profile tour with a low profile attitude.” – KEVIN LYMAN [creator of WARPED TOUR} – Aug 1997 Juice Magazine #34 by Ron Strauss

“This guy thought he was Nikki Sixx. He got every single tattoo Nikki got, cut his hair like Nikki’s, changed his name to Nikki, then took Nikki to court to prove he was an impostor. So Nikki went to court and met this guy who just basically wanted to meet him and dropped the case.” – MOTLEY CRUE’S, Tommy Lee on the craziest thing a fan ever did. – Aug 1997 Juice Magazine #34

“It’s funny, Everyone used to talk about DIY, and I never knew what the fuck that meant. I thought it meant Drunk Youth or something. For us, it was a situation back when we started, there was no one else that was gonna do it. So of course we had to do it.” – MIKE MUIR of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES – Oct 1997 Juice Magazine #35 by Tom Hazaert

“I can’t remember how we came up with the name except that it was inspired by the Kinks. At the time, we hadn’t heard punk rock, not even the Ramones. We just wanted the name to be like a gang, where everyone’s a Cramp.” – POISON IVY of THE CRAMPS – Oct 1997 Juice Magazine #35 by Lisa Hill

“I don’t think anybody has a clue in the record business about what makes a hit record. And if anybody did, then everyone would have a hit record.” – PAGE HAMILTON OF HELMET – Oct 1997 Juice Magazine #35 by Ron Strauss

“Our greatest accomplishment is that we’ve done everything our way.” – PANTERA – Oct 1997 Juice Magazine #35 by Scott Dickson

“Music is a good word to live by. I do.” – BUTCH WALKER – Oct 1997 Juice Magazine #35 by Scott Homewood

“The main thing in life for you to do is to make as many friends as you can. The more friends you have, the better. The more friends you have ensures that when you die you have made yourself a reservation for a good seat. That’s how I feel about it. I want that good seat.” – JANE’S ADDICTION – Dec 1997 Juice Magazine #36 by Lisa Hill

“The punkest thing a band can do is look around their scene and their lives and say, “Okay, what can we do different? How do we make this our own?” – H20 – Dec 1997 Juice Magazine #36 by Shawn Murphy

“AC/DC is the epitome of rock and roll. In the last 25 years, they’ve put out the same record 15 times and it works. It’s loud, it pisses the right people off, and the right people dig it.” – FU MANCHU – Dec 1997 Juice Magazine #36 by Robert Braswell

“Support your skateboard parks. Don’t take them for granted.” – JIM MURPHY – Feb 1998 Juice Magazine #36 by Oscar Wagenbuchler

“We’re starving for perfection of excellence in our lives, so you know, anything we do is going to be done right.” – GURU of GANGSTARR – Feb 1998 Juice Magazine #37 by Chris Nieratko

“I do think hip hop is that dope. Now it’s become culture, it’s life. It’s real life. Why deny it? I’d rather accept more than deny more.” – BIG PUN – Apr 1998 Juice Magazine #38 by Mazi Gaillard

“The difference between you and me, Rat, is that I take my clothes off on stage and you don’t, and who gets their pictures in the paper the next day?” – CAPT. SENSIBLE of THE DAMNED – Apr 1998 Juice Magazine #38 by John Nikolai

“Being straight-edge is more than being drug-free.” – STRIFE – Apr 1998 Juice Magazine #38 by Amy Sciaretto

“Grab your board and go to the closest park and get encouraged by seeing skaters ripping. You’ll figure it out real quick. And forget the street violence and gang bullshit. Go grind some coping. That’s aggressive.” – ANDY KESSLER – Apr 1998 Juice Magazine #38 by Jim Murphy

“Basically, I had to convince a bunch of politicians to rent a 100-year-old historical landmark to a 25-year-old tattoo artist.” TURTLE of CASINO SKATEPARK – June 1998 Juice Magazine #39 by Jim Murphy and Terri Craft

“We offer anyone who brings in a ticket they got for skateboarding, free admission.” ROB of CASINO SKATEPARK – June 1998 Juice Magazine #39 by Jim Murphy and Terri Craft

“I grew up living in Carolina Beach and there ended up being a skatepark right there called the Ramp House. I weaseled my way into sweeping the floors every day so I could skate there for free. Through there, I met tons of good people that came through all the time like Tony Alva, Sluggo, Rick Howard and Christian Hosoi. It was sick.” – CHET CHILDRESS – June 1998 Juice Magazine #39 by Jim Murphy

“We preach the truth to the youth. We are for the future.”- ODB – Aug 1998 Juice Magazine #40 by Lisa Hill Turner

“I want to play music until I can’t stand up any longer and then I’ll sit down and play some more.” – MIKE NESS of SOCIAL DISTORTION – Aug 1998 Juice Magazine #40 by Jeff Jobes

“Other companies are more into the fashion, cool guy side of skating. We’re going for the skateboarder side of skateboarding.” – STEVE RODRIGUEZ – Aug 1998 Juice Magazine #40 by Andy Seifert

“I’m trying to soak in the good things and not worry about things that won’t matter in the future.” – KELLY SLATER – Aug 1998 Juice Magazine #40 by Anne Beasley

“I don’t mind the attention, but I don’t feel like a star or anything.” – BEN BOURGEOIS – Aug 1998 Juice Magazine #40 by Danny Rose

“I’m actually a cool muthafucker when you get to know me.” – ICE CUBE – Oct 1998 Juice Magazine #41 by Dan Levy

“It was cool. There were a lot of girls skating in Florida. The guys were really supportive, so we were part of the crew.” – JEN O’BRIEN – Oct ‘98 Juice Magazine #41 by Kat Fowler

“Skateboarding and art both share a fundamental freedom that most of society lacks and desires.” – SHELTER SERRA – Oct 1998 Juice Magazine #41

“If you think you’re getting a nice mellow CD to take the bathtub route, then you can start comparing us to Marilyn Manson.” – ?UESTLOVE of THE ROOTS – Oct 1998 Juice Magazine #41 by Mazi Gaillard

“I just had a lot of stuff that was unsolved in my head – whether it be government conspiracies, aliens or UFOs.” – MIX MASTER MIKE – Oct 1998 Juice Magazine #41 by Darwin Tomlinson

“Metal fans never went anywhere. They are the most loyal fans of all.” – KERRY KING of SLAYER – Oct 1998 Juice Magazine #41 by Lisa Hill Turner

“I think music should be really inspiring. I go for music you can put on your shield, the t-shirt you can wear to school and go, “This is what I’m about.” – HENRY ROLLINS – Oct 1998 Juice Magazine #41 by Greg Edge

“Favorite skate spots? There’s so many: Stone Edge, the Turf, definitely Burnside, Lansdowne, Kona, The Nude Bowl, Basic Pool, Phillyside, and Edgewood Bowl. Better not forget Edgewood Bowl. (RIP)” – BRAD JESEK – Dec 1998 Juice Magazine #42 by Daylin Louderback

On underground full pipes. “We’re padding up and we hear this raging fucking noise, so we started freaking out. My friend was stressing so hard that he pissed his pants. We thought it was water raging through the pipe. We thought we were going down the big Kahuna or something. Then out of nowhere it just stopped. It freaked us out, but we felt so alive. It was one of the best sessions I’ve ever had.” –  SHAGGY – Dec 1998 Juice Magazine #42 by Jim Murphy

“I did eat Elmer’s glue when I was little.” – SHEPARD FAIREY – Dec 1998 Juice Magazine #42 by Brian Lentini

“If you like going really fast and busting airs, then skate vert. If you want to get technical and flip your board and do crooked grinds then that’s street. I say why not skate it all? You can’t limit yourself to any one aspect of anything. If you do, then it just gets boring.” – MOSES ITKONEN – Mar 1999 Juice Magazine #43 by Dan Levy

“I always like to try new stuff. I like to skate as fast as I can and do stuff that feels good to me. Most people go down handrails. I like to go up them.” – TIM BRAUCH – Mar 1999 Juice Magazine #43 by Dan Levy

“Who would win a fight between Sunny Garcia and Matt George? Sunny Garcia is scarier, but Matt George fought Golden Gloves, so it would be interesting.” – SHANE DORIAN – Mar 1999 Juice Magazine #43 by Brian Lentini

“The fork burn thing came in because Fudala couldn’t handle the crew at his house.” – MIKE CRESCINI – Mar 1999 Juice Magazine #43 by J. Bryan Stahel.

“It was a cold day in January. We were at Trashmore and we couldn’t skate because it was so cold, so we decided to form a band.” – HENRY GUITERREZ – Mar 1999 Juice Magazine #43 by J. Bryan Stahel.

“In 1998, I moved to Encinitas to build the YMCA park with Tim Payne. I sold everything I had, drove my truck to Encinitas and lived out of my truck in the YMCA parking lot for 4 months.” – JEFF THRUSH – May 1999 Juice Magazine #44 by Jim Murphy

“Jaws is like one of the gnarliest waves I have ever surfed. It’s pretty scary.” – JAIRUS CANNON – May 1999 Juice Magazine #44 by Jianca Lazarus

“The whole punk rock aesthetic of skateboarding was always what people would call punk later, but Tony Alva and Jay Adams were doing that stuff before the Sex Pistols had even played their first song.” – GLEN E. FRIEDMAN – May 1999 Juice Magazine #44 by Greg Edge, Andy Kessler and Jim Murphy

“I like vert. It’s way more fun.” – RYAN SHECKLER – May 1999 Juice Magazine #44 by Dan Levy

“I like street better.” – SHANE SHECKLER – May 1999 Juice Magazine #44 by Dan Levy

“We tagged along with Pearl Jam to the White House. They split us up and they got the better tour. I mean they got to meet the president. I was actually disturbed, y’know. Why is Clinton taking the time to meet a rock band? Isn’t there something else he should be doing?” – MUDHONEY – May 1999 Juice Magazine #44 by J. Bryan Stahel

“I was raised on punk rock. My guitar hero was Bones from Discharge.” – JOSH HOMME of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – May 1999 Juice Magazine #44 by J. Bryan Stahel

“At EMB, I’ve gotten arrested, slammed on the ground like I had robbed somebody or sold drugs or something, and sat in the tank for five hours and had my skateboard confiscated. They released me all the way across town, but I still go back there and skate. I’m pretty rebellious.” – MIKE YORK – July 1999 Juice Magazine #45 by Dave Barranco

“If I don’t skate, I turn into a crying little bitch.” – SALBA – July 1999 Juice Magazine #45 by Jim Murphy

“My purpose is to maintain my innocence like when I used to sit in my basement and listen to Grandmaster Flash and Zulu Nation tapes and write my rhymes.” – RUN DMC – July 1999 Juice Magazine #45 by Reggie Lewis

“Invaders must die. If you don’t live here, you don’t surf here.” – JAMES MUIR – July 1999 Juice Magazine #45 by Bryan Stahel

“We’re not here to fit in; we’re here to stand out.” – MIKE MUIR – July 1999 Juice Magazine #45 by Bryan Stahel

“Malcolm formed the Sex Pistols with the intention of confronting the local populace, a band on a more political level, higher profile and able to incite chaos.” – BOB GRUEN – Sept 1999 Juice Magazine #46 by Bryan Stahel

“I like to skate obscure stuff. I try to look around for stuff that no one else is skating.” – TINO RAZO – Nov 1999 Juice Magazine #47 by Andy Kessler

“A good pool is sacred and won’t last forever. Respect your spots and they will last.” – DAVE REUL – Nov 1999 Juice Magazine #47 by Pat Myers

“We got chased out and went to the Rabbit Hole, which is really steep and vertical. One of my friends broke his ankle the first day he rode there. It was a really nasty way to start riding pools, but it was so awesome watching Tony doing upside-down off-the-lips. Then we just got into making boards out of necessity since there were really no good boards around. Then I started drawing on them. I drew on everything.” – WES HUMPSTON – Nov 1999 Juice Magazine #47 by Andy Kessler and Jim Murphy

“Most personal fun? Skating the concrete ramp in front of P.O.P. while Dick Dale, Ritchie Valens and the Crossfires played at the Aragon Ballroom. Fishing for rats through the knot holes in the pier decking. Skating pools and ponds after the Bel Air fire. Riding the long off-ramps of the 10 freeway before it opened and skating into the traffic on the operational 405.” – C.R. STECYK III  – Feb 2000 Juice Magazine #48

“Best thing about growing up in Venice… The surf and skate scene started there. Tom Blake built the first modern production boards in Venice at Thomas Rogers factory in the early ‘30s. Pete Petersen who was far and away the greatest all around waterman anywhere worked out of Santa Monica Pier crafting stuff like all fiberglass boards in ‘47. The Malibu crew led by Bob Simmons, Joe Quigg and Matt Kivlin built the first balsa and fiberglass boards in the late ‘40s. Dave Sweet made a polystyrene and epoxy board in 1947 and later crafted the first polyurethane production boards in the early ‘50s. Velzy who was on the peninsula in the ‘50s became the world’s largest manufacturer. Those guys invented the surfboard shapes and construction that are still the standard one in use today. Even the Hawaiians began using the Malibu styled surfboards.  The skate thing came out of that same surf clique. Skipper Boy was the first guy I ever saw or heard of that had people paying him to build custom skates. A couple of years later in ‘63 Larry Stevenson started Makaha and Surf Guide Magazine. He also patented the kick tail.  Baby Dave Rochlen defected from Makaha a little later and they did Hobie with the Hilton’s dad. It was a close knit tight scene. It still is. The industry, the media, the moves, all of it came from there.” – C.R. STECYK III – Feb 2000 Juice Magazine #48

“I was just another one of those groms seeing Venice in the magazines and I knew that’s where I wanted to be. I wanted to be in the mix too. I came out in ‘89 from Hawaii and the thing I like most about Venice is la familia. They take you in under their wing and you got a whole family of people that will protect you, clothe you and feed you; it’s family.” – UHURU – Feb 2000 Juice Magazine #48

“My main influences for surfing and skating were Jay Adams, Gramps, Paul Cullen and Arthur Lake.” – POLAR BEAR – Feb 2000 Juice Magazine #48

“If I had a choice – to rip off a pinkie finger, to give me the power to grind the 12.5’ wall of the Pavilion – I’d do it again.” – AARON MURRAY – Feb 2000 Juice Magazine #48

“Punk rock means fuckin’ just tearin’ shit up, not following anybody’s rules and doing what you want to do.” – JAY ADAMS – Feb 2000 Juice Magazine #48 by Heidi Fitzgerald

“I hope skateboarding can be a thing that rebellious guys do forever, not the thing that your Mom and Dad want you to do.” – JAY ADAMS – Feb 2000 Juice Magazine #48 by Heidi Fitzgerald

“Mike Smith did admit privately to Losi that Losi did invent the Smith grind, but he said to him, ‘Don’t take it. I’ll give you one of the grabs. You can have the stalefish if you want.” – SLOPPY SAM – Feb 2000 Juice Magazine #48 by Merk and Murf

“When we walked on stage and played the first song, the lighting rack goes down, a mike stand gets chucked into somebody’s head and the bouncer’s nose gets broken in the space of one minute.” – JACK GRISHAM of T.S.O.L. – Feb 2000 Juice Magazine #48 by Dirty Joe and Mikey Samuelson

“When I said ‘punk is dead’ that was to piss people off and create more contradiction.” – ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT – Feb 2000 Juice Magazine #48 by Robin Fleming

“The only thing that’s been true to me is my skateboard. It doesn’t talk back and it gets the anger out.” – DUANE PETERS – May 2000 Juice Magazine #49 by Gish

“I am trying to stay committed to the idea of the underground. I don’t want to just polish up this gift and sell it to somebody. I’m trying to keep it in good shape, so it can be handed off to someone else.” – IAN MACKAYE – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Jim Murphy

“I think skateboarding is a way for people to reassess and redefine everything around them. So, for me it was the perfect segue into punk rock because to me punk rock was like reassessing and redefining everything around you. It was like looking at what’s given, looking at if it can be used, how it can be used and whether it’s any damn good to begin with.” – IAN MACKAYE – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Jim Murphy

“I’m talking about punk rock as a revolutionary idea or a rebellious idea. Like here’s something that’s punk rock – FDR Skatepark in Philly. That’s punk rock.” – IAN MACKAYE – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Jim Murphy

“We did this gig in San Pedro at a place called Dancing Waters. It was a really crazy club in a really crappy neighborhood. While we were on, there was this kid right in front going off and all of a sudden he jumped up and bit me on the arm. And I cracked him. I started yelling ‘Who bit me?!!’ Someone said, that was Jay Adams. I ran out in the crowd and I was like ‘Are you Jay Adams? and he screamed back ‘Yeah!’ and I said ‘You bit me! ‘and he was like Yeah!! You rock!’ I was so honored.” – IAN MACKAYE – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Jim Murphy

“Adrenaline junkies, we got some micro geneticists, computer geeks, and of course some high school flunkies. We didn’t all go to the same school or make the same grades, but we know where the best best bowls are and the great days to skate. So don’t miss out on the designated days. Could be anywhere from Daytona to PA, we got Peanuts, we got Buttons and Cheeks, In Carolina, there’s a keyhole, In Ohio, there’s the beast, just to mention a few, not to say the least. So come on over to the East and we’ll show you how adrenaline’s done, where it ain’t about glamour, just excitement and fun.” – CRAZY JOE – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Pat Myers

“I think calling Skatopia the Woodstock of Skateboarding is a little too obvious to actually say, cuz everyone is coming here to go to war and they’re not really interested in peace.” – SLOPPY SAM – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Pat Myers

“Skating has changed my life in a very positive way. It has given me a focus in life that is pure and the determination to do things positive. It is my lifestyle it has affected more than anything. I wouldn’t change it for all the money or power in the universe!” – TONY ALVA – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50

“I was taking a test in history class in 10th grade and my test paper had a bunch of sketches of the Keyhole Pool and tons of lines drawn in. The teacher snatched up my paper and said, “Mr. Olson, this is not history! And I said, “No, no yet.” I was already making more money skateboarding than she was making as a teacher.” – STEVE OLSON – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Jim Murphy

“HBD is a complex disease, but the main symptoms start with a lack of motivation, unless it’s possible paparazzi and big time financial gain are involved.” – DAVE REUL – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Brewce Martin and Dan Levy

“I was picked Skateboarder of the Year. I picked my nose. I slung my boogers. T.A. threw his trophy in the trash. We didn’t care. Next thing you know, our popularity was even bigger than ever. “ – STEVE OLSON – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Jim Murphy

“Punk Rock. The explosion had started. The underground art scene and all the punkers. I felt like I could be anything I wanted.” – STEVE OLSON – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Jim Murphy

“We brought punk to the masses through skateboarding. I don’t give a fuck what anyone tells you.” – STEVE OLSON – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Jim Murphy

“I have a dope little street skating kid named, Alexander. He’s a bomb little artist. He’s going to be some kid to reckon with in the skateboarding scene. His dedication is sick, he’s nice, he’s got manners but he also knows how to be a motherfucker.” – STEVE OLSON – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Jim Murphy

“The amazing thing is that we do so much with our lives and we are such an amazing animal. We’re the only animal on Earth that leaves a trace of what we did and what we tried to build. We have our faults and I find human beings cruel and ghastly in a lot of ways, and yet wonderful in other ways. It’s the capturing of the moments of their history, their faces, the things they’ve been through that I love.” – BRUCE FLEMING – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Robin Fleming

“Let me start by saying, I’m utterly disgusted with the former members of Dead Kennedys. I can’t believe they would turn around and piss on everything the band stood for and reveal themselves to be such utterly greedy and rotten people. Basically, they sued the shit out of me. What triggered the falling out was my refusal to let “Holiday in Cambodia” be used in a Levis commercial – Dockers, no less. I mean, to me, that would be the worst possible stab in the back I could give to everybody who’s supported our music and the vision behind it all these years.” – JELLO BIAFRA – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Ray Flores

“If you want to own something with a soul and a piece of history, you gotta keep supporting the pioneers.” – JELLO BIAFRA – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Ray Flores

“There were all these rich guys meeting call girls and I was singing “Imagine there’s no people” wishing that there were no people, at least not these people.” – JOHN DOE – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Robin Fleming

“If your life is all fucked up, then at least you wrote a song about it, that’s something. The chaos and the unhappiness will go away, but the song will live forever.” – JOHN DOE – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Robin Fleming

“You should have seen the faces of the parents of the girls we took out when we pulled up to their houses in a rotten wood-paneled Woody with a bed in the back.” – MIKE DOYLE – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Brian Lentini

“Dora put a cherry bomb down the theatre toilet and blew the shit out of it. Radical, I couldn’t believe anyone could be so brave and foolish.”  – MIKE DOYLE – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Brian Lentini

“I’d rather be a competitor, because icons are over. By the very nature of an icon, it’s dead. I don’t want to be dead. I ain’t fucking dead. I’m alive motherfuckers, deal with it.” – LEMMY KILMiSTER of MOTORHEAD – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Robin Fleming

“I thought The Damned were more punk than The Pistols. The Pistols were like a vacation band. Steve was a failed burglar. Rotten was that kid that you wouldn’t let your kids play with. Sid was just a fucking mess, Sid was doomed from the beginning. Cooksie just wanted to play, like Ringo, but he was a good drummer. But The Damned were like loonies. Dave used to walk around in that vampire outfit, with his wife dressed in what looked like cobwebs. I remember him standing with the silver-topped cane, three-piece velvet suit with the purple inside the cloak, the patent leather pumps, and the hair with the streak in it, with women falling about. I said “Don’t move Dave. I just want to remember this.” – LEMMY KILMiSTER of MOTORHEAD – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Robin Fleming

“What is going to remain is skateboarding.” – TOMMY GUERRERO – July 2000 Juice Magazine #50 by Dan Levy

“I’d like to add a few things. You can’t handle the truth. You can’t tame the beast, so don’t even try. And when we come to your town, you treat us like rock stars and everything will go all right.”   – BREWCE MARTIN – Dec 2000 Juice Magazine #51

“If we can just put the pools out there, it’ll show the kids there are other ways to ride. It’s definitely part of the history of skateboarding and it will be here forever.” – DAVE DUNCAN – Dec 2000 Juice Magazine #51 by Jim Murphy

“Bellmar’s was the first backyard bowl, and then Chicken’s. Chicken’s has been around for about nine years and Bellmar’s is a few years older.” – RICK CARJE – Dec 2000 Juice Magazine #51 by Jim Murphy

“There’s no way you could ever clean up skateboarding. Real skateboarding can’t ever be cleaned up.” – DAVID HACKETT – Dec 2000 Juice Magazine #51 by Steve Olson

“The Dead Boys and their chicks come wandering into the surf shop asking ‘Where is Sid?’ Sid of course is nowhere to be found because he partied all night. I was like, ‘You’re not going to see him today. He is MIA right now’. And I’m a sixteen year old kid with a mohawk and in the floor right there where they were standing it said ‘Sonic Reducer’ in the concrete.” – SERG of DONKEYPUNCH – Dec 2000 Juice Magazine #51 by Merk

“First time I went to Burnside, meeting those guys was the best; they had the best attitudes. It really changed skating for me. That was great.” – PETE “THE OX” COLPITTS – Dec 2000 Juice Magazine #51 by Ray Stevens II

“Red was just so dragster-like that it looked like he’d blow himself up at any minute with a spontaneous explosion of chew, no fear, big cojones.” – SALBA – Dec 2000 Juice Magazine #51 by Heidi Fitzgerald

“Journalists can change the perception of history. Even looking back at American history, I wonder if what I’m reading is true. It’s too bad there weren’t punk rockers at the turn of the century or during the Revolutionary War.” – AGENT ORANGE – Dec 2000 Juice Magazine #51 by Heidi Fitzgerald

“Skateboarding is not a sport, will never be a sport, should never be a sport, it should be a lifestyle. Something that you love to do because you’re addicted to gravity. It’s about you and gravity.” – SKIP ENGBLOM – Dec 2000 Juice Magazine #51 by Heidi Fitzgerald

“I saw the game early and refused to play.” – SCOTT BOURNE – Dec 2000 Juice Magazine #51 by Jason Jessee

“I didn’t start skateboarding to quit.” – BILL DANFORTH – Feb 2001 Juice Magazine #52

“Life is full of slams; you either lay there or you get back up.” – KALE SANDRIDGE – Feb 2001 Juice Magazine #52 by Steve Olson

“My personal motives were to help the kids and give them things I didn’t have growing up. I didn’t have anyone taking me surfing, giving me team shirts, sponsoring me surfboards and skateboards and taking me to skate contests. I don’t think anyone had ever thought of preparing these kids for a future in skating and surfing.” – JEFF HO – Feb 2001 Juice Magazine #52 by Steve Olson

“I love the limelight and I want to be in it, and skateboarding gave me that whole attitude. It was the best education of all time.” – BOB BINIAK – Feb 2001 Juice Magazine #52 by Steve Olson

“People had something to say and musicians were doing their own thing just getting off on it. It was enjoyable, especially when you discover really good new bands like the Dead Boys. They were astounding.” –  HILLY KRISTAL of C.B.G.B.’S – Feb 2001 Juice Magazine #52 by Tim Clark

“Raymond Pettibon came up with the name Black Flag and we all agreed that was the name we wanted to use. It sounded like anarchy, piracy and all sorts of good things like that.” –  KEITH MORRIS – Feb 2001 Juice Magazine #52 by Steve Olson

“We don’t build it unless we are in control of the design.” – MARK “RED” SCOTT – Feb 2001 Juice Magazine #52 by Scott Lambright

“A true pool shark stays stealth, leaves no evidence and doesn’t attract attention to himself or the mission at hand.” – SALBA – Feb 2001 Juice Magazine #52

“Skateboarding is an art. Fuckin’ art. You know, if it was a sport, I wouldn’t be skating with this fucked-up knee. It’s an art, because I want to do it.” – OMAR SALAZAR – Feb 2001 #52 by Dan Levy

“As a matter of fact, the only time I ever went to Studio 54 was on a double-date. I was with Susan Blonde. She was an actress and the hostess on something called Blue Channel, an early cable semi-hardcore porn show. She was my date and we were double-dating with Michael Jackson and Andy Warhol. I was like, “What the hell!” I didn’t care she was a porn star. And Michael Jackson was still black; he still had his original color. He had just done The Wiz so he had the big hat look going with patchwork on his bell-bottoms. We’re sitting there and I’m feeling like “I made it.” Andy Warhol was dressed like Lil’ Abner with bib overalls and no shirt. And Andy goes, “I’m going to make you a star. You’re my latest find.” And Michael Jackson passes me a joint. In Ohio, if we had enough marijuana to fill an aspirin, we would talk about it all week. We would call it ‘African trance weed’ and finally on Friday we would get together and we’d drink enough wine first so that when we each got our tiny little smidgen of a hit, we’d all think we were high. So, when Michael Jackson hands me a joint, I’m like “Whoa, you bet.” I’m looking around and no one is grabbing it out of my hand. If I were in Ohio there would be five savages grabbing for it trying to find some escape from reality. So I had a hit, then I had another couple of hits and passed it on. Then Susan Blonde says, “Let’s go dance.” I said, “I really don’t even know how to dance. I can only do it on stage. Don’t ask me to dance to some disco.” The dance floor at Studio 54 had this huge tower of disco lights like a countdown towers for drag strips and they had nine of them. It was like a tic-tac-toe board over top of the dance floor. They’d turn them around and rotate them slowly and lower them down and twirl them. I’m watching Susan dance and the song playing was “It’s Raining Men”. The towers of lights are coming down and there’s something wrong. They’re not coming down properly. They start twirling around and hitting people in the head. I’m seeing all these people getting hit in the head and there’s all this blood and all these people getting hurt. I run over and grab Susan and go, “Come on. Let’s go.” And she’s like, “What?!” I said, “I just saw all these people get hurt by the lights.” And then I look over and it’s all gone. And she’s like, “Are you okay?” I said, “I just saw all this blood and people getting hurt by the disco balls!” She said, “Did you smoke the angel dust? Oh, no. You smoked the angel dust.” I said, “What’s angel dust?” So, she put me in a taxi and got me back to my hotel room and we got to the door and I thought she was coming in and she put her foot on my ass and pushed me through the door and said, “Good bye, good luck.” I just sat there and fried all night. That was my date with Andy Warhol.” – MARK MOTHERSBAUGH of DEVO – Sept 2001 Juice Magazine #53 by Steve Olson

“The Sex Pistols had been kicked off the label and he took us in the studio and recorded a four-song demo that became the first EP. The president of A&M wanted a punk band that wasn’t going to pee on the wall and I guess that was us.” – THE DICKIES – Sept 2001 Juice Magazine #53 by Steve Olson

“I consider football and baseball a sport. Skateboarding is something I like to do.” – DANIEL SHIMIZU – Feb 2001 Juice Magazine #52 by Dan Levy

“Well, the way I skate, it’s an art. And the sport aspect, would be the ESPN shit.” – PETER SMOLIK – Feb 2001 Juice Magazine #52 by Dan Levy

“I pretty much made a mark as the most hated surfer in the industry. Thanks to all the people that believed in me and everyone else can fuck off.” – CHRISTIAN FLETCHER – Sept 2001 Juice Magazine #53 by Steve Olson

“It means open palm, slap right in the fuckin mouth of the one trying to shove shit down your throat. It means fuckin’ up constantly. It means knowing good things come to an end. Everything sacred will get raped. It means ready to die. It’s the throttle held open – the endless death on a daily basis. Seize the day because there is no sweetness left in this world. I love you, can you dig it?”  – JASON JESSEE- Sept 2001 Juice Magazine #53 by Jay Adams

“When Stecyk and I first started the Dogtown and Z-Boys project, Muir came up to me and said, “You know holmes, I’ll give you all my support, but if you screw up I’m going to kick your ass.” – STACY PERALTA – Sept 2001 Juice Magazine #53 by Steve Olson

“Nobody could ride the radical terrain in those days like we did.” – BOB BINIAK – Sept 2001 Juice Magazine #53 by Steve Olson

“I was just into the perfection of building beautiful flowing concrete. To me, it was more of an artistic thing.” – WALLY HOLLYDAY – Sept 2001 Juice Magazine #53 by Jim Murphy

“Pipes are the last, and only uncommercialized genre left in skateboarding today. In the pipes, the underground rules, not the wooden vert warriors, or the street hellions, or the media blitz. It’s the only true pure rage in skating left.” – SALBA – Feb 2002 Juice Magazine #54

“Stecyk was commando photographer guy. Stecyk had everything to do with making Dogtown, Dogtown. We were just a bunch of kids skating and he wrote the articles and made it what it was. Without Stecyk I don’t think it would have been shit. I think he’s the one that blew it all up. I guess we knew how to skate and stuff too but Stecyk blew it up. There would have been no fucking Dogtown if it weren’t for Stecyk.” – JAY ADAMS –  Feb 2002 Juice Magazine #54 by Steve Olson and Dan Levy

“It was 1986 when I found Nude Bowl for the first time. It had been rumor city up until then and I had looked for it on at least three occasions, driving for miles in that stinking desert for hour in 110 degree heat. It finally took one weekend and good luck when we actually came upon her basking in all her glory. . . hardly any spray paint, still a death box, and original coping which grinded like no other. Thanks to Eddie Elguera and Al Losi. Micke, Spidey and me with filmer Scott Dittrich found it when we were filming the first Santa Cruz video. That part in the film Streets on Fire featured that very first session in 115 degree weather baking our brains so much that we left after an hour or so. We went back a lot in those early days, just us and whoever we brought. No rules, no bullshit, no egos or attitudes, just plain American fun in the sun. We’d B-B-Q while the girls would sunbathe and drink beer and skate all day long into the night with generators before anybody ever thought of doing it. We’d jam with bands and go off with no hassles or lame fighting that happened later. It was skate paradise literally.” – SALBA – Feb 2002 Juice Magazine #54

“Respect the people that you learn from.” – ART BREWER – Feb 2002 Juice Magazine #54 by Dan Levy

“My brother was arrested for being Punk in Public.” – Ron Emory TSOL-  RON EMORY of T.S.O.L. – Feb 2002 Juice Magazine #54 by Steve Olson

“We did what we were supposed to do, we documented everything, we covered our bases, we did everything we could, all because we loved it. Back then, it was uncool to try.” – GAVIN O’BRIEN – Feb 2002 Juice Magazine #54

“Skateboarding is forever and eventually pools are where you’re gonna end up.” – AL PARTANEN – Feb 2002 Juice Magazine #54 by Sam Hitz

“Skateboarding is about going off. I want to watch skateboarding that’s exciting. That’s why backyard contests are way more happening. I just wish the events would have at least one contest a year based on aggression.” – TIM PAYNE – Feb 2002 Juice Magazine #54 by Jim Murphy

“The first song I remember writing was “The Ramp Song,” about my buddy Danny Moped getting into a fight with this guy’s dad who owned the house where this ramp was. I had stolen most of the wood for the ramp before we relocated it there and this guy came out and attacked my friend Moped while he was skating. Someone ended up with a bloody ear. The chorus went: “Just having fun, hurting no one, except ourselves and maybe your dad…” – JFA – Aug 2002 Juice Magazine #55 by Terri Craft

“My grandmother and Stacy Peralta’s mom climbed a fence in Oxnard to watch us skate a pool in ‘77.” – BRANDON CRUZ of DR. KNOW Aug 2002 Juice Magazine #55 by Terri Craft

“Punk rock gave me a chance to express myself in a world that wouldn’t have heard me otherwise.” – MIKE NESS – Aug 2002 Juice Magazine #55 by Steve Olson

“Nothing is sacred and if it is, I can fix it.” – TED NUGENT – Aug 2002 Juice Magazine #55 by Steve Olson

“Skating pools is a high that can’t be beat.” – JAY ADAMS – Aug 2002 Juice Magazine #55 by Terri Craft

“How in the hell can you describe what Tony Alva means to the world of skateboarding? T.A. was the first skater to set standards. Nobody did it better or with more style than T.A. He was the first world champ, first in the world record books, first winner of the ‘SkateBoarder’ Poll and the very first to pull off frontside airs in pools. Nobody was a bigger rock star skater than Alva; Not then and not now. In his prime, you were lucky to even get to drop in while he was skating. if you did you’d better be able to rip, because if you couldn’t, you’d better just sit and watch. I can’t tell you how many times he showed up at a skatepark and everybody would just stop skating and take notes. The early days of pool-riding belong to him. he paved the road that all modern day skaters are riding down. The name Tony Alva is still burning bright in the skateboard world. Can you name anyone else who has been doing it as long and as good as Alva? Don’t think he’s ready to give it up anytime soon, because you’d be kidding yourself. I bet if you asked him he’d say it’s just beginning (again). With a new shoe from Vans and Alva Skateboards coming on strong, I’d say it’s a safe bet to believe he’s going to be around for awhile. ‘Yeah, T.A. You rule, homeboy. Thanks for all the memories. Keep it real like you always have. never say it’s over.’ Tony Alva is a skateboarder 4 life 100% for real.” – JAY ADAMS – Aug 2002 Juice Magazine #55

“Skateboarding has changed my life in a very positive way. It has given me a focus in life that is pure and the determination to do things positive. I wouldn’t change it for all the money or power in the universe.” – TONY ALVA – Aug 2002 Juice Magazine #55 by Jay Adams

“All those dudes were bummed that I brought him to the pool. I said, “Fuck! This is Larry Bertlemann. He’s the one that paved the way.” That dude was fluidly ripping. He was 100% surfing. He was really cool.” – PAUL CONSTANTINEAU – Aug 2002 Juice Magazine #55 by Steve Olson

“The Dog Bowl was probably the best thing that ever happened to us, because we were always running from the cops, trying to skate pools. I used to hate that, because I could never really relax and get a good run. At the Dog Bowl, we didn’t have to worry about a damn thing. The only thing we had to worry about was, who had the next joint or who had the beer. The owner would watch us skate, which was a good thing, because that just made us really relax and think of the skating.” – SHOGO KUBO – Aug 2002 Juice Magazine #55 by Jay Adams

“Some people think I’m an egomaniac but I just tell them that I learned it all from Tony Alva.” – GLEN E. FRIEDMAN – Aug 2002 Juice Magazine #55 by Dan Levy

“That’s what skateboarding does. It makes you feel like a man.” – SID ABRUZZI – Aug 2002 Juice Magazine #55 by Jim Murphy

“I just go skating and skate whatever the fuck you got.” – TONY TRUJILLO – Mar 2003 Juice Magazine #56 by Steve Olson

“I was representing the neighborhood no matter what company I rode for.” – JESSE MARTINEZ – Mar 2003 Juice Magazine #56 by Jay Adams

“They’d heard so many urban legends about us that we were banned before we even got there.” – ALICE COOPER – Mar 2003 Juice Magazine #56 by Steve Olson

“I think Rock and Roll is about danger.” – COREY PARKS – Mar 2003 Juice Magazine #56 by Steve Olson

“We played punk rock because it meant something to us. It gave us an opportunity to voice our frustrations with the political system in this country and the economic and social justice problems throughout the world that still exist today.” – SHAWN STERN of YOUTH BRIGADE – Mar 2003 Juice Magazine #56 by Danny Baraz

“I woke up one day and I was like, ‘I’m going to loop Baldy tomorrow’. I couldn’t stop thinking about it.” – BOB BURNQUIST – Feb 2004 Juice Magazine #57 by Dave Duncan and Terri Craft

“Everyone that I’ve met through skateboarding is special. You don’t meet people like Neil Blender in real life; you meet him as a skateboarder.” – CLAUS GRABKE – Feb 2004 Juice Magazine #57 by Dan Levy

“That’s what separates the men from the boys. If you can do it all, it puts you on another level. If you can conquer all skills in skateboarding, you’re an all-around skater.” – CHRISTIAN HOSOI – Feb 2004 Juice Magazine #57 by Keith Hamm

“Someone knocked the beer out of Keith’s hand and the next thing you know bodies were flying everywhere. For a solid minute, it was a huge washing machine full of skaters in our room. It felt like people were running on the ceiling. Everyone just went A.W.O.L. There were probably more than twenty people in that small room. Finally, someone went flying through our hotel window.” – HENRY GUITERREZ – Feb 2004 Juice Magazine #57 by Jim Murphy

“The whole resurgence of pool skating and being accepted as part of the sport, inspires me to go out there and break my bones and do whatever I have to do. Inspiration is all around me.” – ERIC “TUMA” BRITTON – Feb 2004 Juice Magazine #57 by Aaron Murray

“We go out to Blaize’s ramp and the first thing I see is Blaize doing a backside ollie to axle, like, 3 1/2 feet out, and all I can hear is the roar of the ramp.” – SHEPARD FAIREY – Feb 2004 Juice Magazine #57 by Steve Olson

“When there’s energy in the water, I have energy. I’m governed by the energy of the ocean. You know they say, at the hospital during the full moon that more women have babies. It’s like a big rush to give birth because all of the strength of the moon, the ocean and the water. You don’t even know the power it has. It’s got enough power over me that my whole life has been trying to devise a way to always be able to surf. I tell everyone regarding my plans that, everything is pending a 20 foot swell.” – LAIRD HAMILTON – Feb 2004 Juice Magazine #57 by Jeff Ho

“I just put the events on. Guinness and David Frost wanted some Skateboarding World Records and I had the sanctioned body of skateboarding because I had started the USSA (United States Skateboard Association) and the WSA (World Skateboard Association). They said, “What events do you have for world records?” I said, “Well, I don’t know. How about speed? That’s natural.” Then I had to come up with some other events. I said, “What about a height jump and barrel jump? They said, “Fine. We’ll be there with a film crew.” I got the permits for Signal Hill and did the first World’s Speed Run at Signal Hill.” – JAMES O’MAHONEY – Feb 2004 Juice Magazine #57 by Susanne Melanie Berry

“If you can fly 100 feet on a motorcycle, than you should be able to fly that same distance on a skateboard.” – DANNY WAY – Mar 2005 Juice Magazine #58 by Dave Duncan

“When I was growing up, you either skated vert or you skated freestyle. The freestylers were dorks. You were either cool, slashing pools or you were dancing around on your little orange board doing wheelies. Are you kidding me? I chose vert.” – TONY HAWK – Mar 2005 Juice Magazine #58 by Christian Hosoi

“Guys like Natas, Julien, and Gonz sparked the street scene and then it was on. Those guys were breaking the law. We were breaking the law, we were skating backyard ramps and pools. I love it. It’s great.”- JIMMY “THE GREEK” MARCUS – Mar 2005 Juice Magazine #58 by Steve Olson

“We were the enemy against all the societal bullshit. Skateboarding was solitude. It was about getting away with your crew who were also losers.” – DUANE PETERS – Mar 2005 Juice Magazine #58 by Ian MacKaye

“He said street skating is the future of skateboarding. I was bummed. I thought it was all skateboarding.” – JOHN LUCERO – Mar 2005 Juice Magazine #58 by Steve Olson

“When skaters learned to build skate parks, that’s when the best skate parks started coming in.” – SLOPPY SAM BATTERSON – Mar 2005 Juice Magazine #58 by Jim Murphy

“Things will be more fruitful if they’re paying off on lower scales. If artists are seen trying to make a big effort to throw concerts ad rallies to raise money to put back into our own neighborhoods, we could really move forward. We should try and clean up our own backyards first.” – STEEL PULSE – Mar 2005 Juice Magazine #58 by Dan Levy

“We had surfed all day at Hermosa Pier. We were just laying around with the radio on, talking to each other and, all of the sudden, we heard that the Japanese were bombing Pearl Harbor. We looked at each other and realized that nothing was ever going to be the same.” – LEROY GRANNIS – Mar 2005 Juice Magazine #58 by James O’Mahoney

“Style was everything. Style was the soul. If you had no style you had no soul.” – HERBIE FLETCHER – Mar 2005 Juice Magazine #58 by Steve Olson

“I was a soldier of misfortune. When I read one of the film reviews in the magazines, it made me look like a fugitive. I thought, “Well, that’s not totally untrue.” But I wasn’t a fugitive. Of anyone on the team, I was the most rebellious. I don’t conform to anything that society expects of me.” – CHRIS CAHILL – Mar 2005 Juice Magazine #58 by Steve Olson

“I went to find my uncle to tell him that these guys had stolen my board. He said, “That’s okay. I stole it from them first.” – CHRIS SENN – Dec 2005 Juice Magazine #59 by Dave Duncan

“You can’t pass up a spot. You can’t not skate something that’s skateable. You have to skate as much as possible.” – MARKY CLEMENTS – Dec 2005 Juice Magazine #59 by Dan Levy

“I walked up the hill with half of my face scraped off, thinking, “This is for me.” – BEN SCHROEDER – Dec 2005 Juice Magazine #59 by Jim Murphy

“It’s all about NASCAR and skateboarding. Go fast and go huge.” – CHRIS COLLETTE – Dec 2005 Juice Magazine #59 by Curt Baker

“It’s taken the general public 30 years to figure out what I’ve known since I was eight years old. Skateboarding is the most bitchin’ thing.” – ERIC DRESSEN – Dec 2005 Juice Magazine #59 by Jay Adams

“Vertical has always been my thing.” – TOM GROHOLSKI – Dec 2005 Juice Magazine #59 by Jim Murphy

“I wanted my art to be in your face. I wanted to make something that would really catch your eye and make you jump back.” – WES HUMPSTON – Dec 2005 Juice Magazine #59 by Ari Marsh

“Rock n’ roll was so good and so progressive that it seemed like you had to be someone really special to play guitar and sing that way. Punk rock gave everybody a chance.” – JEFF AMENT of PEARL JAM – Dec 2005 Juice Magazine #59 by Jeff Ho

“They’ve been saying rock is dead ever since it began. They said rock was dead when Elvis went into the army. They said rock was dead when the Beatles broke up. They said rock was dead when Buddy Holly died. They said rock was dead when the Sex Pistols broke up. Rock n’ roll ain’t dead until I’m dead.” – BILLY IDOL  Dec 2005 Juice Magazine #59 by Steve Olson

“My feet touched my head and broke my back. I came up seeing black and white. I had the wind knocked out of me. From that day forward, I realized it doesn’t matter how big the waves are. You have to have 100% respect.” – GARRETT MCNAMARA – Dec 2005 Juice Magazine #59 by Jeff Ho

“Let your board take you around the pool. Don’t try to go to specific places in the pool. Just let your board ride you around and you’ll get to the right place.” – RUNE GLIFBERG – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Dave Duncan

“I laugh at authority figures when they bust me for skating, because they will never know what it feels like to do a frontside grind.” – CHRIS CUDLIP – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Dan Levy

“Gonz was the “Slam Man”. Then all of a sudden, one day, I had to call him “The Gonz”. Everyone was like, “The Gonz. The Gonz.” I was like, “That’s motherfuckin’ ‘Slam Man’.” – JEFF GROSSO – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Steve Olson

“They told me that I was never going to walk again, and they told my family, too. It was a real drag. I was like, “Fuck you. I’m going to fucking walk. I’m going to be skating, soon.” – JOHN CARDIEL – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Joey Tershay

“They wanted a 3-foot park. I showed up and said “It ain’t going down like that.” The first thing I did was throw up a 9-foot bowl with pool coping.” – LIL EDDIE LAWRENCE – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Jim Murphy

“I remember we were coming in for a landing in Japan, and Grosso had Christian’s boom box, and he was just blaring Lynyrd Skynyrd at top volume. Everyone was yelling, “You don’t play Lynyrd Skynyrd on an airplane when it’s landing…” – TOM KNOX – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Eric Dressen

“All these other types were worried about money. I never cared. Don’t ask me how much money I want. I just wanted to skate. That’s all.” – RICK BLACKHART – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Steve Olson

“When I saw the magazines, they showed people riding bowls and pools and trying tricks. I thought that was really exciting and challenging. That’s why I picked up my skateboard.” – STEVE CABALLERO – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Christian Hosoi

“It was a talent of being able to see that society is a game and you can manipulate it. That’s what Malcolm McLaren always talks about. It’s about how you can change the perception of society and culture just by using your ideas in the right way. This is something that came with all the 20th century art, from Dada to punk. Punk is an art movement. It’s a manifesto. “I shall do what I want. If you don’t like it, fuck off.” – THE BUZZCOCKS – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Steve Olson

“We were the first ones. There was no English movement. There was no New York movement. It was the end of the ‘60s. We were there before all those bands that had something to do with success even thought about getting a band together. When they saw us, they coined the phrase “punk music.” – NEW YORK DOLLS – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Steve Olson

“If you can buy it at the mall, it isn’t punk. You want to buy something that someone else threw away because it was too loud and too ugly.” – BRIAN BRANNON of JFA – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Jim Murphy

“Skateboarding will always be a black art. It will always appeal to the wayward sons, and the kids that aren’t understood.” – KEVIN ANCELL – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by James O’Mahoney

“I remember standing up and doing spinners and going backwards. I still remember the water hitting the side of the board. It was unreal. I’m still looking for that same first wave, that same feeling.” – LARRY BERTLEMANN – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60 by Jeff Ho

“These gladiators fighting for critical position in the line-up became the backbone for the generation to follow.” – DIBI FLETCHER – Apr 2006 Juice Magazine #60

“Skateboarding really blew up. There was a vert contest at Trashmore and it was the first contest that I remember where pro skateboarders were signing autographs.” – CHRIS MILLER – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61 by Jim Murphy

“Burnside spurred the whole Northwest skatepark scene. Burnside is the reason that we have all these sick skateparks.”  – MONK HUBBARD – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61 by Jim Murphy

“If you say, “I’m just going to go out and cruise today and be mellow.” What happens? You end up eating shit and dying. You have to go out full-hearted, full-charge and just do it. That’s the only way I can do it.” – BUCK SMITH – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61 by Jim Murphy

“It’s crazy how our lives turned out. Little did I know that we’d end up spending the next 20 years traveling the world skating and living this crazy lifestyle.” – EDDIE REATEGUI – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61 by Christian Hosoi

“When the forward ollie in motion came around, that’s when it really changed everything. We were going up the curb and over the bush. It became utilitarian. It was like, “Oh, that’s in my way. I’ll go over it.” – TOMMY GUERRERO – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61 by Steve Olson

“It’s like your dream from when you’re a little kid. We have pools that are skateable that you don’t have to get arrested to go skate.” – MARC CORBETT – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61 by Jim Murphy

“We’re walking through the arches down this humongous flight of stairs, and I’m looking at 70,000 people going crazy. When I saw all of those people, I felt the rush. It’s so ridiculously amazing. When I’m up there, playing, and feeling the energy from the crowd, it’s a rush. It’s probably the same feeling as getting double overhead Teahupoo or something.” – ROBERT TRUJILLO of METALLICA – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61 by Jeff Ho

“It was amazing. I was in the front row, and I stole David Johansen’s beer bottle. That was one of my first rock n’ roll souvenirs.” – JOAN JETT – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61 by Steve Olson

“America was just not ready to accept a female singing this raucous music. They were having a hard enough time trying to accept Elvis, but they didn’t have any choice. Elvis was in their face.” – WANDA JACKSON – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61 by Steve Olson

“Music is like a drug. It’s like a weapon. It’s a universal language. It’s a language that anybody can love.” – WILLIE DEVILLE – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61 by Steve Olson

“We’re not Spicoli’s. We like to surf big waves, big thrills.” – BRUCE IRONS – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61 by Dibi Fletcher

“Bruce Iron’s reputation precedes him. He’s always supposed to be this Bad Boy, but he looks like Robert Redford playing a state senator. The thing I like about him besides being a great surfer, I found him, to my surprise, deep down inside a true gentleman.” – BRUCE WEBER: MASTER PHOTOGRAPHER – Sept 2006 Juice Magazine #61

“It’s the best thing ever. Everywhere you go, every town has a perfect little skatepark. I want to see mega concrete in every town in the world.” – STEVE REEVES – Apr 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Dave Duncan

“I remember telling my mom, “You can make money being a pro skater. I don’t know how much, but it’s like $7,000 or something!” – ANTHONY VAN ENGELEN – Apr 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Steve Olson

“If you had the proper amount of gravity in your head, you wouldn’t be jumping off flat ground.” – MARK GONZALES – Apr 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Christian Hosoi

“I believe in the principle that a skateboard is just one board, two trucks and four wheels. You should ride everything. Skateboarding is one and it should not be divided.” – NILTON NEVES – Apr 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Dave Duncan

“There are so many bowls, ramps and skateparks now. Now there are actually places where you can carve. You can ride pools everywhere. That’s my favorite thing. Now that pool riding has come back into skating, It’s made it fun for me.” – SCOTT OSTER – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Steve Olson

“Growing up in Texas made me tough. It made me skate like a man and love skateboarding.” – JASON SPEER – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Jim Murphy

“I turned to Lita Ford and I said, “I want to go home.” I was fighting back the tears when Lita said, “Do you think I’m not homesick?” Of course I am, but when I go home, I want to be somebody!” Those were magical words.” – CHERIE CURRIE – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Steve Olson

“Music now is very commercial. It’s about money now instead of being about feeling. If we got back to the feeling of a song, it could change so many things.” – LA LA BROOKS – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Steve Olson

“They were saying it’s easy to market to kids that street skate, because not everyone has a halfpipe, but my take on that was if you didn’t have a half pipe, build one.”-  JIM MURPHY – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Chris Mearkle

“How does anyone not think that skateboarding is the coolest thing in the world?” – CHRISTIAN HOSOI – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Dave Duncan

“It seems like each generation takes skateboarding to a new level. To be able to share that with the world and keep it real is really something unique.” – DAVE DUNCAN – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Steve Olson

“Going from clay to urethane wheels was like going from a Model T with no shocks and bare tires to a Ferrari.” –  TED TERREBONNE – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Dan Levy

“That picture of Waldo is the most published photo in the sport. It’s been in 47 different publications and it’s still being published. That was the first picture to show that you could get past vertical.” – JAMES O’MAHONEY – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Dibi Fletcher

“I was making surfboards and going surfing all the time. We were partying and working on a movie called “Rainbow Bridge” with Jimi Hendrix. That was an exciting time.” – HERBIE FLETCHER – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by James O’Mahoney

“The spoon was the one I’m most noted for, until it went out of existence, and now it’s reborn again. We’re in a longboard era again. It seems more popular now than it was then.” – RENNY YATER – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by James O’Mahoney

“It’s rare to sell a commercial image or make a commercial image that’s really an art image, unless it was art first and they buy it as art and then make it commercial.” – ART BREWER – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Dibi Fletcher

“In America’s mind, surfers are the cowboys now. We’re the American icons.” – JEFF DIVINE – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Dibi Fletcher

“Maybe I’ll be rich. That’s what I’d want to be if I weren’t a surf photographer. I’d want to be rich.” – TOM SERVAIS – April 2007 Juice Magazine #62 by Dibi Fletcher

“I found three pools today. My feet are broken; my heels are broken. I can barely walk, but I can’t get enough.” – JIMMY MOORE – Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Curt Baker

“I watched that scene in the OBX sprout to a massive, cool, super hospitable scene. And it’s not like these guys are 25-year-olds that have no responsibilities. These guys have families to take care of and they’re into it more hardcore than some of the young bucks.” – BRYAN LATHROP – Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Jim Murphy

“As a kid, I related more to the bowl riding thing and the underground pool skating scene. Guys were going out and doing it DIY and finding bowls, banks and pools. They were renegades. That part of skateboarding has always intrigued me. That is the heart and soul of skateboarding.” – PAT NGOHO – Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Steve Olson

“As soon as I pulled the trigger on the project and pulled out the credit card, I got a lefthand kidney. It’s a completely functional skating pool.”- DAVE “SUEDE” LIBHART – Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Jim Murphy

“Skateboarding, I found on the streets, for myself. It’s like a treasure to me. It’s part of what I am. It’s what I choose to be.” – BRUNO PASSOS – Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Dave Duncan

“I don’t want to see a Frito’s commercial with a skateboarder on it. It’s not in the spirit of skateboarding. We’re not supposed to be in the limelight. We’re supposed to be the scuttlebutt. We’re not supposed to be heroes. We’re supposed to be zeroes. If we look good, we look bad.” – BILL DANFORTH – Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Jim Murphy

“Full pipes are just unreal.. We drove like a half an hour from Phoenix and when we pulled up, it was just pipe after pipe. It was surreal. They were all lined up.” – GREGG WEAVER – Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Steve Olson

“I owe everything to skateboarding. Some people say that skateboarding owes them. That’s the wrong philosophy. I owe skateboarding.” – DARREN NAVARRETTE – Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Steve Olson

“It’s like that picture of me at Anaheim with the bloody knee. I was imitating Mark Richards at Haleiwa with the red-railed, yellow Lighting Bolt board. His knee was just jammed up in his chin. That’s what I wanted to do.” – TOM “WALLY” INOUYE – Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Steve Olson

“Skateboarding was even more socially unacceptable. It felt good to be the double negative with regards to that. It felt good to be in that spot. I was just a little kid, looking up to guys like Jason Jessee and other guys that came before me.” – MATT HENSLEY – Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Steve Olson

“As political situations change, the guidebooks change. There’s really no point in having a guidebook because the path is constantly changing. You have to be comfortable in the chaos.” – IAN ASTBURY of THE CULT –  Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Steve Olson

“The show was pretty crazy. There was a lot of hype. The Sex Pistols were on the cover of Time Magazine. They were on TV with Walter Cronkite. For a scene that would rarely get more than 500 people together at one time, to have 5,000 people together at the show was unreal.” – JAMES WILSEY –  Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Steve Olson

“I remember I had this map up on the wall that was just for decoration. When someone would call with a message from a record company, I would write the phone numbers on the map. That map and that phone was the beginning of the Seattle music scene getting major label interest. From that point, it was a pretty magical time.” – CHRIS CORNELL –  Jan 2008 Juice Magazine #63 by Jeff Ho

“I realized soon that all I needed was skateboarding. It’s unexplainable. I’m going to put a wig on my board and give it some long hair. That’s how much I love it.” – DAEWON SONG – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Steve Olson

“We were starting to venture into the danger realms of skateboarding, bombing hills and stuff. We started to push each other. It’s fun when you have a bunch of poor, ghetto kids that all happen to have these rickety toys that are all fused together, just get together and push each other in different ways.” – EMMANUAEL GUZMAN – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Steve Olson

“The way to surf Pipe is not to surf Pipe if you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing. Pipe definitely has a pecking order.” – FAST EDDIE ROTHMAN – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Dibi Fletcher

“I remember when I was 20, I asked Andrew, “What are you going to do after skateboarding?” He said, “I don’t know. Retire.” I was like, “This guy is a fuckin’ idiot.” But it’s possible now.” – HEATH KIRCHART – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Steve Olson

“I knew that I wanted my ultimate high to be from skateboarding. All I was thinking about was skateboarding.” – JAKE PIASECKI – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Dan Levy

  

“You can take the gnarliest slam ever and then do it the next go. That’s commitment right there. You wreck shop, get tore the fuck up and then go for it again two minutes later. You just run back up there and charge it again. That’s the best feeling ever.” – LIZARD KING – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Steve Olson

“My dad used to tell me, “If people want to debate you, just pat them on the shoulder and tell them to go have a sandwich.” And just walk away. Don’t debate them.” – JASON JESSEE – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Steve Olson

“I bought my first surfboard from Christian Fletcher when I was in the fifth grade. I bought it with change that I stole and collected. I put it all in a sock and gave it to Christian and said, “Here’s $85.” And he gave me the best twin fin ever. It was amazing. Then I learned how to surf.” – JASON JESSEE – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Steve Olson

“Well, it felt like a regular wave, except my legs really hurt afterwards. I didn’t know it was over 60-foot, so I wasn’t really thinking about what it felt like. I just had to make it. I knew I shouldn’t eat it on that wave. I had to make it.” – MAKUA ROTHMAN – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Dibi Fletcher

“The stunt where I launch over the car driving directly at me and smashes through the ramp as I go over, is one of the scariest. The timing must be precise. It’s definitely a make or break stunt.” – RYAN SIMONETTI – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Dan Levy

“She didn’t have a lot of dough, but any mom that would let you put a vert ramp in the middle of the living room was a pretty dope mom. It was sick. I had the coolest mom.” – MAX SCHAAF – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Steve Olson

“This incredible chill was going through my body. I caught two or three more waves by myself. I had to kick out so I could catch another wave. I was just teasing those guys and going, “Look what you’re missing.” – MIKE HYNSON – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Dibi and Herbie Fletcher

“Those were the days when Nixon was in business. He was a crook and so was I. He didn’t bother us and we didn’t bother him, except he got caught and so did we. But during the time, we were having a helluva good time.” – MIKE HYNSON – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Dibi and Herbie Fletcher

“In the name of skating, wherever I go I will always build something insane. I’m crazy and completely possessed to skate and that will never stop.” – SGT. SK8 – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Jim Murphy

“Never give up and definitely never listen to someone when they’re telling you that you can’t accomplish something. Anything you set your mind to, you can accomplish. It might take you 20 years, but you’ll never accomplish it if you quit.” – SUNNY GARCIA – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Dibi Fletcher

“We were cutting the GTOs record and we go to our session and there’s Jeff Beck on guitar, Nicky on piano, Aynsley Dunbar and the rest of the Mothers of Invention. Frank Zappa was producing. I was singing “Shock Treatment”, which I wrote about Keith Richards. I had a big crush on Keith Richards.” – MISS MERCY – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Steve Olson

“When I was watching Salba dropping in and rolling in on people, and just taking over, he was just dominating. He was blowing snot boogs out at people while he was dropping in with his leopard skin shorts on. It was so punk rock.” – JOHN GIBSON – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Jim Murphy

“Music helps deliver the knowledge of those that came before us in language with context to insure accuracy.”  – PHIL ALVIN of THE BLASTERS – June 2008 Juice Magazine #64 by Steve Olson

“To me, it was just another slam. I’ve been taking slams my whole life and I’ve always gotten up and walked away. If I was able to get up and walk away, I was going to. I was like, “Do I get another run?” – JAKE BROWN – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Jim Murphy and Dave Duncan

“When FDR happened, I think everyone felt that way. It was like, “If we build this, other shit could happen.” And it did.” – DAN TAG – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Jim Murphy

“There just needs to be more blood in skateboarding. It’s too friendly. It’s become too nice. Skateboarding is tough. It’s an outlaw thing. What happened to that?” – ANDY ROY – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Jay Adams

“Those guys, the Z-Boys, and all the Venice guys like Polar Bear, Jimmy Plumer and George Wilson and the whole Z-Flex team originated skateboarding. There are so many guys that didn’t get as much recognition as the other guys.” – AARON “FINGERS” MURRAY – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Christian Hosoi

“Everything seemed to be going away, but Red and those guys were just going at it under the bridge at Burnside. It was amazing that those guys could build that stuff down there. I don’t think at the time anybody realized what a historic moment it was, and the significance to that thing being built there like that.” – MARK CONAHAN – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Jim Murphy

“I always wanted to build a backyard pool in a skatepark. Lately, we’ve been doing that as much as we can.” – JAMES HEDRICK – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Jim Murphy

“My goal is to take a timeless photo. That’s the hardest thing to do.” – IVORY SERRA – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“Then I saw all the skaters that owned businesses take the easy way out too. Rather than supporting the core people that built it up and making sure that they remained important to skating, the skaters that owned businesses went for the profit instead.” – JEF HARTSEL – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Jim Murphy

“The next generation was all about the streets. The skate industry justified their actions by saying that not every skater had a half pipe in his backyard. Suddenly, the very reason that grew skateboarding was the very reason why they could also drop it.” – JEF HARTSEL – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Jim Murphy

“I love skateboarding because it’s never ending. Spots are never ending. There are new parks and new terrain. I’ll just love it until I die. I love the feeling of locking into a Smith grind on whatever.” – PAT DUFFY – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“I would ride a six-foot unicycle down the street with a raccoon on my shoulder. My mom worked in the salon down the street. She was at the shop and one of her clients came in and said, “You will not believe what I just saw coming down the street.” My mom would have to say, “Oh, my son is coming to see me.” – WALDO AUTRY – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“We’d try something, push it and get broken a little. I never thought about it. I just did it all the time. If someone was doing this, I was going to do that. If someone did that, I had to do that too. It was in me to push it. If they were going to jump over a car, I was going to jump over a garage.” – WALDO AUTRY – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“I got a phone call one day from some guy that said, “Is this Waldo Autry? This is Bud Browne. I’d like to put you in the movie Going Surfin’. I was like, “Whoever this is, that’s kind of funny.” I think I cussed at him and hung up.” – WALDO AUTRY – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“What’s funny is that I was “anti-luge” at Signal Hill. I had a big old procession with me that was anti-lay downs because there were no categories so we had to race against the guys that were lying down. I had a big banner that said, “Skateboarders do it standing up.” – WALDO AUTRY – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“I remember when we came up with the word “fakie”. Nick Vlaco went up the wall one way and then came back down. I yelled, “You faked me out!” I was expecting him to kickturn. Then Wally and I were calling it fakie.” – WALDO AUTRY – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“With Logan, I ended up with the very first female signature model skateboard, which was a milestone in itself. I stayed loyal to the Logan team for many years, even through all of the years when everyone was jumping ship, chasing the money and not giving a rat’s ass about the quality of a product.” – LAURA THORNHILL – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by James O’Mahoney

“There are no 401k’s for tattoo artists. There was no retirement or medical insurance. I chose something knowing I might be broke for the rest of my life, but I was going to be happy. All of this that’s happening now, with how huge skateboarding, surfing and tattooing has gotten, it’s all just icing. It’s a kind of pay-off for the guys that followed their passion.” – TIM HENDRICKS – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“Those were the days when skateboarding was illegal, so the cops were chasing you. Skateboarding wasn’t about making money. It was just cool and kind of outlaw. I liked that it was a black sheep kind of subculture.” – MATT HENSLEY – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“I don’t have to sell my soul to keep playing rock n’ roll.” – HANK WILLIAMS III – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“If that seed was in you to begin with to seek out new things and go another route, what happened? Why are you still not seeking out new things? Why aren’t you going to some show that some kid is putting on in his basement? Why aren’t you going out to see brand new bands that you have no clue about?” – TIM KERR – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“The Ramones had played Cleveland, so we had gone to see them and met them. We made friends with them at their show. Stiv was talking to Joey every now and then. He’d call just to say hi or whatever. Then Joey said, “You know you guys should come up and play CBGBs. Joey got all these people like Roberta Bailey, Danny Fields, “Legs” and all the people from the magazines and brought them down to see us. I remember on the third song, Bators went to jump up on my amp and it was on wheels and it went right off the back of the stage.” – CHEETAH CHROME of THE DEAD BOYS – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Steve Olson

“The greatest thing about being a surfer is that you have hope every single day. You wake up every morning and have that promise of getting a fantastic wave that will make your day. I don’t think there are a lot of sports that are comparable to that. It’s incredible.” – EVAN SLATER – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Dibi Fletcher

“My biggest goal is to be known as one of the best big wave riders that can ride the biggest waves on the planet. And not just ride it in the sense of dropping in and going straight. I want to be able to surf the biggest waves on the planet.” – PETER MEL – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Dibi Fletcher

“The impact was pretty great. Then I went to lift my head out of the water and I couldn’t move. At the time, I could hold my breath for about three minutes, so I knew I had three minutes to live.” – STRETCH RIEDEL – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Dibi Fletcher

“Skateparks aren’t just something the city wants to do. It’s not just something that we did. It’s something that the community as a whole did together. Whether it’s a mom or dad that shows up and brings us lunch or a local that brings us some appetizers, the city people are great. We have moms that cook us food. It’s not just the city and us. It’s everybody.” – LIL EDDIE LAWRENCE – Dec 2008 Juice Magazine #65 by Jim Murphy

“Washington Street is the sickest thing going, that I’ve ever skated. That’s worth moving there for. That park is so fun.” – FRITZ MEAD – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Jim Murphy

“My dad was like, “I’m so happy you followed your heart and you did what you love doing. I can’t tell you where you might have been if you’d listened to me.” It was a cool thing. I was stoked. It was the most proud time of my career, because I felt like I finally did something right.” – OMAR SALAZAR – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Steve Olson

“There are some things that I try, and when I do it, I’m having a party inside of my brain. I’m like, “Oh, my God! Did you see that?” – OMAR SALAZAR – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Steve Olson

“If you still skated, it  wasn’t just something you did because you thought it was cool. You skated because it is cool.” – CRAIG JOHNSON – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Jim Murphy

“The whole thing is that it’s just badass straight up. Mean what you say. Say what you mean. Bring it, show it or don’t even talk about it. It’s as real as it gets. You skate. You go to the rock show. The gate is open. Be true and that’s it.” – CRAIG JOHNSON – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Jim Murphy

“As far as anyone building skateparks, the more the better as far as I’m concerned. Let’s concrete the earth and leave some stash in the grass for nap time. I can critique very strictly or just say it’s fun, because a shitty skatepark can’t keep a good skateboarder down.” – PETER GUNN – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Mark Scott

“I beat Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi and Omar Hassan in a high air contest in Japan. Somehow Mark Gonzales heard that I’d beaten Christian in the high air contest, so he faxed a handwritten note that said, “If I were Wade, I would have went a little lower for Christ.”. – WADE SPEYER – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Jim Murphy

“I’m trying to get some money together so I can build another pool in my backyard on the other side, so I can always have one full of water and always have one to skate.” – ROB PALMER – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Jim Murphy

“I nerded out on it and tried to see how high I could ollie. I tried to make it up two stairs and then three stairs. I’d see how far up the stairway I could axle stall and see how high I could ollie. It’s not like anyone set out to change anything. It was just hanging out and skateboarding.” – NATAS KAUPAS – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Steve Olson

“I got more serious about building molds and learning how to press them. I built a press in my bedroom out of 2x6s, with a hydraulic car jack inside of it. Before that I pressed boards under the tire of my Mom’s car.” – PAUL SCHMITT – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Steve Olson

“Sometimes ripping through the streets is the best thing you can do on your skateboard. There’s something really freeing about it. It makes you feel different from the rest of the world. You get a unique view on things.” – ANDY KESSLER – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Steve Olson

“Skateboarding has given me a life and being clean has helped me to enjoy it.” – ANDY KESSLER – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Steve Olson

“O’Mahoney had a contract for Wide World of Sports, which was a huge deal. There had never been a skateboarding event on national TV.” – MIKE WEED – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Steve Olson

“The hardest thing to duplicate is someone who is original. Be yourself. As long as you can be yourself and do what you want to do, you’ll always be an original.” – TIM JACKSON – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Aaron Murray

“You want to be able to say that you lived life to the fullest. When I’m 70, I want to be able to say that I skated hard. I surfed a thousand days in my life. I wrote good movies. I had fun with my friends. I laughed. That’s what drives me.” – SCOTT CAAN – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Steve Olson

“The infrastructure of America is totally destroyed. Rape is rampant. Poverty is everywhere. When I was filling out my kid’s paperwork at school, it said, “Where do you live? Do you live in a house? Do you live in an apartment? Do you live in a car or a park?” – JACK GRISHAM of T.S.O.L. – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Steve Olson

“Those were James Brown’s favorite words. “We laid them in the aisles tonight!” We would get on the bus and crack up about that. We had fun just wearing people out and making them dance.” – BOOTSY COLLINS – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Steve Olson

“On any given night, there would be Jane Fonda in one corner, Alice Cooper in the other corner, Warhol in another with David Bowie thrown in. It was just different because it all mixed and meshed together.” – BEBE BUELL – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Steve Olson

“If I see myself in a magazine, I’m stoked. It just makes me want to try harder and get an even better shot. I don’t see it as I’m better. I see it as I need to try harder to get better shots.” – KALANI DAVID – Sept 2009 Juice Magazine #66 by Jay Adams

“I want to be a pro skater. If that doesn’t work out, I want to be a pro surfer. If that doesn’t work out, I want to play in the NBA.” – SHANE BORLAND – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Jeff Ho

“I think I had an advantage because I skated so many skateparks and bowls and all that stuff. I could adapt to different things.” – RICK MCCRANK – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Steve Olson

“I want to skate forever because skateboarding changed my life. You can’t just leave something like that.” – CHRIS HASLAM – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Steve Olson

“To all of the kooks, creeps, naysayers, backstabbers, haters, and shit talkers, you have never stopped me from skating or diminished my love for it and you never will. I will continue to rip while you dwell in your own negative vortex.” – BEN KRAHN – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Mark Scott

“That’s why the dudes in the industry that are seriously killing it and getting all the buzz these days can skate everything and make it look really cool. The all-around dues that skate everything are the best in the biz.” – GARETH STEHR – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Steve Olson

“Before the skatepark, it was just sheer boredom.” – DONOVAN RICE – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Mark Scott

“You have to be humble and skate your ass off and let your skating do the talking.” – NEAL MIMS – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Jeff Ho

“The only way you wouldn’t make the Mega Ramp gap is if you fell before you get to the launch ramp. If you’re on that thing and you’re falling before you get to the launch ramp, you probably shouldn’t be on it in the first place.” – ZACH MILLER – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Eric Britton

“It was, basically, the old surfer guys that were starting to skate in pools. They had waterskis and everything else. They were skating barefooted. It was like a blood bowl after about a month of skating in there because everyone lost skin in it.” – CHRIS STROPLE – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Steve Olson

“You go skate, find a pool, get some brews, go to the punk rock show, slam out, chase the honeys around and try to get lucky, and then do it all over again.” – KEN FILLION – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Jim Murphy

“My goal was to one day have my own bowl. Now I’m standing at the coping looking down. My goal wasn’t to go pro. My goal was to have people around and enjoy it and share. I think they’ve enjoyed it as much as I do.” – DAVE TOBIN – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Jim Murphy

“I want to make a concrete skatepark that goes from the top of the hill all the way to the museum that’s so massive that people can fly over it and see it or look at it from outer space.” – BREWCE MARTIN – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Steve Olson

“My goal when I was 20 was to change the world. My goal wasn’t to get famous or rich. My goal was to reorganize our art, culture, and music along the lines of what I thought young people wanted to hear and needed to know politically.” – EXENE CERVENKA – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Steve Olson

“It was difficult for us to understand because we had grown up through the counter-culture where long hair was rebellious and short hair was not. Suddenly, what Malcolm McLaren and Richard Hell had done, in ‘73, was make short hair rebellious.” – TONY JAMES – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Steve Olson

“There are a lot of talented people out there. I do believe that you can do it with hard work, but it takes three things. You have to be talented. You have to have the breaks and you have to have the perseverance to sustain your success.” – SUZI QUATRO- May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Steve Olson

“I just love surfing and I appreciate it. I’m not trying to take from it. I’m trying to give to it more.” – MATT ARCHBOLD- May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Dibi Fletcher

“I’ve realized that those adrenaline rushes are what I live for.” – DANNY FULLER – May 2010 Juice Magazine #67 by Dibi Fletcher

“It’s so much better to go to a town and actually skate someone’s house and get in the scene, rather then just go to a hotel room. With everyone packed in a van, it’s hard not to have a good time. It’s fun.” – BEN RAYBOURN – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Bill Danforth

“I’d rather just go fast and skate and cruise. I just can’t sit around and flip flop around. I need to be flowing. That’s my take on skateboarding. Just go faster, the faster the better.” – ARTO SAARI – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Christian Hosoi

“I don’t mean to disrespect nobody, but what makes you an individual is to have your own style. You have to bring your own shit to the table. Even though people influenced you, you had to come up with your own shit.” – HARRY JUMONJI – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Steve Olson

“I’m not saying we were the first park builders. There were many in front of us. I am saying that we definitely put a fuckin’ gnarly print on this earth with the shit that we did.” – SHAGGY – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Jim Murphy

“This superficial, arti-fuckin’-ficial world that we live in is ours for the taking. These people aren’t strong enough to hold us back. They’re trying to control and structure every inch of this universe and it isn’t happening! It’s our job as skateboarders to take it back.” – SHAGGY – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Jim Murphy

“I like to skate things that other people don’t think of. I don’t intentionally do it. I’ve been skating for nearly 15 years and skateboarding doesn’t get boring unless you’re doing the same shit over and over.” – JAKE DUNCOMBE – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Jake Brown

“The only weight I lift is when I pick up my skateboard to drop in.” – GREYSON FLETCHER – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Jason Jessee

“If your kids want to skate, back them. The thing is, if you had a kid that wanted to be a basketball player, you would back them. If they wanted to be a football player, you would back Them. If he wants to be a skateboarder, back him.” – TOM GROHOLSKI – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Jim Murphy

“I just think there’s nothing impossible in skateboarding.” – SALBA – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Jim Murphy

“Skateboarding, in my mind, is all about having your own style, personality and outlook.” – OMAR HASSAN – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Jim Murphy

“We’d like to just devote the energies we have to bringing the fun back into skateboarding and making it a community.” – GEORGE POWELL – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Dan Levy

 “We go to the shoot and he says, “George, we really need a helicopter. We have to have an aerial shot.” I said, “A helicopter?” I’m thinking a helicopter must have cost a billion dollars. I don’t know. I said, “Oh, man. Okay. Go for it.” – GEORGE POWELL – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Dan Levy

“Skateboarding wants to be a backyard thing. It wants to remain illegal.” – STACY PERALTA – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Dan Levy

“My effort is to diligently try to commit as many irreconcilable errors as possible.” – CRAIG STECYK III – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Terri Craft

“I make art, because I have to… and that’s it. To let it be known…. the message that is.” – STEVE OLSON – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Terri Craft

“It was basically the reverse of the Devil Wears Prada. The girl goes into CBGBs in a mink coat and at the end of the movie she comes out in a black leather jacket.” – LEGS MCNEIL – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Steve Olson

“The London scene was pretty good. The Sex Pistols and the Clash were it. Not only did Malcolm steal the scene, the music was great. They were trying to be even more punk than we were in New York. We weren’t trying to be punks in New York. We just were.” – LEGS MCNEIL – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Steve Olson

“It’s all about specialties. Find what you’re into and then fucking getting good at it.” – CHUCK DUKOWSKI- Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Christian Fletcher

“You’re just out there with you and the water and the board. You’re not competing against anybody else.” – GIGDET AKA KATHY KOHNER ZUCKERMAN – Feb 2011 Juice Magazine #68 by Jeff Ho

“We just saw what the Burnside dudes did and we were like, “We can do this.” – CARLOS BAIZA – FDR – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Jim Murphy

“The Northeast vert skater is his own separate beast. There are tons of them too. There are tons of guys who still go skate the Peanut bowl and hang out until the vert session starts.” – GEORGE DRAGUNS – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Jim Murphy

“The funny thing about FDR, and every cement park that has been renegade-built, is it’s a part of history now. FDR could be there for 100 years. It’s weird to think that a bunch of scrapper skaters were stoked and built this thing.” – DAN TAG – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Jim Murphy

“Anything you do out of love is not a chore. I don’t call skateboarding work.” – FRED SMITH – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Steve Olson

“I love setting coping. I’m telling you, when that pallet of pool coping shows up, it’s like porn to me.” – CHRIS MEARKLE – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Jim Murphy

“That’s how we learned to skate street. It’s like you’re going from this ramp to this ramp. They might be five miles apart, but there’s a curb here, so you do a board slide on it. You didn’t stop and session. You just hit it one time on the way to the ramp.” – J.J. ROGERS – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Andy Roy

“The punk thing about it isn’t actually the band or the music. It’s the mystery of what might happen at the end of the night that makes it real and keeps bringing them back.” – RAY “BONES” RODRIGUEZ – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Dan Levy

“If you choose to work on the streets, you have to be open to things. All skaters work on the avenues. That’s where they exist; I’m not speaking art platitudes or any sort of conceptual blather here. But you go ride down the street, and you’ve got to remain open to whatever happens.” – CRAIG STECYK III – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Dan Levy

“The seats on the bus aren’t any different than the seats on a private jet. You get about the same amount of lumbar support.” – CRAIG STECYK III – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Dan Levy

“When the great power shortage comes and destroys the digital archive of the country and there are no more petrol chemicals available at your gas station for your drive around, you’re going to find out that pedestrians and skateboarders and bike riders will inherit the universe.” – CRAIG STECYK III – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Dan Levy

“The fact that it evolved out of a stone age pursuit makes skateboarding a more interesting activity than baseball.” – CRAIG STECYK III – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Dan Levy

“If you look at something that goes back thousands of years in Polynesia, which surfing obviously does, that was back before they had sports. It was a time when they only had activities that were spiritually and significantly important to the culture.” – CRAIG STECYK III – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Dan Levy

“I don’t think about sports at all. I would be more inclined to dissect skateboarding as a viable form of alternative transportation. I don’t think it needs to be anything other than what it is. I think it’s just fine being a functional art. Being a sport, it just ends up being something else.” – CRAIG STECYK III – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Dan Levy

“I was carving over the light in the pool before I could skate down the street. When I was skating down the street, I would get to a corner and pick my board up and turn it the other way around the corner and then go.” – CHAD MUSKA – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Steve Olson

“Skateboarding is about just skating everything you can as hard as you can. You can’t hold back.” – ELI REED – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Steve Olson

“I’m just glad that hardcore vert skating is still alive and a layback grind is still appreciated. You don’t have to be the flip twirly 720 freaking master and do everything switch. You can just dive in and grind and find some lines.” – STEVE HERRING – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Jim Murphy

“When pools came around, that became my love. I wanted to be a good all around skater. There were guys that could skate pools, but couldn’t skate freestyle. There were guys that could skate freestyle and couldn’t skate pools. I could do both.” – DENNIS MARTINEZ – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Jay Adams

“I push it because that’s who I am. If someone else doesn’t want to live life to the fullest, that’s fine. They can go safely into their little home and put a helmet on and do whatever they want, but I’m living.” – SHANE ALLEN – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Dan Levy

“It doesn’t matter to me if it’s 200 or 20,000 people. I’m going to get close to the people. They’re going to get close to me.” – GEORGE THOROGOOD – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Steve Olson

“We all have that southern California kid growing up at the beach kind of mentality. At times, you’re laid back. At times, you’re jumping off the end of the pier.” – KEITH MORRIS  – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Jay Adams

“We were part of a radical political group and we took a militant stance against the establishment and made some very bad decisions. One of them was that violence could be used to make positive change. It was a mistake we made. We thought we were doing the right thing, but as it turns out, it was an error in our thinking and somebody blew up the CIA office. I didn’t plant the bomb, but somebody did.” – WAYNE KRAMER  – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Jason Jessee

“We kicked out the guy that was paying rent to live there. We were like, “You have to go. We’re building a ramp in your room.” – THE BOARDLORDS  – Dec 2011 Juice Magazine #69 by Merk

“Occupy your life. There’s just so much out there to see and do. Don’t limit yourself to anything. There’s a whole wealth of knowledge out there. You have to learn through experience.” –  WILLY AKERS – Nov 2012 Juice Magazine #70 by The Confessor

“You have to find a really good place that’s comfortable for you as a business, where everybody is making a good living and everybody is having fun. If you’re not having fun in the skateboard business, get the fuck out.” –  RICHARD NOVAK – Nov 2012 Juice Magazine #70 by Steve Olson

“That’s really how you stay ahead in this game. You find great people, treat them the best you can and wake up every day and do what has never been done.” –  RICHARD NOVAK – Nov 2012 Juice Magazine #70 by Steve Olson

“The skateboarding community will drag you out of the bottom of a pool.” –  DAVE TUCK – Nov 2012 Juice Magazine #70 by Merk

“Seeing your friends there and getting to skate something cool is fun. On the other hand, winning money is good because then I get to build more at my house.” –  KEVIN KOWALSKI – Nov 2012 Juice Magazine #70 by Mark Scott

“There were no limits to what you could progress to in skateboarding, because it’s such a creative sport. That’s where the thing that separates skateboarding from a lot of other sports. It’s an artistic sport that applies itself to its surroundings.” –  STEVE CABALLERO – Nov 2012 Juice Magazine #70 by Dan Levy

“Whatever you have a passion for in life is what makes life happen.” – JIMMY GANZER – June 2013 Juice Magazine #71 by Steve Olson

“I make my kids have punk rock moments. They have to sit with me and watch YouTube of the Dead Kennedys, they have to do it. I’m like, “No, there’s no option. You’re going to sit here and watch the Dead Kennedys right now because this is punk rock.” –  DEREK KRASAUSKAS – Nov 2012 Juice Magazine #70 by Jim Murphy

“There was supposed to be a full pipe and pools that they never built. All in all, they accidentally made a dream come true with the snake run. The builder knew what he was trying to do, but he didn’t realize what skateboarding would do with it. It became a full on ollie training ground. We were just flying over these hips everywhere.” – ALLEN LOSI – June 2013 Juice Magazine #71 by Jim Murphy

“Malcolm always encouraged us to write our own stuff. When I was just learning guitar, I had a short attention span, and when you try and learn a song, you do the first few chords and it’s easy and then it gets more complicated and you say, “Fuck that,” and you end up doing your own version. Pretty soon, you’re doing your own song, so it’s easy.” – GLEN MATLOCK of SEX PISTOLS – June 2013 Juice Magazine #71 by Steve Olson

“We’re not encouraged to grow up. Youth is like the drug. You don’t want to look old. You don’t want to seem old. It’s so strange. Your body is telling you one thing and your mind is telling you another, and you’re tearing yourself apart. So I am getting older, but I have a youthful outlook on life.” – JAMES HETFIELD of METALLICA – June 2013 Juice Magazine #71 by Steve Caballero

“Skateboarding is an individual sport. You basically master being a lone wolf. Being a lone wolf, you learn that there is so much more appreciation for yourself, your thoughts and your time. That’s why most people that really excel in anything don’t have a lot of wasted time or wasted people around them. They tend to gather with people that are likeminded and making things happen in their lives and then they thrive off each other. Those are the kinds of people that I met in skateboarding.” – JERRY VALDEZ – June 2013 Juice Magazine #71 by Steve Olson

“I learned that it’s not just about the skating that can help promote what you’re doing. I learned about treating people well and giving back. I learned about being a team manager or a team curator, and how much it means to believe in someone and believe in their effort.” – TONY HAWK – June 2013 Juice Magazine #71 by Dan Levy

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