{"id":60353,"date":"2016-10-21T18:48:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T01:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=60353"},"modified":"2017-05-11T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T18:24:01","slug":"blood-and-steel-cedar-crest-country-club-movie-premiere-with-scream-and-red-hare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/blood-and-steel-cedar-crest-country-club-movie-premiere-with-scream-and-red-hare\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blood and Steel &#8211; Cedar Crest Country Club&#8221; Movie Premiere with Scream and Red Hare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/puG4pH9jrok\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cTake a trip into the time machine of &#8220;Blood And Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club&#8221; for a reminder of what skateboarding is all about at its very core. You&#8217;ll be transported to a place that elevated East Coast skateboarding into the stratosphere: the Crest. Not only\u00a0does this documentary feature\u00a0the saga of an\u00a011 gauge steel monument to &#8216;build and destroy&#8217;, it&#8217;s a mach speed\u00a0ride\u00a0down the memory lane of East Coast hardcore skateboarding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The treasure chest of early skatepark footage and backyard ramp clips that filmmaker, Michael Maniglia, and producers, Frank Scheuring,\u00a0Mike Mapp,\u00a0Bruce Adams, Mark Hooper and the crew\u00a0pulled together for this new skate documentary is spectacular.\u00a0\u201cBlood And Steel: CCCC\u201d is a firsthand look at the brotherhood of skateboarding and its fierce dedication to building terrain where none exists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cedar\u00a0Crest\u00a0not only defied the impossible, it\u00a0defined the impossible. The\u00a0Crest\u00a0launched zines, parties, music scenes, skate crews and skateboarding careers by\u00a0providing a coliseum for some of the gnarliest skateboarding known to mankind. It was an epic clash\u00a0of punk rock, hardcore, blood and guts, and do-or-die-skateboarding super sessions. The music scene that developed\u00a0around the C.C.C.C. ramp and the bands that played there including\u00a0GWAR, Scream, Coathanger Delivery and many others, only served to amplify its\u00a0historical status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Blood and Steel: CCCC&#8221;, which features interviews with\u00a0Mark Hooper, Mike Mapp, Bruce Adams, Wade Herren, Fred Smith, Paul Wisniewski, Sam Boo, Allen Losi, Bob Umbel, Randy Jansen, Dave Tobin, Ian MacKaye,\u00a0GWAR, Tony Hawk, Bucky Lasek, Tony Magnusson, Dan Heyman, Derek Krasauskas, Pete Stahl, Franz Stahl, Keith Lanharr, Rob Mertz\u00a0and more, will make you laugh and remember and want to annihilate the next vertical surface in sight.\u00a0Remember what it&#8217;s all about and never forget Cedar Crest. May its legacy and spirit live on forever!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>JUICE MAGAZINE&#8217;S DAN LEVY\u00a0<\/strong>spoke to some of the primary players from the Cedar Crest scene&#8230;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"p1\"><strong>Mark Hooper and his dad were the creators of the Cedar Crest Country Club, \r\nand Mark talks about those years of mayhem and the behemoth ramp they constructed...<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThat ramp was fast! Dropping in on that thing, when you got to the other side, you almost had to slow yourself down, so you didn\u2019t fly out of the top. It had 9 1\/2 foot transitions of steel with a foot and a half of vert with pool coping. The flat bottom was 12 feet, not 16 feet like the newer ramps. There is a photo of a guy standing on stool with a squeegee in his hand and he\u2019s raising it up and Tony Magnusson is doing a 12 foot backside method air overhead. That was the kind of cool over the top kind of shit that happened there&#8230; Cedar Crest was the best and the worst of times, the beginning and the end of a rise to total rage to the zenith of fun to the pinnacle of camaraderie. YEAH!!! It\u2019s hard to say all of the memories because there are so many, but here\u2019s what I can say, \u201cAll of the bands that played, all the girls that got laid, we definitely slayed!\u201d<\/p>\n<pre class=\"p1\"><strong>Bruce Adams, O.G. skater and creator of Lapper shared this memory of the Crest...<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;In 1985, Cedar Crest was built, and it was unlike any other ramp I had experienced because of the steel surface. We all grew up skating rough concrete parks (with admission fees), and crappy, splintery backyard plywood ramps. We also skated Masonite with PVC coping that was slippery as hell, and deteriorated after a few sessions. Steel was a whole new world to me. It was fast and quiet, the perfect surface, but it was slick.\u00a0 Our plan to fix this was to paint it. We started with a coat of red primer, and it seemed to work perfectly, so we left it that way.\u00a0Over time, it also became too slippery.\u00a0Our next solution was to pop a pin hole in a Coke can and spray the ramp with the can.\u00a0That worked great, but it attracted a lot of bees. We began mixing sugar with water and mopping the ramp with it.\u00a0Bringing a bag of sugar and water became a regular thing for the locals.\u00a0The sugar-water had to be a certain ratio to work or the primer would stick to your wheels.\u00a0Once the primer stuck to your wheels, it was like having a bunch of flat spots on them. Despite all of this, the ramp was perfect in every way. It was in the middle of nowhere and there were\u00a0no complaining neighbors, no law enforcement, it was open 24\/7, and it was free! It was a dream come true, and I had some of the best times of my life there.\u00a0I will never forget what Mark Hooper and his dad did for skateboarding. Above all else, I will always remember the feel of the steel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"p1\"><strong>Mike Mapp, a.k.a. \"Micro\", designer of the steel skate coliseum has this to say about the documentary...\u00a0<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0awfully hard to put seven years into one movie, but I feel like Mike [Maniglia] did a great job. This is\u00a0an East Coast story. What I mean by that is that you kind of had to be here to experience it, but this movie is going to bring you back to that time and place\u00a0to get a taste for skating as it was in the \u201880s, and an awful lot of music too. There was\u00a0a big music scene going with Cedar Crest too, so even if you didn\u2019t skate, it put skating and music in the eye of people that would visit there. We always kind of pinch ourselves that it was there and that it\u2019s probably never going to happen again. Looking back now it\u2019s like, \u201cWas that a dream? How did that happen?\u201d Sure enough, it happened. When we got\u00a0Cedar Crest, we had a central point for all of the tribes of the world to come to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Mike <\/b><\/span><b>Maniglia, director of \"Blood And Steel\" also worked at the Cedar Crest Country Club...\u00a0<\/b><\/pre>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;When I first arrived at Cedar Crest, it was the mecca of skateboarding in that brief time period of the skateboard renaissance.\u00a0I was there in\u00a0my formative years; a total grom looking up to the Toke Team, who\u00a0were the definition of antiheroes, and they were the dudes that ripped the Crest. The story of Cedar Crest is an American story and the do it yourself aspect of Cedar Crest, was a cornerstone of the DIY movement. To have that ramp was a completely unique situation that every skateboarder should see because Cedar Crest was truly born of the American spirit. Cedar Crest was this bright shining star in a dark hole of disenfranchised people that had nothing&#8230; To have the opportunity to get together with all the guys to make this film happen all started with Mike Mapp, and then we had skateboard historians like Bruce Adams too. Bruce and I skated Cedar Crest together. Frank [Scheuring] and I are professional filmmakers, so that\u2019s what we do. Everyone involved in the film skated Cedar Crest 30 years ago, so it was a close-knit cadre of the right people who had the wherewithal to put it together. We could have done a thousand more interviews, but we got Fred\u00a0[Smith], and Freddy is the backbone of the whole movie. We tried to give an unbiased perspective of the top rank and file skateboard legends and, of course, Ian MacKaye is in there too. It\u2019s unreal.\u00a0It\u2019s all love and Americana DIY&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"p1\"><strong>DAVE TOBIN shared his experience of the Crest and the Toke Team traditions..<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Cedar Crest was a grand adventure. I felt like I belonged there, never wanting to leave. Being there and seeing a trail leading to the woods, as time went on, that trail turned into a path that would change everyone\u2019s life. From campouts to meeting pros, which were only heard of in magazines. Cedar Crest gave people and skaters alike hope \u2013 hope to practice a new trick and get away from the metropolitan Rat Race. I mean who can learn EggPlants while watching Neil Blender doodle on a scratch pad? After choosing a fire to pee on, I would follow the sounds of GWAR or a Dischord\u00a0band back to the ramp. I think before it closed down, I moved to Florida to start Mechanical School. It was wizard because when I moved back years later nothing was the same. That&#8217;s when I had to rethink why I moved back. Cedar Crest was gone and there was this big void to fill. I felt deprived. Spoiled for so long\u2026 knowing that I would have to spin the wheel soon and continue on my skate journey without her\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"p1\"><strong>DAVE TOBIN talks about the evolution of Cedar Crest in Juice Magazine #67 with Murf...<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Tell us about the evolution of Cedar Crest.<\/strong><br \/>\nWell, we had a ramp back in Gaithersburg, and then we heard that Micro\u2019s buddy owned this million-dollar golf course, and the guy\u2019s dad said, \u201cBuild whatever you want to skate.\u201d So they started building the ramp. We wanted to be part of it because we heard it was going to be mega. Then we heard it was metal. I\u2019d never heard of a metal ramp. I\u2019d heard of aluminum ramps, but not metal. There was this ramp called the Sign ramp made out of a bunch of highway signs, but it was dented. They were planning to build this huge mega steel ramp. We were like, \u201cNo way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Micro was the man that was managing to have that thing fabricated and built. Was he on the cutting edge of building ramps back then?<\/strong><br \/>\nI think that\u2019s when he started. He had a ramp or two before that though. He was on the Annandale crew. We skated there weekly. He built that with another guy that has dreadlocks and lives in California. He was ripping. That was Micro\u2019s best buddy, Mike Kresky. That was the Annandale crew. It was this guy named Mark Hooper whose family owned the country club. They built that ramp and we started going there. You would not believe how much better we got just by riding that thing. Since it was metal, you knew when you slammed, you weren\u2019t going to mess your knees up on splinters, so you could try all these new tricks. Your pads would just slide.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>When you were riding metal, how blown away were you when you first started dropping in?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen you dropped in the first time, it had pipe coping and then we realized we needed coping, so we butted the coping together and bolted it down. It was good for six months and then it got super chunky and you had to power over that shit or replace it. Now we\u2019re back to why they called me Sketchy. I used to pump big airs at Cedar Crest and I used to come in and hit my back wheels, and sometimes my trucks, and pull it off. They\u2019d say, \u201cOh man, that was sketchy.\u201d Later on, The Toke Team would go to see Fred Smith and get tattoos. We\u2019d go up to Providence and skate and see Fred in his little office. After my first Toke Team tat, I wanted to get my initials for some reason on my lips. He was like, \u201cOkay, I\u2019ll write your name.\u201d It seemed to take longer than it should have, so I was like, \u201cWhat the hell are you doing?\u201d He was like, \u201cOh, instead of writing your initials, I\u2019m writing your name.\u201d I was like, \u201cOkay.\u201d I was halfway passed out from drinking from some bottle of something. Then I looked in the mirror and he had written \u201cSketchy.\u201d I was like, \u201cWhat? I didn\u2019t ask you to write that.\u201d He said, \u201cYou told me it was okay to write your name.\u201d That was my second tattoo. It\u2019s still there on my lip. It\u2019s super sketchy too because the \u201cy\u201d is faded out. It\u2019s a sketchy tattoo. It\u2019s like Losi. That was the only other guy that I saw hanging up on really big tricks and making it. All of those guys used to come visit that ramp. It was so sturdy and you could pump airs. Magnusson and Blender came out there too.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O9D-uXKXTYU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ABOUT &#8220;BLOOD AND STEEL: CEDAR CREST COUNTRY CLUB&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Blood And Steel:\u00a0Cedar Crest Country Club&#8221; documentary premiere is set for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/calendar?adjusted_ts=1477206000&amp;open_popup_on_init=1\" rel=\"dialog\">Sunday, October 23<\/a> at <span title=\"3 PM in your time\">6 PM at\u00a0<a id=\"u_jsonp_2_g\" class=\"_5xhk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StateTheatreVA\/\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=25443442499\" data-testid=\"event-permalink-location\">The State Theatre<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>220 N Washington St, Falls Church, Virginia, with performances by Dischord Records artists: SCREAM and RED HARE (members of DAG NASTY, SWIZ and BLUE TIP)!\u00a0This is a one night only, VERY rare reunion for SCREAM. Chuck Treece will be joining Scream onstage, and Coathanger Delivery has been added to the bill too. Don&#8217;t miss out! This premiere event is sponsored by Subterra Films, Powell Peralta, Ramptech, Juice Magazine, H-Street, T.W. Herren Construction, B&amp;A Designs, Fairfax Surf\u00a0Shop, Mad Fox Brewing, DC Shirt &amp; Print Company, Columbia College Hollywood, Full Sail University, Fist Full of Metal Tattoo and 66 West Media.<\/p>\n<p>TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW THROUGH <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestatetheatre.com\/events\/e1952.xml?_offset=8&amp;_order=1\">THIS LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wS27IXhOBGE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Directed by\u00a0Michael Maniglia<br \/>\nProduced by\u00a0Michael Maniglia,\u00a0Frank Scheuring,\u00a0Mike Mapp,\u00a0Bruce Adams,\u00a0Mark Hooper<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.subterrafilms.com\/\">http:\/\/www.subterrafilms.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date on more info about the film premiere at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/251508665250616\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/251508665250616\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more about the film go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BloodAndSteelMovie\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BloodAndSteelMovie\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mOOjyS0z8QU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"eow-description\" class=\"\">Unfortunately, not everything made it into the final cut of the film, &#8220;Blood and Steel, Cedar Crest Country Club&#8221;. This story from Ian MacKaye was so good that they\u00a0had to put it out on its own. Enjoy! &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s art, it&#8217;s a skateboard&#8221;. 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