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Top 10 Crudeest Skate Interviews Of All Time

To be fair, the late Big Brother should probably have all ten. In simpler times, interviewing sponsored skateboarders meant you’d hear the real voices of some of the most incredible and downright raw people on the face of our planet. People wonder why interviews are so simple these days. The answer is simple: money. No one wants to shake the boar when they pencil in six-figure numbers every tax season. Either way, in an ode to true balls against the wall skate journalism, here are ten of the rawest interviews skateboarders have given us in the last 30 years.

TONY ALVA SKATEBOARDS 1978

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

COREY DUFFEL BIG BROTHER 2001

Poor Corey was only sixteen when Chris Nieratko coaxed the infamous atomic bomb date out of him. While the Stevie Williams “trash” reference cost Corey many of his sponsors initially, most put it down to Corey being young and unaware of the fact that Big Brother would in fact release every recorded word. With the water hole under the bridge, Corey and Stevie are now partners in crime at Venture and CCS, where Stevie helped get Corey on the team.

Adam McNatt TRANSWORLD SKATEBOARD 1997

This one interview became the poser kid’s collection of pages on how to go “all-in” during his Pro Spotlight. A great start and innovator that Powell Peralta, 101, and later Evol and Osiris, essentially said incredible things about every nook, cranny and secret the skateboarding industry had dragged down during his career. Some might argue that this straightforward interview changed hello within the industry for the better.

FABIAN ALOMAR BIG BROTHER 1997

Sometimes an interview can be raw because of what is said within your questions and answers. Other times, skateboard journalism is just crude based on who you’re putting on the pages. The opening photo of Fabian Alomar ollieing surrounded by gang-affiliated East Los Angeles family members is scary enough to earn a place on this list alone. His descriptions of a life surrounded by the gang lifestyle and anecdotes involving guns, beatings, mushrooms and prison time make it an absolute hit.

ALEX OLSON TRANSWORLD SKATEBOARD 2007

These days, as I tried to explain in the introduction, it’s getting harder and harder to get real words from real skaters in a real magazine. Spanky didn’t have those problems with Olson. Shielded by their close friendship with this issue, I’m still in awe that Spanky managed to get Alex to fearlessly cough up gems straight from the heart like, “Who has a nasty image? Terry {Kennedy} is a bit of a badass. I’m over everything.” that ice cream thing.” Curse.

DUANE PETERS SKATEBOARDS 2003

I’m just going to make a quote. “I was shooting up, living in a ditch, and these three Mexicans rushed me. They stabbed me seven times in the knee and three times in the back. I was swinging my board around these f-kers and the most fun thing was I was in such a rush for the coca that couldn’t get out of this four foot ditch. I finally got these guys off my back and was running down the street covered in blood when the police came. “You get the picture.”

andy roy BIG BROTHER 1996 AND 1998

This award goes to his two Big Brother interviews. It’s scary enough reading Andy’s stories about being nicknamed “snuggle-butt” while serving time, however when Roy told Dave Carnie he wanted to get “AIDS” to give it to as many people as possible, it’s possible than simply sitting on one of the crudest statements ever printed in any magazine.

TRANSWORLD GATOR SKATEBOARD 1988

This issue is pretty much my first skate mag and it was pretty much the first interview I ever read, but when Gator chimed in his intro with “First of all, I’m gay, I’m crying in my arms.” I clearly remember the feelings of utter confusion I felt and immediately wondered if this was the normal kind of thing professional skateboarders talk about.

JOSH SCAM BIG BROTHER 1993

Before leaving for good after smashing a brick over a gay man’s head and killing him, Josh Swindle was arrested at the Mexican border with some guns in his car. Earl Parker met Josh for an interview while he was serving his sentence in a Tijuana penitentiary. Drugs, broomsticks, prostitutes, bribing guards, and beating up a guy for trying to steal his shoes all get detailed reports.

JAON JESSEE TRANSWORLD SKATEBOARD 1997

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

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