08/08/2019
Death of the VHS Generation:
Most of you will remember but many of you won’t...VHS.
Hopefully, many of you will remember relying on adverts for upcoming jams or new deck series or spots or parks and catalogue for their new Icon or decks and new shoes and new products, well, the internet has that covered these days, doesn’t it? But what about those old days? Has that “old magic” of discovering new stuff gone? Or do we mean changed, not gone because like we said “the internet has that covered”, doesn’t it? If you want something you can find it...on your phone...in seconds...anywhere!
I remember hearing about Baker2G, i’d seen the ad of pi***ng off the waiter, the graphics said “YES” to me in everyway imaginable, we’d heard about this Video when out skating from people and that it was going to be ONLY STREET and theres this Gnarley Kid goin mental on some bins, we’d seen the Baker logo on boards, we knew was on a mission but nothing could prepare us for what we were about to experience, and a few others got on the Rainbow Bus from Ripley on the first Saturday we could and headed over to Rollersnakes to get the video, hyped doesn’t cut it, we couldn’t wait to get this f**ker in the Video Player..... it was a hype caused with no use of the internet...
We were all already on the punk thing, we’d been in the charity shops finding pissy garments for awhile but that video fuelled this, the music, the skit content, the least serious thing we’d ever been witness too and we couldn’t relate to this anymore if we had tried!
We’d found our bible
Something which justified our natural “weirdness” and sounded the “it’s perfectly fine to act this way” alarm...and we f**kin ran with it like a Cardiel SF hill bomb 💣!
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But all this was from a video, a tape you had to rewind with the controller if you wanted to see a trick again, it became a tradition to watch it before you went out skating and it was stationary, couldn’t watch it on your phone on the way to a spot you had to be at home and I loved that. Everyone in front of the TV...together(the remainder in next upload....) FY insta!