Evidence LVIII: Scottsdale Follies

I swear I'd seen this one before, super high profile location, chain link fence and easily visible from the street. Hoss has been scoping it for decades, and even went to a couple garage sales there and asked if he could drain and skate the pool -- shut down every time. The clean water turned green, and the level went down, and then the construction started. I'm guessing it's a tear-down of a mid-century house that's gone to pot. Because of the construction, Hoss and I wore work shirts (Craig didn't have one, so he said he's the new guy, and I said no, you're the boss). Nowhere to hide, so sometimes being high profile is the best way to maintain a low profile. We brought the pump in, looking like workers, and looked for power. Lights were on, but all of the plugs had two holes instead of three. Damn. Then Hoss found something with an adaptor, and we were in. Pumped a solid 2+ feet of green shitty water out, and since my hose now has a few small holes, we all got sprayed a little.  

No rags, so Craig gave up his shirt. Cool looking tie-dye, but holy shit did it smell bad. Note: Hoss in the background taking care of the diving board.

Slide had seen better days. Looked like a hug monster bird took a big brown shit on it and it dripped down. Dare you to slide down it in a Speedo -- fiberglass splinters for days.

No Pool Dust stickers? Cowtown evidence!

Scum water -- 'puter put this one sideways for some reason...

Craig gets some backside...

And Hoss gets some too...

Since we're on the topic of high-profile spots in Scotsdale, saw Guitar Wolf last weekend at the Martini Ranch. Weird. Guitar Wolf Rules.

Underage kids can't get in, but I'm stoked they came for the tunes!

Ryan and Grace.

Searching for Happy Feet!

Been playing the first track out, from 1966, New Orleans soul man Robert Parker's "Happy Feet." Parker got his start in Professor Longhair's band, then hit it big with "Barefootin'" in 1966, the same year that "Happy Feet" came out. "Barefootin'" was his only solo hit, but I'm gonna take Happy Feet over that one. Video's got some stills from some Northern Soul/mod dances, and they ain't too bad. I dig a lot of that faster paced Northern Soul stuff, but if you peruse some of the YouTube Northern Soul Dance videos you will see some pretty horrible (but nevertheless authentic) Northen Soul dancing from England in the late seventies and early eighties, flares and bell bottoms and bad haircuts and disco moves galore.

Evidence LVII: One Hitter

Stairs-Death anyone?

Another fine Master Pool, no serial number on this one though.

Dickbird stands one up through the shallow.

Corey nabs a FSG.

Hoss grinds backside.

Got the call up for this one, and went and checked it out. Hi-rent situation, tennis court, basketball court, guest house that used to be horse stables, big yard, but a crappy do-over on the house's exterior, as pointed out by Dixon. We don't care, we skated the pool.

Evidence LVI: a week of shredding

Sure, more blagging, and now you get a week's worth of the shred in one fell swoop. Started off the skate week at the Cowtown ramp. Drove 40 minutes in shitty traffice to watch Dixon work for 25 minutes, then skate for 10. Came back the next day and did pretty much the same thing.

If you forget your board, don't worry there's one at the ramp for you.

Dixon's creepy backyard.

With a Q-pipe tighter than a nun's...

Hitz and some of the Creature boys in town to shred. Took 'em to a small one for some grinders.

Luis got one too.

Then to Adam's. Why not?

Capt. Jack Sparrow made it over the stairs the hard way in three tries.

Next day it was back to another local lovely, Hitz rolled in first try.

Sparrow FSG.

Luis tailslide, you know, the kind with your hand.

Then back to Adam's again, Hitz shallow end grinder.

Style for days on Luis' R'n'R. 

Junior got some too.

Luis' first death box grind, here on film.

Went back to Cowtown ramp for a third time in the week, but no photos. It's a mini-ramp. In the immortal words of Pat Quirke: "This isn't mini-ramp dust!" I guess it's not really Pool dust either.

Guitar Wolf, bitches!

Japanese motopsycho rocker Guitar Wolf is playing at the Martini Ranch in Snotsdale (?!) on April 21. Early show, don't sleep, it's gonna be ths shit. Saw the band about 15 or more years ago in Seattle at the OK Hotel, and they fucking ripped. Shot a posed photo of the band after they played in full leathers the whole time -- one of my favroite band photos that I've ever took. I'll have to try to track that down. It ran in Thrasher.

Guitar Wolf is obviously a Kawalski guy, but with that sick looking KZ900 who can blame him. This is the 7" by Guitar Wolf that I usuall play when I spin records:

Evidence LV: Hobbit Hole's last breath?

Blatantly ripped off from Sam Hitz's The Larb (check it!). Hitz and crew are in town for a few days, and hit up the Hobbit Hole for a last (?) hurrah and to shred the rad. Were gonna meet up later today and do more backyard damage.