Steve has many pro models with Powell-Peralta Skateboards and continues to live in the San Jose, CA, area with his wife Rachael. The original Bones Brigade crew consisted of Alan Gelfand, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, and Ray Rodriguez. What were the origins of this doc? The skateboard community as it is today and that sense of belonging—this is it for me. He knows how to tell the story about skateboarding. They also revolutionized product and ramp design, and the entire present day industry through business ventures. Skating was an outlet from home life and it's very much what made me, me. I've literally watched Stacy Peralta's Bones Brigade: An Autobiography half a dozen times in the past two weeks. A lot of people were asking me when were they going to do a documentary on the 1980s, the era when I became popular. But I felt good inside. WakeInFright. So the camaraderie you guys shared 25 years ago while in the Brigade came full circle. If we all could choose just one deck of those 6 Bones Brigade members to reissue, what would it be? In 2010, Steve Caballero was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in Simi Valley, California. Check out Bones Brigade: An Autobiography when it premieres on January 21 at the The MARC in Park City at 8:30 p.m. to see archival footage and first-person accounts from the athletes that changed skateboarding into the omnipresent sport that it is today. This would mark the first time that Peralta would not be commander-in-chief, so to speak. They've all told me that at different times. 24, 9:30 p.m., Rose Wagner, Salt Lake City Jan. 26, 9:00 p.m., Screening Room, Sundance Resort Jan. 27, 11:30 a.m., MARC, Park City Jan. 28, 3:30 p.m., Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden. Then they tried to dress us in what amounted to painted cellophane shorts. He was actually trying to schedule flying in from Australia, attending a screening and then flying back. He's extremely eccentric and he has needs. The Skull & Snake design was Mike's 2nd deck graphic with Powell-Peralta and was chosen to resonate with Ray Rodriguez's successful Skull and Sword graphic. Lance's combination of video visibility and contest successes created enough popular demand to earn him a pro model with Powell-Peralta much sooner than expected. "Freak" is used as a compliment. “I was coming to the end of my professional career and I didn’t want to leave skateboarding. Expecting soft sales of perhaps 300, they sold a hundred times that and boosted Powell Peralta's market share in the process. Tim got Stacy Peralta, his team manager and mentor, to watch Rodney, which immediately got him on the amateur team in 1980. I was afraid of being looked upon as a narcissistic filmmaker. Powell Peralta has re-issued decks under the brand, Powell Classic. I can't describe who I was or what I was going through without digging up a lot of that stuff. We didn’t need to revisit it. Everybody is taking something different from it. The other part is that so much of my motivation and what I was dealing with [in the 1980s] comes from a very private home life. I need to hear what the film sounds like, what it feels like and its emotional tenor. I had already done the interviews and I knew what I said and I let a lot of my heart out. CAB's first Powell-Peralta pro model featured a dragon illustrated by Vernon Courtlandt Johnson (VCJ) and inspired by a concept sketch provided by Steve himself, perhaps foreshadowing his recent success in the art world, where he has participated in a number of art shows with his original paintings. The footage consisted of contests, backyard ramps and street shots filmed over the previous year. This film shows that for anything to be of a certain value, have impact over time, it takes people being very passionate and working together combining different sets of skills. Last night I started watching the Powell Peralta Bone's Brigade Autobiography on Netflix and was amazed at the adversity that the original Brigade members went through - from the sports highs to lows and back to it's highs. This year, Peralta brings another skate documentary to the festival with some friendly faces in tow. RM: That made all the difference. Some of them make a lot of false assumptions about how we started skating and how we became successful. After juggling both a professional career and the upstart company, time proved too constrained and he decided to focus his energy solely on his business. I felt there was potentially funny material from my career in the '70s and when I saw that goofy footage, I let Josh run with it. Josh understood how to take that material and cut it into the film in a way that makes those shots contextual but also funny. They wanted to meet with me to talk about the possibility of a “Bones Brigade” documentary and if I would consider directing it. Last question and this concerns the skateboarders who shredded during the '80s—will they ever be able to look at The Search for Animal Chin [The most successful skateboard video in history, released by Powell Peralta in 1987] the same way again? As Powell-Peralta began to develop a deck graphic for Lance, he was offered a VCJ kull & knee bone-based theme playing off the other skull and dragon inspired Brigade decks, but he wanted something different. A decade after that, George passed down his skateboard to his son, who promptly complained that his relic ride sucked compared to newer models with urethane wheels. It was a very unusual tightrope for me as a filmmaker and participant. He locks in on who you are and allows you to just go with it. Stacy was very clear and he gave me his word and I believed him—again, this is not a reflection of me doubting Stacy one iota—but the reality is that these things have a mind of their own. You can easily fall into that [way of thinking], even unintentionally. How far back had you been planning it? Not wanting to overshadow the young team he recruited, Stacy refused to issue himself a pro model on Powell Peralta but still won SkateBoarder magazine's skater of the year in 1979. These homemade rolling planks were developed to cruise the streets, to resemble the feeling of making turns on God’s great ocean. Stacy had an unparalleled instinct for finding hidden talent, always bypassing obvious choices to recruit raw and "weird" skaters based on personality rather than obvious physical talent. You played a catalyst in getting the film rolling, right? The film tracks how the Bones Brigade influenced the most pivotal moments in skateboard history. Here's your chance to own a piece of skateboarding history, at the same time picking up an original Bones Brigade member's board. RM: Yes. That’s the story: teamwork and perseverance. Lance Mountain. For a long time, I didn’t want to compete and I wanted to be more flexible in terms of my opportunities. He is a Pro for Almost Skateboards, has a Pro wheel with BONES wheels, still skates almost daily, continues to develop new tricks. Why did it take so long time to feel secure? Naturally, I cringed and flinched when I saw and heard myself, but by the time it was over I was just dizzy. During the 1980s, the guys and I shared moments of high elation and triumph together. We knew we were part of something special at the time, but I dont think we realized the resonance it would have and how formative it would be for people of the same age or interest levels. The first time George Powell saw a skateboard it wasn't called a skateboard. The tiny market responded well to Ray Rodriguez's Skull and Sword graphic, however, so for his next deck graphic, Powell-Peralta decided to try another skull. They have wives, families and even kids that are getting involved in professional skateboarding. He overcame so much adversity and that's what makes a good story. TH: I think it’ll help enlighten kids nowadays as to what their roots are. TH: It’s definitely been a catalyst for us to start working together again because we want to help promote the film, but also assess each other’s interest levels in doing reissues and how far we want to take this nostalgia. Tony happened to be in Dubai and we talked for a long time. QUESTION: What were you thoughts upon hearing that the BONES BRIGADE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY was going to be made? It’s been 30 years since the original members of the Bones Brigade—Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Mike McGill, Tommy Guerrero—gathered at the Chin Ramp. 1981 After the success of the Ray “Bones” Rodriguez skull and sword pro model, Powell Peralta decides to give out more signature decks. Being the person asking the questions, i.e. What began as a tight-knit group of amateur teens had grown into a gang of world class athletes with the world at their fingertips. All rights reserved. If I could choose one it would be the Street Hawk, but ideally not a black dip. They’ll just be documenting the facts and skateboarding has nothing to do with facts. The team was created in 1979 by Stacy Peralta who picked most of the riders. The Bones Brigade crew in the ‘80s (L-R): Rodney Mullen, Mike McGill, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero and Lance Mountain. LANCE MOUNTAIN: When the Dogtown and Z Boys documentary came out, I remember asking Stacy, “What next? The original Bones Brigade consisted of Ray ‘Bones’ Rodriguez, Alan ‘Ollie’ Gelfand, Steve ‘CAB’ Caballero, Tony ‘Bird Man’ Hawk, Mike McGill, Jay Smith, and Tim Scroggs. But another person told me that they'll actually appreciate Chin even more. I’m not doing that." They were laying down the tracks for future generations. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. Some of the members of the team were very original. “It premiered in Tony Hawk’s parent’s living room. In order to sustain his occupation in skateboarding, Peralta went into business with engineer George Powell. Rodney's flatland ollie was years ahead of the industry and sport, and so he proceeded to just use this new lever to move the entire skate world into the third dimension. I needed to bring in somebody who knows how to tell stories. Soon after, as a part of the Zephyr Team, Peralta began to compete as an amateur before turning pro in 1976. During the 1980s, skateboarding was self-contained and survived by relying on an instinctual DIY ethos. I know Stacy is one of the best documentarians and when you combine that with the fact that he was there the whole time, it’s obvious that he was the best choice. Peralta made his Sundance debut back in 2001 when he premiered Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary comprised of ‘70s skate footage that covered the rise and fall of the Zephyr team (of which he was a member) and was eventually adapted into the Hollywood film Lords of Dogtown. I was looking to work on a little film that I could do on my own time. I had a very strong reservation about participating because I want very much to live in the present. Tommy's pro model became widely popular as street skating took off, displacing vert skating altogether in the late 80s. I think Stacy is the only one who would have gotten it out of us. 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