Greg Hunt.

Backside smith grind on a bench in the middle of nowhere. After being pro for Stereo, Hunt got behind the camera lens for the DC video and is currently working on the new Alien Workshop video.

Slap - October 1995 Volume 4 Number 10

Ethan Fowler.

Smooth. I'm glad this guy did what he did when he did it.

Slap - December 1995 Volume 4 Number 12

Coco Santiago.

I went through the issues of Slap that I have from 1995 and scanned in a bunch of stuff. I also reread some of the articles. The tour stories about the Deluxe team were nuts. They basically were like vikings on skateboards, ransacking and pillaging wherever they went for months on end.

Slap - October 1995 Volume 4 Number 10

Mark Gonzales #2.

"The Gonz in mid shifty at the Ashtray, Eugene OR."

The photo is by Lance Dawes.

They played "Lowrider" on the radio during my drive into work today.

Note: Mark is riding a Jay Adams Z - Flex. It measures 9.5" x 33". I know this because I scanned in a bunch of stuff from my issues of Slap from 1995 and there was a Z - Products ad with Jay that gave the board size.

Slap - September 1995 Volume 4 Number 9

Forties #2.

More Forties goodness. So simple and so amazing. I almost think Natas took the top photo of the truck. Or maybe Thomas Campbell. It's post - bar time on a Saturday night, so I'm not sure and not sober. As for the bottom photo, Chris "Dune" Patras is on the acoustic guitar and Tommy Guerrero is on the electric. I don't know who the bass player is. Enjoy.

Slap - July 1995 Volume 4 Number 7 (Keep on truckin')

Slap - September 1995 Volume 4 Number 9 (Keep on rockin')

Forties #1.

Forties was Tommy Guerrero's clothing company. I think their ads are awesome. They used art from a variety of the usual Deluxe suspects - Guerrero, Tobin Yelland, Mic - e Reyes and Natas Kaupas to name a few. Their clothes were hard to find, at least wherever I lived. I think I only ever had one Forties t - shirt.

Here are a pair of ads with Natas from 1995. I don't know if he actually rode for the company. I don't think it matters.

Slap - August 1995 Volume 4 Number 8 (Number Of The Beast drawing)

Slap - November 1995 Volume 4 Number 11 (Frontside Air)

Ron Chatman #2.

"The world looks a little better from up here. Ron Chatman, La Mirada California."

It sure does.

Once again it's a Spike Jonze photo.

Transworld - October 1990 Volume 8 Number 10