George and Dhani Harrison, and Tom Petty, with the Bones Brigade, Friar Park, July 1989. Photo 1 courtesy of the Harrison Estate, via xgames.com (“Harrisons Sr. and Jr., center, surrounded by the Bones Brigade the second time the team paid a visit to the family's Friar Park estate in the U.K. Ever the boss, George Harrison is wearing pants Mike McGill sent to him and a pink Tony Hawk T-shirt.”); photo 2 courtesy of Tony Hawk/Instagram.
“In July of 1989, Tony Hawk, Mike Manzoori, Ray Underhill, Eric Sorrensen, Adrian Demain, and I [Lance Mountain] were on tour in Europe with the Bones Brigade... We were skating this little red mini ramp out in the middle of this field somewhere in the London area, and I was selling some 45 singles of this band I was in called Republic. [...]
So the mom comes over and invites us to her house for dinner, and I’m like, ‘Sure,’ not knowing what’s going on.
Before we left to go to the kid’s house, this dude comes over and goes, ‘That’s George Harrison’s wife [Olivia] and kid [Dhani]; they want to take you to their castle.’ [...] We walked in, and George was sitting in a room with Tom Petty; they were watching soccer. We met them, and George took some time out and gave us a little tour of the castle. We walked through all these hallways, all his gold and platinum discs were on the wall. He was like, ‘Let me show you the music room.’ There were three drum sets and 50 guitars on the wall — all the famous guitars he’d ever played. [...] We went into George’s kid’s bedroom — at that time he would have been about twelve. [...] Then we went to the kitchen, and George’s wife made us some pizza, so we had pizza with everyone. It was pretty trippy.
The son knew I’d been selling singles at the demo, and he told his dad, so George is all, ‘I heard you have a record. If you get me one, I’ll put it in the jukebox in the living room.’
I told him it was terrible and that we didn’t know how to play. George said that’s what music is, and that no one really knows how to play.” - Lance Mountain, as told to Skin, skateboarding dot transworld dot net, 27 December 1999
“It was the coolest thing that happened to me up until that point in my life. Tony Hawk hit a launch ramp at my house.” - Dhani, ESPN, 13 December 2013 (x)
One of our favorite 80's skateboarding movies, that just so happens to have outlandish tricks, Christian Slater, Richard Herd, our idol Tony Hawk and of course bad guys. This revenge flick always resonated with us, being die-hard skaters ourselves.
On today's show we interview Art Chudabala, who plays the amazing Vihn Kelly. We go back in time to how he landed this role, what it was like working with Christian Slater, and some behind the scenes gold for the true fans.
like they seem pretty unidimensional at first (and they are) but they are also a lot of fun and i love how in the end they go "yup, you took us in you still the boss"
also love that siblings dynamic where thye absolutely heckle each other but stick toghetter