Still Screaming

I was flipping through the channels a few weeks ago when I stumbled across Season 1: Episode 2 of Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways show on HBO. One hour later I found myself not only stoked on all of the old Minor Threat, Bad Brains video footage and photos etc... I also found myself inspired. That's right... inspired by The Foo Fighters.

I've told the story before of the first time I ever came across the Foo Fighters... I was walking through my living room sometime back in the 90's when my roommate at the time (Trevor) was watching Much Music on the tube. There was a band performing live and I remember asking him "who's this?" "Foo Fighters" he responded. "That guy looks familiar" I said. "That's Dave Grohl!" he replied. "Who's Dave Grohl?" I queried. "The drummer of Nirvana" he scoffed. "I don't like Nirvana" I stated and walked off. It kept bugging me... who is Dave Grohl? He looked so familiar, but I knew nothing about Nirvana and well obviously not Foo Fighters either. Then it hit me! I dug out a shoe box and found a stack of old photos. Photos of Dave Grohl.

How did those photos make their way in to the shoe box? Well let's set the dial on the archive machine back to 1988 and get down to it!

When our band at the time (Peak of Outrage) found out that Mike Lambert put us on the bill to open up for Washington D.C.'s SCREAM, we were beside ourselves to say the least.

Back in the days before photo I.D., it was a lot easier to get in to clubs to see live bands when I was only sixteen. Even easier under the guise of being "in the band". At this specific show, I recall being given a hard time getting back in to The Royal Albert Arms to see the headlining act. I argued that it was silly not to let me in to the club armed with my camera when I had no intentions of drinking when just an hour earlier I was allowed on the stage armed with my guitar entertaining the drinking patrons. Somehow or other... I won the debate.

Franz Stahl (brother of Peter Stahl seen above) did move on to be in the Foo Fighters.

...and the reason Dave Grohl seemed all too familiar to me that night back in the 90's was because in that shoe box were the memories of the night I got to see SCREAM and before the days of Nirvana, there was Dave Grohl; drumming for SCREAM

$7 at the door. If you haven't seen it yet, go watch Sonic Highways Season 1: Episode2 and get stoked. Get inspired.

Accumulation

Lost in limbo.

HDIW 2014

The 2nd Annual Hockey Day in Winnipeg Funraiser took place this past Saturday at The Centre for Youth Excellence to raise funds for The Edge Skatepark. So of course that meant getting up earlier than usual to start the day right!

FUNDraisng ($16,600)

FUNraising!

The calm before the storm.

For the people who forgot to eat pancakes.

Healthier options as well of course.

Ready.

Set.

Go!

Documenting.

Edge kids.

Gavin the volunteer.

Words by Cliff.

Bob Somers from Team Car Ram Rod.

Team Car Ram Rod's newest recruit.

Fuzzbox.

Lunch time.

Best dressed prize goes out to the Fun Razors!

Door prize!

...and another!

Geoff's socks.

I believe there were 12 registered teams in total. Another day full of fun and another great successful fun and fundraising day for our local indoor skate park! That's that!

DTM

Dan the man. Disaster.

Before

Naturally; before comes prior to after. Skate park stuff...

After

It's after midnight. It's -11℃. On my way home from the indoor skate park session, I spotted a fun little wall ride session going down. I already had my camera with me, it's not like I'm just going to keep on driving home...

Dakota and Julian. Hardcore.

That's that!

My Rules

Happy Birthday to me! Saw the new Glen E. Friedman book in shrink wrap at the local book store the other day and noted to my wife that I'd love to see inside the book. Low and behold, yesterday was my birthday and voila! My Rules!

Even if for some odd reason you've never heard of Glen E. Friedman, you've definitely seen his work. With over one hundred album covers to his credit from hip hop to hardcore and years of documenting skateboarding on both the east and west coast since the 1970's, Glen E. Friedman's photography has more than likely been seen by you! From Jay Adams...

...to Ice T and back to...

...The Dead Kennedys, this book has it all!

Not to mention Minor Threat to Pussy Riot, RUN DMC to Discharge, Public Enemy to The Adolescents etc... etc... You get the picture. No pun intended. This book includes photos from previous books in a larger format as well as never seen before photos.

A must have to any photographers collection of books by other photographers. An amazing follow up to FUCK YOU HEROES, The Idealist, keep your eyes open (FUGAZI), DOG TOWN - The Legend of the Z Boys, Recognize and FUCK YOU TOO

Golden Boy Opening Night

As planned; headed down to opening of of The Lantern and Christian Procter's "Golden Boy" Used Work show.

The Producer, The Artist and The Handler.

Sean with Procter version 2.0

Fine art abounds.

Flash

Clenched fists, black eyes.

Packed house, awesome opening, what else is there to say?

Golden Boy

Now this is happening. Tonight! See you there!

Mecha-Streisand

The flea market is always a fun place for me to take photos. They're often packed with interesting people and at least interesting stuff. Unfortunately the last trip to the flea market; I dared to take a photo of this blonde lady without permission. I figured it would be silly to ask her as she was in fact a mannequin. Her "owner" on the other hand (lurking in the background of this photo) got super uptight and started in with an inquisition of why I'd take a photo of her mannequin. I tried to explain to her that photographers often end up taking photographs and that's kind of how it works. You can't have one without the other. She went on to accuse me (and number one son) of "casing" her booth with the intention of showing thieves all of the stuff they can steal later. Cause we all know that thieves can't be bothered to leave the couch unless someone has shown them "the goods" at the flea market in advance? I am now posting this photo, but I plead with you... please don't steal Mecha-Streisand's mannequin!