In 1981 Duane Peters, Steve and Micke Alba appeared on a local TV program called Eye on L.A.. The segment was excerpted on one of those pool skating DVD’s (Chlorine?) a few years ago, but Scot Starr dumped it to Youtube. Starr’s got a national treasure trove of old skate footage from the straight media. I don’t know how he got it all. The segment has hip music for the time, Duran Duran and the Stray Cats, plus where else can you hear Toni Basil’s Hey Mickey followed by Frank Sinatra? Duane is going through his New Romantic phase or something. It’s amusing to hear him talk about getting his act together and not being a bad element at the ripe age of 21. Relapse must have been right around the corner. Both he and Salba try to distance themselves from Punk Rock, which is ironic in these days, but it was L.A. in the early 80’s and classic punk had pretty much fizzled out. I’m not talking about hardcore either. Yeah, it’s easy in hind sight to make fun of the fashion choices and words from someone’s youth. Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.
Duane Peters, Steve and Micke Alba on Eye on L.A. from 1981
12 comments
cskate
Where’s the Pinto now do you suppose? Did it explode?
PEB
It was Malba who had the powder blue pinto. I rode in it many times.
ChrisBennett
Duane Peters is so rad!
Baldy
Or more DP on CD instead of LP?
Baldy
Who is LP?
Billy Runaway
BFD – the fashion waxes and wanes – their skating remains the same – straight up GNAR GNAR – we need more DP’s and Salba’s and less of the current crop of modern day lightweight pussies (i.e. more DP and less LP)……
Lmobb
slabaland..
Kilwag
Slaba Flocka
Zoe
Flock of Salba
enemy combatant
“I would like to kiss Carl Perkins on his cold, dead cheek”
Honey, don’t!!!
cskate
Dp drove a powder blue Pinto Hatchback.
paige
I totally love the hair. Big hair on guys is great. As to the current trend, I would like to kiss Carl Perkins on his cold, dead cheek for inspiring pompadores, Elvis for actually doing it, and Brian Setzer for carrying on the tradition so the current tattooed love boys are that much finer.