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Beer And A Movie: Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
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Fri Dec 28
6:30 pm
Beer And A Movie: Bones Brigade: An Autobiography at Turner Hall Ballroom
Stacy Peralta has directed and/or written multiple documentaries and feature films about the history of skateboarding and surfing, which are subjects he knows firsthand from his experience as a pioneering pro. It’s surprising it’s taken him so long to get around to making Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, a documentary about the formidable team of teen skateboarders he and his deck-making partner George Powell assembled in the 1980s. Edited together from old video footage and new interviews, Bones Brigade tells the story of how the Powell/Peralta brigade thrived throughout the end of pro skateboarding’s first big wave, then helped keep the sport alive in its dark ages, using skate videos, street skating, and middle-of-nowhere events to help revive skating first as an underground culture, then as big business. Without the Bones Brigade, it’s doubtful Peralta could’ve interested many in Dogtown And Z-Boys or Lords Of Dogtown, his movies about skateboarding’s early days.
Turner Hall Ballroom 1032 N 4th St, Milwaukee, WI
Stacy Peralta has directed and/or written multiple documentaries and feature films about the history of skateboarding and surfing, which are subjects he knows firsthand from his experience as a pioneering pro. It’s surprising it’s taken him so long to get around to making Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, a documentary about the formidable team of teen skateboarders he and his deck-making partner George Powell assembled in the 1980s. Edited together from old video footage and new interviews, Bones Brigade tells the story of how the Powell/Peralta brigade thrived throughout the end of pro skateboarding’s first big wave, then helped keep the sport alive in its dark ages, using skate videos, street skating, and middle-of-nowhere events to help revive skating first as an underground culture, then as big business. Without the Bones Brigade, it’s doubtful Peralta could’ve interested many in Dogtown And Z-Boys or Lords Of Dogtown, his movies about skateboarding’s early days.
Updated 12/17/2012
