who else remembers going to the video store and renting those bones brigade vhs tapes for the first time? i was 9 yrs old living in south carolina and that was my first real exposure to the skating culture…my life was changed from that moment forever. for some reason i was drawn to mike mcgill the most and saved up a whole summer of mowing lawns and other odd jobs to get my first skateboard his skull and snake deck. thanx mike for being a good role model and never making me feel regret for being a fan. 💙🤘🏽
Same here! O.G. Skaters are best from our 80’s era as a teen! Bones Brigade was a big thing in my life and have owned so many Powell Peralta decks growing up! I will be 50 Sunday and started in 83’!#🛹👑McGill#LEGENDS@JustinAnderson
I started skateboarding in 1973. Lol I grew up in a small cornfield in Indiana and skated parking lots. When I become a young teenager my parents moved to Clearwater Florida and we had Clearwater skateboard park. I remember Mike and Alan showing up there for contests. what an absolutely amazing place in time. Mike lived in the city of Newport Ritchie. The first time I saw the movie animal chin was at Newport Ritchie Mike Mcgill’s skate shop. which was half Skateboard half landscape nursery. his mom popped in animal chin and we watched it as she narrated. What an amazing place in time. later I helped Mike build a replica of the Delmar mini ramp in a warehouse in Oldsmar Florida. it’s funny how far Skateboard has come. And how lucky we were to be there in that place in time. how blessed we all were. 🤙🏼🍻
49 here as well - and man does my office look like a nostalgia blowout. 40 decks on the walls... toys all over the place. Yep... grown man and his toys.
It’s crazy how my entire life once I started skating I knew Mike as part of the Bones Brigade and obviously had mad respect for him but after hearing how cool, humble, funny, and down to earth he is, I have so much more admiration and respect for him. What a rad dude and what a fantastic episode. Def have him back and everyone should support his skate shop however you can.
being a San Diego local I’ve been to mikes shop a few times growing up, one of my favorite moments was going during the pandemic and getting a board gripped and board rails and I showed mike how to use both ends of the grip for a grip gap but even better mike put my board rails on very cockeyed and I just kept it that way! not everyday you get a bones brigade member gripping your board 😂 thank you Mike for all you’ve done for the San Diego Skate Scene!
watching Mike get more comfortable as the show progressed was awesome.. The best part was hearing him say he wanted to come back!! second best was him talking about Animal Chin, was my first skate vid, changed my life!!!
For us that grew up during that time Gator was a ego maniac and fed off of Love and hype and in the late 80’s came into street skating he couldn’t do it lost his mind and we know the rest of the story!#Jail🦜#80’s🛹vert👑#Vision’sPosterBoy
Thanks for having McGill! I’m secretly watching this episode at work and looking at my skull and snake deck hung on the wall at my office. He changed the game with the McTwist. That was THE trick and to this day is still so impressive.
I met Mike McGill at a wholefoods in Orange County a few years ago. We had lunch together because my buddy Brian Patch knew him well. Mike was so humble and was so awesome to get to sit with a legend with no one else around.
I met Brian Patch before at Slam City Jam in Vancouver. I had wrist guards on and he told me they can break my wrist. Then he shredded the Hastings Bowl that was just outside the Slam City Jam arena.
Hell yeah. That was a sick ass interview. I never heard McGill talk. He never really gets that much attention but he was a big part of the bones brigade and much more. I still haven’t been to his shop and I live in San Diego! I’m gonna check it out soon!
i rode McGill's skatepark in '89, visiting from VA. my friend Scary Larry & i joined the boy scouts to ride & everything. hardly anyone was out there at the vert ramp except us, Jason Jesse & the Godoy brothers. we skated together every day for about 4-5 days - what a blast
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Strikes me that a lot of the 70's and 80's pro skaters have done so much hard work for skating behind the scenes for decades. Brilliant episode. Thank you 9 club.
I have an album of old photos from when my dad made the trip down to McGills park from Chicago. He told me he was skating and then Tony Hawk and Mike showed up so he stopped skateboarding and started taking photos.
I am Venezuelan but did´t see this guys skateing in Caracas, but heard and see a bunch of photos of that event. Older friends who see them talk about this like the fisrt international skate event in my country. So sick finally heard a story from one of those legends. Shout out all the Venezuela skate community. Skateboarding is the best. PD: Animal Chin is one of my fav skate videos of all the times.
I met Mike and Tony outside of Hamel’s surf shop in 85/86 on a cold, grey, early Saturday morning. They were both so rad . They signed my shirt which I wore to school the following Monday . Wish I’d kept the shirt .
What an amazing interview, the insight into Alan Gelfand was incredible. How insane would it be if you got Alan on the show?! You have to get him back on the show to talk about The McEgg (yes Chris, it's a real thing).
Wow! Happy to hear his stories!! My pal is gonna be stoked for sure! 🤘 That actress he's talking about I just watched her on Netflix in dead to me with Christina Applegate
Mike's such a great guy. Skated at his park in Carlsbad ages ago and he chatted with us in the shop and come watch us skate. He's such a genuine guy. Humble legend for sure.
This is just so dope. Loving this interview, and it's just getting me so stoked to skate but I can't right now, smashed up my right wrist a month ago skating, gnarly fractures to my radius and ulna. Hopefully in February I can start making those first steps towards getting back on the board before I turn 40 next year...
@@doddzilla3805 Jeez, take care, I hope you heal up real soon, literally after this episode I rolled across the floor on my board for the first time in a month. It was terrifying but it's really getting to me that the only time I skate at the moment is in an occasional dream!
I loved Mike's skatepark built around 1988 on top of the old Carlsbad Pipeline skatepark which closed in 1978 or so. Mike's vert ramp was built in the part of the old skatepark ruins which you could still sorta skate. The funny thing is, as a kid, 1978 and the old park ruins seemed like a prehistoric dinosaur era. Crazy how fast skating evolved in just 10 years and even crazier how it's evolved into what it is today. Vert guys now like Jimmy Wilkins or Elliot Sloan was simply unimaginable back then.
About time. Great guy, had the pleasure to talk with him ocassionally at his skate park and his shop during the late 1980s through the early 1990s. The vert ramp in the Fallbrook grove Mike was talking about, belonged to Tobin White. Many pro vert skaters skated there. My older brother Terry Trimble took a bunch of photos of different skaters there, including Joe Johnson.
I freakin' 🖤🖤🖤 these episodes with the super core heads, hearing the old stories and the stories behind those stories‼️‼️‼️ I mean this dude invented a trick that blew the doors off skating and progressed the sport into insane territory almost 40 years ago that's STILL legit aF. My first real board in '87 was a florescent green McGill with the 🐍 and 💀 graphic - i thought i was totally hot shit with that deck. My mom and dad dropped me off at the local shop with $50 while she went to Nancy Chin's for a manicure. Meanwhile, my dad was checking out some property with Buck Chin, our realtor!
Awesome interview, I wish he'd talked about the fact that they used HIS PRO MODEL for Gleaming the Cube; with all of that screen time cementing its icon status as one of the best-loved graphics of all time. Can't imagine how many of those sold after the movie came out. I wonder if that was his stipulation for being the stunt double, or just a happy coincidence. There was even the freestyle version of that graphic for the warehouse scene where Rodney was the stunt double. Also, that has to be one of the longest-run graphics of all time, spanning all the way from early-mid-80s pig boards, to bottle nose, to around 1990 with the spoon nose version, and dozens of reissues more recently and even Flight/popsicle versions. Love these episodes with the older pros, keep 'em coming!
I Love the L-E-G-E-N-D-S on here like Mike McGill! I will be 50 Sunday and started skating in 83’ on a Powell Peralta Ripper then got a McGill deck, then Mountain, T.G., Cab, & Hawk so I had them all as a teen many times over and over I’d buy their decks now still collect their reissues! Love the long stories from a O.G. From the 80’s era!#🛹❤️#80’s”TheBestofTimes”#PowellPeralta#BonesBrigade
Jeez Roberts! A-D Rock! Haha Adrock. The Beastie’s! Man, they were in Atwater Village. Huge part of 90’s street culture! Hit super hard in the West Coast. Haha. Good shit.
Wow sick! Does this complete the Bones Brigade? I guess with the exception of Rodney. McGill’s board was the first pro board I saw in person-Phoenix, AZ, 1987 at Pizza Mart leaning on the arcade game. Love Mike and Cab’s part in Ban This!
