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EPICLY LATER’D

By Patrick O’Dell


I called Ty Evans to ask if he had any unused Guy Mariano footage and he said, “You know what I have? Twenty raw tapes that Spike filmed for Video Days.” Holy shit... I raced over there while making frantic phone calls to Spike to see if it was cool to dub them. To me, these are the Dead Sea Scrolls of skateboarding. I honestly believe that Video Days is the greatest skate video ever made. It captures the best in skateboarding—technical progression, artfulness, style, fun—and even 18 years later it doesn’t look dated. There is no other skate video ever made that I would like to sit down and watch raw footage from.

These tapes had been sitting in various closets and storage spaces before finding their way to Ty’s house. At one point in the late 90s, the tapes must have been in Mark Gonzales’s possession because there are parts of the footage that are dubbed over with footage of Mark for Real’s Non Fiction video. I sat there watching tape after tape and couldn’t help feeling like I was in a time machine. There are so many tricks that were never even used in the final cut, and many of the tricks that did make it into the video were just done spontaneously or on the first try. It was amazing watching Mark invent a trick that would forever change skateboarding in real time.

Anyway, don’t worry—I am not going to hog these tapes just for myself. In the Guy Mariano episodes of Epicly Later’d we are pillaging the fuck out of them, and I hope at least some skaters will be as excited as I am. Thank you Ty and Spike!

Watch Epicly Later’d on VBS.TV.

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Anonymous, on Mar 31, 2009 wrote:
What about Jordan Richter? Didn’t that guy go off the fucking deep end?
Anonymous, on Mar 19, 2009 wrote:
Now that is what you call a scoop.
Anonymous, on Mar 19, 2009 wrote:
does jason land that one? the second from the bottom, left side? looks like he’s about to faceplant into concrete.
Anonymous, on Mar 19, 2009 wrote:
i built a cd shelf like that one he has and now i never buy hardcopies of records anymore so i have a half-full cd shelf with all my old embarrassing cds on it like grateful dead studio albums. grateful dead live, however, i still am proud to say i’ll listen to, just nothing from the 90s. they weren’t the same after jerry had the coma. anyways, yeah, my already tiny apt is not 20 square feet smaller thanks to a project that i now don’t need.
Anonymous, on Mar 19, 2009 wrote:
fuck that’s a lot of tapes. i could spend a week smoking up and watching them back to back.
hooohaaa, on Mar 18, 2009 wrote:
Is that a book of paul newman (rip) stripping in the box with all of his tapes?
gnarwhal, on Mar 18, 2009 wrote:
oh shit that’s one of the old caddies when you roll down the windows and it makes one giant open window! i love those.
Anonymous, on Mar 18, 2009 wrote:
can you do like a bonus epicly later’d and show as much of this footage as allowed? i’d love to see all the uncut stuff.
Anonymous, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
lee gets his name in color but the rest dont? what’s with that?
Anonymous, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
long live cheesy graphics! just wait, it will come back with a vengeance sometime soon!
joey carrera, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
oh and remember the huge jeans they cut off, exposing those pulled up socks?
Anonymous, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
oh my the one with jason in red hair looks like hans klopek from the
burbs!

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Anonymous, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
joey carrera, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
what is it about the 90’s that made every skater want to bleach their hair blonde?

not only that, back when socks were pulled up! you can see some peeking over jl’s chucks in the top photo.
electricboogaloo, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
didn’t know spike jonze had a past of filming skate footy. I mean i know he did stuff with gonz but didn’t know he did entire videos for blind.
Anonymous, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
is the nibblers lee shot right before the old lady accosts him? lol, that was hilarious.
Anonymous, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
haha check out the digital signatures, it’s like when you have to sign for a ups delivery.
Anonymous, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
this reminds me of the "this scud’s for you" shirt i used to have that i got at a truck stop. it was amazing.
Anonymous, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
get all this to dvd before the tape quality deteriorates beyond watchability!
Anonymous, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
no, this is like the traci lords videos she made when she faked her age which were later banned videos of skater porn
Anonymous, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
these videos are like skateboarders porn... what a good find!
joey carrera, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
what is it about the 90’s that made every skater want to bleach their hair blonde?
Anonymous, on Mar 16, 2009 wrote:
damn look how young jason lee looks there!
Anonymous, on Mar 14, 2009 wrote:
and one eyebrow.
Anonymous, on Mar 14, 2009 wrote:
Odell is the man!

...even if he has some girly mannerisms heh..

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