For anyone who grew up skating in the 80’s with stickers, clothing and boards proclaiming your allegiance to the Bones Brigade, Vision Street Wear, and reading Thrasher, odds are that your life today is not just half pipes and tailgrabs.
Sometime, for posterity’s sake, we might break out the old Powell & Peralta board and see if we still have what it takes. But for a few rare people, life has taken a different path–like the one that has allowed skater Tommy Guerrero to follow his passion, expand on other intrerests and continue to be a relevant cultural force yeards after he started skating for fun.
Between his skating, music and job at DLX, Tommy was kind enough to take some time to speak with SneakerBlogger:
So what are you working on right now?
I just dropped a new album, Return of the Bastard in February and my other project is called jet black crayon. we have a new
record dropping next month..
it has a dvd with 7 films that accompany the music..good stuff….
For those new to the game, can you give a quick history of Tommy G
and shoes? (And do you still have any of your ‘84 P&P pro models lying around?…)
hmmm…it would be difficult to edit my life into a sentence…i’m old
ya know..lots has happened…
as far as shoes go i have never had a pro model..<a target=”_self” href=”http://www.adidas.com/us/shar ..
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