BANDSALAT featuring Randy Holden

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Hello Dear readership. This is the second installment of „Bandsalat“, courtesy of Bailgun. And today we’re bringing you some serious „Stoner Rock“! Randy Holden! It really doesn’t get much heavier than this as far as guitar gnarlers go. One of the first bands he was in was „The Fender IV“ who did this burly rendition of
„Mar Gaya“, a ripping surf guitar instrumental. He went on to play in a bunch of other bands after that, but it wasn’t until he joined Blue Cheer, maybe the first Heavy Metal band, that he really started to stretch his stoner wings. In 1969 he formed a band with one other guy and called it „Population 2“ as it was just the two of them. The record is nearly impossible to to find even on CD, but if you’re into Stoner Rock or heavy duty guitars then you might want to give it a shot. Until next time, this is Bandsalat saying „Get stoned“!

Denver – One Gathering contest

For the past few years, the Stronghold Society has been hosting the One Gathering – Skate for Life event at the downtown Denver Park. Not only is this event significant for its root cause: to bring skateboarders and enthusiasts of varied backgrounds together from Colorado and neighboring states, and to draw attention to Denver’s historical ‚D‘ Park. People of all ages and all walks of life head down to the skatepark to enjoy a beautiful day in the amazing weather. The event is extremely unique because it is blessed by the Native American tribes of South Dakota and also hosts some of the Tribes’ best skateboarders!

Here are some of the highlights…I am already looking forward to next year’s event!

Photos and text: Kim Cook

Geoff – tailblock
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Derek Scott – backside blast
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Mickey and Deb
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Zach Cusano – bean to fakie – Photo by beaker
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Lee Wilson – Monty grind
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Bryce Stark – high stalefish
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Kathrine Reese – ankle bender fakie
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Lindsey and Terell
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Volcom Bergfest #6 – 2014

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On the 25th anniversary of the construction of Berg Fidel skatepark, a 13 year old deconstructed our preconception of how to skate. The Volcom Bergfest 2014 was jam-packed with action, entertainment (ie. Bands such as Svffer), and best of all: high quality skateboarding.
First place went to Tyler Edtmayer, best illustrated during his finals introduction run. This run would have made any seasoned pro totally psyched. He bailed in his first trick, got back up and proceeded to skate at least a full minute in which he landed nearly every trick he ever learned.
Second place went to Kevin Wenzke with giant fs airs and padless eggplants in the deepend. He is so fun to watch skate. Third place and honorable mention goes to Johannes Haist. In qualifiers, he skated his best, EVER, and landed in one run airs of every sort, -padless, btw- inverts, and crailslide-reverts in the deepend.
Special thanks goes out to Volcom, Koloss Skateboards, Rebel Rockers Garage, RIP, Stan, and all of the sponsors.

Photos: Gerd Rieger Text: Lenore Sparks

Kevin Wenzke – head high frontside air into 2nd place.
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Tyler Edmayer – backside boneless. He also did 540´s high backside airs and had the longest runs with a ton of tricks to shred into 1st place.
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Johannes Haist – 3rd place – lein to tail
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The judges: Wolf, Wolfganster ,Toni, Janne, Lenore
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Tim Bjisterveld was hurt but had a good time anyway.
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Tim Turudija – huge frontside air
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Friedrich was skating on edge at all times – lipslide
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The Dirty Fences were rocking the stage to end a rad day of skating.
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Winners Junior: Christian Müller – Timo Krone – Tim Turudija
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Winners A Group: Kevin Wenzke – Tyler Edmyer – Johannes Haist
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See you next year.
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Bandsalat featuring the Gears

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Howdy folks, this is the first installment of Bailgun’s „Bandsalat“.
You’ll hear music from pretty much anywhere, from any era and from any genre. Wildly eclectic in other words. We’re going to try to stay away from stuff that everyone already knows about and turn you on to the exotic,
the rare, the forgotten, the far-flung and, yes even the brutal.
So to start with, here’s the one and only album by The Gears, from Huntington Beach, California.

Recorded in 1980, it sounds kind of like a punk record by the Beach Boys, but with some Rockabilly and Blues thrown in. This is the only album they recorded, but it’s a great one. They’ve been playing live around Southern California again lately, so if you get the chance to see them, you should do so.
Until next time, this is Bandsalat, saying „So Long“.

Zine check: Grip #1 and Humbug #3

GRIP ZINE comes from Dana Point Ca. and is done by Kristi Sanders with a lot of love for skateboarding.
Grip is diffrent than most zines because it has no photos but some cool illustrations telling little stories and
you can tell she put a lot of work into this zine so check it out if you can.
See GRIP ZINE online here

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Humbug Zine is from Germany and features a lot of cool photos manly black and white with a few color pages thrown in the mix and some well written stories.
See HUMBUG ZINE online here

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