Post #5808 by johntiki on Tue, Aug 13, 2002 6:34 PM

I would never really say that I was punk - I listened to hardcore (Fear, D.I. and the Descendents were my faves) but I never went all out. I was a skater during that phase of my life and the music just went well at the local half-pipe or derelict skatepark. Being a skater back then was pretty much as far from mainstream as you could go. Even compared to other skaters at the time I wasn't mainstream - when others rode Powell Peralta Tony Hawk's I was riding Alva Bill Danforths and Skull Skates Tod Swanks. Then when I was a senior in high school I got turned on to reggae music - I went for about 6 years without listening to anything besides reggae. Then one year - days before Christmas I came across the Ultra Lounge Christmas CD and was hooked on retro, lounge, exotica music.

I think I always had an unexplained love for the 50's. I bought a 1951 Ford when I was 15 years old, right in the middle of my punk phase. My first Heywood Wakefield furniture when I was in the middle of my reggae stage, etc. Now that I think of it...I really can't explain it all...hmmm!

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