Love Canal guitarist Eric Von Arab

Love Canal guitarist Eric Von Arab except from podcast

“I seen the Ramones in Huntington Beach in 76 they played the Golden Bear I didn’t go to that show but they played a local street fair the next day it was called the The Fest  Fair it was off of Beach and Atlanta  (theres a track of homes there now.) and Im 15 years and I walking around chasing chicks trying to get loaded and trying to get someone to buy me a beer. and um you just being the little degenerate I was.  and umm I remember hearing this godawful noise and I was walking by and seen these guys with long hair and leather jackets you know 1234 1234

…and you in 76 I didn’t understand that yet you know cause I was still listing to Hendrix and Zeppelin and whatever an um so about 6 months later they came back and played the Goldenwest Ballroom in Norwalk with Van Halen opening and so I went to see Van Halen and Van Halen ended up not playing that show it was with the Dogs and the Ramones headlining. 

When the Ramones came out and it was like 1234 1234 and I looked up and Im like “Hey thats those same like dirty stinky bikers that i’d seen last year but this time I sat there and watched them and the next day I went out and bought a leather jacket and it was like changed my life forever you know it was like that was my identifying moment in you punk rock for me it like wow this is it right here.”

Podcast Topics
    • Agent Orange
    • Bob Gnarly
    • The Veins
    • Mark Arnold
    • Big Drill Car
    • Steve Dirk
    • TSOL
    • Jack Grisham
    • Ron Emmory
    • Mike Roach
    • Josh Freeze
    • Devo
  • How do Old Men find time to play in bands
  • Concert Factory
  • Cuckoo’s Nest
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Flea
  • Guitar
  • Dead Kennedys
  • Park Bench Cafe
  • being a guitarist in the year 2018
  • less is more
  • the one guy
  • I always say ‘Im the one guy “, cause I have one kicktail on my skateboard, I got one fin on my surfboard, i got one pickup on my guitar, I got one dog, i got one wife, I got one God, you know to me less is more.
  • 60’s skateboard collection
  • clay skateboard wheels
  • Hobie 9 stringer Boards
  • Makaha
  • Black Knight skateboard
  • Kelly Bellmar
  • skate injuries
  • a lot of skateboarders use a lot of anti-inflammatory
  • skateparks
  • everybody gets so excited because we have so many skateparks around, but to me they all fuckin suck
  • Wally Holiday, Redlands skatepark
  • who fuckin cares its another amoeba
  • New Combi Bowl in Huntington Beach Vans
  • Murdy Skatepark
  • Vans skatepark in Huntington Beach
  • Lance Mountain
  • Jeff Grosso
  • Early planning of Vans Skatepark in Huntington Beach; Lance says well this is what Vans wants they want a big competition clover bowl, Im like well what about for the people who live here?
  • Vans Clover Bowl Huntington Beach
  • Lance Mountain
  • Justin Regan Vans Team Manager
  • New Vans reverse Combi in Huntington Beach
  • “I think we kind of lost that whole thing of where it came from  “
  • Burger’s, Chicken’s, Bible Bowl, Jokers, Punkers
  • skateboarding in the Olympics
  • “Skateboarding has come a long way, if you think of it, it is such and infant”
  • Santana Chuay trucks
  • Chuck Hults
Skateboards for old people
  • ‘I gotta have a board with shape, its like a woman with curves they just ride better”
  • Skatemaster Tate
  • Jerry Madrid
  • “Why should I have to conform to their standards”
  • Jim Gray Stretch
  • Mike Smith Stretch
  • Dirtboarding Huntington Beach Park
  • Kelly Bellmar
  • Paul Schmidt
  • photography
  • G Easy
  • Nyjah Huston
  • Halsey
  • “skateboarding endless timeless”
Music
  • Rap and Hip Hop took everything over
  • I still play 3 chords in a punk rock band
  • you know I Love 60’s and 70’s rock
  • “I just love old rock n roll and those musicians were so good”
  • Music: “I think it’s lost its soul”
  • The Helicopters
  • “Awe man its just dirty rock n roll”
  • Aerosmith
  • “Theres bands that used to play stadiums and arenas and now they can barely fill a casino bar”
  • Emerson Lake and Palmer
  • Don Kirshners Rock Concert
  • Brain Salad Surgery
  • Golden west ballroom in Norwalk
  • The Ramones
  • UFO
  • The Runaways
  • Joe Jackson
  • Graham Maby
  • Elvis Costello
  • Pretenders
  • Devo
  • Quiet Riot
  • The Blasters
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Thelonious Monster
  • The Dickies
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Alice Cooper
  • Los Lobos
  • Santana
  • Charlie Daniels
  • The Barn
  • El Groupo Sexo
  • Concert Factory
  • Cuckoos Nest
  • Power Trip
  • Angry Samoans
  • The Mentors
  • Cathay De Grande
  • The Damned
  • Christian Hosoi
  • Lonny Hiramoto
life on The Road
  • TSOL
  • Joe Wood
  • “Oh look theres the coaches office”
  • Ray Bones

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