2018 will mark the 20th anniversary of the first ever skate video I ever happened to purchase, and quite a low-key classic : 411VM Best Of #5.
this one keeps being uploaded then taken off YouTube and Dailymotion, most likely due to one of the songs conflicting with the algorithms (definitely not the Dr. Know song), only adding to the mystique.
starts off with Keenan's sw nosegrind shove - enough said. maybe one of the best Chaos sections ? Dill, Carroll, Daewon, Kareem and Throwing Muses. also Gonz jumping over a bench on foot.
Jerry Fowler, young AVE, Evan Schiefelbine. ATF clothing ad, True Skateboards ad, Powell Magic ads, OG Creature ad, early 411VM.com ad involving the blockiest computer monitors. two different versions of the full film up on YouTube, with and without the mIRC animations at the beginning of the rip, so with different timecodes yet both still share the exact same wack thumbnail from the Vans "Team Pee Wee" commercial.
Minor Threat over a Tum Yeto road trip, Burnside spot check edited to Fu Manchu featuring the infamous Cardiel drop-in (that was later featured in that Grind Session Playstation game). some of the last Embarcadero footage sprinkled here and there. éS Africa road trip with Muska, JT, Rune, barefoot Bob and Creager nollie hardflip late flipping to fakie against the sun. Plan B industry section. Lance Mountain.
was sold in kiosks (with an accompanying booklet) here in France due to national television trying to cash in on Tony Hawk's activity of 900's and video games (and the skate magazines of the time trying to pull certain strings). many skateboarders here got their first taste of the practice and industry in the US through that video. I remember being 11 and cutting out the Tony Hawk photos from the booklet to try and tape them like they were stickers onto my first board with a double tail - some Pepsi-branded toy skateboard with clear grip and blue wheels made out of hard plastic (I learned how to ollie on that board - small ass town in the countryside, we were secluded as all hell and really didn't have shit).
please no 411VM Best Of #4 talk.
happy new year !