I'll be honest, this entire thread hurt to read. I was a huge Jamie Thomas fan back on the day even though my friends always have me shit for it. I rode blanks or discount decks to save money but made sure I bought a Zero and Mystery board when I could afford it. I even made it a point to buy a pair of Fallen shoes when I could get my hands on them.
On a whim I listened to his interview on The Nine Club and while it was great to sit in the nostalgia, the reality of Zero, Fallen, Mystery and Blackbox distribution in 2019 is a tough pill to swallow. I think he just kept pumping money into businesses that weren't economically viable (Fallen) when the commercial landscape had pivoted away from core brands to MNCs running the shoe game.
I had some time on my hands and checked out the latest Zero video and the entire video feels like a relic lost in time. You could release that video back in the New Blood - Cold War era and you wouldn't be able to tell it was their newest video. The trick selection, music, riders and editing is so dated you can't help but look at that and think that Zero stopped being relevant in 2002 with Dying to Live which I used to watch on repeat.
Seeing this latest incident with JT doing what he can't scrape by is honestly hard to watch. You never want to see your heroes as human but going to the extent of riding a fans best intentions to the ground was not where I wanted to see The Chief end up in 2019.
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