Grosso and Lucero on Weekend Buzz

Another slice of life from the most real dudes out there...

"I don't know how to function in life without my little wooden toy"


So true.

Jeff Grosso once said that John Lucero invented to slappie. Lucero subsequently credited Lance Mountain with the foundational trick. Who really did it first? As Grosso and Lucero explain on Weekend Buzz, we'll never know. And it doesn't really matter.

"How can you take credit for a fucking curb grind?" Lucero says.

Over the course of the episode, they also get into early Black Label riders, Grosso's disgust with the Bones Brigade: An Autobiography ("Stacy Peralta should be fucking ashamed of himself," Grosso says), and why everyone who skateboards isn't a skateboarder.

"A lot of the personalities that are involved in skateboarding today," Lucero says, "I don't think would be skating back in the old days, because their personality wouldn't have allowed them to skate."

And Grosso: "I don't know how to function in life without my little wooden toy, and that fucking utterly horrifies me. It scares the shit out of me. In my perfect scenario, it's like, the day I can't skateboard anymore is the day I die."

Watch the episode above.

http://theridechannel.com/shows/weekend-buzz/2016/04/jeff-grosso-john-lucero-weekend-buzz

Part 2 of 3 is up now

Part 3 of 3 is up.

I could see there being so much more than this!!! Oh well, I guess 3 episodes of this is still amazing.

Quote from the third one as per this page:

http://theridechannel.com/shows/weekend-buzz/2016/05/jeff-gross-john-lucero-weekend-buzz-part-3

Jeff Grosso skated for Black Label, John Lucero's company, for decades. He weathered the lows of the early '90s—when he sold John Cardiel "Candy Bar" slick models over phone—and watched the Label flourish through the early '00s under Giant Distribution.

So his decision to leave the company and join Antihero—which he got on 2011—wasn't an easy one.

"What it really ended up coming down to, for me, was it's more important to me to have John as a friend and as a family member and in my life than it is to be one of his employees," Grosso says. "And if I were to stay on as one of his employees, we would no longer be friends."