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@billy_bakker
August 30
Another natty deck is coming soon. Maybe something with rats..?
(Taken from http://chromeballincident.blogspot.com)
Yeah, where did all the bat stuff come from?
steve caballero: The bats are sort of an inside joke. It’s pretty funny, actually.
In 1986, I’m at a “streetstyle” contest in the Carson Velodrome when Stacy approaches me with a folder full of Xeroxed photos from skate magazines. He sits me down to have a little meeting and starts laying out everything on this table. They’re all pictures of me. Covers, centerfolds, ads… everything.
“So what’s going on here?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Why aren’t you wearing Powell shirts?”
I look closer and I’m not wearing a Powell shirt in a single one of these photos.
(laughs) “Well, because I don’t want to wear Powell shirts.”
“But what’s up with all this Batman and Spiderman stuff? The Misfits?”
“Stacy, that’s who I am.”
“Well, George really wants you to wear our shirts.”
“Well, I do wear them sometimes, when I want to or if I like one, in particular. But I don’t want to wear most of that stuff.”
I wanted to be different, man. I wanted to stand out and have my own personality. I wanted to connect with people who are into the same stuff that I am.
So what did George do? He starts putting these bats all over my boards to make it look like it was all planned! I can just see him getting in Court’s ear, like, “Okay, if he’s not going to wear our stuff, we’ll just make a bunch of bat stuff and he’ll have to like it.”
They start making sweatpants with bats going down the bottom, designing my name in the bat logo… it was so crazy to see that stuff come out. I had no idea. (laughs)