Could we get a “hangin with salba” regular show? Like weekly? I could listen to him talk for hours

@murphynep

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. New Salba show talking about skating.

@trippcox2641

2 жыл бұрын

YES!

@Capitan_Chaos

2 жыл бұрын

We need something similar to loveletters.

@sd1r_

9 ай бұрын

Seriously the best idea

The amount of respect Salba has always had for Micke's skating is very telling.

Salba makes me smile man. Same age. Same memories. Only he actually did it all and I mostly dreamed of it all. It is what it is, but I love hearing his stories. You can tell he's a genuine dude and as real as they come.

@jorndoff2002

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I was never very good but was a local at Boulders Hi Roller and used to get a chance to see the pro’s every year during the Hester series or Gold cup.

Salba is the reason why I started skating. Couldn’t agree more, make him a regular like Vans did with Grosso!

I found it very enlightening that Salba talked about how Stan Hoffman instilled in them a good work ethic of cleaning the park before they could skate for free. I remember meeting Salba at a Warp tour in St. Louis during the the 90's. While the younger skater from the demo would go off and watch the bands Salba would stay behind and work, keeping the area clean. That left a good impression on me that day. He also signed the tattered Upland Pipeline shirt that day too.

Salba is a treasure of history and passion.

Salba needs his own show

Goddamn forty years later I still look up to these boyz.. and I agree I can listen to Steve for hours, AND he still has chops on that guitfiddle.. let's start a new band Steve, I'll drum! 🤣

It's 2 in the morning, I glanced at KZread, saw this, clicked IMMEDIATELY, and right now my wife sounds like a Charlie Brown teacher. Salba... what could I possibly say? I'll say this: listen to @Hunter Davis and get a weekly Salba show going like now! Did anyone see that zoom thing he did with his OGs? the guys who found Baldy and taught him to skate Pipeline. Sick. But, also, I wanna see Salba with young guys too: whoever he thinks is rad; him tripping off them, them tripping off him. Yo, Indy, people are starving out here. The Salba Show, like, yesterday!

Sick to see the skating!! Salba is such a class act, always keeps what he has to say positive about everyone!! I admire that about him.

Salba needs his own show. I was at that Gold Cup Final, took 2 hours on the bus to get there, I wanted Duane to win so bad. Micke Alba ruled The Pipeline. I remember skating the combi by myself and Salba walked up with a tape player and started playing the Circle Jerks and making the tile scream. I will never forget that.

Just recently watched Albas nine club stop and chat. Such an interesting dude with amazing stories. Could listen to him talk for hours, he’s so passionate and it makes you wanna hear more.

@LemonySnicket-EUC

2 жыл бұрын

Same here man.

I sincerely hope you feel and realize how important and historical this interview with Steve Alba is... This interview should be in The Smithsonian archives it's that relevant...Ironically I rode as a amateur on Kryptonics West/ D. Moran and later I rode for SC in 1980 and I had the same Team SC shirt its so awesome that he still has his...GOD BLESS and THANK YOU STEVE you have always been a CLASS ACT. 🙏🏿🤙🏿

That park & that Combi bowl was Special as Hell…. No other place at that time EVER showcased that kind of talent that skated. I remember going up in early ‘78 and riding with some friends and thinking “ Man , this place is HEAVY”… Being a San Diego native we only had The 3 parks , Skateboard Heaven in Spring Valley, Moving on Skatepark by The 805 & 94 Freeways and the Park under the Bridge Where 805 dropped down onto I-8 …. None had the sheer size and amount of vert that Pipeline had …. It’s a special memory in my life …. Thanks for the Perspective Steve…. From one old Steve to the other… I’ll be 62 in just a few more weeks , and still skateboard occasionally, but not as crazy as I did 40 plus years ago. Enjoyed this one… 👍

so rad knowing Salba has a pool block from the original Combi

Brings back so many memories! I was a Sophomore on that last day. Hitched a ride to Pipeline with an older kid and watched Salba and the Boyz take those final runs. The Hoffman's we're amazing people and that park was special 🤙!

thanks for sharing this.

Thanks for sharing this. Nice to hear Steve tell the inside story.

So lucky I moved to Upland in 98. When the new pipe opened in 2002 I was there everyday got to hang around Salba and all those O.G. Badlanders. So cool he took me, my brother and buddies under his wing and showed us how to drain pools and not get caught. It was pretty epic looking back on it and when I skate Upland to this day I get nostalgic walking in the place. Steve is a legend and the real deal!

That was one dam good Interview!!

Salba is a living Legend. Watch, listen, learn🤙🏽

Thanx Salba 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I grew up with this stuff. Skateboarder mag was my refuge 'cos nobody else I knew was into it

Hey Salba, hope you’re brothers doing alright. Indy thanks for the rad content like always. Ride the best

Awesome video! Salba rules

The O G of the skateboard.Love the tiger deck!! Keep killing it Salba..

thanks independent trux, cool vid,i was lucky enough to skate, some good parks in the late 70s', one next disney land, good snake run,, a big one in buena park', and found a fun one in tijuana!. my home park was skate odysee. indoor park! very fun and long half pipe. uplands big pipe looked fun.

I used skate Pipeline every weekend when I was kid living in Riverside.I have alot great memories of Upland.

Glad your still kickin ass

Upland tiles had the best sound. Yeah Salba!!!!!! -Nordwall (come up to Oregon this summer)

@Gsrdb81999

2 жыл бұрын

Upland cali ?

@tourhead

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gsrdb81999 Yes.

Recall the Alba decks were so dark but they way they skated plus there positive energy reminds me of the old cores from up here in Seattle. Such good stoke

This was great. Salbas a personal hero of mine in the game.

Unreal. Inside story from the master of the Upland pipeline and pool ruler extraordinaire!

Respect guys !

Awesome!

All Hail Salba and The Pool Gods 🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘❤

Steve is cool AF. Had a chance to talk skateboarding and art with him. I see Mickey at Montclair skatepark every now and again. Rippers

Was fortunate enough to see Salba and Mabla at Upland from '84 till it closed in '89!

@finnmcginn9931

4 ай бұрын

Jim Grey has home movies of the final days/sessions at Upland on his KZread channel. Since you spent years there you'd probably get a kick out of it. Cheers

I was lucky to have been able to skate Upland since the day that it opened up. The 15 footer broke me off pretty bad one day. Sad to say it was the end for me.....took many years to come back. And here we are today 40 years later still skating.

Soooo, dope!!!!!!! Van's should let Salba continue Grosso's Loveletters To The Most Amazing Thing On The Planet

love to see it

Salba wearing them Kyle Walker 1s!

im getting older for me i wear 70s style hockey helmet so sick man SALBA and Grossos love letters got me back and i skate the best i ever ave and i enjoy it the most i ever have you guys are true heros of mine and a true insperation to my future manifestations of starting a deck company peace and keep fucking shit up now is the time for true anarchy we skaters would rule this world better and the vibratin of this plane s changing i feel like a damn kid again yesssssssss

Hanging with Salba is on! … bring the cold Beers! 🍺🍺🍺🍺😃

Thanks Indy. Thanks Salba!

So cool

Great history lesson.

Salba on Malba. So cool. Radical.

Thanks for this. Just curious has anyone thought about building a Del Mar key hole replica?..

pomona boyz " badland " mad respect great channel

How many stories can Salba tell us.... And shirt he is sporting is so sick...I need to cop one of those.. .

Stevey Alba is just Pure Class!!! Only thing missing is Grosso disagreeing with everything he says lol. I love watching old skateboard clips from the early to mid 80s. I street skated in the 90s

I left half of my chin in the bottom of the square, just after my buddy broke his ankle in the shallow back in '86. Had the blessing to skate with Salba, and the rest of the Santa Cruz Team that same year. They all came to our ramp, Christmas Tree, celebrating Livmo Joe's birthday. That's the same ramp that Phelper, RIP, got his first photo in Thrasher. Riding his Madrid longboard, back when he was just a shop rat working at FTS.

I remember back in the day, like 87, I was the biggest Salba hater. I'd only ever seen him in videos and back then pool skating wasn't cool, and I remember the first time I went to pipeline. I instantly went from hater to fanboy, I just remember walking into pipeline for the very first time and seen Steve and Mickey doing a doubles line and it just blew my mind 🤯. After that nothing but respect for Salba.

Whoa Eric Johnson is my friend, I guess I forgot about him breaking his leg in the Combi. We grew up surfing together after the Pipeline era. I never got that high level in skating, but the culture the Pipeline brought to the community changed so many lives including mine. Anyone who wasn’t there reading this… skaters made it cool before it was cool to like everything. You could hear Black Flag, New Order, and Metallica back to back on the ghetto blaster when the heavies were skating. Memories I will carry with me to the end. A really really happy and special time.

Salba was on the cover of the first Thrasher Magazine I bought, April issue 1988 ❤️

I first saw Salba in the Santa Cruz Video "A reason for Living"

Sick

Alba brothers 👍 . All Badlands legends.

4:08 *A little explosion of radness*

a true King of skating....really awesome interview and information here. In 1993 I made a really bad mistake....I moved and several months later realized I hadn't brought my box of skate magazines from around 1986 to 1993. I'm sure whoever moved in chunked them in the trash. :(.

Hair game is always on point, hail salba

Watch some old Mickie footage.... he was a gnarly beast!

Come skate the combi in Bowling Green, KY

Salba rules!!

Are there any videos on the old Denny's pool w/the big Manson Youth logo in the middle of it?

I don’t understand why we don’t have the alba History show! We can talk so much about skating be super cool to see a weekly show

Salbas Horror Stories are Very Good 👍

Fancy Feast. Eyes stuck on those boxes... Aiyaa!

@SigHDucK5

2 жыл бұрын

😹😹😹

Man, this was fucking sick. Let’s get some vintage looking Indy products out on the market. Let’s get Salba some pro models. And let’s make him the new host of the Love Letters!

Our history is awesome.

salba is a legend

Upland is holy

Rad!!!

Malba used to place top 5 in the NSA vert contests before vert died...he was a Fuckin machine...

The good old family is still here .

Is there any footage of micky on skates?maybe my memory is dusty but if it's correct he was bad ass on them!!!

Micke RRRIIIIPPED!! I always thought he was the best

Black Lodge skateboards will see you in La Quinta Nov 12th Steve.

I remember seeing Lester at the pipe.

Salba is the realest. He never stopped!

shit, opening day at pipeline skate park, best day ever

Always considered Upland the ultimate proving ground.

Love ya SALBA

Bonk The Coping. Hell Yeah!

Salba is a national treasure.

Well spoken, well respected, knowledgeable, with a good memory? What’s not to like? Hey thrasher, give Salba his own show

What a fancy feast of insight to the past. Sorry I'll leave now.

What amp is that?

Ace trucks !!!!

I wanna be like Salba when I'm his age 🤘🤘🤘

fuck yeah peace love and light

Salba will forever be the greatest of all time.

salba is a bad ass.

The Loveletters concept or something similar with Steve Alba NEEDS to be realized.

Lord Salba!!!

You can tell he misses his brother in good health

There's an hour long home video on Jim Gray's channel of the last sessions at Pipeline 1989. Tons of great skaters including some footage of Steve and Micke.

@versnellingspookie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so, so much for tipping that video off! 70's, 80's and early 90's skate footage gives me life!

Oh No!!!!! The OG Indy logo. The snowflakes are melting.

Them red laces are suspect.

Did thrasher ever do a throw back issue like the 1981 ?