LEWIS SAMUELS ON BIRTHDAY BOY BRUCE IRONS

Three years ago, SURFER sent me to Kauai to interview Bruce Irons. “Not Dying Young,” the subsequent profile, came out four months before Andy’s death. The title stemmed from my assertion that Bruce could have been surfing’s Jimi Hendrix, James Dean, Kurt Cobain, if only he’d died young. Instead, Bruce had seemingly moved on with…