drugs and surfing
Surfing allied itself with the mid-1960s-launched youth movement, more so than any other sport or recreation, so it's not surprising that drug use quickly became a popular and often celebrated part of surf culture. Cartoonist Rick Griffin embroidered a 1967 two-page Surfer magazine illustration with marijuana leaves; surf movies of the late 1960s often featured processing effects that allowed the on-screen surfers to leave "acid tracks" as they rode; Wilken Surfboards introduced the Meth Mod...
Encyclopedia of Surfing
- alcohol and surfing
- Aurness, Rolf
- Bigler, Steve
- Boyer, Lynne
- Boyum, Mike and Bill
- Brennan, Kevin
- Catri, Dick
- Cole, Maurice
- death and surfing
- Dent, Chuck
- DiMenna, Ron
- Eggers, David
- Engel, Joe
- Farrelly, Midget
- Foster, Marvin
- Griffin, Rick
- Hasley, Chuck
- Hemmings, Fred
- Horan, Cheyne
- Hynson, Mike
- Irons, Andy
- Kaluhiokalani, Montgomery "Buttons"
- Machado, Rob
- Martinez, Bobby
- Mel, Peter
- Mullis, Kary
- Page, Robbie
- Paull, Keith
- Peck, John
- Peterson, Michael
- Rasmussen, Rick
- Starr, Rusty
- Steamer Lane
- Sutherland, Jock
- Sutherland, Mark
- Takayama, Donald
- Tudor, Joel
- Valluzzi, Bruce
- Virostko, Darryl "Flea"
- Wood, Nicky
- World Surfing Championships 1972
History of Surfing
Interviews
Blog
- MOTEL HELL: SURFERS SACK LOCAL TRAVELODGE DURING THE ’72 CHAMPIONSHIPS
- CHRIS BROWN: 1970-2019
- MOTORSKILL TRIPPING WITH ART BREWER: “STRAIGHT IN THE MORNING, HIGH IN THE AFTERNOON.”
- MOTORSKILL TRIPPING WITH BRAD BARRETT: “GRIFFIN GAVE US AN EVIL-EYE FLEEGLE, AND IT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME!”
- TOUCHED WITH FIRE: A KEITH PAULL PROFILE BY CHRIS BYSTROM
- GETTING HIGHER: THE 11 STONIEST SURF MOVIE MOMENTS OF ALL TIME
- RON STONER’S VANISHING POINT: AN ORAL HISTORY
- DREW KAMPION: “1969: WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARED”
- FRED HEMMINGS NEVER INHALED; HE PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE
- FRED HEMMINGS: “PRO SURFING IS WHITE!”
- “THE CADET AND THE SURFER,” NEW YORK MAGAZINE, DECEMBER, 1982
- STREET HASSLE: LOU REED’S ODE TO RICK RASMUSSEN
- ACE COOL NEVER CARED MUCH ABOUT COOLNESS, GOD LOVE HIM
- SEX, BOOZE, DRUGS! CURREN, SLATER, DORA! TOP 10 EOS PAGES FOR ’14
- PETER AND FLEA: ROAD TRIP TO HELL AND BACK
- ROBBIE PAGE: PIPE MASTER, JAILBIRD, PRESIDENTIAL CONFIDANTE
- STONER’S GIRL: SWEETNESS BEFORE DARKNESS
- TOM CARROLL’S FULL-REVEAL NEW BIO: READ AN EXCERPT
- “SMOKIN’ JOE: A TALE OF TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY” – JOE ENGEL PROFILE BY BY NICK CARROLL
- “THE INSATIABLE CRAVINGS OF MICHAEL TOMSON,” BY PHIL JARRATT
- CHAS SMITH TALKS SURFING, GOTCHA, AND COKE WITH MICHAEL TOMSON
- “JOCK’S NIGHT TRIP,” BY ALLAN WEISBECKER. 1969, BIG WAVES, SHORT BOARDS, ORANGE SUNSHINE
- “IN TRIM: DONALD TAKAYAMA,” BY SCOTT HULET
- U-TURN ON THE “NIGHT TRIP”? JOCK SUTHERLAND ANSWERS ALLAN WEISBECKER
- “GOODBYE SUNSHINE SUPERMAN,” JOCK SUTHERLAND PROFILE, BY MATT WARSHAW
- “CLOCKWORK BLUE” – THE ROLF AURNESS STORY, BY DREW KAMPION
- “DEAD IN THE WATER,” NEW YORKER REVIEW FOR “JOHN FROM CINCINNATI” (2007
- “THE LIFE AND WORK OF RICHARD BREWER,” BY DREW KAMPION (Surfer’s Journal, 1999)
- “RAINBOW’S END,” MIKE HYNSON PROFILE BY STEVE BARILOTTI (2007)
Sunday Joint
- SUNDAY JOINT, 1-24-2021: JOCK SUTHERLAND, AND A SHORT RANT ON LEGENDS
- SUNDAY JOINT, 1-21-2018: “PANIC ON THE SHOWROOM FLOOR,” PLUS GREG MUNGALL
- THE SUNDAY JOINT PODCAST 02: LUST FOR LIFE—THE MICHAEL TOMSON STORY
- SUNDAY JOINT, 1-28-2018: “EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED”
- SUNDAY JOINT, 12-2-2018: GOTCHA, “COCAINE & SURFING,” PETER COLE
- SUNDAY JOINT, 7-10-2022: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF FEELING ALRIGHT
- SUNDAY JOINT, 9-4-2022: “HERE’S A BOTTLE AND AN HONEST MAN” – MATT HOY BY WAY OF RODDY DOYLE
Videos
- "And a Carrot Smoothie," Scene from Pacific Vibrations
- "Cosmic Children," Opening Sequence
- "Pipe of Peace," Sea of Joy (1971)
- "Rupert's World," from Sea of Joy
- Andy Irons
- Christian Fletcher
- Darryl Virostko
- Jackie Eberle
- Jeff Spicoli, 'I'm So Wasted!'
- Michael Peterson
- Nicky Wood
- Opening Credits for “Cosmic Children”
- Rick Rasmussen: You Can Take The Boy Out Of New York But
- Scenes from "The Natural Art"
- “Tales of Brave Ulysses,” from Pacific Vibrations