Chapter: 5
Barefoot Revolution
- Revolution is not a Dinner Party
- The Tao of George
- Getting Slippery with Bob McTavish
- Bismarck with a Tan
- Plastic Machine
- Enlightenment at Honolua Bay
- Panic on the Showroom Floor
- Style Takes a Dive
- Everybody Must Get Stoned
- Surfer Goes Electrical Bananas
- No Contest
- There Will be Slaps
- Kook Straps, Cadillacs, and Sex Wax
- Blame it on the Boogie
- Country Soul
- Higher and Brighter with Alby Falzon
- Fresh Blood on the Newsstand
- Long Road to Bells Beach
- Speed Freaks
- Gods of Thunder
- The Impossible Wave
- Into the Vortex
- Gerry Lopez, Pipeline Firewalker
- The Rubberman Cometh
Gerry Lopez, Pipeline Firewalker
Gerry Lopez, Pipeline. Photo: James Cassimus
Gerry Lopez. Photo: Drew Kampion
Gerry Lopez. Photo: Jeff Divine
Gerry Lopez, Pipeline, 1972. Photo: Moe Lerner
(L to R) Lopez, Rory Russell, Jack Shipley. Photo: John Witzig
Larry Bertlemann got the kids excited, and North Shore heavies like Barry Kanaiaupuni and Jeff Hakman inspired awe across the spectrum of waveriders, old and young, human and alien. But there remained a sliver of daylight at the top of the Hawaiian surfer pantheon, and there, slender as Gandhi, was Gerry Lopez—the coolest surfer alive; the Pipeline firewalker; the man who singlehandedly raised the...
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