A Look Back: Dogtown & Z-Boys
Not For Sale
Sample this album here: *
*https://tidal.com/album/199609737/u
Show Notes
Fu Manchu’s A Look Back: Dogtown & Z-Boys.
The soundtrack to a documentary about a documentary about real-life pioneers.
Drag race music.
Nothing wrong with a good compilation record.
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This pressing:
At The Dojo Records – ATD024 (Blue LP and Green LP with etching)
https://www.discogs.com/release/21501007-Fu-Manchu-A-Look-Back-Dogtown-Z-Boys
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side A, stamped): 229933E1/A
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side B, stamped): 229933E2/A
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side C, stamped): 229933E3/A Other
(Etching on side D): FUMANCHU - JAY ADAMS - GLEN E. FRIEDMAN 📷 - LANCE MOUNTAIN
Double LP, glossy gatefold. Blue record is sides A and B. Green record is single-sided: all of Il Mostro Atomico on one side, etching of Jay Adams by Lance Mountain on the other. Remaster by Carl Saff.
Front cover is Glen E. Friedman’s 1977 photo Dogtown Tiles Graffiti (Tony Alva’s hand on a board over tile). Inner-gatefold and back cover features a young-ass Jay Adams.
Listen / watch
A Look Back: Dogtown and Z-Boys (2021, short doc — watch free):
https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/a-look-back-dogtown-and-z-boys/#more-videos
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001, original documentary):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtown_and_Z-Boys
Episode References/Curiosities
Fu Manchu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu_(band)
Stoner rock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_rock
Black Sabbath (the riff inheritance)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath
Glen E. Friedman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_E._Friedman
Stacy Peralta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy_Peralta
Tony Alva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Alva
Jay Adams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Adams
Lance Mountain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Mountain
Alex Lifeson / Rush (guest on Il Mostro Atomico)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Lifeson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(band)
Carl Saff (remaster)
https://saffmastering.com/_site/main.html
Ringo (clubhouse portrait, chapter photo easter egg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Starr
Clean and Sober Stoner
https://cleanandsoberstoner.com/2021/06/16/asphalt-rising-the-high-octane-meanings-behind-fu-manchus-lyrics-themes-and-albums/
(A cool fucking blog I came across. This guy gets way deep into the details of lyrics and themes through much of their discography. A Fu Manchu scholar, salute! )
Notes from the broadcast
We’re going to hang onto this record for a while, but you should absolutely give it a listen. Sometimes a playlist or a compilation record is the way in, to be honest.
This album is a great mix of the band’s music lined up as the soundtrack to a skate documentary. Even cooler, is the director of the doc was skating those same pools with the rest of the Z-boys in the late 70s. If Fu Manchu’s catalog sounds anything like the early days modern skateboarding, this guy would probably know.
Steal these riffs, like skating new tricks.
-Logues
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