ISLAND INVASION SKATE SESSION

well the Island Invasion Hot Rod Weekend is now over. What a great time... i really was only able to attend 1/2 of it. Busy Busy Busy. But my daughters and i hosted the skateboard session part of that weekend. It was a good turn out and here's some session results. Thar was this dude who cruised up in a Volkswagon van... his name was Thrasher Bill from Vancouver. Nice guy. Rolled around the park and then headed for the tea-cup like bowl. Proceeded to destroy the coping. Smooth lean to tails, 50/50's , rocks, and then a frontside air to the small half-pipe section. Then near the end of the session he busts a handplant. Bill is an old skater rom the eighties who says he doesn't skate much at all any-more. Its always a pleasure to watch old men skate good. Real Good. He got the Invasion prize of a two/four retro skateboard with steel rollerskate wheels. Again Rick Styballs... one of the top skaters in Vancouver in 1976 declined to ride. The back just won't allow it. Yet he jumped into his old chopped & lowered 38 buick and bounced all over the parking lot. Bad back means you should get some decent susspension in your car dude. He got no prize.... Jay Beal from Beal Kustoms came in his 62 Chev SW full of gromets and they poured out into the park on thier BMXs. These little dudes proceeded to do the wheel of death on the bowl with three ridein in the bowl at the same time. Collission! They all took home prize bags! Two little chicks age 6 & 8 came with thier dad in his 57 Ford. They geared up and proceeded to skate on thier bellies all over the park, By the end of the session the oldest one was standing on her board and riding down the transissions.... Thier dad did his best to show them but good old dad got the Mr. Wilson Award. Sketchy and scarey. The little chicks walked away with prize bags, and a new helmut. Tons of others skated and there was some marvelous bike crashes by big dudes on kustom bikes. There was some dang fine technical skateing by a few of the guys. My daughter Molly skated the bowl with style and grace in her flip flops... she forgot her skate shoes. Her friend Catty who plays in the band Carrott skated the bowl doing fakie after fakie. again confirming my theory that bowls are for old men and girls. The parking lot contained kustom cars and the heat was getting to hot so the session ended. Just then a car full of JaKs showed up. Much to thier surprise they didn't win any prize! hardy har har - ricky jak P.S. a BIG ThanKs to Jimmy Miller who made the prize bags fatter and other cool swag to give away.

STICKSHIFTS 2006 ISLAND INVASION
welllll you lot. I totally had a good time. I'll do my darndest to do a report for the Absolute Underground newspaper.... i haven't been into writing lately but the Invasion took me back to a time when ...... ahh shit, it was fuckin real, real people partying, let not kid ourselves here, Shiny and I didn't grow up at a time when retro was IN so even though we all try to keep up with the latest trends in cars... and all of you are doin a fuckin amazing job, the cars where way sick. Poor Jerome (surly drunk) Deighton used to wander the car shows by himself lookin like a greaser and listening to rock-a-billy.... Shiny and I where common motorheads... Shinys mullett love for mopars and my love for low chevys... with mirror paint jobs not this primer shit! but that was back in the eighties! AND at the Invasion i got that old eighties feeling that i used to get going to pit parties in Sooke. I met people i hadn't seeen for years... Sooke people, Lanford people, Racecar people, bikers. I met people who reminded me of my hot rod heritage... people who told me about my dad and his cars back in the 50's & 60's... (Thanks to that man with the 49 ford, and it was an honor to meet that man)...The music was so great and even though i missed half of it ...(damb i missed the MAGS!) but Dirt Fella restored my faith in the borderline rock i so frequently dismiss... they where great and the crowd loved themmmm. And The SlipJacks... baby baby baby. The crowd was real (300+?) and i have been reclused in my little trendy bars and nightclubs standin and stompin in the corner.... i so forget there is other venues to go and see music... and a pit party is where its the most real for me... and the Invasion reminded me of this!love him or hate him... THANKS brother Shiny and all who participated!!!love -ricky jak

3 Inches of Blood Aug 12 Lucky Victoria

HOA.... started out strange. the music didn't seem to flow. Then by the 4th song something took and all the airlocks where worked out. The engine was running full power and i couldn't control my stompin leg. This band locked in and the dancefloor was quickly mowed over. One question.... what was all that white muck coming out of that horn you guys where drinkin out of? That was kinda strange too. Great show horn drinkers! Thanks HOAMitochondrion.... well (for me) again the sound wasn't quite right so they didn't sound as good as they did the other times i saw them.... still the music felt like you might be on some kinda journey or road to war. Unfortunatly one of my favorite local metal bands lost me on that night. But what the fuck do i know. 3IOB.. what can i say, I like metal on a slower pace and 3IOB play right at that cusp. Man the crowd cheer inbetween songs was huge! Canadians are usually too polite for that kinda noise.... I thought we where live in Hammersmith! Good metal. Yes 3IOBIt was funny when Cam the singer dedicated a song to his Dad that had come to see him.... it reminded me of one evening when my little brothers metal band MOC was playing at Harpos 86-7ish. My mom and dad and grandparents came to see this metal mayhem... the doorman was very insistant that they not come in... but my grandmother said "I've come to see my grandsons band so move aside FUCKER!"love -ricky jak