A Tribute To Matt Hensley
October 9, 2009 – 10:56 pm PT by BrianTags: Alex Olson, Braydon Szafranski, Epicly Later'd, Flogging Molly, H-Street, Heath Kirchart, John Rattray, Matt Hensley, Sub Society —
In my opinion the early 90’s were the heyday of skating. I know this is probably a biased opinion, due to the fact that I grew up and did most of my skating in this time span; but I loved and still love that time in history. The skate videos from that time were some of the best “Questionable Video” “Super Collider, Super Conductor”, “Virtual Reality”, “Rodney Mullen vs Daewon Song” are all classics and still amazing today. These videos and the skaters in them really brought about what we know as street skating today.
Even though a lot of great stuff came from this period in skating history, the fashion was pretty bad. I remember wearing my orange size 44 houser jeans and a XXL Blind t-shirt with red Etnies and think I was the bee’s knees. We’ll those days are over; now its tight pants and metal shirts, but I will always remember the good old days.
It looks like there are other folks out there that have a fondness for the early 90’s too and the put together a music video to show their love:
For their new music video the Historics got a few pro skaters to do a little tribute to skate legend and acordian player of Flogging Molly, Matt Hensley. The song is a cover of Sub Society’s “A Lot Less,” a tune Hensley skated to in the H Street video, Hocus Pocus.
To pay homage to someone who paved the way for what skateboarding is now, modern day rippers like Heath Kirchart, John Rattray, Alex Olson, Braydon Szafranski, and others adorned themselves in the skate fashion of the late 80s and early 90s, rode Old School boards and did Old School tricks. The man being impersonated himself, Mr. Matt Hensley, even makes an appearance. The video is directed by Epicly Later’d’s Patrick O’dell, and edited by Girl’s Aaron Meza.
