Personal Experience...

B-Lane · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 946 City: Towanda

List some of the crazy thing you have done in your life, im bored and need something to do.

mikeskatesonwater · Guest

I make giant cardboard cut outs of animals, paint them black, stick dimes in the eyes and set it on a long straight road, at nite.

nick · Posted: Feb 16, 2007 3:55 pm Post subject:

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

I sniff glue. It's intense.

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

• Got on stage for entire set with Red Hot Chilli Pepers at Fugji rock in front of 50 thousand plus fans.
• Got back stag for Chilli Pepers at above mentioned show and got drunk off the beer and food back there.
• Lived in a Barn in the Hay with Animals for 3 weeks in Lithuania.
• Got Drunk with entire Burton A team in Sapporo, multiple times.
• Sang Kareoke with Tre (drummer) from Green day.
• Told Peter Line that he should go to University.
• Stepped in a Bull Ring in Costa Rica on New Years Eve – With Bull in Ring.
• Ate a fistful of Schrooms and stood on top of a fronzen lake for 6 hours.
• Got drunk with Brandon Livermore.
• Took a schroom trip solo in downtown Tokyo.
• Got into a Rumble (fight) involving more than 20 people.
• Got Married.
• Went Skydiving.
• Hitch-hiked solo in Europe.
• Woke up naked in a Hotel hallway not know how I got there.
• Taught a snowboard lesson with a Kid and lost him. When my boss rode by and asked where my lesson was, I said he was taking a dump in the bushes. I found him unharmed shortly there after.
• Taught a snowboard lesson while being heavily concussed after a bad whip-out and continued to teach the lesson having no idea what was going on –that was insane!!
• Sang Kareoke with two naked Japanese girls behaving badly.
• Worked in NYC.
• Lived in an apartment where we did not empty the garbage for 8 months. We just let the garbage freeze on our deck. When the snow melted, we got rid of that sha-it right quick.
• Got banished from the store with the largest beer selection in North Carolina.
• Paid $600 for a single World Cup game ticket
• Snowboarded 127 days in one season
• Partied with Donovan Frankenreiter
• Been in an Audi on the Autobahn traveling very fast.
• Slept numerous nights on the ground in Russia.

That’s a short list. Remember what Gold-finger says: “caus in the end it’s all ya’ve got! Memories about your life, and how ya lived it.”

Shore Drive · Posted: Feb 16, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject:

Gavin is the most interesting bro in wakeskating, by far!

B-Lane · Backside 180 Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 946 City: Towanda

jonnyUTAH, you are one crazy mother fcuker. Cool

OverEasy · Pop Shuvit Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 167 City: Richardson

Could this be the same Gavin I let hang out with my kids?
Nah, couldn't be.

PIRATE · Kickflip Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2651

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

cornut ... hahah Never let that dude hang out with Children.. He is a bad influence.

Rock on

Greg T · Skeezer Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 2448 City: ohio

jonnyUTAH, you need to further explain some of those stories. I am sure everyone would love to hear about them.

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

Pick one....

nick · Posted: Feb 18, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

Alright….I am bored, so I’ll pick one. I also have photo proof of these incase anyone thinks that I am making sha-it up.

Backstage/onstage with Chilli Peper.
Fuji Rock festival is the biggest outdoor music festival in Japan. It is like a 5 day festival. We took a 30 hour ferry from Hokkaido to Niigata and then took a train from Niigata to the Fuji Rock site (FYI - the music festival is no where near Mt. Fuji). We slept in tents, and I snuck into the Hotel to take showers.

The Chili Peppers where the headliners on the last night. The night before we snuck backstage and onstage for the Chemical Brothers (see photo below). Security was pretty tight, so I wasn’t sure that we were going to get backstage for the Chillis. I figured that I would be in the mosh pit, so I didn’t pack my camera incase it would get crushed.

My English pal Dan Jones and I knew that the chances of both of us sneaking past security were slim, so we wished each other “God Speed”, and we went our separate ways. My style of sneaking backstage is to pretend like you belong there. I just pretended to be on my cell phone and snuck between all the sound trucks. When I got backstage, Dan was already there drinking a beer. I laughed and asked him how he got there. He said that he took off his shoes and rolled up his pants and walked through the river (Fuji rock festival was at the base of a ski resort and there was a large river that went through the venue). We were stoaked!!! We got completely hammered on free booze. Flea was the first person to show up. He walked past us and went into his private little room. He put a crapload of Vasaline on his hands. He must have meditated or something in that room for like 45mins. Anthony showed up and did vocal exercises. Chad was drinking a beer. The only person that we didn’t see was John.

When it came time for the show, one of the ladies shouted “everyone here for the band follow me.” She took us right up to the side of the stage in front of a sea of people. I went straight to the front. I would have given a million dollars for my camera. It was the best show of my life. So F’ing amazing.

When the show was over, I asked the sound guy for a copy of the set list (see photo below). That is the only proof I have of it.

Later that night, we got drunk with Joe Strummer of the Clash. He was there with his family. Joe died later that year. I will always remember that night as one of the best in my life.

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

Steven M · Posted: Feb 18, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject:

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

Greg T · Skeezer Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 2448 City: ohio

What were your reasons for living in Japan? (Something I have always wondered about you.) Also, how have you gotten the opportunity to travel to so many different countries?

519 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 244 City: Toronto

did you take a boat to japan?

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

Yes Garry….I took a boat to Japan. It was long, and I ate rice. No….we flew.

The Jet Programm is the greatest thing to do when you finish school. As long as you have a University degree, you can do it. You get tons of time off to travel. There were friends of mine on the program that traveled every second month to a new country. My buddy Dan took a ferry from Japan to China and took the Trans Siberian highway home to Europe.

http://www.jetprogramme.org/e/index.html