"I want to be a punk rock Medici.”
There was once a time, almost lost in the mists, when the bleeding edge in high performance surfing could only be found on VHS cassettes, sometimes Beta cassettes too (if someone had a friend whose parents owned a Saab and liked to to “go agains the flow”). Radical clips of hot action all scored to the very latest in punk pop stylings. Pennywise, Lagwagon, NOFX and, of course, Blink-182.
The San Diego-area trio featured on the best of the best auteurs, Taylor Steele, before exploding to worldwide fame themselves. Fame and enough riches for frontman Mark Hoppus to purchase the Banksy painting “Crude Oil (Vettriano)” in 2011.
The work a riff on the 1992 painting “The Singing Butler” by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, Banksy adding a sinking oil liner and two characters in hazmat suits moving a barrel of waste.
Well, Hoppus is now taking it to auction at Sotheby’s where it is estimated to bring in between $3.8 mil and $6.35 mil.
“It was first exhibited in (Banksy’s) landmark exhibition in Notting Hill in 2005, which really propelled (Banksy) into the public sphere,” Mackie Hayden-Cook, specialist, contemporary art at Sotheby’s, declared. “It’s rare for a work of this quality to come to market, and this one really has all the best ingredients. A fabulous owner, it’s hand-painted, impeccable exhibition history, and its subject is more urgent now than ever before.”
Hoppus says that he will use the money to buy even more art.
“Coming up in punk rock, it was always the ethos that if your band got any success, you brought your friends up with you,” he shared. “So with this art sale, I hope to take some of the money and put it back into the art community with up-and-coming artists that we’re inspired by and just continue that…I want to be a punk rock Medici.”
And there you have it.
But if you could invest in one piece of art, which would it be?
Do you remember when Blink-182 was supposed to play the Surf Ranch Pro but cancelled and was replaced by Social Distortion?
Heady times.
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Vettriano is shite and an embarassment to the Scottish art community.
Paraphrasing a critic who wrote many years ago; his work is a cypher for Art rather than art itself.
Damnit! It’s Always All The Small Things. Trading art is like being on the Carousel at The Rock Show.
Do these old guys still rock&rule? if only they stay old and I can still(s) be young? https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Only if you’re Neil young
That’s an awesome painting
Friend of mine in london bought 3 banksy’s from a pop up in the late 90’s (97 at a guess). got them for 400 pounds each, or thereabouts. recently had them authenticated and valued… sold 2 and kept his favourite. mad amount of money involved.
personally don’t rate him as a graffiti artist or social commentator, but i couldn’t argue with the numbers.
I lived in London from 98 to 2000. I can clearly remember the rats with RPG stencil on the south bank of the Thames, not far from where I lived. This was a bit before he started getting in the press. People started chopping out the entire brick walls where he’d painted not long after. Crazy $$ nowadays.
i remember people nicking walls! classic.
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toss the red dress! dive~
ur in charge of imports and eliminating the cali coastal commies!
Can we just agree that as long as we are talking Cheshire Cat and some of Dude Ranch it was good Blink!?
Fuck. Never would have thought Hoppus was an art collector. Wish I had enough coin to make some decent art investments. There is some co-op shares in art thing I was doing for a while but it didnt seem to make anything so I went back to crypto bro.
Kirra pumping – ish. live steam for those with no work commitments. Old mate fliming just told a story about meeting a chick in a rub and tug in Thailand and going on a holiday together haha!
His 5 hour live stream from Yesterday was the tits. I’ve saved it and will go back anytime I want to see cranking Kirra.
Yeah yesty was sick. Monday’s wasn’t too bad either old matey has that on his channel. His commentary as he goes is pretty comical at times, He told a super un-pc tale about rub’n’tugs earlier that had me spitting coffee.
not too many goofy footers getting any waves. As it should be!
I liked their between song banter
https://youtube.com/shorts/hZkMo0FKB_A?si=4y5DSpoje7ckUTIY
Anybody been surfing Kirra these last two days? This footage has been amazing.
Some fella loaded up a 5 hour stream onto YouTube and it’s the Kirra I remember from previous storms. Hundreds of stand up barrels.
saw a random clip a couple days ago without a location tag and momentarily thought I was looking at Puerto E
saw some clips. looks fantastic.
It’s pretty outta control today, couple through it all though. Parko and Jack Robbo are among those stepping off.
Shouldn’t Jack be stepping off a plane in Portugal?
This is the real surf news
“The work a riff on the 1992 painting “The Singing Butler” by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano”
riff? He stole the entire painting!
Laundering money in the art world is so punk, you can take that to the bank(sy).
Gotta buy something with all that crypto of questionable origin so you can reduce it to cash later
“reduce”-Haha!
Banksy, more like Wanksy. HA!
did Banksy program this one to self-destruct as soon as the auction is over like he did a few years back?
Using the word “punk” in any way related to Blink-182 should be a crime.
What about Lagwagon?
Closer than Blink but still pretty bubblegum in the overall. If you’re going SB County might as well throw RKL in there with Lagwagon. (Nothing wrong with either, just not punk rock)
Lagwagon is legit skate punk that was almost universally respected back in the 90s SoCal punk scene (Blink absolutely was not)
I think that depends on what version of punk rock you were exposed to. Lagwagon might qualify as surf/skate punk from the 90’s but that isn’t necessarily the core of punk rock music which was during the late 70’s and 80’s. Just like Pennywise, Offspring, and NOFX are considered surf/skate punk but don’t qualify as the core of punk rock music.
the difference is, all those bands were still paying homage to the 70s/80s core that came before them while doing something a little different, while the full on pop punk bands like Blink were not
“almost”?
always a few guys that hate everything.
Lagwagon vs. Lagwagon live. Two completely different speeds.
Old dudes talking about what is and what isn’t “Punk” always cracks me up.
Punk Rock
Why? In reference to the music, I kinda think you gotta be “old” to have been exposed to the music.. The 90’s wasn’t really a hardcore punk era, more of the surf/skate/bubblegum punk era. Most people that currently listen to what they call punk rock have no idea who bands like Minor Threat, Exploited, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, etc. are. Instead, its thought that Nirvana, Offspring, Blink, etc are punk rock music and they are not.
Nowadays the most punk rock thing you can do is I try and enjoy life. And, also, being a little bit of positivity if you can.
I guess my bad for discussing what Chad wrote a sharticle about. Maybe Negs prefers we keep talking about politics regardless of what the “Chad’s magic mirror” topic of the day is.
Yep. spot on.
I said it before, I’ll say it again:
Punk died when “slam dancing” became “moshing”.
Sex Pistols were always my fave, because my brother brought back a promo release of Never Mind The Bollocks when he returned from England in 77.
First time I’d ever heard punk.
you left DK off your list. not a wise decision. haha
very few people exemplified punk like Jello Biafra….and Johnny Rotten
The Oracle has spoken.
It has been spoken, so shalt it be done.
Why, Because some kid making new music in his bedroom for his crew, is and was as punk as it gets. Regardless of some old codgers opinion on what is punk.
ie best “punk” gig I’ve been to in the last few years had zero guitars. {check out the old codger in the Beach Grit T-shirt} lol. https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClAJP8MATeG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
I think there’s a difference between punk music and being “punk”, just like there’s a difference between surf music and being a surfer.
What’s this “surf music” you speak of?
Sleepwalker by a bunch on non-surfers and a few w/ no common sense. jeff beck&dick dale~
dude!
Maybe, a bunch of guys making music about surfing back in the 60’s who didn’t surf.
Jungle always sounded to me like the electronic equivalent of punk rock – esp watching both live
The sex pistols were just a malcolm mclaren orchestrated boy band. There, i said it.
did not have a bg reference to McLaren on my card for today, nice work
John DeLorean got busted today~65 mustang fastback for sale
are the doors wings or just lame ass regular openers???
all i remember is that upon a certain speed the car sucked up and eliminated the white lines on the freeway!
Its always about the svengalis!
Some have said the same about the Ramones.
Also The Monkees~
see wrecking crew in LA…original creators of band sex stories/back-up band…Also The Monkees~
Nirvana was never punk, that was Grunge. Throw a blanket over any band from Seattle, plus a few others. neo punk (or whatever you want to call it) was in a lot of the Taylor Steele videos and pretty soft compared to that late 70s to early 80s punk sound. Probably more influenced by suicidal tendencies “grind core” sound than actual punk.
honk” The Gerry Lopez song FIVE Elke sommers…
this is Australian punk rock https://x.com/nypost/status/1896636474109432314
You fishing for finless?
three car garage bands
ha! youre just as judgy the other way
Pudgy Judgy.
Fingering your bumhole is punk rock!
Xox
Young guys crying because there hasn’t been anything original since Grunge. Hence why kids are into retro (especially mid 80s retro) because it’s what their parents listened to and they think it must have been cool (e.g. Stranger Things). Mid 80s was shit. Early 80s or late 80s not so bad but mid 80s had way too much synth. Dire Straits and Bruce Springsteen from that era is almost unlistenable.
you have to call it surf punk or neo punk or something. Blink 182 and especially Green Day are just “punk” for 14 year old kids. Offspring was huge until everyone realised that every song was just “whoa-oh, oh-oh” all through the lyrics.
I don’t think you can really say there was any real punk past about 1983.
I would buy a Hunter Biden finger painting and send it to my MAGA father in law for his birthday.
at least having MAGA in-laws gives you a good reason to go surf instead of hanging out with them when they are in town
Saves money on plane tickets too.
Would they try to snort the paint? Or feed it to the lizard people?
fingin common sense…traffickers and such…home offices~
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my old main 12″ screen on a zenith fed by a panasonic hand cam. performance cancelled tonight. time to grab a…
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new bulb…
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