Monthly Archives: June 2014
Steve Olson
One asks what’s a Tazbone ???
That’s a good question…
But if you were there, you wouldn’t ask…
It’s everything that your mind can think of …
Which is why it is what it is, and then some…
Open up, and let it in, and then you’ll get it….
Cuz when you do, you’ll never need to ask again…
my friend…. Tazbone this !!!
-Steve Olson
Isabel Kettering
“Bob had that place on The Point. The Band was behind Zuma. Trafton was at Topanga. Richie staked out County Line for Jesus Loves Fiberglass. They had this big sprawling place in a canyon nearby. (I’m not supposed to name it, one of them still lives up there.) It was perfect, you know. They’d record all night, sleep late and be up in time for evening glass-off. Those were the days, Malibu, the seventies.”
—Isabel Kettering
Tibby Rothman
“Investigative journalists hate to be scooped by their competitors. What bothers them more? The discovery that two of their closest friends have secretly been collaborating for more than three decades on a whole swath of the greatest quote unquote surf art produced. Jim Evans and Ned Evans who aren’t but, equally are, brothers, are the brilliant duo behind some of the most inventive work to come out of the late sixties and mid-seventies. Remember the poster that filled the Santa Monica Civic for Jesus Loves Fiberglass? The one-sheet that turned Bikini Pintail into a legend? The lush tactile colors and textures were rich, intricate, authentic, luminescent and mind blowing. The imagery always transcended the particulars of the immediate. Like a Nirvana bootleg, or the Band’s Basement Tapes of an earlier generation, the output of the duo has been kept hidden till now. So here’s your chance. GO.”
—Tibby Rothman, Contributing Writer, New Times