Duane Peters

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Duane Peters is a punk rock singer/songwriter and professional skateboarder. He is credited for inventing many tricks, such as the acid drop into a pool/bowl, the layback roll-out, the indy air,the sweeper,the backside layback roll-out revert,the fakie hang-up(a.k.a. disaster),the invert revert, and the fakie thruster. He also,along with Neil Blender, helped to evolve the humble footplant into the more dynamic fastplant.

Peters was one of the very first high profile skaters to embrace punk rock,cutting his hair short and narrowing his jeans when all around were still dressing like blissed-out Woodstock refugees;a move akin to wrapping yourself in a Russian flag in the 1950's.

Peters was named Transworld Skateboarding's "Legend" in 2003. He is a professional skateboarder who rides for Pocket Pistols Skates, and also a subdivision of the Black Label Skateboards called Emergency. In May 2005, Black Label Skateboards released a biographic film in the vein of Dogtown and Z-Boys, entitled Who Cares: The Duane Peters Story.

Along with skateboarding, Peters is a very well-known punk rock singer. He has formed bands such as the US Bombs, Political Crap, Duane Peters Gunfight, and Exploding Fuckdolls. He also owns a record label called Disaster Records, which has represents bands such as The Briggs and Civet.

In 2000, Peters formed Duane Peters and The Hunns with Rob Milucky (previously of The Grabbers and The Pushers fame.) Within two years, the band released three full-length albums and undertook both national and European tours. At a The Damned show in 2002, Peters met future wife Corey Parks, who had just left her previous band, Nashville Pussy. Parks joined Duane Peters and the Hunns on bass guitar and soon the band changed their name to Die' Hunns, recorded a fourth full-length album entitled Long Legs, and embarked on another tour.

Peters is married to Parks, with whom he has a son, Clash Thomas Peters.

Peters has also struggled with drug addictions, mainly heroin, for around 10 years. As of March 2007, Peters and his current band, Die Hunns cancelled their tour as Peters once again entered drug rehabilitation facility.

[edit] Discography

With Political Crap:

• Who Cares LP

With Exploding Fuckdolls:

• Crack the Safe LP

With U.S. Bombs:

• Garibaldi Guard! LP
• Nevermind the Opened Minds EP
• War Birth LP
• The World LP
• Back at the Laundromat LP
• Covert Action LP
• Put Strength in the Final Blow: Disaster Edition LP
• We are the Problem LP

With Die Hunns:

• Tickets to Heaven LP
• Wayward Bantams LP
• Unite LP
• Wild 7"
• Long Legs, Die Hunns LP
• Time Has Come Today 7"
• Marshall Law 7" Split with Radio One
• You Rot Me LP

With Gunfight:

• Duane Peters Gunfight LP

[edit] Contest history

• 1st in 1981 Skate City Whittier Pro-Am: vert.

[edit] References

• Brooke, Michael (1999). Concrete Wave: The History Of Skateboarding. ISBN 1-894020-54-5.