Revolution Mother- Burning From InsideMike Vallely (/ˈvæləjiː/ VAL-ə-yee; born 29 June 1970), also known as Mike V, is a professional skateboarder. Vallely is also a musician, actor, television personality, stuntman, professional wrestler and FHL hockey player. As of January 2014, he is the lead singer of the hardcore punk band Black Flag.
Formed in late 2005 by original members Vallely and guitarist Jason Hampton, Revolution Mother immediately picked up where the pair's former project – Mike V and The Rats – had ended. With Hampton holding a penchant for blues–based overdriven riffs and Vallely's proven vocal delivery, the act slowly eased away from its former all–hardcore foundation, first evidenced by the 2006 release of its debut five–song EP, Enjoy The Ride.
Revolution Mother retooled its line–up later that year, addding bassist Colin Buis (Twilight Transmission, Mean Season) and drummer Brendan Murphy (also from Twilight Transmission). After forging an alliance with a reputable management team, the band quickly began to write and record tracks for Glory Bound.
But Revolution Mother simply couldn't lean on its hardcore–based roots. Hampton, the band's primary songwriter, moved forward and continued to write additional material, eventually penning and recording one of its most pivotal, poignant tracks, "Above The Crawl." The doomsday buzzsaw guitar leads and slamming snare intro instantaneously signaled the band's transition into its current, straightforward rock 'n' roll course.
"I was just thinking, this is it," says Hampton. "Fast songs are great. Slow songs are great. But there is something that grabs a hold of you when you can tap your foot and bob your head to it. For me, that is what draws me to a band." After recording nearly 20 tracks from which the band chose for its album, Glory Bound is a fine–tuned, carefully selected set, highlighting all facets of the incredibly diverse Revolution Mother songbook.
Revolution Mother also tightened its live set for the Vans Warped Tour, performing on its own stage – and garnering a few main stage opportunities – courtesy of the tour's founder and longtime skateboarding advocate Kevin Lyman. The act supported the release of Glory Bound on the entire 2007 installment, performing two sets each day for 45 cities. The tour brought about another significant change in the band, by further refining its direction. "I think the evolution of the band, the sound and what we're about as a band, that evolution definitely happened over the summer," says Vallely. "And it really came into focus what we're trying to accomplish. It's very simple. It's dropping all the previous ideas of what we're about and where we're coming from, getting past the genres and realizing that there's good music and there's bad music. There's genuine, heartfelt, real deal stuff and there's corporate, churned–out garbage. And it's as simple as that." "I think as far as the Warped Tour was concerned, it's mission accomplished," says Mike V. "I think we accomplished everything we set out to accomplish, which was to keep our heads down, play as hard as we could every day and have the most intense, aggressive sets of the day, no matter what." "I think we all kind of realized subconsciously – it wasn't something we dialogued too much about as a band – all summer, as I let the iPod play on shuffle, that you know bands like the Sex Pistols, aren't just punk rock. The Ramones, they're not just punk rock. Danzig is not metal. Metallica is not simply thrash and Bob Marley is not just Reggae. The good stuff rises above the genre and just becomes good music, straight up rock and roll. If you have to categorize it, fine. But the good stuff just becomes rock 'n' roll in the end. From Elvis to Dylan, The Beatles, Sabbath, The Clash, Fugazi, Nirvana –– to me it's all just rock 'n' roll. For us to have tapped into that and shaken off the influence and narrowness of the punk or hardcore genre has been very liberating. We're still a punk band in spirit but at the end of the day, we just really want to rock and roll."
The straightforward rock 'n' roll theme had to be signposted for Warped attendees. "For some reason, it seems like a lot of audiences need to be told what they're watching. So after the third song on our sets, I'd say, 'By the way, this is called rock 'n' roll,'" says Mike V. "It's crazy, but in the Warped Tour environment, there's a lot going on. It's so hard to know what you're supposed to like anymore because there's so much out there."
For example, Vallely would wear his denim jacket on stage in one hundred degree heat, simply because he felt like he needed to do anything to make his band stand out and be seen. "And then it just started feeling right – I couldn't go to the stage without it." The thing about us and our so–called 'gimmick' is that we can back it up," Vallely says. "Try us. We were given this golden opportunity to do the Warped Tour and you better believe we're going to use every resource available to us. It's a war out there."
"At the end of the day, you want to put on a show," he continues. "People want to see a show. We realized that there were certain factors that had to go down. It's showtime, it's gimmicky, but it's the real fucking deal. We're genuinely serious about what we're doing. We believe in it. It's the love of music, the love of making music and the love of sharing it with the audience. It's really simple. less
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1 Early life
2 Professional skateboarding
2.1 Elephant Brand
3 Music
4 Video game appearances
Early life
Vallely was born in Edison, New Jersey, United States to Art and Mary Vallely.Vallely is the younger brother of Joe, and an older brother to sister, Amy. Growing up, Vallely played little league baseball, but, in 1984, at age fourteen, Vallely discovered skateboarding and punk music,borrowing a skateboard from a friend and proceeded to dedicate his life to skateboarding.
At Christmas in 1984, Vallely's parents purchased a Jeff Phillips professional signature model skateboard for him. Besides street skating, Vallely also began vert skateboarding, and often skated at Tom Groholski's ramp, as well as The Barn Ramp, both of which are located in New Jersey. Vallely also skated at the Brooklyn Banks, a well-known skateboarding location under New York's Brooklyn Bridge.
In 1986, Vallely moved with his family to Virginia Beach, Virginia, for a brief period and, while living there, befriended some local skaters. Skating with a local team called "Subculture", in the Kempsville area of Virginia Beach, Vallely tested his street skills in local contests, as well as on neighborhood quarter-pipe and launch ramps. In the spring of 1986, the Virginia Beach Skate park, Mount Trashmore, hosted a professional vert skateboard contest. Vallely and his friend began skating in the car park, adjacent to the vert ramp, during practice, and drew the attention of professional skateboarder, Neil Blender, from atop the ramp. Lance Mountain and Stacy Peralta, both of Powell Peralta and the Bones Brigade, were also impressed with Vallely. Seeing Vallely skate on a worn board, Mountain provided him with a brand new skateboard. Following the impromptu demo, Peralta offered Vallely an amateur sponsorship deal with Powell-Peralta Skateboards.
Professional skateboarding
Thrasher Magazine photographed Vallely performing in the handplant circle, one of the photographs appearing on the cover of magazine's August 1986 issue. In July 1986, Vallely's new sponsor flew him to California to compete at the "Street Attack" contest, in Oceanside, California. Vallely won the amateur division, which led to a full-page spread in Transworld Skateboarding's September issue.Also in 1986, Vallely appeared in the third Powell-Peralta video, The Search for Animal Chin, which was released in 1987. Later that year, Vallely became a professional skateboarder at a vert contest in Toronto, Canada on 31 May 1987.
In 1988, Powell-Peralta released Vallely's first professional signature model skateboard. Initially adorned with graphics of a large bug, which was later changed to a graphic that featured an elephant.[citation needed] In 1989, Vallely left Powell-Peralta, at which time the company was the largest skateboarding brand in the world.[citation needed] Following this departure, Vallely became involved with World Industries, a skater-run brand that was conceived of and launched with peers Steve Rocco, Jesse Martinez, and Rodney Mullen. World Industries created the first ever double-kick skateboard design (a skateboard deck with a kicktail at both ends), which would become the industry standard. A Vallely signature board was used for the new design's introduction into the retail market.
Vallely was a part of World Industries until early 1991, when he joined New Deal Skateboards, where he stayed until January 1992, before starting the short-lived TV Skateboards with friend and professional skateboarder Ed Templeton. Due to health concerns and financial setbacks, TV Skateboards folded later that year, and Vallely returned to the newly reformed Powell Skateboards in 1993, where he stayed until 1997.Vallely then briefly rode for Transit Skateboards, before joining Black Label Skateboards in 1998, a company that he rode for until 2002. Vallely appeared in the Black Label video Label Kills. Vallely founded Vallely Skateboards in 2002, after he left Black Label. Vallely Skateboards were distributed through Giant Distribution and eventually folded in 2003 due to poor growth.
From 2003 until 2010, Vallely rode for Element Skateboards, before leaving to start yet another company, By The Sword, with fellow skateboarder Jason Filipow. However, the company was short-lived, as Vallely joined the roster of a rejuvenated Powell Peralta Skateboards in late 2010 – his third time with Skate One Distribution – along with Airwalk Footwear and Bones Bearings.In mid-2011, Vallely joined Iron Fist Clothing, as well as Tork Trux as their first team rider, after noticing the company's innovative assembly method; however, Vallely quickly left Tork. A press release from the Swedish skate shoe company, Servant Footwear, was published in February 2013, announcing that Vallely was the first American ambassador and team rider for the brand. The company stated: "We are proud to announce that Mike Vallely has joined SERVANT Footwear as US ambassador and team rider. We are honored to get support from and work with such a legendary and truly inspirational player within our culture.
Elephant Brand
In late 2011, Vallely again resigned from Powell-Peralta and founded Elephant Skateboards in December 2011.In April 2012, Jason Adams – formerly of Black Label and Enjoi – was added to the team roster. On a late June episode of the Ride Channel's Weekend Buzz, the addition of Kyle Berard to the Elephant team roster was revealed. Elephant Skateboards company celebrated its second anniversary in December 2013. A video compilation of the team was published on the Internet, featuring Vallely, Jason Adams, Neal Hendrix, Kyle Berard, Kris Markovich, and Jake Wooten.
Music
Vallely joined a band called Resistance in 1985, although he only played one live show with the group, in which the bands 7 Seconds and Aggression also played. Vallely was asked to leave the band for spending too much time on skateboarding. In 2003, Greg Ginn invited Vallely to sing for Black Flag at its 2003 reunion shows in Los Angeles, where he performed the entire My War album. Vallely was the lead singer for Mike V and the Rats, and the band's song, "The Days", appeared in the video game, Tony Hawk's Underground (THUG), and their song, "Never Give Up", appeared in THUG's successor, Tony Hawk's Underground 2. In 2013, Vallely formed a band called Good For You with Greg Ginn. Their debut album was released on SST Records in February 2013. In January 2014, founding member Greg Ginn announced Mike Vallely would be the new lead singer of Black Flag
Good For You:
Life Is Too Short to Not Hold a Grudge (2013)
Mike V & The Rats:
Fist 3 Songs (2002)
Mike V & The Rats (2002)
The Days (2003)
Revolution Mother:
Glory Bound (2007)
Rollin' With Tha Mutha (2009)
Solo Career:
Weekend In Pittsburgh (2002) with Joe Grushecky
California Angel (2006)
Alone (2006)
Guest appearances:
Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta's "Jasta" (2011) - "Heart of a Warrior".
Video game appearances
Vallely appears in the successful Tony Hawk Pro Skater skateboarding video game series, from the fourth release onwards. He appears as a secret character in the fourth release, but has been a major character since the fifth release. The storyline of the fifth game in the series Tony Hawk's Underground is based on Vallely's skateboard career, and the Vallely character teaches the flamingo trick in the game.[citation needed] Vallely has launched his own skateboarding video game for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, entitled Mike V: Do or Die – Skateboarding
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