Dirty Old Wedge Page #4

- I would go out there and

Romo would tell me to leave,

Jeff Stack would tell me to

leave.

You know, Terry Wave, even

Mel, get out of here (grunts).

That went on literally for

years.

- You had to prove yourself.

And to prove yourself meant

taking off

some ugly, ugly stuff.

- [Voiceover] Uh- oh.

Oh, wait a minute.

Who was that?

- And finally working yourself

up that little hierarchy

to get some better waves and

better waves.

And then eventually showing

everybody

that you can handle it and be

there.

- [Voiceover] Panama Rick.

Panama Rick in the barrel.

- They talked about us,

we talked about them

and it just took, it

took probably five years

before we were

semi-integrated into the crew.

- [Voiceover] Back to Phil.

Phil, anything else you wanna

say to the folks at home?

- I thought I had some good

waves today.

- [Voiceover] I saw you

ripping out there but--

- Mel try not to speak,

I thought I rode well.

- I think you finally

knew you were in the crew

when then gave you a nickname.

And my nickname had to be Panama

Rick

because my face was always red.

And Mel had a fish named Panama.

It was this red fish.

I got the name Panama cause

my face looked like his fish.

- Mel, where did Mel come from?

It's Kevin, Kevin Feldman.

I have no idea where Mel came

from.

- Terry Sack Wade.

Sack had to do with more of his

anatomy

then it does with his huge wave

riding.

- The sack or the bat

wing because his nut sack

was so big, he'd stretch it

out and do this at parties

when he was drunk, it was just

horrifying.

- We had a nickname for Tom.

He was this huge guy with red

hair

and we called him Sasquatch.

- It was actually Sasquatch

from my high school friends

and it was a Wedge crew

member that said I believe

that his friends call him

Cashbox.

- We would hear this, what

we thought was Cashbox

and we'd call guys with

big asses, box asses.

So, we thought that was perfect.

You know, big guy, big ass

(laughs).

- I got guys that come up to me,

they go,

hey, Cash, I had no idea you

had a real name Tom Kennedy.

I go, I do.

I'm Tom Kennedy, Cashbox is my

nickname.

But everybody in that

community had a very fun,

cool personality and

that's what really made

the Wedge crew what it was.

- The stuff we used to do as

a crew, it was all about fun.

I mean, my whole thing was

like, this is the most fun

anybody could ever have

was riding the Wedge.

Well I'm so tired

Why don't you

- Mel kind of became the

root of this group of guys

kind of coming together.

- Mel was the guy who you could

tell

was kind of like the

mayor down there, right?

You had Fred Simpson

who was the president,

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