Adrian Demain (born December 26, 1966) is a professional musician and former professional skateboarder based in the San Diego, California area. Demain rode for
Powell Peralta
Powell Peralta is an American skateboard company founded by George Powell and Stacy Peralta in 1978. The company rose to prominence in the 1980s as skateboarding began maturing as a sport. The company featured the Bones Brigade, a team featurin ...
as part of the Bones Brigade in the mid-late 1980s. Demain was featured briefly in
skateboarding's first video,
The Bones Brigade Video Show The ''Bones Brigade Video Show'' is a 1984 skateboarding video, produced by Stacy Peralta and Craig Stecyk.
It was the first of several videos produced by the Powell Peralta company, and showcased members of the Bones Brigade skateboarding team, ...
, and in 1986 was ranked as skateboarding's amateur vertical champion by the National
Skateboard
A skateboard is a type of sports equipment used for skateboarding. They are usually made of a specially designed 7-8 ply maple plywood deck and polyurethane wheels attached to the underside by a pair of skateboarding trucks.
The skateboarder ...
Association. He turned pro for House of Kasai in 1987 and retired in 1991. Demain invented
skateboarding tricks
A skateboarding trick, or simply a trick, is a maneuver performed by manipulating a skateboard, usually with one's feet, in a specific way to achieve the desired outcome – the trick.
History
Though skateboards emerged in the 1900s, skateboard ...
including the Judo, Anti-Judo and double-kick backside air.
Demain has been performing music professionally since the early 1990s as a guitarist, ukulele player, steel guitarist and singer. For three years he played, recorded and toured the world with
Stray Cats
Stray Cats are an American rockabilly band formed in 1979 by guitarist and vocalist Brian Setzer, double bassist Lee Rocker, and drummer Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island town of Massapequa, New York. The group had numerous hit singles in th ...
' bass player
Lee Rocker
Lee Rocker (born Leon Drucker, August 3, 1961) is an American musician. He is a member of the rockabilly revival band Stray Cats.
He is the son of the classical clarinetists Stanley Drucker, the late former principal clarinetist of the New Yo ...
. Demain has also performed and recorded with Forbidden Pigs, Thee Corsairs, Billy Watson and The International Silver String Submarine Band,
Gregory Page (musician)
Gregory Page (born April 28, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Biography
Page is the son of a traveling Armenian pop singer whom he would not meet for over 40 years. His Irish mother was the lead singer/saxophone player in ...
,
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, the Cheap Leis and Brawley. Demain started playing blues and rockabilly, and currently focuses on Hawaiian and jazz classics and American Songbook standards.
''In The Shop With Adrian Demain''
''TKSmith.net''
References
External links
Adrian Demain on GigTown.comAdrian Demain on ReverbNationAdrian Demain - San Diego Reader
American skateboarders
Musicians from California
Living people
1966 births
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