Photos by Liam Annis. Interview by Larry Davis.
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How are you and what have you been up to today?
Can’t complain. Just got off work, about to smoke. I live in Hyannis right now and I’ve been installing invisible fences, basically just running a wire around people’s houses for a shock collar for their dog.
We did an interview with you in 2015 and you were living in Hyannis, playing in FIFA tournaments, and you had just started getting boards from DGK. What’s the biggest difference between that Brian and the one I’m talking with today?
The FIFA tournament I was talking about back then was just a bunch of Jamaicans betting money on games. So just two people play, and then all the fools make bets on the side. It would get intense. They don’t play around with FIFA. But yeah, that’s probably the biggest difference because I’m still in Hyannis and still getting DGK boards.
Have you ever lived anywhere else?
I lived in Boston briefly.
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Why didn’t it work out there?
It wasn’t that it didn’t work out, I moved into a skate house with a bunch of homies in Allston, but I was trying to go on a trip and I didn’t have money to dip work and pay rent so I ended up just giving my room to Dutchy, and she held onto it for mad long after. I only live an hour from the city so I just drive up and I save money.
You live with your folks?
Yeah it’s just me and my pops, which is basically just like living with a roommate though. He does his thing and I do mine, and I’m not here very much.
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Are you going on a lot of trips?
Yeah but just going on my own tip. I did just do a DGK trip like two weeks ago, but I’ll usually just hop in the whip and drive down to New York for four or five days, come back and hit Boston. I’ve been going to New York a bunch.
You just had the Grand Collection part drop, did that really take two weekends?
Nah, it was like eight days all together. It was dope though, that wasn’t even supposed to be a video part. They were just dropping that jazz collection thing and I was supposed to go down there and shoot some b-roll and play my saxophone.
You know how to play saxophone? Who got you into music?
Oh yeah, it’s sitting right next to me right now. I did the whole jazz band thing through high school and all that shit. My dad got the sax way before I was born, but that dude doesn’t really stick to much so it just sat around until I was old enough to pick it up and fuck around with it.
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So you were supposed to just play saxophone for this video part?
Yeah but we would just go out and film all day. Then Ben would hit me up like “you end up hitting the sax, or getting any footage with that?” and I’d just be like “Nah, but I filmed clips.” I just kept doing that and it became a part. Maybe the next one I’ll play some sax on it.
Do you have any other interests or hobbies outside of skating?
I mean, what everyone else fucking does, shoot 35mm film. Other than that I’ve been doing some random patch stuff trying to customize shit. I was swapping the N’s on all my New Balance shoes. This one pair, the 379’s, all the N’s are different colors. So I skated those for a while and then I took them off and put them on these all black ones. It was pretty sick looking.
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You trying to project something?
Yeah man I’m laying the foundation. I got shoe designs, holler at your boy.
I’m sure you’ve heard this one before, but did you know you have the same name as the guy who designed the D3?
Oh yeah, there’s some clip of Wes Kremer on The Nine Club talking about the D3 then looking at the camera and going “shoutout Brian Reid.” That shit’s hilarious.
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How long were you filming with Tim Savage for Grace?
Altogether about three years, there’s some old clips in that thing.
Whose part was your favorite?
If I had to pick one I’d go with Justin because I love him a lot. I talk to Justin every day. He just started getting boards from Visit too.
What’s Visit?
It’s Gallant’s board company. He just has a single board press in his garage and he’s just been running them out of there.
I feel like there’s a lot of people trying to do board manufacturing now.
Honestly it seems like a shitty thing to get into. It seems stressful and not worth it. But fuck it, send it.
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Sounds like skating sometimes. Anything coming up that you’re really looking forward to?
Yeah, I’m trying to put out a welcome to DGK part. Because in the grand scheme of things nobody really knows who I am I guess. And I want to put out an am part or whatever. So I’m trying to put that out today if I could, but soon for sure.
People know. So six years ago you were rocking some temporary front teeth, you got something more permanent in there now?
I’ve got two posts in there and then they build the tooth around that. I actually need to go and get them redone before I’m 26 because of health insurance and shit.
Clock’s ticking bud.
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, and I’m not fucking kidding.
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