You doin anything?
Sitting at Kingswell. It’s boring here. Don’t print that.
How’s the shop been?
I’m hyped on it. I was gone on tour for four months and I come back and it didn’t implode. It us ruling.
Hell yeah that’s good to hear.
I’m psyched that the tattoo aspect is really flowing, but what I like about the store the most is organizing events and throwing gallery nights and parties.
Have any parties recently?
We had one over the weekend with the Berrics and Levis where we screened a Documentary, and we are having one this Saturday with the artist BIGFOOT. He is nervous, he says, it’s his first solo art show in ten years. Since the I-Path days.

Yeah, I remember that dude, I was always stoked on his stuff. Let’s get some tour questions out of the way…Worst thing about being on tour for 4 months?
Worst thing? Dude, my body gave out halfway through. It’s the skating hard, then get in the car and sit still for four hours and then try and skate again, and eat shit food and all. Couldn’t keep the stoke. I think after the three month mark, my body was like… Naaaah.
Top 3 Melch-isms you’ve said into a microphone?
1.Tropical storm grind! (boardslide to hurricane)
2.Garden State Barrier (Jersey Barrier)
3….
3?
I had to sell some Indys. Sorry. 3 is ChaÑel (cocoa Channel) frontside flip over the ChaÑel.
Were you scared to hurricane Wilshire on a broken board?
I was so amped, It was mid session and I didn’t even think about it. I was so close to landing when I snapped my tail that I knew I had it in the bag next try. So there was really no thought process to it. That whole session was the shit. I started out with a caveman, and as I pulled a caveman, just warming up, Antwuan Dixon rolled up in a brand new Benz wearing a tuxedo! It was so surreal. He popped out of the bling mobile and was the sickest hype-man. I pulled it off in 6 tries after that. I was stoked but I feel like he was like 30 times more hyped than me when I pulled it.

Ever run into Antwuan again?
All the time. He’s always the homie. “Melcher, remember when I was going to prom and and you killed Wilshire?”
What’s something we didn’t know about Richie Jackson?
Richie has never driven a car in his life. He got me into the mustache thing. Which I am happily out of now. Seriously though, never even sat behind the wheel of a car ever.

Haha, one of the questions I got from a homie in Philly was, “When did the mustache become more important than the skateboard?”
Yeah, I’ll get back to you in a few mins…
(hour later)
Welp, that’s good enough, thanks for your time Melch, next time I’m in LA I’ll stop by the shop.