King Gully
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  • Out of intrest, what is the barbados goverment view on cannabis? Also im going to barbados for two weeks on the 28th to the 12th and im wondering if you know anyone who could teach me to surf? Ive skateboarded, longboarded, snowboarded and wakeboarded before ;)

  • nice song Rick hope you are well. I am playing out sometimes around here{Encinitas} small gigs. Anyways hope 2 c u again on Bali. I can still picture u sittin furthest out at Middle Reef..waitin 4 the best and biggest set wave.. spinnin around and droppin' in. was a pleasure playin music and surfin w u Rick

  • @baliscotsurf Hey Scot, great to hear from you! Glad you dug the song.

    I just got back from Bali about a month ago. Dropped by Adi's and asked for you, just in case you were around, but no luck. I was going to stay there, but wound up going to Lombok instead, which was fun. When are you heading back to Indo?

  • were you our yoga instructor/ we lived up on the plantation?

  • ....we spent winter of 75 in crab hill....guys like Toad,teddy salvesen, johnny cassella

    and Dancin Dan. And our car LAZY BONES made surf magazine article by craig peterson and kevin naughten

  • @Bigdan0143

    Hi, I think I remember a "Dan", and I definitely remember Toad. My friend Lynn Richardson and I were there Nov/Dec '74. We rented the little house from Mrs. Broomes that Craig and Kevin took over after we left in January '75 for Tortola and eventually Hawaii. You may remember my brother, a tall lanky blond kid named Walt, who stayed a few months after I split. His son Flynn now rules Pipe and lands back-flip aerials!

  • Hi Rich! The photos in the video were from all over Barbados, including a lot of Bathsheba, Tropicana, Duppies, etc. The real King Gully lives in Crab Hill, St. Lucy on the Northwest corner of the island, where Duppies is located. I lived there '72/'74. It's where I learned to surf properly, before moving to Hawaii's North Shore in '75.

    Cheers, Rick.

  • Great song and cool pics.... nice job thanx! How is mark doing?

  • Thanks Tommy, glad you liked the song, and yeah, the pics are great. Mostly from a photog named Tarik B.

    Last I heard, Mark Holder was doing well, still Godfather of Bathsheba!

    Aloha, Rick Novak.

  • omfg thts jason apparicio aswell hes a pro surfer and also my surf instructor in trinidad

  • Yep, Jason is an amazing surfer! Tell him "Hi!" if you see him. It's interesting how Jason, Gully and Bob Marley all have a similar look, beyond just the dreadlocks. I'm surprised Jason doesn't get more surf magazine coverage, since those flying dreads are just SO photogenic! R.N.

  • The poor guy...it's possible to get too high...sorry he left that way...love ya..

  • Fortunately the real King Gully is still alive and well in Crab Hill, St. Lucy, Barbados. That's the true story of his name; you can't make up stuff like that! He charged hard at Duppies, and was and still is a very cool guy. Say "Hi!" to him if you go surf the Northwest coast of Barbados.

    The guy who had cancer and killed himself was actually my neighbor in Bali.

    Andrew Broomes did become a policeman.

    So I rolled all these stories into one and somehow stuffed them all into a 4 minute song.

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