Month: February 2024

if you want the short version, scroll down, past all this! But don’t watch clip without at least that.

I haven’t been able to convert any of my VHS to digital since I got a new computer nearly a year ago. Alas, hardware/software blahblahblah wasn’t compatible, and, the new computer oddly has less storage space than the old. Long story short, got additional storage, new conversion hardware, and new conversion software (actually 2, one “works” the other doesn’t – yet). So, I figured why not test with that VHS tape I bought inadvertently with a bundle, but led to a question of whether a guy from the corresponding magazine was in it or not (VHS box shows no sign – no image, no name) – and GEVI lists a couple stars who have no corresponding image or other porn work that we can tell. Then the digitizing was a struggle, and the first run was a 16 gigabyte file – not at all sustainable! Especially for a shitty 1985 video, right? But during playback, I realized that it was picking up the music I was listening to (Billy Bragg & Wilco) via the PC, and now it’s on the tape! I put that aside, tried to do a test run without this issue, and then, suddenly, NO SOUND AT ALL! 12 hours of experimenting later, I get to record a rare Chris Burns tape – more on that another time – but I don’t dare listen to music while recording, at least for now.

Where was I – so the surprise wasn’t that Beau Matthews – pictured above and below from the magazine, Wave Riders which promises to show you the “scenes behind the scenes as you view outakes from the Ocean Pacific videotape” ( Wave Riders AKA Hang 10) – wasn’t in the film, but that another fairly familiar guy, was!

As the movie starts, the credits list – Andrew Barrington (AKA Bill Crane), Paul Harris, Rick Kennedy, Teddy Moore, John Black, introducing Marc Fox. Skimming through, there are 6 Scenes. No Beau from what I can tell, but Don Bishop (who you may remember as Skip Wilson via Falcon)!!! He’s paired off in scene 5, and solo (shown above) for the finale.

And then there’s the issue (AKA rabbithole) that I am not, yet, pursuing regarding the production company, Ocean Pacific, which only made just this one movie, and the (somewhat) corresponding magazine. Gotta have something to do with the clothing company, right? So the connection to College Station? Certainly at least Don Bishop – oh, and there’s an ad in the magazine for another magazine, called American Centermen which shows a small pic of Don Bishop – so why wasn’t he credited? And I have a handful of pics from that magazine, with a great photo of Mickey Squires – another rabbithole to go down! (Did I mention there’s a cute pic of Beau in OP shorts?)

oops – I forget to eat. that’s it.

SHORT VERSION – ignore the Beau Matthews pics, here’s a clip of Don Bishop, uncredited, from Hang 10 AKA Wave Riders