Hey guys my name is Steven Spence. I’m the drummer for a band called Black Tide. Check us out if you haven’t heard of us yet. I fucking love drumming, but it’s not my whole life. I used to skate every single day before I joined the band, it was my other passion. Skating would get pretty expensive for me though because I would snap decks like crazy. Regardless, it was worth the money, there’s nothing like sporting a brand new deck with fresh grip tape.

 
Here’s a shot of our band. I am on the far left. 

Anyway, I say that I used to skate everyday, not because I got bored of it, but because I destroyed my knee. About a year ago, July 18th of last year actually, we had a show in Nashville, Tennessee, with a band called Trivium. They invited us out to open for them at a skate park / venue called Rocketown.  We were stoked because at the time, it would have been our biggest show. The turnout was pretty good, there must have been about 600 people in the audience.

After meeting some fans and signing some tits, the owner of the venue saw us fucking around outside with our boards and asked us if we wanted to skate the park. It was a pretty bad ass indoor park, and who in his right mind would pass up an opportunity to skate privately at a park? So with the entire place to ourselves, the rest of the band and I were skating around, having a blast with some friends. After a little while I decided to kick it up a notch. The problem was that not all of us had our own deck. We were rotating, and one of the boards was a lame-ass aluminum deck that I fucking LOATHE. Well, it was my turn for the metal piece of shit, and even though it was a bullshit excuse for a board, I wasn’t about to sit out on a run- BAD DECISION! To make a long story short, I got some air on that flimsy shit stick and somehow it came out from under me. I happened to do some kind of flip in the process and came down with all of my body weight and momentum on my left knee. FUCK THAT SHIT! It swelled up to the size of my head! Everyone wanted me to go to a doctor, but I told them to fuck off. I hate going to doctors. Whenever I go to a doctor, they all tell me the same shit, “Basically you’re in pain”, “Just stay off of it”, No shit! Tell me something I don’t know. All doctors are good for is prescribing pills.

Anyway, I don’t even know what really happened to my knee, although it was definitely serious considering it’s not until now, almost a year later, that I’m finally almost fully recovered. I couldn’t even really play drums properly for a while. And it’s not until recently that I’m able to even fuck around on my skateboard again without it hurting. Finally I’m back!

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