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Fair Isle, Shetland, Scotland

San Juan Surfboards Byron Bay in the seventies… great days indeed and a great place to hang out.

San Juan started in 1966 , it was at the forefront of design as many great shapers converged and compared ideas of design. We have a great example of a seventies model on display shaped by Bob McTavish.

The explanation, 1952, Rene Magritte

Size: 35x46 cm

Madonna and Dennis Rodman photographed by Melodie McDaniel for Vibe magazine, 1994.

Dennis Rodman:

In April, one of her people called and asked me to come to Miami because Madonna was going to interview me for Vibe, the hip-hop magazine. They told me the magazine had assigned her to do an interview of me, and it was supposed to be the cover story—with photos and the interview—for the June 1994 issue….

I didn’t like her work at all. I didn’t like her music. I told her that too. I thought she was a brilliant entertainer, but her music wasn’t my style. She changed with the album called Bedtime Stories. It was pretty cool, but a lot of people didn’t accept it.  After we went through the introductions at her house, she did the interview. She sat there and took notes and everything. She had questions ready, all written down. After we did some of the interview, they started doing the photo shoot and We were gust all over each other. From the first photo we were covering each other. I didn’t care if it was Madonna or not, to me it was just another girl and we were on each other. They ended the photo shoot before we got too carried away. We ended up going out to the gay bar—that was an experience…. 

Eventually we went back to her house. I got in the house and headed for the spare bedroom. I was all set to just go in there and crash, but Bryne was already asleep in there.  Before I could ask where I should go, Madonna looked at me all sexy and said, “YOU’RE STAYING WITH ME, IN MY ROOM.” There was no doubt that she wasn’t going to let me go in the other room, whether Bryne was in there or not. Then she shut the door and told her manager, “He’ll be with me.” So I laid my head where all the other mongrels had. First thing you know—boom!—we’re messing around. We sort of picked up where we left off during the photo shoot, except this time there was nobody watching….

As it turned out, the Vibe magazine story was real, but it never appeared in the magazine. I found out later they didn’t like the way it turned out, so they scrapped it.