The Tracks Podcast

Our guest today is Chris Shiflett. Although perhaps best known as a lead guitarist with the Foo Fighters, his also an accomplished solo artist and a surfer. Chris just released his latest album, Lost At Sea and is heading to Australia for a bunch of sold-out solo shows later in the year in conjunction with a tour for the Foo Fighters. In the following conversation, we talked about Chris's musical influences, playing Wembley Stadium in front of 170,000 people and how surfing factors into his life. Stay tuned in for Chris's interesting advice on how to improve your guitar playing.

From November 15 we also kick off our tour of the iconic film free ride featuring Mark Richards, Shaun Tomson, and Rabbit Bartholomew, all of whom are coming out to Australia for the tour to be part of a live Q&A. There are still plenty tickets available for the tour, which is sponsored by Better Beer, click the link below to get involved.
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Our guest today is the effervescent Laura Enever. In the following conversation, Laura discusses growing up in Narrabeen, her early passion for gymnastics, negotiating the volatilities of pro tour life and transitioning to the realm of big wave surfing. Laura also talks in detail about the wave she rode in the last Hawaiian Winter, which is widely believed to be the biggest wave ever paddled by a woman.

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Our guest for the seventh episode of the Tracks Podcast hosted by Luke Kennedy is Tony Edwards, the creator of the celebrated cartoon strip Captain Goodvibes , often known as the Pig Of Steel. Goodvibes was a well intended but flawed super pig, who loved surfing, drinking and collecting dole cheques. Somehow he still managed to save the world and was wildly entertaining in the process. Brought to life by Tony Edwards brilliant drawing skills and wicked sense of humour. Goodvibes was mostly a lot of fun. But he frequently transported readers into the heart of a 1970s Australian culture that was still ruled by conservative forces and riddled with backward thinking. Although the last regular Goodvibes comic strip ran in 1981, the impact of Goodvibes still echoes through the decades, so much so that one of the most frequent requests we get from Tracks reader is bring back Goodvibes, in a sense we have and he's on the latest cover of Tracks. https://tracksmag.com.au/current-issue

In the following discussion, Tony Edwards talks about the forces that shaped Goodvibes, how much trouble he got into with an anthropomorphised pig, and why he ultimately had to hang up his snout. Tony was also the voice of the Captain, and you're in for a treat, as you will hear him adopt the unmistakable sound of surfing's famous Pig Of Steel.

This week's podcast is brought to you by our mates at Better Beer. Our guest for the sixth episode of the Tracks Podcast hosted by Luke Kennedy is with none-other-than Ross Clarke-Jones. The one time star of Mad Wax, winner of the Quicksilver Eddie Aikau Invitational and revered big wave surfer. In a colourful and candid conversation, Ross discusses his early influences, the rivalry and friendship with Mark Sainsbury, a wild trip to Thailand as a teenager, Mad Wax fame, Good times on the pro tour, winning the Eddie Aikau Invitational, driving fast dealing with fear and how he saved Luke Kennedy's life at sunset. This one's a lot of fun.

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Our guest for the fifth episode of the Tracks Podcast hosted by Luke Kennedy is Olympic bronze medallist and former Championship Tour standout Owen Wright.

Owen has just released his autobiography `Against The Water’, which charts his journey from junior prodigy to the competitor who claimed surfing’s biggest ever pay day. Like the book, our conversation traverses a host of subjects, including Owen’s complex relationship with his father, his career highs and the challenges he has faced whilst overcoming a traumatic brain injury. We discuss this and more in the following podcast.

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Go to https://tracksshacks.com.au/ to view an accomodation platform custom made for surfers.

Our guest for the fourth episode of the Tracks Podcast hosted by Luke Kennedy is Josh Kerr. In surfing terms there isn’t much Josh hasn’t done. He played a key role in accelerating the aerial revolution and spent a decade on the Championship Tour after qualifying in 2007. Josh won a big wave world tour event at Todos Santos in 2016 and was also the visionary behind the RedBull Airborn series. These days you will find Josh redefining the way twin fins are ridden, playing cornerman for his talented surfing daughter Sierra and overseeing his eclectic business portfolio such as co-founding Balter Brewery. We discuss all this and more in the following conversation.

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Our guest for the third episode of the Tracks Podcast hosted by Luke Kennedy is Tom Curren.

In the early 80s Tom Curren hit the scene as the Californian prodigy with the trademark double-pump bottom and the magnetic style.Between 1985 and 1990 Tom claimed three world titles. The 1990 title was famously won by surfing events all the way through from the trials stage. A record not even Kelly Slater will ever match.

After setting a new benchmark for pro surfing, Tom hung up the singlet and influenced surfing from an entirely different perspective. Roaming the globe as part of the Rip Curl Search he carved an indelible path as a free surfer – it was the same Tom Curren but there were new lines, different boards and better waves. Tom helped pave the way for a whole generation to choose the free surfing path.

We caught up with Tom while he was in Australia for the 25th anniversary of his cult classic film, searching for Tom Curren.

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Nathan Hedge opens up to Tracks Editor Luke Kennedy about all of the phases of his colourful life. They discuss the Narabeen Glory Days, being a Ripcurl ‘Search’ Prodigy and pro tour wild man, hitting rock bottom, his re-invention & the legendary Tahiti comeback.

This podcast was originally recorded for a feature story which appeared in our recent Mag, Issue 588. We thought this chat with the Hog was too good not to share.

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Tracks Editor Luke Kennedy caught up with surf legend Gerry Lopez and film director Stacy Peralta while they were in Aus to promote their film 'The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez.' Listen to the iconic duo riff on everything from mastering Pipeline to the virtues of Yoga, and surfing with Arnold Schwarzenegger.