Newest “In The Pipeline” column he speaks with the Dirty Heads’ Jared Watson about the bands upcoming album and building a skate park in Huntington Beach, CA. He also touched upon Avenged Sevenfold and Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan. You can read the entire article here.
Along with Avenged Sevenfold, the Dirty Heads have helped put focus on Huntington as a musical mecca, and Heads lead singer Jared Watson likes that his band is now often spoken about in the same sentence with his Surf City brethren.Share
"We went to Marina High, they went to Huntington, but we knew each other well growing up," Watson said. "They're awesome guys. In fact, my best friend growing up was Jimmy Sullivan."
Sullivan, a.k.a. "The Rev," was the Avenged Sevenfold drummer who died in late December 2009.
"I think about him all the time," Watson said. "Just recently, we got together with the Sullivan family and some of the guys from Avenged for a memorial."
The Dirty Heads have been in the recording studio recently laying down their new album, and then the first week of March, they'll hit the road to begin a five-week cross-country tour. Watson, who lives in Huntington Beach, along with the rest of his band, is anxious to tour for a number of reasons.
He said that first and foremost, it's simply fun for him because he's young and single, and so this is the time in his life to do things like tour in a successful band.
"But another reason is that, I'm a skateboarder, and some of the best skate parks are in the cities we play around the country," he continued. "I take my boards with me when we travel, and that's a big part of my free time. And I've got to say, we need a decent skate park here in Huntington Beach."
Taking the discussion further, Watson had an idea.
He said he was going to call the guys in Avenged Sevenfold to suggest a co-bill concert with the Dirty Heads for the sole purpose of raising money to cover the cost of a deluxe skate park here.
"I'll be in a place like Minnesota, skating by myself at some incredible park thinking, 'Why don't we have this back home?'" he said. "It's time we try and do something about this."
Memo to City Council — this would be a hugely popular event, something positive in the face of DUI reports, Robert Rizzo and solar panel controversies. However, it's probably also worth noting that, as was reported in the Independent last week, the city is in talks with Vans to build a "world-class" skate park on a 2.7-acre parcel on Center Avenue near Gothard Street.
Meantime, before hitting the road, Watson will be surfing and skateboarding as much as he can in between finishing the new record. He said that what the Dirty Heads have been working on sounds amazing, and that it represents all that had been bottled up in the band since their last record, 2008's "Any Port in a Storm," took off like it did, and that it was fun to get it all out of their system.
Watson also included a shout-out to one of his favorite local hangouts, the Sugar Shack on Main Street.
I knew I liked this guy.
