Talk:Chas Smith

The Pagans
Although I have found support for Chas Smith as a member of the punk-rock band The Pagans, I can't find his name on any musicians' list for the Pink Album. Anyone else have a mention? Rosencomet 23:14, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

The original release of the vinyl version of the "Pink Album" has five photos on the back cover (including Chas's); when the album was re-released, Chas told me that Mike Hudson had Chas's photo removed. Meanwhile, in issue #2 of a zine I used to put out, I did a very long interview with Chas and he talked at length about his time with the Pagans. However, I don't have a version of that online, and it would probably violate the "original research" policy. swain 21:37, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Ah, found something:

" More and more, Mick and I had a yen to go out and play punk rock again. We began jamming with Robert Conn on bass and Chas Smith, who had been with me and Brian in Venus in Furs, on keyboards. For a drummer, we picked up a 15-year-old kid named Bobby Richey, who had played on a track by The Offbeats that I'd included on the CleCon LP. Brian hit them hard but Bobby hit them faster than anyone I'd ever heard.

We played around with it for awhile, and even did a couple of shows out in Lake County under different names. By the autumn of 1982, Mick had split with The Clocks and we decided to go for it. We weren't going to call it The Pagans but it quickly became apparent that the gigs would pay better and be more plentiful if we did."

from http://deafsparrow.com/ThePagans4.htm

swain 22:07, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Can someone explain to me why the talk page has a lot of categories that the main article doesn't have? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Centerone (talk • contribs) 19:46, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Also, as sad as it is to say.. I think it would be a point that this no longer should be in the "biographies of living persons" category, nor have the tag at the top about the requirements for biographies in that category.--Centerone 19:58, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

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Mixed entry
Good day,

This entry is about two different people. One is a renowned surf journalist and author from Cleveland, the other is about a deceased musician. Is there any way someone more proficient than me could split these two entries? Here is a biography about Chas Smith (journalist) from

Bright, hyper-ironic surf journalist, author, and bon vivant from Coos Bay, Oregon; frequent contributor to Stab magazine, contributing editor at Surfing magazine, and co-founder of Beach Grit, a surfing website. Born (1976) in San Jose, Califiornia, Smith moved to Oregon with his family two years later where, at age 10, he began surfing in the chilly waters in and around Coos Bay. He earned a bachelor’s degree in intercultural studies (1998) and a master’s degree in linguistics (2001) from Southern California’s Biola University; Smith’s studies included semesters spent studying Arabic in Egypt and English at Oxford University.

Smith’s first foray into surf journalism came in 2001, when he traveled to Yemen—just after 9/11—for an Australia’s Surfing Life article. Comfortable in dangerous Third World nations, Smith spent time in Lebanon and Somalia in the early 2000s researching and writing pieces for Vice. He also covered the 2006 Israeli-Palestine conflict for Current TV, an assignment that ended with Smith as a brief captive of Hezbollah.

Smith’s work for Vice caught the eye of Derek Rielly, editor-in-chief at Australia’s Stab magazine, who soon hired Smith as a contributing writer. Smith’s prose is clipped, packaged in rapid-fire bursts, usually in first-person perspective, nearly always with a tongue-in-cheek earnestness. At Stab, Smith quickly earned a following for his flippant wicked-smart observations of the more urbane pro tour party scene. He loved provocation, and drew attention and a bit of ire as the editor of Stab’s December, 2008 “Fascism Issue.” He gained further notoriety in 2009 for an ugly public dust-up with two-time world champion Mick Fanning, during which Fanning reportedly called Smith a "fucking Jew" for "writing shit" about him, and threatened to punch Smith in the face.

Smith's work at Surfing was generally more subdued than what he'd done for Stab, though still with a critical spotlight pointed straight at surf culture, particularly in his regular "Baby, Take it Off!” column. In 2012, Smith also began publishing articles in Surfer's Journal; the following year he had his first feature published in Playboy.

Smith’s first book, Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, a surf-based cultural examination Oahu's North Shore, came out in 2013. In an upbeat review, Kirkus called Smith the "clown prince of trash prose, and described the book as a "boozy and often funny investigation into a little-understood corner of America." Paradise was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction.

In 2014, Esquire.com published Smith's "War Dandy" column, about fashion in the world's hot zones. That same year, Smith and Rielly—who'd just left Stab—together launched Beach Grit, a free-wheeling website dedicated to the surfing by way of a "libertine moral code." Neckaroni (talk) 07:33, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Images
The photographic image posted for this entry of “Chas Smith” is actually of another person also named Chad Smith and also a musician from CA who just died (1948-2024) 2600:1700:5040:2240:9075:FBB5:7B05:19E5 (talk) 15:51, 8 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Correction: it’s Chas Smith not Chad Smith-darn autocorrect 2600:1700:5040:2240:9075:FBB5:7B05:19E5 (talk) 15:52, 8 July 2024 (UTC)