Also on the Skull Skates team at the time were Duane Peters, Josh Marlowe, Dave Hackett, and Steve Olson.
[2] Esbenshade also played bass guitar and sang in the post-punk rock band Custom Floor with Miki Vuckovich, Garry Davis, and then later, Atom Willard (longtime drummer for Rocket From The Crypt, The Offspring, Social Distortion, Against Me!
Photos of Phil Esbenshade appear in the photography book, "Rat a Tat Tat Birds" by Jeff Winterberg and Skateboarding Historian and author Jocko Weyland wrote about him in the book, "The Answer is Never: A Skateboarder's History of the World.
"[6] Esbenshade is an alumnus of the University of La Verne, earning a Juris Doctor Degree in 2003,[7] and graduated from San Diego Miramar College.
The Phil E. Pro Model skateboard was reissued on May 1, 2018 by Skull Skates: Gullwing Trucks Team Archive: