Listening Booth: “Bugs,” by the Eclipse 

In 1990, when the architecture professor Ocean Howell was a teen-ager in Carlsbad, California, he spent two days being filmed riding a skateboard with an injured ankle. The footage appeared in “Risk It,” a video produced by Santa Cruz Skateboards; because he was skating on a sprain, Howell’s restrained style (making use of low curbs, parking bumpers, and yards of flat ground) mesmerized young fans nationwide. But the clip remained fabled for another reason: Howell’s segment included an addictive snippet of a song called “Bugs,” by an unknown band called the Eclipse. Obsessives have sought out the amateur recording, and any information on the band, ever since.