Recently added articles from Thrasher:
MAIL DROP.
Aug 01, 2001 ... NEW RELIGION WORLDWIDE Your mag kicks ass. I've only been reading it for the past three months, and I've bought a few in the past to look at pics. Your mag is the best out there; fuck all those other corporations that are only in it to make money. I loved the issue with Rowley's ...
Kelly Belmar's Backyard Bash.(skateboarding event)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... APRIL 23, 2001 MARRED THE 10-YEAR anniversary of one of the best backyard spots ever, Belmar's. One of the first to emerge, Kelly's is the best of the three Huntington pools. People have since taken to building stuff by their own hands with mixed results-but Kelly's is almost as old as ...
Paying In Pain.(periodical)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... Paying In Pain is put together strictly by hand four times a year in Visalia, CA, with quality sequences and photos that beat out some of the glossies these days. Number eight has interviews with Lucian Moon, Jay Moody, and Doug Shoemaker, some Tampa Am ...
Swellbow.(periodical)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... Swellbow is a killer skate 'zine from Denver, CO, that shirks the fluff and gets to the point. Obviously done by skaters for skating, it's got a trip through AZ, the CO bowl contests, malt ...
The Story of My Scab.(periodical)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... The Story of My Scab is a 'zine from Brooklyn, NY, and although I seem to recall-seeing it a few years back, this new one's only number six. I guess it comes out ...
The Best of Fuck Off.(periodical)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... The Best of Fuck Off is a skate 'zine outta Breckinridge, CO, done by former Seattlite Rob Stamm. If this is "The Best Of" it would be a reasonable assumption that there have been Fuck Offs in the past. It's got some killer skating and what appear to be news stories about the ...
Razorcake.(periodical)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... Razorcake is a new punk 'zine put out by a former member of the Flipside staff, among others. Their first issue features columns written by punks-at-large (including Nardwuar, who interviews Tommy Lee ...
The Electric East Bay Acid Test.(narrative on pop culture in Berkeley, California)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001 ... SHELBY INFORMED ME THAT HE'D just seen the most disturbing sight ever. His depiction of an 85-year-old man, naked and in a wheelchair, sparked my ambition to go on a solo mission through Berkeley. Not in search of the nude lurker, but relative images, shit you only see in this spaced-out ...
BORDER WARS: A TALE OF TWO SKATEPARKS TIJUANA VS CORONADO.(skateboarding facilities in Mexico and California)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001; Burnett, Michael ... Where: San Diego's sister city. Just across the border at the base of the giant Mexican fLag. What: A park with ledges, three flat bars, a pyramid with a ledge, and a miniramp without decks or coping. Good: Free. Includes authentic raw street obstacles. ...
THE SOUND AND THE FURY.(skateboarding contest in Seattle, Washington)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001; Hammeke, Joe ... What was supposed to happen: The best ams in the country converged on the city of Seattle, Washington for the biggest amateur contest of the year. A weekend filled with the best skateboarding, hip hop, and punk rock. Every skater that you've seen in the magazines the past few ...
VENEZUELA: "Right next to Colombia".(trip for skateboarding demonstration at Caracas's Aero Skatepark)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001; Olsen, Erik ... WHEN I WAS ASKED to accompany Jon Corner and Caswell Berry on a trip to Venezuela, I was pretty excited. I looked on the map and saw it right there next to Columbia. Sketchy. We were going out to Caracas to do a demo at the new Aero Skatepark ....or I guess they were going there to do a ...
Conquering Spain.(photo shoot of skateboarding tour)
Aug 01, 2001; O'Dell, Patrick ... Dear Thrasher, Sorry it has taken me so long to write this article; I'm nursing a bad case of the flu that is a direct result of my trip to Spain and Portugal with some of the Osiris team. It could have to do with the drinking water. But more than likely it has to do with the ...
PAUL MACHNAU.(skateboarder)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2001; Pommier, Scott ... THE ROAD RAGIN' CANADIAN PAUL MACHNAU (for the record, it's pronounced Mack-now) is one of skateboarding's unsung heroes. Paul exists in a world outside of marketing flash or outrageous fashion trends. For this reason, he's lesser-known than some of his less-accomplished ...
BE STOKED THAT THE STUFF YOU USED TO THINK WAS IMPOSSIBLE IS GETTING DONE.(increasing popularity of skateboarding)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001; Freitas, Nik ... IT'S INSANE; THERE ARE MORE SKATEBOARDERS on this planet than ever. I don't know what happened. At first, when I started noticing all the commotion, I thought it would die out in a few months. Who wants a shiner? But it kept going. Kids everywhere have boards and the ones that are ...
ALYSSON CASTRO.(skateboarder)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2001; Nazzareta, Dan ... "I LOVE SKATEBOARDING, SO I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE" State your full name for the record, and so all the other mags can learn to spell it right. A-l-y-s-s-o-n C-a-s-t-r-o. My full name is really long. I have two middle names. I just stick with Alysson Castro; ...
STEVE ALBA.(skateboarder)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2001; Burnett, Michael ... "I HATED MOWING THE LAWN. THAT'S WHY I CEMENTED IT IN." Who was the first person to call you Salba? It was Jim Ford from Kryptonics. They wanted me to have a model and it was that Kryptsix one, a P-Tex board. I wasn't having it. I told them, "Don't make that board ....
EVAN HERNANDEZ.(skateboarder)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2001; Rodriguez, Paul ... "I DON'T CARE" How old are you? Twenty hundred. Fourteen. Who are your sponsors? Fury, Baker, TSA, PSC Skateshop, Vans, Furnace, and Ricta. Where do you live? Long Beach, California. Who is your normal skate ...
ESCAPE FROM SKATER ISLAND.(skateboarding tournament)(Brief Article)
Aug 01, 2001; O'Dell, Patrick ... THIS IS A WEEKEND TRIP ARTICLE WITH THE pretense of covering the Skater Island contest. But it's sort of crazy because I started in Ohio, where I'm from; went to New York, where I live; then went to Vermont, where my car is registered--I had to get new tags--and then on to Rhode Island to ...
SKATE PUNK: TIM KERR.(musician)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... THE TERM "SKATE ROCK" was coined by Thrasher's own Mofo Kin the early '80s. It encompassed mostly fast and aggressive punk, often played by skateboarders themselves. One of the penultimate skate rock bands of the time was Texas' Big Boys. They were also one of the bands who didn't quite ...
One Time Angels.(rock musician Doug Sangalang)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Aug 01, 2001; HENRY, RYAN ... MEET DOUG SANGALANG: ONE THIRD OF One Time Angels, ex-member of seminal bands, manager of Oakland watering hole The Ruby Room, lover of fine guitars and finer rock; East Bay. His band just put out a slab on Adeline called Sounds Of A Restless City, a well-crafted document of rock and punk ...
