Thrasher back issues from November 2001:
MAIL DROP.(Letter to the Editor)
Nov 01, 2001 ... Spit game and lay all blame, shame and derogatory names at: Mail Drop c/o THRASHER PO Box 884570 San Francisco, CA 94188-4570 I've been witnessing Thrasher's sad decline for years. In the mid-'80s Thrasher was the Bible for all skateboarders everywhere. It was the ...
Prime .. Cuts.(analogy between skateboarding parks and Indian reservations)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Johnson, Rich ... THE CITY OF DENVER RECENTLY OPENED a skate reservation in the plush new center of town referred to as Lodo. That's right, a reservation. I once heard an analogy made of how modem-day skateboarders were like the American Indians of the 19th Century They were bands of nomadic peoples with ...
Multiball.(magazine for skateboarders)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... Multiball has been a NorthWest institution for years, combining 'pinball appreciation and punk rock. Although, it's been a while since the last one, and apparently it's online now, the new issue ...
Concussion.(magazine for skateboarders)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... ThicKer and slicker than ever before Concussion keeps getting bigger. It covers mostly skateboard ng but you will find some surfing and snow brucing in there as well It's got a no BS attitude shirking many of. the popular stances of the ...
Swellbow.(magazine for skateboarders)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... Another Killer issue of Swellbow. This one features a myriad of skate shots from the crew's trip to AZ, among other stuff. This one is mostly photos (mostly skating but ...
Skatedork.(magazine for skateboarders)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... Although this 'zine remains kinda self consciously nostalgic (an earlier issue featured an ode to rails, and in this one a 21 year-old smugly asserts he is "bid school") it's got some interesting stuff: Personal stories can be either great or painful to read, and Skatedork has both ...
Toxic Flyer Fanzine.(magazine for skateboarders)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... This one is a better-than-average newsprint zine dedicated to punk and hardcore. The usual stuff here: Interviews as well as show, record, and all cut and pasted by ...
The Journal.(magazine for skateboarders)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... Larger and slicker than most zines, and artiser" as well, the Journal features conscious and conscientious writing, and Interviews with CKY and a few skaters ...
Spoon and Punk.(magazine for punk culture)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... This-one is a punk and politics 'zine outta Wichita. It's a Drop Dead interview A and articles on the Zapatistas, flag ...
LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR.(art celebration by the Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Melcher, Patrick ... WE'VE GOT HOT SESSIONS WITH MCA, and I'm not talking about Beastie Boy Adam Yauch. Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has been heralded as one of the city's premier skate spots virtually since its opening. The sidewalks and grounds, being surrounded by knee-high flat rails which grind ...
WORLD WAR III.(Huntington Beach Philips Fusion Beach Festival; California)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; MARTIN, SVEN ... WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO WIN A WORLD WAR in the 21st century? Sure you gotta drop some big bombs, but you better be able to back it up with some technical wizardry and tactical attacks on all the designated targets. This is what the 20 skaters qualifying into Sunday's finals had to do. With ...
RYAN SMITH.(Interview)
Nov 01, 2001; Pommier, Scott ... Let's break it down. Two years ago, you're in Kelowna and you're skating the bump to picnic table with your homies. What happened from there? I just got lucky. That's it? You won the lottery? How did it happen? Why did it happen? Who did you know? I went ...
A TALE OF TWO CITIES.(skating in Kansas city, Kansas and Kansas, Missouri)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; HAMMEKE, JOE ... Kansas City is really two neighboring cities that share a name. You've got Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. The two cities are separated by the Missouri River. The urban area is on the Missouri side while the suburban parts are on the Kansas side. The closest cities that ...
THE EDGE.(enjoying Europe)
Nov 01, 2001; WOODS, SHELBY ... TRAINS, PLANES AND THE RUSSIAN MOB On a recent trip to Europe, me and the boys managed to miss both trains and planes, were beaten up by bouncers, thrown out of clubs and to top it off, we were almost killed by the Russian Mafia. Damn, this was a fun trip. Lots of kill skating, ...
JOSE ROJO.(little chat with a skater)(Interview)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Vitello, Tony ... "I'M GONNA DIE!" Why don't Mexicans have barbecues? Is that a joke? Yeah. Then why? Because the beans would fall through the grill. Sick. When you started skating, what size wheels did you ride? Um, ...
BILLY MARKS.(conversation with the skater)(Interview)
Nov 01, 2001; Burnett, Michael ... COVERS IT WITH A TOWEL AND LEAVES IT. Was it hard getting used to Indys after riding for Webb? No, not really. Did you have to draw the web pattern on the backs of the hangers at first to get used to them? No. Can you stop asking me about Webb? ...
PIERR E--LUC.(little chat with the skater)(Interview)
Nov 01, 2001; Burnett, Michael ... "THE NOTORIOUS PIG" I heard you're looking to get a nickname. Yeah. People have a hard time pronouncing my whole name. What's the worst pronunciation of your last name you've heard? A bunch of stuff like Gag-on. A bunch of stuff. They just start ...
JON ALLIE.(chatting with a skater)(Interview)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Burnett, Michael ... "I'VE NEVER SACKED" Where in Wisconsin are you from? West Bend. It's about half an hour outside of Milwaukee. What's the greatest skate spot in your town? The spot that me and my friends always skated was this one 10-stair and eight-stair in the ...
LOWERY: "THE FISH HAVE BEEN ELECTROCUTED".(Interview)
Nov 01, 2001; Burnett, Michael ... So what's up Sta-Lo? Like J Lo? I don't like that so much. I imagine roll-call on the first day of school was always trying, but what has been the most difficult part of growing up with a girl's name? It wasn't terribly traumatic for me or anything. Every ...
Toys That Kill.(music group)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Harris, Andy ... THANK SATAN, ALLAH ... JAH! WE FINALLY GOT a new band that rocks! Not so fast you bling-bling heads, I don't mean "rocks!" in a Limp Bizkit way. The only time the guys in Toys That Kill yank their wankers is when they're clearing their urethras. How do they rock you ask? Well, they remind ...
AMERICAN STEEL.(music group)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Appelgren, Christopher ... AMERICAN STEEL FORMED IN 1995 AROUND THE CLOSE FRIENDSHIP of Ruairi, Ryan, and John, taking their name from the giant warehouse across from their rehearsal space in West Oakland. Since their inception, as documented on their demo tape and first (now out of print) seven inch single, ...
Built to Spill.(music group)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Schmitty ... WHAT IS EMO? Is it Jerry Hsu? Cairo Foster? Tim McKenney singing Moody Blues? For months now, all I've heard is "Emo rock sucks, emo rock rules ... Built To Spill this; Modest Mouse that ..." First, Cairo and MJ used BTS for their video parts; then their music started popping up in every ...
Atom and his Package.(musician)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Retodd ... IF PEOPLE LAUGHED MORE than they stabbed one another, the world would be a better place. Enter a new musical dragon: Atom and His Package. It's one guy, a sequencer, and a new breed of kung-fu which tackles the imperial system of measurement (you know-rods, gills, hogs' heads); promises to ...
BURNED UP.(Vans Off The Wall Club Tour in Europe)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Nicholson, Melissa ... VANS OFF THE WALL EURO TOUR 2001 You know that electrifying feeling you get that pulsates through your body when watching your favorite band rock out, the one that makes you just want to scream because life is so good at that particular moment in time? Luckily, I got to spend ...
Notes from the underground.(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Lundry, Wez ... A 'WRIGHT YOU BAGS OF SHIT, LISTEN UP AND listen up good as I am only gonna tell this to you once: Pretty Girls Make Graves is gonna bit you like a shitstorm. They're a five-piece from Seattle who amazed me to no end. Throw n a Murder City Devil presence, two guitars and a singer who fives ...
CHRIS SESSIONS.(musician)(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Burnett, Michael ... CHRIS SESSIONS TAKES THE HIGH ROAD ABOVE THE SLOP and glare of fish-eye and fill-flash and wrestles his herd of ornery medium, large, and other format cameras around San Diego and God's green earth, honing his craft on the outskirts of the skateboard adventure experience (and ...
TRASH: "Chiller-of-choice for the fuzzy dice set".(News Briefs)
Nov 01, 2001; Blabac, Mike ... ANDREW REYNOLDS HAS BEEN HEADING UP THE BAKER TOUR, which is a paragon of efficiency. Coming correctly, the Bakers drive a single van picking up whatever, whomever and whenever. They added so many people that by the time they reached New York there wasn't even room for Ghetto Jay, O'Dell, ...
BY THE NUMBERS.(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001; Wallace, Keene ... I was bored one day and decided to count all of the switch and nollie tricks in Menikmati. Here's the results ... Menik-switch Tom Penny 21 Rodrigo TX 20 ArtoSaari 19 Eric Koston ...
FIRING LINE: COLT CANNON.(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001 ... Birth: 12.12.81 Height: Almost 6' Weight: 150 Sign: Sagittarius Music: Deltron, Beatnuts Movie: Gladiator Last Book: Almost History First Axe: Wade Speyer First Trick: The frontside ...
AWFUL TRUTH.(Brief Article)
Nov 01, 2001 ... FRACAS ...SKATEBOARDER BEATEN BY POLICE FOUR SAY University City police arrested a man tar illegally skateboarding on a sidewalk in the Delmor Loop on Tuesday evening, and four witnesses said that the man was handcuffed and beaten with nightsticks by a group of five or more ...
POET'S CORNER.(poem)(Poem)
Nov 01, 2001; Poage, Leonard ... the apex at immaturity going balci as a business man but I refuse to grow up grow old fade away lie on the porch with all the tenacity of a neutered dog encircled by vultures Tony Alva, Bill Danforth, Ray Barbee, Lance Mountain, and Steve Caballero are heroes of my culture my ear still ...
