Thrasher back issues from September 2003:
Mail drop.
Sep 01, 2003 ... Drink the swill, pay the bill, gotta tall ya, your part's all fill: Mail Drop c/o THRASHER PO Box 884570 San Francisco, CA 94188-4570 HEARTBREAK HOTEL I would just like to thank you for being around for me. I would also like to thank my skateboard and other ...
Mr. Nice Guy, #18. (Zine Thing).
Sep 01, 2003 ... Just when you had heard enough about Dogtown and Z-Boys comes along another feature on it, but in this one someone finally calls bullshit on Glen Friedman for having never grinded a pool, and his whole ...
Boardstein, #22. (Zine Thing).
Sep 01, 2003 ... Straight outta Dortmund comes Boardstein. What is most mentionable from the start about this mag (it's more of a magazine, than a 'zine, with full color, tech layouts, etc) is perhaps the cover of a guy dressed in a pink bunny suit dropping in on a building. Besides the choice of cover ...
Eighty-Eight Shades of Grey, #2. (Zine Thing).
Sep 01, 2003 ... On the artier side of layout is Eighty-Eight Shades of Grey from England. Some good skate flicks and comments, and a layout that fully utilizes ...
Underdog, #1 and #2. (Zine Thing).
Sep 01, 2003 ... These are interesting 'zines out of Manitoba, mostly rants and thoughts on the state of skateboarding today, some decent photos, and a layout that incorporates a tattoo art sensibility. For bonus points, Underdog includes the Canadian use of the term "harsh," which, in Canada, means at ...
Punch & Pie. (Zine Thing).
Sep 01, 2003 ... Gorsky Press www.gorskypress.com The gang down at Razorcake are also involved in this little publishing house called Gorsky Press, printing fine underground lit by the likes of Sean Carswell and the Rev Richard J Mackin. The latest book is Punch & Pie, a collection ...
North East punk flyers. (Zine Thing).
Sep 01, 2003 ... I get tons or cool stuff from a sort or DTT publishing house in Boston called FNS. Scratchily drawn comics to the 'zine Poor and Forgotten, they're definitely making a move. This is their latest addition; a 'zine dedicated to flier art. Most of the stuff is from the Northeast (but not ...
Stuck in Stupid. (Zine Thing).
Sep 01, 2003 ... Another collection of short stories self-published by Willits E Major, Stuck in Stupid's appeal is what Willits has been consistently good at-telling the ...
Skater's eye, #37. (Zine Thing).
Sep 01, 2003 ... Hell yeah! Another update on the action in Tennessee. This one concentrates on the action at the BBQ at Joe's ramp, some of the local street spots, and the skatepark nearby ....
Paper Scissors ROCK: EMP flyer exhibit, Seattle.
Sep 01, 2003; Lundry, Wez ... ON THE MOST BASIC LEVEL, they are purely for informational purposes: which band is playing with who, where, when, and how much. Show flyers, gig flyers, concert posters--whatever you want to call them, they convey the essential information one needs to get to the right place to see the ...
Chris Francis. (Canvas).
Sep 01, 2003; ReTodd ... MANY LIKE TO THINK their lives are lived in fearless terms, but few people can be as raw and an obvious talent as The Wiz while charging through life with no safety net. He became a hobo and rode the rails for several years, quitting a full-ride art scholarship right when it was kicking ...
No contest.
Sep 01, 2003; Hammeke, Joe ... FROM A WRITER/PHOTOGRAPHER PERSPECTIVE, the European Bowlrider contests can't be beat. The locations are highly luxurious-the first contest took place in the Austrian Alps, and the second in the South of France. Both locations would make your parents wish they were going along for a second ...
The legend of Danny Way.
Sep 01, 2003; Phelps, Jake ... THE SANDS OF TIME ARE FICKLE. In skateboarding, heroes come arid go like played-out shoes. Through the years, names of legends like Logan, Olson, Peters, Alva, and Hosoi are memorable for their stamps on their eras. Danny Way's stamp on the '90s will never be forgotten, and his path will ...
All trucks free of dead raccoons.
Sep 01, 2003; Burnett, Michael ... MY FRIEND AARON HAS WARNED ME several times about making contact with the legends--the skaters I idolized as a child and now have the opportunity to meet, man to man, as an adult working in the extreme sports world. "No one needs that kind of disappointment," he's said, ...
Couch tour: Hollywood, Helsinki, Hanoi.
Sep 01, 2003; O'Dell, Patrick ... IT'S BEEN EXACTLY 90 DAYS since I last wrote anything for Thrasher. I know this because lately I've been counting. So 90 days ago was the last day of the Emerica World Tour. You remember that shit, right? When I went around the world 'cause I'm such a hanger-on? Well, the tour ended and I ...
Big in Japan.
Sep 01, 2003; Phelps, Jake ... IT'S BEST TO BE BIG WHERE IT COUNTS. JAPAN DON'T COUNT. AMERICA IS ALL THAT MATTERS--FUCK 'EM ALL. MY ENEMIES ASIDE, I LOVE TO CO WHERE THEY CAN'T BE, FOR FACE TO FACE IS ALL THEY SEE. ROAD TRIPS, BEYOND AND BACK, YOU COUNT HITS ON YOUR TALLY-WHACK. KEEP CLOSE TO YOUR ENEMIES FOR YOU KNOW ...
Zered Bassett: the doctor is in.
Sep 01, 2003 ... ZERED BASSETT INTERVIEW BEING A SKATER FROM THE EAST COAST means having heart, pushing on rough ground in the snow, and taking hits in the frozen metropolis. Concrete is enough to make any skater quit and take up stamp collecting. But for some, that's just the way it is. Zered ...
Queens of the Stone Age.
Sep 01, 2003; Kutner, Rick ... PAWNED FROM THE SAME seedy gene pool as The Velvet Underground and The Stooges, Palm Desert, California's Queens of the Stone Age are making rack and roil feel dangerous and dirty again with their infectious brand of ominous desert rock. Singer! guitar player Josh Homme prefers the term ...
The Von Bondies.
Sep 01, 2003 ... IF ONE WAS TO CONDUCT an interview with a band from Detroit, 10 times out of 10 you would find a question that touches on either the Detroit Scene or the White Stripes. Or both. It's like when the big Seattle craze happened and it was Nirvana! Nirvana! Nirvana! People don't understand that ...
Ozma.
Sep 01, 2003; Petros, George ... "It's popular to hate emo 'cuz it sucks." LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, and kids, here is OZMA. Their songs span a stylistic spectrum from prog to punk to whatever's popular right now. Their vibe is low-voltage but they're edgy; they've been brought up on hardcore, yet their ...
Rise against.
Sep 01, 2003; ReTodd ... ANARCHO-CRUSTO-GLOOMY-KILL-O PUNK is coal because it sounds like bombs in your stereo, but when you want to get some helpful information--like what the flick they're singing about--the pickings are slim. Rise Against skirts that quicksand and lights a musical bomb by sticking the unlikely ...
Cursive.
Sep 01, 2003; Whiteley, Dan ... COMING CORRECT with their so-called first ballad, "The Recluse," and a modern-day adaptation of Pinocchio titled "Driftwood," Cursive's latest album, The Ugly Organ, is an emotional rollercoaster ride through relational suffering, art-making angst, failed parenthood, drunken nights, and ...
Gang Starr.
Sep 01, 2003; X, Aki ... LAMPING WITH THE GURIZZY AND DJ PREEMO, deep inside a high security conference room at EMI's Hollywood HQ. Outside, hell is falling from the skies on Iraq and other parts of the world; on the real though, war is not a new thing to hip-hop. The ghetto has been a war zone for decades, just ...
Supersuckers.
Sep 01, 2003; Hammeke, Joe ... WHAT'S IT TAKE to be a successful rock band? If there is a formula most of us don't know it. I bet the Supersuckers don't know it. Either way they did it. Four guys that formed a band right out of high school and moved to Seattle right before the big grunge-thing hit, Of course when they ...
Tractor Sex Fatality. (Notes from the Underground).
Sep 01, 2003; Lundry, Wez ... JUST SAW A COUPLE GREAT BANDS up in Seattle: Tractor Sex Fatality is a definite up and corner. Start with the Butthole Surfers (two drummers, a singer who sings through a bullhorn) but the comparison ends abruptly. Switch the Butthole's neo-psychedelic approach with a little more unplanned ...
The New Christs. (Notes from the Underground).
Sep 01, 2003; Lundry, Wez ... Can you take another Australian early punk compilation CD? Ask yourself: "Will I ever get sick of Radio Birdman or the Saints?" Hopefully the answer is no, and the folks at Festival Mushroom Records want you to answer no as well. They've just released Tales from the Australian Underground: ...
Verbal Abuse. (Notes from the Underground).
Sep 01, 2003; Lundry, Wez ... Talk about classics, you gotta hear Verbal Abuse's Just an American Band reissue if you don't have the original. This also has some live in '84 tracks, and these guys killed it in the early '80s as hardcore was still in its infancy. Find this ... Reissuing their ...
Flamethrower. (Notes from the Underground).
Sep 01, 2003; Lundry, Wez ... Comin' at mach speed is the new Flamethrower LP on Dead Teenager. Speedy and punk and dirt-baggy as all ...
Mea Culpa. (Notes from the Underground).
Sep 01, 2003; Lundry, Wez ... In the vein of early '80s anti-Reagan punk come Mea Culpa's They Put You in a Mask on eMpTy Records. Reminiscent of early hardcore before ...
Skateparks of Oregon. (Notes from the Underground).
Sep 01, 2003; Lundry, Wez ... On a small screen near you, the folks who brought you Fruit of the Vine, Skateparks of Oregon, and Tobaccoland comes Northwest, Buddy and Rick's latest film project. Less coherent maybe than some of the others, it explores the people and places of ...
TENnitus...
Sep 01, 2003 ... 1. Tom Knox plays drums in the Cacti Widders, which means you should buy their records, especially 'cause the sounds is good. A Strange Life and Take a Ride With ... are on Fallen Angel 2. The Heavenly States, s/t debut on Future Farmer 3. Said States just put out a ...
South bay skates and museum Torrance, CA. (Shop of the Month).
Sep 01, 2003 ... I've been selling skateboards since 1983 cut of my garage. Later, around 1989 when skating wasn't so strong, I'd buy old new-stock decks form skate and surf shops for real cheap. The museum was in my garage, and now ...
Trash.
Sep 01, 2003 ... FIRST THE GOOD NEWS SEEMS SOME FORMER LEGENDS HAVE FOUND THEMSELVES WITH new sponsors. Mastodon-like coping annihilator "Big" Ben Schroeder is on 151, and Video Days-alum-turned-Muslim cab driver Jordan Richter is back in the game over at Aesthetics. Still-incarcerated Christian ...
Fives. (On Board).
Sep 01, 2003 ... Fallen Alliances 1. Television 2. Blue 3. Planet Earth 4. Deca 5. Airwalk, Genetic --Brandon Getty, Stockton, CA Foreign Blow-ups 1. Barcelona big four 2. Barcelona gap to bank ...
Poet's Corner. (On Board).
Sep 01, 2003 ... <Pre> Poet's Corner I open my door, venture out into the street with nothing but some wood, metal and urethane beneath my feet. I cruise, trick, and slide with no destination in mind. Just to ...
Funbox. (On Board).
Sep 01, 2003 ... Q: What did the leper say to the prostitute? A: ...
Awful truth. (On Board).
Sep 01, 2003 ... LOS-ANGELES--Pop singer Avril Lavigne's hit single "Sk8er Boi" is heading to the big screen. Paramount Pictures has optioned the song and hired ER writer/producer David Zabel to adapt its words into a feature to be produced by studio-based MTV Films and Alphaville. The song, which captures ...
Firing line: Frank Gerwer. (On Board).
Sep 01, 2003 ... Age: 42 Home: A place where you live Sponsors: Anti Hero, Thunder trucks, Spitfire, Innes, Shorty's bolts First trick: In who's part? Last trick: The Loop Movies: Old school, Groundhog Day, Kingpin ...
