Thrasher back issues from October 2004:
Paper chase.(Mail Drop)(Letter to the Editor)
Oct 01, 2004; Beltran, Alex ... Dear Poweredge, I am looking to order some Poweredge back issues. I was in the background of a mini-ramp photo in the Danny Way issue and was wondering if you could send me 12 copies of that one particular magazine COD. Also can you guys there renew my subscription as I just got back to ...
My eyes.(Mail Drop)(Letter to the Editor)
Oct 01, 2004; Richards, David ... This here letter is to any if the skater kids who are so damned concerned about what all other people think of you. I pity you image craving skaters. You are too concerned about what other people think of you that you forget the real reason that you started skating--to have fun. So much ...
Post master.(Mail Drop)(Letter to the Editor)
Oct 01, 2004; Salvan, Fred ... When I first got into subscribing to your mag I didn't really expect special things to happen, other than having my monthly share of skate flicks and a few stories or more. But when, later, I got ed entry at the door so-called rock club just because I was then wearing a bright flame-logo ...
Lien eeln.(Mail Drop)(Letter to the Editor)
Oct 01, 2004; Hutchinson, Dan ... This is for Neil and anyone else out there that is now in custody: Do your best to stay focused on yourself and not to fall into the ways inside. Keep yourself busy--read, write, draw, always try to learn somethings new and create skate obstacles. Don't let these people beat you down ...
Larry Clark.(Mail Drop)(Letter to the Editor)
Oct 01, 2004; Schmidt, Tom ... In case you do not have time to hang around Vine Street in Hollywood and view all the neat friends you can have, there is a new up-and-coming ruler to the area. She looks really goofy; she is a woman about 40, probably, that always carries a big purse and has these big, white, pussy lumps ...
Sand session.(Mail Drop)(Letter to the Editor)
Oct 01, 2004; Flores, Jacob ... I sent you all a letter in March when I arrived to Baghdad, Iraq. I asked you for magazines and I totally forgot that I wrote you, until a surprise package came--lo and behold there were four brand new magazines, not to mention a shit load of stickers. That was so cool. I want to thank you ...
Envelope of the month.(Mail Drop)
Oct 01, 2004 ... I DON'T THINK I CAN MCTWIST MY WAY OUT OF THIS? DAN ...
How to get an awesome cast.
Oct 01, 2004; Sieben, Michael ... TWO WEEKS AGO I received my first cast ever. I can't believe I waited almost 30 years to have a large portion of my body immobilized with fiberglass. Trust me, if I'd known it was going to be this awesome I would have gotten one years ago. The itching, the smell, the difficulty performing ...
Zine thing.
Oct 01, 2004 ... FOCUS Is this from some of the same cats responsible for Lowcard? All photos and no BS, covering mostly Northern California. There's some great stuff in there but I have to point out one thing that I could not let slide. Readers of Thrasher magazine, if you don't already know, ...
Digital dumpster: "a second of your life. Ruined for life ...".
Oct 01, 2004 ... BESIDES SOME dodgy-looking photos, the digital age gives us the opportunity to re-live every excruciating second of the skateboarding experience. What used to get thrown out in the bail rolls can now live on, forever, in a new department we call the Digital Dumpster.--MB Bucky ...
Aaron Filion: it's like skating in so many ways.(Canvas)
Oct 01, 2004 ... I'M A LOWLY PRIVATE in the northwest chapter of the beer-drinking, bowl-riding hesh army. I'm currently stationed in Bellingham, Washington, where I lurk at the local skatepark and West Seattle bowls. If you called the Bowl House I'm sure one of the guys could give you a "Freaky A" story, ...
Damn am contest: 3rd lair, Minneapolis, MN.
Oct 01, 2004 ... THE DAMN AM SERIES is getting bigger every year, with skaters coming from all over the US and other countries to compete and try to make a name for themselves. Hosted by Hawk Clothing and Adio shoes, Brian Schaefer and the SPOT crew were there to put the contest on and, as always, did a ...
Certified piece of suck: doo-doo skatepark construction.
Oct 01, 2004 ... HOSOI GOT OUT, transitions are in, and things are looking up, right? Wrong. Skatepark designs are getting so bad these days that kids want to get hurt. Anything to avoid riding these misguided mounds. The tide has yet to turn and we're still operating at a roughly 70/30 dook to decent ...
Wild in the streets: this day was a Saturday ... I think. I have one of those jobs where the days of the week are irrelevant. It's also a job where waking up at noon is waking up on time ...
Oct 01, 2004; O'Dell, Patrick ... SO I WOKE UP AT NOON in the darkness of my room. I went out into the blinding midday light and looked across the street into Tompkins Square Park; there were already a couple hundred kids skating and standing around for the Emerica Wild in the Streets day. Tompkins is this torturous, ...
Class 5 rapids: toy machine US tour, '04.
Oct 01, 2004; Burnett, Michael ... I FLEW IN TO MEET the Toy Machine team in Albuquerque on Southwest Airlines--aka Southworst, aka The Greyhound of the Sky. Southwest is the people's airline, and after squeezing past about 100 of them and their carry-on packages of plush Sea World toys and duty-free specialty fudges, I ...
Alex Moul.
Oct 01, 2004; Rowley, Geoff ... Alex Moul a great Oxfordian lad, stepped on his board quite some time ago. He's been shredding hard with unique style and skill since day one. Alex has seen a lot of different skateboarding go down all over the place and throughout skateboarding's different, and sometimes heinous, faces ....
Popular.
Oct 01, 2004; Foster, Cairo ... Look at the following pages, and you may notice parallels with skate spots in your locality. So why this article when you could go down the road and skate the rail next to them stairs? Well, let's just say most of us don't live in post-Yugoslavia (now Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia), nor ...
Jon Allie.
Oct 01, 2004; Burnett, Michael ... THE DESK IN MY OFFICE IS QUITE A MESS. SWITCHBLADES, BLOW TORCHES, FIREWORKS--ALL SORTS OF JUNK. BUT IT'S HOME TO ME. ONCE IN A WHILE PEOPLE STOP BY AND WE SHOOT THE SHIT ABOUT LIFE, SKATING AND WHATNOT. NO, IT AIN'T LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS, BUT IT'S MINE. NOT LONG AGO, MIKE ...
MC5.
Oct 01, 2004; Lundry, Wez ... THE MOTOR CITY 5 WAS THE MOST influential band of the late 1960s and early 1970s, without a doubt. Their legacy is alive and well today; the evidence is the vast number of bands who cite them as a chief influence--Lemmy said there would be no Motorhead without the MC5, and Dave Vanian of ...
Needles.
Oct 01, 2004; Crooks, Luda ... SO CHECK IT OUT; are you tired of those bands that spend more time shopping and fixing their hair than playing rock? You know, the dudes that look like the Strokes and shit. Well, check out these broke-ass homies of mine from Wilmington, North Carolina; they're called the Needles. Crisp, ...
Jucifer.
Oct 01, 2004; Locks, Jesse ... ON THE BRINK OF FINANCIAL DISASTER, Jucifer's Amber Valentine and Ed Livengood did the unthinkable. The couple quit their restaurant jobs, sublet their house in Athens, GA, rid themselves of most of their possessions, bought an RV, and with their two dogs and the occasional roadie they hit ...
Helmet.
Oct 01, 2004; Coyle, Michael ... SEVEN YEARS AND A BRAND NEW rhythm section later, Page Hamilton has decided to trot out the old horse and release another Helmet album. Regroupings like this are always dangerous endeavors. People expect a certain sound, perhaps more so from a hand as distinct as Helmet, and new line-ups ...
Uncle Fucker.
Oct 01, 2004; Epstein, Joseph ... THIS NEW YORK-BASED QUINTET is currently without a record label, manager, publicist, or booking agent--pretty much like any other toiling underground band. Fortunately, Uncle Fucker has a couple things going for it, as they've become the ticket-not-to-miss amidst the jaded downtown scene. ...
Darker my love.
Oct 01, 2004; Granelli, Andy ... I MET TIM PRESLEY THROUGH KEN KIRBY. Ken and I were both dating the same girl--after we figured this out, we decided it would be in our best interests to start a band. Tim was going to be in this band with us; it was going to be called Model American. Tim and I became buddies quickly, and ...
Electric Wizard.(Rickter scale of doom: double doom edition)
Oct 01, 2004 ... ELECTRIC WIZARD We Live (Rise Above)--The Wizard of doom returns and I wasn't disappointed, totally evil and heavy. Mr Osborn has ...
Alabama Thunderpussy.(Rickter scale of doom: double doom edition)
Oct 01, 2004 ... ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY Fulton Hill CD/2LP (Relapse)--ATP powers up yet some more fine selections of blazing grit. The new singer brings a sludgier yet ...
Rwake.(Rickter scale of doom: double doom edition)
Oct 01, 2004 ... RWAKE If You Walk Before You Crawl (Shifty)--Arkansas sludgaholics take up where EyeHateGod, Grief and such leave you hanging. They inbreed ...
Starchild/Rebreather.(Rickter scale of doom: double doom edition)
Oct 01, 2004 ... STARCHILD/REBREATHER split (Twin Earth)--No let down here, three unrelenting doomgroove nuggets of Valium-strength slowness ....
Doomshine.(Rickter scale of doom: double doom edition)
Oct 01, 2004 ... DOOMSHINE Thy Kingdom Come (Iron Glory)--Best epic power doom that Europe has to offer. Classic and ...
Esoteric.(Rickter scale of doom: double doom edition)
Oct 01, 2004 ... ESOTERIC Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum (Season of Mist)--This I believe to be the doom monster release of the year. ...
SUNNO))).(Rickter scale of doom: double doom edition)
Oct 01, 2004 ... SUNNO))) White 2 (Southern Lord)--Masters Stephen O'Malley (Khanate, Burning Witch) and Grog Anderson (Goatsnake) execute yet another subsonic assassination of slowdroom. Sunn's fifth ...
Cathedral.(Rickter scale of doom: double doom edition)
Oct 01, 2004 ... CATHEDRAL The Serpent's Gold 2CD (Earache)--Disc 1 features historic doomgems throughout the years. Disc 2 contains unreleased material, demos, ...
Church of Misery.(Rickter scale of doom: double doom edition)
Oct 01, 2004 ... CHURCH OF MISERY Second Coming (Diwphalanx)--My favorite Japanese doomsters return with more '70s hard-rook, ...
Gonga.(Rickter scale of doom: double doom edition)
Oct 01, 2004 ... GONGA (Tee Pee)--This was a surprise; I picked up a used copy and instantly was hooked with the heavy riff blasting. Thought it ...
Notes: from the underground.
Oct 01, 2004 ... THE BRIEFS STRIKE BACK with their third record, and it's much closer to their first: catchy, poppy, bubblegum-'77 pogo punk. Look for Sex Object on BYO ... Holy shift Lightning Beat Man is back with his long running band, the ultra, ultra lo-fi Monsters. What are they smokin' over there in ...
Photograffit!
Oct 01, 2004 ... Underground vert rippers--they live. Zach Lewis, kickflip indy, Milpitas, CA. Photo: Nagahara [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chris Shearer knows a great spot when sees one. LA, CA. Photo: Evan [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Alex Cruikshank, die-hard desperado ....
Thrasher comix.
Oct 01, 2004 ... WE SPEND SO MUCH time scanning, color-correcting and cleaning up your infantile etchings in Photoshop it's a wonder that we get any work done around here. THE GIRL-JITSU DOJO WHAT THE HELL? ARE YOU INSANE CINDY? SOME STUPID NINJA STOLE MY SKATE ...
My war.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... AFTER MONTHS OF FURIOUS RUMORS AND SPECULATION, East Coast powerhouse Chris Cole is officially on Fallen Footwear Pro models to follow. Element is proud to announce that Long Beach's Terry Kennedy and women's champ Vanessa Torres have forsaken their amateur status and will have ...
Old God.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... Breaking news over at Creation skateboards: the younger Steve Olson left his board sponsor of Shorty's to sign on with the Creation family. Yet more rooted in certainty is the birth of Hellrose skateboards. This is the new-and-possibly-improved re-re-reincarnation of the ...
Morf fig.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... In other 'Yeto news, OG dark lord Ethan Fowler has, once again, forsaken the cess-pool of Southern California for the sweet environs and affordable housing of Portland, Oregon, "Until the day I die," so he says. Finally! A street pro for Hammeke to shoot with! Throwback brand ...
More husbands.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... In the domestic bliss department, Toy Machine am-on-the-cusp Josh Harmony got married to his long-time girlfriend Jenna, and vertical veteran Brian Howard heads to the altar shortly after. Congrats everybody! In other Howard news, Brian's quit his job running the Woodward Skatecamp to help ...
Cheese steak.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... In the "A lot of walls--a lot of fuckin' shit!" department, Philly's Rocky Oyola has signed up with Lost clothing, with multi-talented fellow pro Jesse "Street" Fritsch heading up graphic design duties. In some other Fritsch news, vert ...
Hall of meat.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: No P-Shop tomfoolery here. We looked real close and Tylor truly get noodled ...
Free stale.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... Was Par Welinder recently secretly meeting with a certain skating garmento who is allegedly developing a line that somehow involves both Hurley and Nike? It is said that the unnamed clothing magnate is so certain of this project's success that he sold his prime Hollister Ranch parcel and ...
Lactation stations.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
World titles.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... Bastien Salabanzi became world champion for the third time in a row at the Dortmund event, trouncing hordes of Brazilians and the rest of the competition with his faultless, "I'm not sorry!" approach. Apparently a shabbily constructed loop-de-loop was part of this year's street course with ...
Spoken verb.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... New image gallery in Los Angeles was the place where Michael Burnett, Andy Jenkins, Lori Damiano and Dave Carnie agreed to theatrically read excerpts from their chapters in the ...
See bowl.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... Beautiful Losers, an exhibition of art curated by Aaron Rose and Christian Strike, opened in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The inclusion of the Simparch bowl and free skating in the museum confines led to some provocative interactions. Suspicious activities included ...
Waiting for the man.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Jason Dill and Jim ...
I'm first.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... "Don't put me in Trash. I belong thee more than these other monkeys. The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated."--Jake Phelps "I've dealt with extreme megalomaniacs ...
Pier 7 blues.(Trash)
Oct 01, 2004 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Now that the pier is dust, SF ...
On board.
Oct 01, 2004 ... FIRING LINE: JAKE RUPP Age: Twenty-five Height: Six-foot Weight: One-hundred fifty-five Wheel: Fifty-three Date turned pro: January 2003 Shoe size: Eleven Who's rad: We the skateboard community ...
Somethin' else.
Oct 01, 2004 ... Piggy Back SOME FOLKS WARM UP DIFFERENTLY. Front boards may feel good, but whatevs ... ...
