Matix Skateboarder Magazine Covers
Skateboards with covers from 1978 editions of Skateboarder Magazine, somehow affiliated with Matix Clothing, although they have no details on their site, besides a link to this picture. Retro is overused, but these look pretty good. Oregon locals: The next time you see Tom Inouye (board 3) let him know you saw him on the cover of skateboard magazine again.
Cover image scans from Vintage Skateboard Magazines.
The termite was on five covers….
Randy, though it seems you don’t wanna hear it about your music reviews, I just wanna make sure you didn’t miss Wire’s “sounds like SEVENTIES Wire” effort of this century, which was their first “Read and Burn” EP (self-published, I think). Pink Flag album pace with a bit of industrial barrage… but more importantly, up there with Pink Flag as their best work ever. I checked it out from a public library, and, after of course reading and burning it, even wound up sending off for a copy of “Read and Burn 01”. (R&B’s 02 and 03 were a bit more like “Change Becomes Us”, and not “must have”.)
Try “Agfers of Kodack” on youtube for a taste of that.
Yeah.. Self released. I think you had to preorder to get one, they limited them to a finite pressing. I’m not sure if they’ve seen a wider release or not. Then there are three or so albums preceding Change Becomes Us.. .but OFF TOPIC MAN! Try using the Contact tab next time!
But as long as we’re sort of talking about it, I was thinking of allowing comments and/or user reviews in the reviews section. Does anybody care?
Some probably do care, in the negative, i.e. get this shit outta HERE… but your post was, um, “covering” the seventies, so I claim my shoehorning was no topic foul… ‘specially since the ostensibly more on-topic alternative would have been “Whoa, it’s funny that that cover of Inouye is in Maryland, cuz not so long ago my brother went skating with an Inouye in Maryland, but one that was only related to the one-armed senator and a good D.C. punk band, not the proto-pro”. Which I swear woulda been worse. But, yeah, I’m all for allowing comments in the music reviews, since they might make mention of something of real interest musically, like your Hasil Adkins review did… but don’t be letting US do full-on reviews, cuz our tastes might be as twerked as Neil’s. (I’ve always said ’twas skaters that killed punk, since once it was official that every skater and their mother had to have a thrash band, there was just too much bad music to wade through to find the good, and so people stopped bothering finding, and/or making, worthwhile shit)
remember when TA got 2nd in the Skateboarder Poll and he threw the award in the trash?