We're at an ASR show, and then Thrasher had a booth or whatever.
This is, I don't know, must have been six, seven years ago, and they had this big prominent
booth and people in there, and I walk in, and I got some shorts on and a t-shirt, and the
guys comes up to you, man, what are you doing?
Well, it looks like everybody else signed their cover, and they're like, well, what
do you mean?
I said, well, can I sign mine?
And they looked at me, dumbfound it, like, well, what do you mean you have a cover?
So, I walked all the way to the end of the board, like, where the dinosaurs are, and
I signed the cover.
I said, yeah, that's me.
This is a trendy one here, High Speed Productions, second issue February of 81, February of
81, second issue of Thrasher Magazine, High Speed brought us this, the Bible.
First issue with a skateboarder on it, an actual skateboarding photograph.
Big controversy on this cover was I was a SoCal board boy, and this is a NorCal mag,
sorry.
Those guys were all, it's a different country up there, we all know it.
So, back then, it was a, yeah, they couldn't believe they put a SoCal guy on there, and
especially from little Pasadena.
Strobel was one of the premier pros of his time, like, Andrew Reynolds or a soy of his
time, you know, just to pick two games out of thin air.
Top of his game, top of the class, professional skateboarder for that era.
So Thrasher comes out of nowhere.
They were the antithesis of everything that was Southern California, that was skateboarder
magazine, you know, and skateboarder magazine, they turned it into action now, action now
at horse riding and bike riding and all this alternative lifestyle bullshit that had nothing
to do with skateboarding, and Thrasher was a virus against that, like, fuck that shit.
This is punk, this is raw, we're doing this, and henceforth they named Thrasher.
It could have been anything, but instead, they went with the good old hardcore lap over
grind in the backyard pool.
Back to basics, basically, it's a long, long time, a long time ago, and it's good to see
Thrasher still around.
This one I've been skating, it was a really fun kind of keyhole, and great trannies, and
that wall there, there's a picture of tax in here that, as Jeff said, should have been
the cover.
Even an ollie over the stairs, that's pretty cool, actually, and it's raw, that's fun.
