SIN 34
Julie, Mike, Dave, and Phil make up
Sin 34, a punk band from L.A. They
formed in June 1981 when Phil, Julie,
and Dave got together in Julie's
basement and started to write songs.
After a succession of guitar players,
they finally got Mike in December
1981. A month later saw them doing
shows and since then they've played
all over L.A. and have hit San Fran-
cisco. In July of '82 they released an
EP, "Die Laughing," which did so well
that a second pressing was in order.
They plan to record an album soon,
slated for a spring '83 release.
Julie (vocals) is sixteen and attends
high school.
She started skating at the age of nine
and by the time she was twelve,
she was getting into pool riding.
A year later saw her entering
amateur contests all around her area.
At "Big O" she got a third place, at
Upland a third place, and at her home
park at the time, Marina Del Ray, she
got a first place. Later, due to an
injury, she stopped skating at that
level.
Mike (guitar), Phil (bass), Dave (drums)
SOLvidades
Julie-Eyeballing a gnarty layback at Kenter
banks Photo Dave Markey
Los Olvidados are San
Jose's renowned Skate Rockers
from Hell. All of the members
skate and have been skating for
years. Some of the members (and
two previous members) were heavily
into skateboarding long before the
inception of skateparks: the local ones
being Winchester Skatepark, Skatepark
Victoria in Milpitas, and Spinning Wheels in
Cupertino. Now the parks are all gone and
Donner Matt Etheridge nose whe
backyard.rapp Photo-Matt
The Par Bowl
some of them continue to skate Mike
Fox the quitarist in the band. used to
work at Skateboard Systems, a
skateshop in Campbell Ca In the
shop during slow times he would
play a homemade electric guitar.
Mike got together with some other
skaters and began to jam. After
securing a singer. Mo. on New Year's
Eve 1980. Los Olvidados was formed
This inception lasted a little over six
months when they lost the singer to a
skateboard magazine.
Rhythm guitarist Mike Voss took the
microphone and has brought Los
Olvidados up from its knees to
become one of the premier heavy
metal, hardcore, punk bands in
Northe.n California. Today the
members are Mike Voss, vocals: Mike
Fox. guitar: Ray Stevens, bass; and
Matt Etheridge on drums. Look
for them on the High Speed
Productions skate tape.
Photo Jeff Fine
Top to bottom-The Big Boys performing on the ramp at
the Dallas Texas contest where the likes of Tony Alva, Duane
Peters, Kiwi and Carlos comprise the audience. The Big Boys
playing at the now defunct "Rainbow Skates" shop in San
Francisco during one of their U.S. tours. PhotoBill. Tim Kerr
swooshes past Biskut at the Pflugerville ditch in Texas. PhotoBill
Sessioning with the locals at the seven story parking lot in
San Francisco. PhotoBill.
Boy's
The Big Boys are a skateboard band
from Austin, Texas. They got together
because of skateboarding and they
say that they will always stay together
because of skateboarding.
This band assaults the sound
waves with an original approach to
new music. Incorporating a variety of
ambient, Irrational guitar scratches to
hardcore punk, then they turn around
and play funk.
They have an EP, "FUN, FUN,
FUN... that is becoming a big
success around the country and was
featured in Billboard music magazine
as
an up and coming EP.
The lead singer, Biskut, is a plump
old boy who sometimes resembles
the movie star Divine, because he
dresses up in drag. An ominous
appearing Chris is the bass player. He
has a cold steel gaze that permeates
the audience. Tim is the guitar player
who has his own unique approach to
music. Fred is on drums and he likes
to shave his forehead.
Skateboarding and music are the
Big Boys' lives and they like to tour
and skate all over the country. They
might be coming to your town.
kids are bent on a physical exertion that
can't be found running bases in a baseball
game, running up and down a basketball
court or bashing your opponent at the line
of scrimmage. The feeling is more likened
to that of a stalled handplant, a frontside
air, or a high backside ollie, etc., etc. This
must be the similarity, the similar adrenalin
factors.
A lot of skaters take it upon themselves
to create their own brand of noise in the
forming of skateboard bands. Some being
labeled, "SKATE/THRASH" bands. There
are rockabilly skateboard bands, new
wave skateboard bands, H.C. punk
skateboard bands, Top 40 skateboard
bands, even country skateboard bands.
There is no limit. Ever since the advent of
the SEX PISTOLS and their contem-
poraries, it became known that you didn't
need exceptional talent or silky clothes to
be in a band and to be appreciated in some
form of distorted fashion. Their lyrics are
usually coarse. Some tell of ditching
school, while others sing about the end of
the world by impending nuclear
destruction.
The majority of the population doesn't
hear or understand the point of views
some of the bands come across with in
black and white terms. But the truth of the
matter is, these kids are only a product of
our society, and that solutions cannot be
resolved by becoming a part of the silent
majority, sitting back and waiting for the
end
Other skatebands choose to sing about
matters that are supportive to the indica-