DIRTY SHORTS
Sarge Carter, Mike Hill and
Neil Blender went alien some-
where near the heart of Ohio.
Hollywood SK8's multi-model man
Brad Bowman got rear-ended by a car
while riding a motorcycle, was
knocked 50 feet through the air,
turned two flips while airborne and
landed on his feet, all while wear-
ing no helmet (all while Bowman
was not cutting the hair of some of
the New Kids on the Block).
Chuck Treece cut a new album
deal with Allan "Bad Mutha"
Somers.
The incredible nuptial of John
Lucero and Heather featured best
man Jeff Grosso (third concussion
that week), entertainers the
Vandals and Cadillac Tramps.
friends Schroeder, Hensley,
Dorf, Duane, Mountain, Hago.
Armijo, Salba, Spidey, Schmelt-
zer, the bride's silver Doc Martins,
the groom's Cat in the Hat, and
the sail away great escape.
Some giant SC cheeseball wrote
"coach" on Gavin's socks.
Chip Morton killed a deer after
hitting it at 80-plus on a motorcycle
and lived to tell the story (which, by
the way, took place on opening day
of hunting season).
Glenn E. Friedman did a
photo session at Rahway State
Prison with the rap group The
Lifers, who, you guessed it, are
down for life.
The Nude Bowl was uncovered
I and sessioned. Word has it that
Baldy lives again big time as well.
THE LONG HAUL
Imagine our surprise when truck czar
and gourmet bicycle creator Larry
last seen with Robert Williams and
Gregorio Escalante somewhere near a
bar mitzvah, was rumored to be in
attendance at the basic gold drops sci-
ence Tokyo tribe fest. Also in atten-
dance were S-Stussy, The Afros,
Hiroshi, Albee, Stack Munny, Jamal-
Ski, Alex Baby, Michael K., et al.
Worse than that, unconfirmed reports
have Stussy creating album covers for
(choose one): Malcolm X, Malcolm
McClaren or Malcolm Campbell.
Hosol, Dave Duncan, Jonathan
Pekar, Mr. Ed Reategul, Ray Bones,
Mark Jones, Chris Ortiz and others all
labored intensively to re-construct the
Hosoi training facilities ramp complex.
Christ's higher than 9-foot ollie-to-tail
grabs are the legend of Los.
Pekar, in a non-related incident, was
observed G-turning all over the set of
the "movie" Class of Beverly Hills. Once
the smoke
cleared, Jonathan
also got paid for
acting?
Steve Rocco is
Balma was once again observed hang- still everyone's top
ing with Italian cycle king Valentino
Campagnolo. Didn't Vitello used to
own a bike shop? Is this the all-
Italian cycle conspiracy?
Tony Converse.
Norles
pick for neophyte publisher of the year.
No word yet as to whether the much-
talked-about mag will really be about
raising pot-bellied Vietnamese pigs on
fax-equipped yachts. Even Rodney
Mullen prefers to stay silent while keep-
ing company with a certain very fine,
very tall fashion model. Mullen, of
course, is "only interested in her mind."
Following his recent non-Van Halen
aligned surf/skate/music event at Cabo.
San Lucos, Baja, Califas, Herbie
Fletcher is purported to be considering
a career as a music promoter. Club
Cabo Wabo featured a metal score by
Exodus, Salty Dog, Gadnium and
Kings of the Sun during Herb's recent
Cabo Classic surf contest. Other.
Fletchers, such as Christian, were very
visible air-wise. Even more cryptic was
Nathan Fletcher's emergent career as
a bass guitarist.
Following reports that Moon
Unit and Dweezil
Zappa appear on
the latest Van-
dals album, the
group appear-
ed en masse at
Brad Dorfman's major Vision ramp
party/concert/barbecue and sale. Most
who were there, and there were many,
wouldn't admit it, and everyone who
wasn't there will pretend they were.
Kudos to Marty Jinx for his vanishing
act. Equal fanfare must be awarded to
Jim "Shades of" Gray, who is the
smart money's bet for industrial kingpin
of the nineties.
Paradoxically and presumably coinci-
dentally, the Assault skate company
logo is allegedly remarkably similar in
design to what major World War II social
organization's logo?
Further whacked is surf/skater Bob
Rotherham's rise to prominence in
international triathalon circles. Can it be
that Rotherham is a nationally spon-
sored athlete in the country of El Sal-
vador? What's next, a government-built
skate ramp at La Libertad?
Was Mother Nature's turbulent
destruction of another ultra-secret spot
in western Washington only the latest in
a series of mysterious cataclysmic
events or a clue for certain non-environ-
mentally correct skaters to clean up
their acts? Will we discover the truth
before it's too late?
LULLABYE OF SANTA BARBARA
The Bones Boys busted forth with
their latest effort, the lengthy skate epic
Propaganda. This video venture is so
long and densely-populated with mega
skate moves, that after it ends there is
rumored to be another eighteen or so
more minutes of pure Gothic entertain-
ment. The opening night party/skate
session featured an astonishing array of
cultural oddities. The all-night indoor
skatepark session was finished by
Shawn Mortimer 48 days later when
he finally stopped skating. Keith
Cochrane, Shrewgy. McGuire, B.K.,
Fitz and Oliver were all spotted rolling
well after Detters and Knight had plot-
ted the planet-ending key drop. Approx-
imately 1,200 invited guests monster
mashed their way into the ultra-slick
Powell HQ theater for continual screen-
ings while outside SK8 Master Tate
DJed his way through the sensory over-
load. Seen survivors included Riggins,
Bostick, Ridgeway, new dad Peralta,
Morin, Brandon Cruz, Blockhead
Dave, Foss, Bolton Colburn, Skipper-
boy. Converse, Los Balmas, Kinnear,
Sandow Birk, McKnight, Coffey,
Lloyd, Escalante, Coleman, Griffith,
Mariano, Johnson, Alaric Valentin,
Squid, Henderson, Yates, Washburn,
Dawson and Pratt. It was so bad that
when somebody found Tony Hawk and
Mort still eating pizza in the screening
area four days later, nobody ordered
more. Lance Mountain was in so much
SKATE ROCK JOCK
SCOTT RADINSKY
At 22 years old, Chicago White
Sox relief pitcher Scott Radinsky
is still just a sprout in the big
show called major league base-
ball. We didn't know much about
him until John Stain informed us
of his band Scared Straight and
his skate experience, which
Scott dates back to the third
grade. Stain caught up with Scott
near the end of the best season
in White Sox history.
What are your statistics as a pitcher this far
into the season?
I don't keep track of that stuff. This is the big
leagues and anything can happen. I mean,
you throw the pitch of your life and the guy
could smoke it, or throw a sucky pitch and he
could pop it up.
Why don't you study the batters you pitch to
or seem to care about your average?
What good is it going to do? I only pitch one
way-and that's hard-and knowing who I'm
pitching to isn't going to change the way I
pitch. We were a last place team in '89 and
that was then. This is now, and I play to win.
What was your most memorable strikeout?
When I struck out Bo Jackson. I was pitching
the night before and they took me out before
I could pitch to him, so the following day
they let me finish the job.
Did you ever have an idol in baseball?
I guess Shoeless Joe Jackson, the pitcher
who threw the game in 19-whatever. It was
called the Black Sox Scandal and he was
kicked out of baseball for intentionally losing
games way back when. I guess if there was
somebody I would look up to it would have
to be somebody as infamous as him.
How does being on the mound differ from
singing in front of a punk crowd?
Playing in a band always seemed natural, and
I always knew my band was behind me. And
it's the same with baseball, I know my team
is behind me. With the band, I would look
into the crowd and wish there were more
than just a few hundred people. Now I look
out and there are 50,000 people at some
games. It's like, "Wow!" It's different when
you're at a game and people are behind you,
above you and in front of you. It sounds
crazy, but when I get out to the mound, I
block everything out. My focus is on pitch-
ing, I don't hear the crowd. I don't see them.
I'm basically in my own little world.
Being in a punk band, you must have a
stage-diving story...
Yeah, well I haven't stage-dived since I saw
Minor Threat back in 1984 during the Out of
Step tour. I jumped up on stage and dove off,
my nose hit this guy's head and it started
gushing blood. My nose was broken. That's
not the kind of thing you tell your parents;
you don't rush home and say, "Hey mom, I
broke my nose stage-diving."
Drink, You Drive, You Die, is called "No
More Fun," and it's about skating a pool?
When I first got into skating, there was this
country club behind my house in Simi Valley.
California, and it had a pool that had been
abandoned for about four years. It was in the
hills and nothing was up there but this killer
skate spot. We would bring generators up to
the pool so we could skate at night. The song
was about the day they came and filled the
pool in with dirt and we couldn't skate it any-
more. It was a cool place to skate. I remem
ber Bert Lamar, Jay Smith, Al Losi, Jim
Murphy and Jesse Martinez all used to skate
there. The newest deck I have acquired is a
Jesse Martinez "Maximum Security." Another
song we do about skating is called "Peer
Pressure." It's on a compilation of bands
from Oxnard called Nardcore.
What do you think of when you skate?
Sometimes I have the headphones on and I
grind to the music. Since I've joined the
team, the type of skating I do has changed.
Now I use my skate to check out the cities we
play in. Skating to me is a cool, free thing.
When you skate, it's just you, that's what I
like about it. I have to deal with the team
thing for six months, but when I come home,
I can do my own thing. Skating is me-no
team, just me.
Do you use protective equipment when you
skate or pitch?
Sometimes I would use kneepads, but only
when I was skating pools. I wear a cup when
I pitch to protect me from a line drive.
What were your grades like in school?
I didn't have grades. I didn't graduate. I got
my frame, it just doesn't have a diploma
inside it. I'll be another one of those million-
aires without a high school diploma.
What are your favorite records of all time?
All the shit from the Grateful Dead, A-Z, and
my favorite CD right now is the Minor Threat
with everything on it. I listen to that a lot.
Any last words?
I want everybody to get the record (Scared
Straight) and listen to it, whether they have
One song on Scared Straight's album You to buy it or steal it. John Stain
Opposite Page:
John B. Hogan
(top) and his
Commando.
Photo by John
B. Hogan.
Here's a first,
J. Rogers
trashes himself
at the Benecia
amphitheater.
Photo by M.Fo.
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