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PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM The spirit of the skate-
board revolution is alive and well in the city of Brotherly Love.
DAMAGE DONE Proof that skaters are vandals, and if
you don't stop, we will take your names and call your parents.
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TALL TALES II Twisting facts and spinning yarns.
Grandpappy B. reels off another mouthful of whoppers.
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THE SKATERS if they're hot, raw or ripping, they're in
here. The names may change, but the cream rises to the top.
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SWITCHSTANCE it started off being called fakie, now
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show in Sacramento and an interview with Kirk Hammett.
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ONT TEN
DEPARTMENTS
TALKING ED
No Skating Allowed. _
MAIL DROP
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going the other way is an art in itself.
METALLICA A concert report on the East Bay foursome's
ZOUNDS Cypress Hill puts it bluntly, Disposable Heroes of
Hiphoprisy break barriers, Gas Huffer takes on The Fastbacks 54
in a battle of banter, and Tar clogs the sewers of the world.
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MAY
1992
NOTES
Gee Whiz...
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RAMP WORLD
Metal Head.
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PRODUCT PATROL
Board Stiff....
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Roof Ripper.....
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Blue Scream.
TRASH
Show & Tell.
ON BOARD
Roy Oh Boy.....
SOMETHIN' ELSE
COVER: What seemed impossible has
become routine. Tom Knox vaults a
bike rack while John Montessi blunt
slides. Photo by Sleeper. Sequence by
Kevin J. Thatcher.
CONTENTS: Deep in the San Joaquin
Valley, Alan Petersen adds a new twist
to a tough trick-one-footed ollie blunt.
Photo by Xeno.
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