THRASHER
Readers Quiz
1. Where do you get your skate parts?
A. Mail order
B. Skatepark
C. Skateshop
D. Team low
2. What size wheels do you prefer?
A Less than 40mm
8.41-49mm
3. How long do decks usually last you?
A
Less than 2 weeks C. 2-6 months
B. 3-8 weeks
D. Over 6 months
4. How long do wheels usually last you?
TWENTY QUESTIONS
We've already whored the results from the last readers poll to all of our advertisers
and now we're coming in for the kill. As a special incentive, we're throwing ten
t-shirts to ten readers who get drawn from a hat. Circle answers and send entries or
photocopies before May 1, 1993. Thrasher, 20 Qs, PO Box 884570, SF, CA 94188-4570.
15. What game system do you own?
8 How old are you?
A. 7.12
C. 17-21
D. 21-over
9. How much is your allowance per week?
A Less than $5
D. More than $20
10. How often do you play video games
in a week?
A. Every day.
C. 1-3 times
A. Sega Genesis
B. Super Nintendo
C. Nintendo
D. Turbo Duo
16. Do you intend to buy a game system
in the next year?
17. Do you own/use a computer?
CONTEST
A.
Less than 2 weeks C. 2-6 months
B. 3-8 weeks
5. Where do you skate?
A. Streets
D. Over 6 months
11. Do you have a job?
12. Was your mom or dad a skater?
13. Do you ever wear safety equipment?
7. What was the first trick you learned?
14. How many game carts do you own?
A. 10+
C.
1-5
6. Do your parents hate Thrasher?
A-Yes
B. No
B. 5-100
D. None
E. Silicon Graphics
18. Would you subscribe to our video?
19. Do you believe in God?
20. Are there too many swear words in
Thrasher?
A. Yes
B. No
C. Way too many
D. Never enough
Do It Your Own Way. Live By Your Own Rules.
LORDS
of the underground
You ain't nothin' if you ain't real, and the Lords of
the Underground are straight from the street..
"We're trying to bring the realism back to hip-hop,"
says wordsmith Do It All. "We want to bring it back
to what it was, with the freestyles on the street cor-
ners and stuff like that. We want to reflect that type
of thing in our lyrics. Our thing is that you have to
be real in what you speak about. You can't be
Hammer one year and try to be Redman the next.
You're not being real to yourself."
The Lord's realism is legit. Do It All, Mr. Funky
and DJ Jazz had been working separately until they
met at Shaw University in North Carolina and start-
ed doing shows. After a member of Marley Marl's
production company checked them out at one of
their shows, it was only a short time before they
were back in New York making preparations for
Here Come the Lords, which took about seven
months between gigs to produce. With lyrics by
themselves, production by hip-hop legend Marley
Mari, and K-Def behind the boards, the Lords of the
Underground are bound to turn a few heads.
The Lords' debut is destined to keep bodies bob-
bing and speakers thumping. "Psycho," the group's
first single, along with two other tracks, "Sleep for
Dinner" and "Check It." gave the Lords the juice
they needed to break out. But rest assured,
"Psycho" is by no means commercial. "We put out
Psycho' to show people how we are," says Do It
All, who shares the rhyming duties with Mr. Funky.
"When we grab the mic, everything goes psycho."
-Kenji Jasper
INDEPENDENT The New Album
Produced by Dave Jerden and Sacred Reich
To hear Independent and get more information on Sacred Reich call (818) 557-8261.
STEEL POLE BATHTUB
Cutting and pasting pieces
of popular culture, Steel Pole
Bathtub create a dense musical
landscape that explores the
outer boundaries of intensified
rock and roll. "Being undefin-
able gives us more options,"
explains guitarist/skater
Mike Moransky.
Starting in the wilds of
Montana, Mike and bass player
Dale Flattum have been jam-
ming together for over twelve
years. They moved to Seattle 1
and hooked-up with drummer
Darren Mor-X before playing
one show to four people and
then moving to SF in 1988. The
mind-altering Butterfly Love
appeared in 1989, followed by
the auto-erotic Lurch in 1990,
and 1992's compelling Tulip
Rather than succumb to
copying other people's music
through sampling, Steel Pole
rejoices in making technology
its slave. Says Dave. "It's not
going to go away, so you may
as well have fun with it."
And besides, says Darren,
"Stealing is fine but copying is
just not cool."
-Mike La Vella
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