Comments on: Duty Now For The Future

By: Gaz

Gaz — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:18:44 +0000

Hi I was wondering if anyone else remembered a strange collage that had some cut outs and cartoons etc that said “Gee I just messed myself” and “scollop frenzy and pob makes three” if you could upload that page I would be interested, as I always remember it.

Unfortunately our mum threw out years worth of 2000 AD, Marvel comics, Rad and SK8 action mags when we still lived at home.

Thanks

Gaz

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:54:46 +0000

Dom,
I’ve been trying to get hold of one of the later 1993 issues with a Milton Keynes feature for a long time. I’ve got a few pics in it and it would be awesome to at least have scans of the article. If you can help or happen to have that issue spare I’ll bite your arm off!
Cheers
Dean

By: dom

dom — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:07:39 +0000

hey i have nearly all the mags in good condition if your missing anything, also ive got tons of doubles if anyones interested in getting hold of a certain issue

By: timlb

timlb — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:28:25 +0000

Thanks, Dan. I’m not quite sure what to do with this blog at the moment. But I hope that I’ll come up with some way of adding more pages more often than I have during the last year or so.

By: Dan Mason

Dan Mason — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:37:17 +0000

Good to see you back Tim. I’m looking forward to a load more old memories still to come. I’m just re-reading Disposable by Sean Cliver at the moment, which is a wonderful history of deck art and the skate vibe of the time which runs right through the RAD era. It’s here if you haven’t already seen it: http://www.disposablethebook.com

Keep up the good work.

Dan

By: Mette

Mette — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:51:52 +0000

I was looking for some information and inspiration for my next project about skateboarding so just wants to thanks for this page…. Regards

By: timlb

timlb — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:29:19 +0000

@Did: Cutting up the magazines was exactly the right thing to do! Those pictures were meant to go on walls. At the moment it would take a day’s travel to get to where the magazines are stored. But later in the year I will probably be in the same part of the world again.

By: Did

Did — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:15:37 +0000

Tim,
If you fancy searching out certain issues, i would love to see what i think was the very first rad i bought, way back in ’87/’88. It had feature which i think was titled The ramp in the woods, the enchanted garden.
I feel sure it was about a skate scene on the isle of wight, where there was a stunning midi ramp, which was pretty wide with quite a wide roll in section and also a spine like tombstone, and i think there was doubt whether the ramp would be there much longer because they didnt have permission to build it.
I remember cutting up this issue (i know, dont say anything!!!) and bluetacking the images all over my bedroom wall, so these particular pics really will bring back that excitement of skateboarding permanently entering my bloodstream, and those tentative first pushes on my Egyptian Variflex.

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:40:40 +0000

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the reply.

I remember I had an issue of Skateboard! I was reading in the car on the way up to Barrow — it was the one where Neil Danns and some others headed out to Brazil to check out the scene there, and I remember being pretty stoked about that since I was living in Liverpool and Neil was of course the local skate guru. Front cover scans of that magazine that have been posted on the web by some other generous individual; it seems that was the July 1990 edition. So I’m going to guess the Barrow session was July or August 1990.

I’ll try to get my own photos online, for what they’re worth; perhaps others would like to see them. I seem to have only a few of the prints, sadly, but maybe I have a more complete set of negatives. Hawk was definitely there (he signed my board) but I’m not sure who else was ripping it that day.

Thank you for your work maintaining this excellent archive. It’s been a riot to see some of this stuff again.

By: timlb

timlb — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:28:41 +0000

@Ali: I believe we covered all the Bones Brigade tours. So I imagine that we did cover this. But I don’t remember it personally. What year was it, please? I’m a long way away from any copies of the magazine at the moment, but later in the year I may be able to go through them and check for you.
@Did: Thank you. We were all learning together, I think.