January 2008
This could be the most stacked Thrasher of the year! Need some points for your class reading list? You could write a book report on this one. Todd Taylor penned a hilarious article on the fight he and his friends put up to get a concrete skatepark in their Los Angeles neighborhood. If his words don’t stoke your sense of civic duty and inspire you to get something done in your own hometown, nothing will. Then it’s on to the ripping: Joe Hammeke spent a week in New Jersey with Fred Gall, Tim O’Connor, and Steve Durante as they put the finishing touches on their Habitat footage for Inhabitants, and Giovanni Reda hung out with the Lakai dudes for days as their deadline approached for Fully Flared. Guy Mariano, Biebel, Jeff Lenoce, they’re all in there—including 18 pages dedicated to the man of the hour, our SOTY-to-be, Marc Johnson. We put together a grip of sequences from Marc’s three-song part in Flared, highlighted by some choice quotes pulled from an interview he did as the filming was wrapping up. January’s also got interviews with new Label pro Shuriken Shannon, Zero’s John Rattray, and Hosoi’s big man, Andre Genovesi. See? We told you it was stacked.
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COVER: His last cover was in 1998. Mark Johnson gets nosey in L.A. Photo: Reda
He might tell you that his nickname comes from his last name, Bucchieri, but "The Butcher" really comes from the hands. Chop chop! Backside 180, tow in style. Sequence: Burnett
