RaD skateboard magazine returns in digital format
What a morning…my son (he’s 12 years old) moaning about his visit to the barber yesterday before having to face the perils of school children making fun of him, my dog taking a very wet crap in my office and me almost stepping in it in the dark and having to clean it up first thing in the morning. Yuck!
Well, good things do happen as well and I luckily just stumbled across the “When We Was Rad” website which covers the history of the R.a.D skateboard magazine out of England. Here’s how they describe what they are doing on the site and have a look at Steve Caballero back in 1981!
“R.a.D Magazine was a British skateboard magazine published between 1987 and 1993. The magazine evolved out of the BMX magazine, BMX Action Bike, survived for a few tumultuous years and then blew to bits. When R.a.D was sold to a new publisher, the team who produced it decided to strike out on their own. They produced three issues of a new type of magazine called Phat, which got caught up in an explosion of outrage about teenage culture and was pulled off the shelves. R.a.D itself fizzled out after a while and the title was swallowed up as part of Sidewalk Magazine.This site is dedicated to R.a.D Magazine in the crucial years up until 1993.The plan is to re-publish each magazine, a page at a time, until the whole lot is here. In some cases I have access to backup disks containing the original text, but in others we will have to make do with just scans.”
Get more goodies over at the When We Was Rad website.
jon booth
hi .. im a 28 year old skater/surfer from bournmouth curently living in byron bay australia .. always used to read the rad mag as a kid and need a tee shirt or two … where can i by these…. thanks
April 12th, 2008 at 5:41 ammarijn
hello, i got a question, i am the brother of mike de geus, member of the fret click group from the netherlands, mike died 8 years ago, nike made a shoe to remember the fret click group en mike is on the tongue of the shoe, its a silouette of a picture made of him, i heard the picture was in a radmagazine and now i am trying to find the original pic, becuase i want to tattoo the pic on my arm, i would be very happy if you can help me in one way or another.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:29 pmthanks, marijn. manderijneman@gmail.com
freak
can anyone help me get a copy of the pics in R.A.D magagine that i’m in, they were taken in Glasgow Scotland in Angel Lights skateboard park, which was in a church, they mag had a picture of me doing a layback, anyone help me? Email me at rabyburns@o2.co.uk
July 28th, 2008 at 1:21 amRachel
Do you know how I can buy a copy of any issue of RaD magazine?
November 17th, 2008 at 6:23 pmThanks, rchester@velaw.com