R.a.D Magazine Archive

[Tim]

I don't know whether I'll be able to keep this up, but...

There's a thread in the "media" section here about an exhibition/book about the history of R.a.D. That's still in progress, but it's taking a long time to come together.

However: Winstan's film and the prospect of doing the exhibition have prompted me to do a bit of archaeology in my spare room, where all the stuff from R.a.D is piled up in boxes.

So I've set out to stick the contents of the magazine itself on line so that people can at least see what it was about. The idea is to do an issue per month, and I've started with the November issue from the first year. A rather weak issue, as it turns out.

I'm using blogging software to do it because it allows the magazine to become interactive in the way which it was always intended to be. If it sparks off any nostalgic memories for people, there is now a means of adding those comments to the legacy of the magazine, nearly twenty years later. To avoid spam issues you'll have to register to add comments, I'm afraid.

www.whenwewasrad.co.uk


Tim

[H-Boyz]

Good work Tim, This could be good...  

[Tim]

It could also be a very tedious process, of course!

That's why I think the idea of just sticking with the actual contents of the magazine seems like a good one. If I start selecting, then the whole thing starts to become skewed by today's perspective.

I've also already been taken to task for allowing too much of "me" to come through. I always tried to avoid that at the time, and I've got to learn to do that again.

What I find most interesting is that this time round the people looking at the material get to add their own stuff to it, if they want. The only mechanism for that at the time were the letters and the Wall (classified ads). The Wall was the most important of those for me -- and closest to using blog software, because we kept it almost uncensored.

[philip burgoyne]

anyone who has not visited this- your mad
i had forgotten the ramp concerned in december issue
wow - missed out on skating a monster

[Mad Mike]

Back to the Future!!!

I think many will enjoy the tic-tac thru memory lane. I'm sure the site will find it's own voice thru comments posted, don't worry about things getting skewed Tim. Looking back some 20 years from then will throw up it's own distortions.

As the great Albert Einstein might have said ' Everything is relative' which applies even more at this time of year if you're in a house full of 'em.

Happy Chrimbo fellow fatties and baldies (and Sean Goff)

[Tim]

I've finished issue 58 (November December 1987) and jumped on to 1990 now.

Issue 84, February 1990 is under way now...


http://whenwewasrad.co.uk/index.php/category/issue-84-february-1990/

This one comes from the time just after the late-eighties boom was at its peak, I think and before the era of the six-pack, so it ought to have something of interest for a wide cross-section of people.

There are certainly fewer scooters in this one!

[Simon Gunning]

Good to see you are still around tim

all the best

Simon

[Tim]

Update on this:

I'm now working my way through issue 81 (November 1989):

http://whenwewasrad.co.uk/index.php/category/issue-81-november-1989/


My original plan was to jump around the years a lot, but then I found a backup disk which turned out to be readable. So I'm doing this issue because I can include all the text from the features, which makes it more useful.

I'd like to jump forward a bit at some point, to give a different skating generation something to get nostalgic over, but that's going to involve buying a bigger scanner. Those issues were bigger than A4. That's why I've got (too many) adverts and things running on the site...

[Richard]

 
   I'm sure i remember pics of Davie Phillip making "Bean to Lien to tail" across the channel on an indoor ramp ( it may have 
  been a front cover ) with the classic line accompanying the shots,
 
  "The man knows no fear reared on Livingstone concrete"

    Livi is still scary even now ( maybe I'm just chicken though ) 

    bok bok bok bokkk

   love the site nice one

   p.s. got any R.A.D. stickers



 
 

[Tim]

R.a.d stickers? I think I'd better dig through my old boxes full of stuff: I've just seen a "Give us a clue" one (which was the worst of the lot) going for five quid on ebay.

Tim

[Chinny]

I'll bet SkateAction stickies aren't  fetching quite so much!

[Tim]

Just started on Issue 67 from September 1988

Issue 96 (May 1991) was finished just before Christmas.

[tim williams]

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