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...tour; in Berlin. In the 1970s his foreboding, heavily percussive "roots-reggae" won fans, among them British punk rockers and Virgin chief Richard Branson, who in 1978 signed Culture?the band Hill fronted for 30 years until his death?to Virgin's new reggae label, Front Line. DIED. Ed Thrasher, 74, influential Warner Bros. Records designer who conceived some of rock's most definitive LP covers, including Jimi Hendrix's visually trippy Are You Experienced and Joni Mitchell's Clouds; of cancer; in Big Bear Lake, California. Among his fans, the easygoing art director counted high-profile artists, including Frank...
...DIED. Ed Thrasher, 74, influential Warner Bros. Records designer who conceived some of rock's most definitive LP covers, including Jimi Hendrix's visually trippy Are You Experienced and Joni Mitchell's Clouds; of cancer; in Big Bear Lake, Calif. Among his fans, the easygoing art director counted high-profile artists, including Frank Sinatra, who let Thrasher title his 1973 comeback LP, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back...
...sidewalk-concrete pourers, playground-equipment manufacturers and lowball bidders. Most had never set foot on a skateboard, much less done a 360 on one. The results were uninspiring. To an intrepid teenager, a mass-produced ramp is about as exciting as a documentary on the Federal Reserve System. Thrasher, a skating magazine, spotlights the worst parks in a feature it calls "Certified Piece of Suck...
...Barnes, who writes this month that Jeb should be "the prohibitive frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination." And with tropical storms already pounding Florida, Jeb's face and his well-regarded command of hurricane management promise to be on prominent display from now through fall. To conservatives, gushes John Thrasher, a GOP lobbyist and former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, "Jeb is Elvis...
DIED. Fausto Vitello, 59, founder of the cult punk-skater magazine Thrasher, who in the late '70s sparked a thrill-seeking urban subculture of skateboarders who jumped curbs and railings instead of just ramps in specialty parks; of a heart attack, while riding his bike; in Woodside, Calif. The motto of the still vibrant movement: Skate and Destroy...