Now we’re talking. Scandinavian corpse paint in your face! Another fine last minute costume idea should you be drawing a blank at two minutes to midnight. Trust me, you wouldn’t be the first Hank von Helvete to do so on Halloween, but if you already have your costume picked out, then shit, stick around for a history lesson if you’d like. It’s not about some dusty old wigheads prancing about France at the turn of the 17th century, so it’s not completely boring. Useless, perhaps, but then so is calculus to about 96 percent of mankind. Good? Okay. Our first encounter with Turbonegro came in 1995, I think, when Marc McKee reviewed the band’s 8 x 10 black-and-white publicity photo. Normally it’s not a good thing to be reviewed in the pages of Big Brother, especially back then, but Turbonegro received high marks all around on their 8 x 10, which featured Hank lounging shirtless and solo on a couch, proving that the band must not suck (based on the tried and true “Suck at a Glance™” methodology of review). (more…)
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When examining the history of Big Brother skateboard magazine one would be gravely remiss to not pay heed to the influence Glenn Danzig had upon the magazine. No, he wasn’t directly involved with it in anyway whatsoever, but he did become an inside joke of sorts that ultimately had one very serious repercussion causing one of the mag’s original financial backers to back out.