Here is another generous serving of Print's Not Dead from Method Mag 12.3's Posse Page with the Garbage Gang. Get the full interview here with posse chief Marco"Johnny" Morandi with some extra photos +video. Keep an eyeball on these guys, they could be coming to trash a mountain near you!
Hey Marco, introduce your posse to the world.
Before I introduce who and what we are I want to say thanks to you guys. We used to always thank people at the end of interviews but I want to change that now. It's good to be here and I'm real glad to talk to you. Most of us come from Milan, but you can also find Garbagers in Turin and elsewhere in Italy. Snowboarding is the biggest aspect of our crew and now we've got homies in Holland, Spain and France too. We had to find a way to escape from this sick society. Here in Italy the culture is really bad and boring, but I'm not here to talk about that stuff. Most of us love snowboarding but that's not all we do. We have homies that love skateboarding, others that love music, and they do those things very well. I guess we are just a bunch of friends with the same point of view on life, and we just call it the Garbage Gang. 
Besides tearing it up on your board, you are also the filmer/videomaker of the Garbage posse, how did you get involved in editing movies?
I started 6 or 7 years ago with a small compact camera. Now we're just getting better year by year. I hope I can keep going on this journey for a long time. 
So you guys call yourselves the Garbage Gang but in fact you're not that garbage, what's up with that?
Hahahaha! To be honest, the name came from a trick called "hot garbage", which was the hottest trick around 5 or 6 years ago. After an entire day trying to land that fucking trick we realized "garbage" was a great (and appropriate) name for our crew, but that's not the only reason. Like I told you, we come from Milan and seriously, it's total garbage there compared to the white mountains.
Who is the biggest trash bag in your posse?
I guess Matteo Ferraris is the craziest guy. He's the best. We call him "Thugga", but not only for the way he wears his clothes or his heavy head, but because he has swag inside. Just to give you an example, he‘s dresses like a "rapper" but he plays rock with an electric guitar! 
Are you guys the new rail shredders that will dump shit on the rest of Europe?
I really don't know. I guess that's something that you can't really figure out yourself. We're just doing what we like to do in the best way we're able to. We just want to be together, travel together and shred together as much as possible, since we're friends first and foremost.
You guys are one of the best crews that have come out of the boot recently, what's up with the Italian scene?
Unfortunately we don't have lots of talented young riders in Italy. I guess we've lost a generation. Me and the other Garbagers aren't exactly spring chickens, but we started to share our values with some new up-and-coming kids. As a country and in general, Italy is “old”, and that's how things are in the Italian snowboard scene too. Thankfully, things seem to be getting better, step by small step! Everything takes time in Italy… 
Where in Italy does the Garbage Gang throw their junk?
Bardonecchia is our headquarters. Thanks to Doors Snowpark Structure, it's now one of the biggest resorts in Italy and after the 2006 Olympic Games the resort and the park grew a lot. Nowadays it's almost like a little Bear Mountain, with tons of features, jib lines, kickers and a sick pipe. 
You released a dope movie this year called "Believers", will we see another movie next year?
“Believers” was our first movie. A crew movie. It was produced with no sponsorship, only our own money. We decided to make a movie to represent ourselves in the best way possible. We decided to go to the US first of all, just to hang out and ride together. When we came back I asked all of our friends if they wanted to be a part of this project and they all seemed stoked and sent me their shots. I got bangers from Holland, Spain and France. I found it very hard to edit all the videos, but I was very glad with the outcome in the end. When we did the premiere last October there was over 700 people there to see the movie. It was just amazing! Another movie? For sure, this season we got some sponsors like Skullcandy, Spy+, Doors, Well and Rough Snowboards supporting us. The idea is to do a tour around Italy, filming as much as possible in the streets, finding new spots and new locations.
Tell us some garbage from last year.
I guess the funniest story happened when we were in the US. Well, there were two episodes in two days. The first was in Mammoth. Federico Iovanovich won a spot to compete in the Volcom Peanut Butter rail jam in Laax, but since we were in Cali he had the option to shred at the Mammoth stop. It was so funny to see one of our own in the finals with all the pro riders. The second one was the day after, we were at June Mountain and we saw the Signal team riding the pipe. It was like the third time we had seen Jake OE and the other guys around in a year, but since they're big time pros we were just chilling on the sidelines watching, when suddenly we saw someone in the distance running in our direction. He goes, "Hey, Italians!". It was Jake OE. So I guess we're getting famous now, haha!
Photos by Denis Piccolo
Check some footage of them Garbage Gang bangin' earlier this season: